Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) has yet to sign the legislature’s biggest energy bill into law, but there is already a campaign in the works to challenge the measure at referendum.
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Northern Virginia Residents Weigh in on Proposed Transmission Line Project
FOX 5 DC
A community meeting was held to discuss Dominion Energy’s major transmission line project. Residents want to ensure their concerns and voices are heard.
Maryland, DC Join 17-State Lawsuit Against Trump Administration Over Canceled EV Charging Funds
WUSA 9 News
The federal lawsuit reveals new information about the scale of EV transformation in the DMV region.
Maryland Could Finally Get a Strategic Energy Planning Resource. Now What?
Maryland Matters
During the 2025 legislative session, Maryland lawmakers took a pivotal step by approving the Strategic Energy Planning Office (SEPO) through Senate Bill 909 and House Bill 1037. If the governor signs them into law next week, it would mark the first time that Maryland climate law explicitly references strategy and risk — a long-overdue acknowledgement.
US Wind Offers $20 Million to Aid Eastern Shore Watermen. Here’s What’s Proposed.
Delmarva Now
US Wind, Inc. said in a May 14 news release that it has proposed $20 million to support commercial fishing under memoranda of understanding reached with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control.
National and International News
NOAA Stops Tracking Cost of Extreme Weather and Climate Disasters
Utility Dive
The Billion Dollar Weather and Climate Disaster product is one of many databases NOAA is discontinuing amid the Trump administration’s ongoing targeting of climate-related programs and funding. President Donald Trump’s 2026 fiscal year budget proposal, released last Friday, calls for reducing NOAA’s overall budget by $1.52 billion, with most of the cuts to climate-related research, data, and grant programs, “which are not aligned with Administration policy ending ‘Green New Deal’ initiatives,” the budget proposal states.
The EPA Didn’t Release Its Annual U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Report, But We Got the Data. Here’s What Ee Found
CBS News
For the first time in nearly 30 years, the Environmental Protection Agency did not publish a mandatory annual report detailing the pollution produced in the United States that contributes to climate change.
GOP Budget Plan Contains a Massive Poison Pill for Clean Energy
Canary Media
Tucked into the House Republicans’ 389-page tax bill released on Monday is a poison pill for U.S. clean energy developers and manufacturers, one that energy and tax policy experts say would essentially repeal the hundreds of billions of dollars of tax credits now flowing to energy projects and solar, battery, and EV factories across the country.
Trump’s USDA Tried to Erase Climate Data. This Lawsuit Forced It Back Online.
Grist
The United States Department of Agriculture says it will restore climate-related information on its websites, following a lawsuit filed earlier this year by agriculture and environmental groups that say farmers rely heavily on these critical resources to adapt to warming temperatures.
Plastic May Be Warming the Planet More Than We Thought
Washington Pastic
Scientists have long known that making plastic warms the planet. But plastic may be heating the Earth even more than we realized, according to a report released Wednesday.