Trump undermines fishermen working with offshore wind

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OFFSHORE WIND

• A group of more than 100 scallop fishermen who supplement their income by providing scouting and safety services for offshore wind companies face the possibility that President Trump, who many of them voted for, could undermine their business and way of life. (Canary Media)

• Today is the deadline for three offshore wind projects selected by Massachusetts in a procurement last fall to sign contracts with the state, but questions remain about whether any will actually seal the deal. (CAI)

• Delaware lawmakers prepare to debate a bond bill that Republicans blocked as a strategy to force compromise on a separate bill that would clear the way for a controversial planned offshore wind farm to build a needed substation in the state. (Spotlight Delaware)

POLITICS

• Zohran Mamdani, the presumptive Democratic candidate for mayor in New York City, has a history of climate and clean energy advocacy, including opposition to a new gas plant in his district and encouraging the state power authority to build new renewable resources. (E&E News)

• New York climate advocates increasingly say the state Assembly speaker is to blame for the legislature’s failure to pass meaningful environmental legislation, including a bill this session to help get homes off fossil fuels. (New York Focus)

FOSSIL FUELS

• Truckers working for oil and gas companies in the Marcellus shale region say they were lied to for years as they hauled potentially radioactive waste without being told they were working with dangerous materials. (Inside Climate News)

• Environmental advocates lay plans to use drones carrying magnetometers and vehicles equipped with methane detectors to search for abandoned oil and gas wells in southwestern Pennsylvania, where drilling went on for nearly a century before companies were required to report the locations of their wells. (WITF)

SOLAR

• The tax credit cuts in the federal budget reconciliation bill would endanger solar projects at seven Massachusetts elementary schools and 74 schools in Pennsylvania, according to Democratic lawmakers opposed to the bill. (Boston Globe)

• In Pennsylvania, more than 4,000 jobs could be lost if solar tax credits are slashed in the budget bill, according to an industry advocacy group. (PennLive)

EFFICIENCY

• The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center awards $52 million in grants to 18 public schools to support money-saving energy efficiency projects. (WWLP)

ELECTRIC VEHICLES

• Six new EV charging stations built with federal funding open in Pennsylvania, bringing the state’s total to 17 charging locations constructed with federal money. (PennLive)

AFFORDABILITY

• Consumers in Maryland will have to wait until August or September to receive the first of two promised energy bill rebates averaging a total of $80 per household. (Maryland Matters)

COMMENTARY

• Keeping quiet about the environmental benefits of offshore wind has helped several developments continue to make progress despite opposition from the Trump administration, says an environmental advocate. (CommonWealth Beacon)

• In Rhode Island, leaders of the state legislature made 19 out of 20 climate bills supported by local advocates ​“disappear” without a committee hearing or vote in a process that runs counter to democracy, says a climate activist. (Boston Globe)

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