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OFFSHORE WIND

• The completion of the SouthCoast Wind project serving Massachusetts and Rhode Island will be delayed by at least two years because and may face an ​“insurmountable challenge” if President Trump’s offshore wind order remains in place. (New Bedford Light)

• Anti-wind activists say they’re looking to build on the implosion of a Maine floating wind project as they push the Trump administration to revoke a grant for a similar project in northern California. (Canary Media)

FOSSIL FUELS

• New gas pipelines are unlikely to be built in New England, as investors seem unlikely to commit to a project serving a region in which much energy policy is focused on electrification, experts say. (RTO Insider)

• A Pennsylvania coal mine receives approval to expand, despite already causing damage to surrounding houses and turning local ponds orange with iron discharge. (Allegheny Front)

TRANSIT

• All 10 boats making up the Staten Island Ferry service will start running on renewable diesel fuel this week, months ahead of schedule, in an effort to reduce overall emissions on the line. (New York Daily News)

REGULATION

• Pennsylvania’s two U.S. senators file a bill that would move to Pittsburgh the federal office that oversees fossil fuel production, critical minerals mining, and carbon capture and storage. (WPXI)

GENERATION

• New York regulators approve the acquisition of energy giant Calpine by Baltimore’s Constellation, paving the way for the $16.4 billion deal to close later this year. (Power Engineering)

RENEWABLES

• New Jersey legislators consider several bills encouraging the development of nuclear, wave, and tidal power, as well as energy storage. (RTO Insider)

ELECTRIC VEHICLES

• A convenience store chain installs ultrafast EV chargers at eight locations along the New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway, and plans to have charging stations at all of its service area locations by the end of 2026 and double its charging footprint in New York. (Automotive Drive)

• Truckers in New York celebrate the federal government’s move to kill regulations requiring increased sales of zero-emissions heavy-duty vehicles, but state environmental regulators say they will continue to push for the transition to electric vehicles. (CBS6)

COMMENTARY

• Maryland residents are unfairly being asked to sacrifice valuable farmland and natural habitat for the construction of a transmission line that will support the ​“explosive” growth of data centers in Virginia, says an environmental advocate. (Baltimore Sun)

NEW FROM CANARY MEDIA

• The U.S. EPA let North Dakota regulate toxic coal ash at the state rather than the federal level, leaving advocates worried that the more lax standards will take hold in Indiana and other states as well, Kari Lydersen reports.