Andrew Wheeler, the former coal industry lobbyist who led EPA under President Trump, is now slated to head Virginia’s Department of Environmental Resources.

PG&E plans to build more standalone “remote grids” in California, allowing the utility to remove distribution lines serving small groups of isolated customers as a way to reduce wildfire danger.

A NextEra Energy subsidiary developing a 180-MW solar project in New York is urging the Siting Board to reject the DEC’s project description and analysis.

Washington lawmakers will confront more than a dozen climate bills in their upcoming short session.

New York adopted clean trucks regulations that will help transition the state’s 685,000 medium- and heavy-duty vehicles to zero-emission technologies.

Western states produced a whirlwind of climate initiatives last year, advancing numerous bills and regulations to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont signed an executive order on climate with directives related to transportation, buildings, resilience, jobs and land use.

Illinois is decarbonizing its electric generation, and Minnesota is focusing on EVs and transit emissions, but Ohio is keeping a coal plant subsidy.

The key climate policy stories that bear watching in the Mid-Atlantic region in 2022 make up a short but high-impact list that includes offshore wind, how quickly the region’s investor-owned utilities will decarbonize and Glenn Youngkin. The clean energy landscape in the Mid-Atlantic region got a major shake-up in November when Republican Youngkin edged out …

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While the Build Back Better Act was knocked off the front pages by the resurgence of COVID-19, the bill will likely reclaim attention this month.