Trump touts $90 billion in Pennsylvania data center investment

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DATA CENTERS

• President Trump and Republican Pennsylvania Sen. Dave McCormick tout $90 billion in private-sector investments in data center development and the energy generation and distribution needed to support it. (ABC27)

HEATING

• Window heat pumps installed in New York City apartments provide more even, comfortable heat and use 87% less energy than steam-heated units in the same buildings. (Heatmap)

FOSSIL FUELS

• Delaware environmental regulators are investigating two incidents in which an oil refinery released thousands of pounds of sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide, as residents express concern and anger about the pollution. (Spotlight Delaware)

• A Newark, New Jersey, community group sues a local sewerage commission that approved the construction of a new natural gas power plant in a neighborhood that is already home to other power plants and heavy diesel truck traffic. (NJ Spotlight News)

• As Maryland attempts to reduce fossil fuel use it is failing to account for the diesel backup generators used by many of the state’s universities, hospitals, and other infrastructure, an issue brought to the fore in June when fuel intended for Johns Hopkins Hospital spilled into Baltimore Harbor. (Inside Climate News)

RENEWABLES

• Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic snags a NASA contract to develop 100-foot-tall solar installations to be built on the moon with the goal of providing power to future manned lunar missions. (TribLive)

• Three Republican Congressmen ask U.S. attorney general Pam Bondi to investigate whether offshore wind projects off Maryland, New Jersey, and New York pose national security risks. (WBFF)

• Maine launches an effort to buy 1,600 gigawatt-hours of renewable energy from projects located on PFAS-contaminated sites. (News Center Maine)

WORKFORCE

• Labor leaders praise New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s push for nuclear power and seeming openness to more natural gas pipelines. (E&E News)

GRID

• New York’s grid operator called on demand response programs and bought emergency energy supplies to keep the power flowing during the peak day of June’s heatwave. (RTO Insider)

ELECTRIC VEHICLES

• Seven Maryland school districts receive state grants to support the deployment of electric school buses. (Baltimore Sun)

• EV-maker Rivian plans to build six new charging stations near Bangor, Maine, as part of an initiative to bring charging infrastructure to ​“wilder destinations.” (Bangor Daily News)

STORAGE

• Developers withdraw plans to build one of New England’s largest battery storage facilities in Connecticut after facing opposition from local residents and officials. (CT Mirror)

INDUSTRY

• Massachusetts-based Boston Metal raises $51 million in funding to support its first commercial operation, a facility in Brazil that uses electricity rather than fossil fuels to extract valuable minerals without producing any greenhouse gas emissions. (Latitude Media)