Tracking toxic fracking waste in Pennsylvania

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FOSSIL FUELS

• Pennsylvania regulators fail to properly account for millions of tons of potentially radioactive or carcinogenic fracking waste that enters the state’s landfills. (Inside Climate News)

• A coalition of environmental groups along with a group of youth ages 2 months to 21 years appeal a state permit for a planned Pennsylvania natural gas power plant that would be the country’s largest. (Indiana Gazette)

FEDERAL FUNDING

• New Hampshire Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen secures $3 million in federal funding to support national pilots of a Granite State program that sends traveling experts to rural towns to help with clean energy planning. (Canary Media)

SOLAR

• Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and Vermont partner to procure roughly 171 megawatts of power from new solar developments throughout the region. (Maine Public, RTO Insider)

• A Rhode Island program that subsidized solar panels and leases for low-income households faces questions about its future now that the installer it partnered with has gone bankrupt. (ecoRI)

• New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signs a bill that changes how solar developments are appraised, a move that will make it easier for developers to secure financing. (WAER)

NUCLEAR

• Plans to restart the nuclear plant at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania will help the Trump administration deliver on its promise to lower electricity costs in the face of soaring data center demand on the grid, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright says. (Pennsylvania Capital-Star)

• The congressional delegation from Vermont, where a nuclear plant shut down in 2014, introduces a bill that would give communities hosting nuclear plants more grant money and more say in what happens when the facilities close. (VTDigger)

OFFSHORE WIND

• A federal judge declines to rule that the Trump administration’s efforts to review and potentially rescind the permits for the US Wind project off Maryland would be unconstitutional. (Spotlight Delaware)

• U.S. House Republicans add anti-wind provisions to a permitting bill some on the far right had feared could be used to prevent the federal government from terminating offshore wind projects. (The Hill)

GRID

• The latest capacity auction by the PJM Interconnection, the country’s largest electrical grid, results in record-high prices, but fails to secure enough resources to meet its targeted reserve margin. (Canary Media)

NEW FROM CANARY

• Chart: Clean energy remains dominant in the US — despite Trump — Dan McCarthy

• Trump admin orders Washington state coal plant to stay running — Jeff St. John

• Ford is retreating from EVs — but embracing grid batteries — Julian Spector