Trump plans to halt Maryland offshore wind farm

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WIND

• The U.S. Interior Department files court documents indicating it plans to rescind construction and operation permits for US Wind’s Maryland Offshore Wind Project; the project isn’t yet under construction and was already considered in peril by some analysts. (WMAR, Canary Media archive)

• New Hampshire advocates describe a newly implemented law ending the state energy innovation agency’s mandated support for offshore wind as ​“practically and symbolically” discouraging. (Canary Media)

• ISO-New England says the Trump administration’s stop-work order for the nearly complete Revolution Wind project will increase grid reliability challenges as it delays a much-needed power source from coming online. (The Hill)

• Rhode Island elected officials push back on the Trump administration for halting the Revolution Wind project, saying it is illegal, while the state’s commercial fishing industry celebrates the project’s apparent demise. (WPRI)

SOLAR

• Solar installer PosiGen lays off 49 employees in Pennsylvania and 78 workers in Connecticut, citing ​“significant financial difficulties” stemming in part from Republicans’ federal clean energy tax credit rollbacks. (WHYY)

FOSSIL FUELS

• Alleghany County, Pennsylvania’s council calls on Congress to increase monthly benefits for coal miners suffering from black lung disease, citing rising living costs. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

• Portland, Maine’s city council votes to require a 45,000 ton coal pile be covered and to phase out storage of more than one ton of the fuel in the city by 2030 to stem dust-related public health and environmental concerns. (Maine Morning Star)

RENEWABLES

• Groom Construction completes a youth foster care residential facility in Salem, Massachusetts, that is heated and cooled by a solar and geothermal system. (Boston Real Estate Times)

ELECTRIC VEHICLES

• Vermont re-applies for $16 million in previously frozen federal funding to build 11 EV charging stations after the Trump administration reverses its decision to kill the program. (VTDigger)

• A Maine commercial fisherman looks to convert his diesel boat to a hybrid or electric vessel, but is held back by lack of charging infrastructure. (National Fisherman)

GRID

• Data show Pennsylvania experienced a record-high number of electricity outages in 2024, with PPL suffering the highest number of power interruptions. (Reading Eagle)

• New York utility NYSEG breaks ground on a $122 million substation in Dansville as part of a larger effort to modernize its grid and enhance reliability. (WROC)

COMMENTARY

• A New York youth climate activist urges Gov. Kathy Hochul to reject the Northeast Supply Enhancement gas pipeline, saying the project would lock the state into harmful fossil fuels rather than safe renewable energy. (Times-Union)

NEW FROM CANARY 

• How affordable housing can still go solar, despite Trump turbulence — Jeff St. John

• Nippon Steel to begin relining Indiana blast furnace next year — Maria Gallucci

• North Carolina ditched its 2030 climate goal. Now what? — Elizabeth Ouzts