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A Virginia city’s ​“blue greenway” aims to reduce chronic flooding

By Mason Adams

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CLIMATE: Norfolk, Virginia, works through the design stage of a hotly debated $400 million project to reimagine a poor, majority Black community that includes a linear ​“Blue Greenway” to capture stormwater and reduce flooding that regularly saturates the neighborhood. (Energy News Network)

ALSO: Documents reveal Alabama officials have long been aware of Black residents’ flooding concerns, but have used restrictive land covenants to block their ability to file flooding-related claims. (Inside Climate News)

PIPELINES:

ELECTRIC VEHICLES: Workers at a Mercedes-Benz plant in Alabama begin voting whether to join the United Auto Workers, just weeks after a Tennessee Volkswagen plant opted to unionize. (AL.com)

STORAGE: Texas’ rapidly growing battery sector has already bailed out the state power grid once this year, injecting 2 GW of power on a warm April night as a large number of gas and coal plants were offline for maintenance. (Canary Media)

SOLAR:

  • A 70-acre brush fire erupts at a Florida solar farm, with equipment preventing firefighters from more quickly extinguishing the flames. (WKMG)
  • An energy company and outdoor retailer collaborate on development of a 2.8 MW solar farm in Tennessee. (CleanTechnica)

WIND:

OIL & GAS: Workers building a $21 billion liquified natural gas plant in Louisiana are beset by dangerous, silica-laden dust blown around at the construction site. (Sierra)

GRID: A Georgia water group releases a report showing how state economic incentives have resulted in a rash of new data centers that strain the power grid and use large amounts of water for cooling. (Georgia Recorder)

EMISSIONS:

  • West Virginia leads 25 Republican-led states in challenging the U.S. EPA’s new rule to restrict carbon emissions from existing coal-fired power plants and new gas facilities, hoping for a repeat of a 2022 case that limited the agency’s authority. (E&E News)
  • A wave of corporations are likely to miss their climate goals, either pulling back on emission targets or seeing a United Nations initiative decertify their plans because they’re too vague. (Houston Chronicle)

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