Climate activists mobilized in front of the Massachusetts State House to protest fossil-fuel infrastructure development in environmental justice communities.

New York approved a three-year rate plan for National Grid’s downstate gas companies with provisions for electrification to reduce natural gas demand.

Neothermal will work with Burlington Electric and Vermont Gas on an electric thermal storage heating pilot that uses renewable natural gas as a backup.

PSEG said it expects to be out of the fossil fuel business by the first quarter of next year and is considering investing in another offshore wind project.

NYSERDA says New York needs to move away from a building-by-building heat pump installation approach to a community approach, where practical.

A coalition of 30 organizations asked Michigan officials to ban natural gas in new construction, calling it “a critical measure to reduce air pollution.”

The Vermont Climate Council heard recommendations on how to reduce emissions for the electricity, thermal and transportation sectors.

More than 600 people attended the NARUC Summer Policy Summit in person and hundreds more watched via livestream.

New Yorkers filed 66 separate comments opposing NRG Energy’s proposal to repower its 502-MW Astoria natural gas generating facility in Queens.

The current draft energy efficiency plan for Massachusetts does not envision meeting a new program-specific emission-reduction goal set by the state.