LNG facility pitched for Philly-area environmental justice community

GAS: Developers are working to convince elected officials to support an enormous liquefaction and export facility in an environmentally overburdened Philadelphia suburb. (WHYY)

SOLAR:
• As state utility regulators consider a rate case before them, Vermont solar observers question whether net-metering is inequitable. (Vermont Public Radio)
• A developer appeals a Rhode Island zoning board’s permit denial for a proposed solar farm on wooded land in Johnston. (Providence Journal, subscription)
• In Bangor, Maine, a brewery and a restaurant build a shared solar array in their backyard. (WABI)

EQUITY: Rhode Island’s most disenfranchised communities have historically become neighbors to highly polluting sites — a practice that continues today. (ecoRI)

CLIMATE:
• Massachusetts environmentalists urge state lawmakers to codify their federal pandemic recovery relief funds and use the resources to support climate crisis-fighting projects. (Boston Globe)
• Hundreds of thousands fewer shorebirds made a pit stop in the Delaware Bay along their southbound migration path this spring than did 30 years ago, which observers say may be partially attributed to climate change. (NJ Spotlight)
• A Massachusetts arborist chalks up a decline in some of the state’s traditionally popular trees to climate change, though some trees are still flourishing. (WCVB)
• A critically endangered species of whale is spending more time in the Cape Cod Bay, which researchers say is likely because of climate-related shifts in where their prey are. (Boston Herald)

TRANSPORTATION: Officials in a New Jersey township will vote today on whether to install and upkeep eight public electric vehicle chargers. (Mount Olive Chronicle)

AFFORDABILITY: Central Hudson Electric & Gas says its residential power supply price has plummeted since May amid calls for investigations into its ratemaking and billing practices. (Daily Freeman)

COMMENTARY:
• Two Massachusetts medical professionals ask why we accept childhood asthma as a side effect of gas-fired power plants, calling for ​“a way forward to deliver clean heat that does not involve continued dependence on health-harming petrochemicals.” (Commonwealth Magazine)
• New Hampshire residents may have trouble buying electric or low-emission vehicles because manufacturers prefer to sell in states with incentive programs, a newspaper columnist writes. (Concord Monitor)