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• Chicago Teachers Union secures clean energy wins in new contract April 21, 2025
  The Chicago Teachers Union expects its new, hard-fought contract to help drive clean energy investments and train the next generation of clean energy workers, even as the Trump administration attacks such priorities. The contract approved by 97% of union members this month represents the first time the union has…
• Haven to install free solar, batteries for thousands of California homes April 21, 2025
  Californians face steep up-front costs if they want to install solar panels to produce clean power and batteries to back up their homes in outages. A new state program will cover those costs for low-income homeowners, but they still have to pay up to tens of thousands of dollars initially and then wait months for […]
• The bid to kill Empire Wind is Trump’s biggest swipe at offshore wind yet April 18, 2025
  This analysis and news roundup comes from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. On Wednesday afternoon, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum directed the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to halt construction on Equinor’s Empire Wind project off the New York coast. It’s a new frontier for…
• Chart: US EV sales are off to a solid start this year April 18, 2025
  See more from Canary Media’s "Chart of the week” column . The future of the U.S. electric vehicle transition is murky — but at least through the first three months of 2025, the data tells a clear story. Almost 300,000 EVs were sold in the first quarter of the year, according to a new report […]
• Louisiana kills energy-efficiency program in eleventh hour April 18, 2025
  This story was originally published by Floodlight. In a move energy advocates say will increase electric bills for Louisiana residents and allow the state’s utilities to keep earning money for electricity they don’t provide, Louisiana’s energy regulators voted 3–2 Wednesday to scrap plans for an independently…
• Multifamily housing needs EV charging. This startup will pay for it. April 17, 2025
  Aubrey Gunnels, CEO of 3V Infrastructure , understands the risks involved in installing and owning EV chargers in thousands of apartment building garages and condominium parking lots. She also sees the opportunity. Just look at the statistics. By 2030, EVs are expected to make up close to half of all new U.S. car…
• Ohio grid disparities leave some areas with older, outage-prone equipment April 17, 2025
  Ohio consumer and environmental advocates are calling on state regulators to address disparities within FirstEnergy’s grid after a recent report found disadvantaged communities are more likely to rely on older, more outage-prone equipment. Areas defined as disadvantaged under the Biden administration’s Climate and…
• NYC hospitals are nudging patients toward plant-based meals. It's working. April 16, 2025
  The " Eating the Earth ” column explores the connections between the food we eat and the climate we live in. NEW YORK — Our food system generates one-third of our greenhouse gas emissions, and the human race has made almost no progress reducing them. Except in New York City’s public hospitals. Before the city…
• Massachusetts heat pump owners could pay less for electricity next winter April 16, 2025
  Nearly 3 million Massachusetts households will have the chance to start saving money on heating next winter under new seasonal heat-pump rates from the state’s three major electric utilities. Regulators have approved plans from Unitil and National Grid to reduce electricity rates for heat pump owners during the…
• The rural N.C. mayor betting big on clean energy to uplift his hometown April 15, 2025
  ENFIELD, N.C. — When history buffs reenacted a Revolutionary War general’s visit to this tiny, rural North Carolina town in February, its top elected official was notably absent. General Marquis de Lafayette may have helped liberate America from England, but over 240 years later his story has little relevance to…