State regulators recently tweaked the way Dominion Energy charges customers who opt into shared solar projects.
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Could Maryland Leave the PJM Grid? This Bill Would Study it.
Maryland Matters
Amid high energy bills in Maryland and throughout the region, many Maryland officials have heaped blame on PJM Interconnection, the operator of the region’s electrical grid.
Va. AG Jones Joins Lawsuit Against EPA Effort to Roll Back Clean Air Act
Virginia Mercury
Attorney General Jay Jones announced Friday that Virginia will officially rejoin a lawsuit against the United States Environmental Protection Agency over a rule change that rolled back parts of the Clean Air Act.
Climate Groups, Caught by Surprise Last Year, Fight to Protect Maryland Energy Fund in 2026
Maryland Matters
For the second straight year, the General Assembly is looking to tap a large state energy fund as legislators grapple with another significant budget deficit.
Maryland is Farther Behind on its Emissions Goal Than Expected, New Research Shows
Maryland Matters
New computer modeling indicates that Maryland is heading in the wrong direction as it strives to meet a state-mandated 60% reduction in its greenhouse gas emissions by 2031.
National and International News
What’s Up With This Big Freeze? Some Scientists See Climate Change Link
New York Times
If the planet is getting warmer, why is it so cold this winter? The seeming contradiction comes up often when talking to Judah Cohen, a research scientist at M.I.T. who has been studying how global warming might also be causing colder winters in the eastern United States.
A Trump ‘Blockade’ Is Stalling Hundreds of Wind and Solar Projects Nationwide
New York Times
A week before the 2024 election, Idaho’s largest electric utility struck a 35-year deal to buy power from a wind farm under development in Wyoming.
EPA Reconsiders Good Neighbor Plan That Limited Power Plant Emissions
Utility Dive
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Jan. 27 proposed phase one of its reconsideration of the Good Neighbor Plan, which was adopted in 2023 and required upwind states to limit emissions from power plants and industrial facilities so downwind states could meet Clean Air Act requirements.
Federal Energy-Assistance programs Survive Budget Gauntlet
Smart Cities Dive
A long-running federal program that provides energy bill assistance for low-income Americans will have $20 million more to work with in 2026, despite President Donald Trump’s earlier efforts to eliminate its funding.
The World is Hitting Point of No Return on Climate
Grist
The world is poised to overshoot the goal of limiting average global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, as for the first time, a three-year period, ending in 2025, has breached the threshold. And climate scientists are predicting devastating consequences, just as the world’s governments appear to have lost their appetite for tackling the emissions that are causing the warming.