WIND: Vineyard Wind’s chief executive officer implies their 1.2 GW proposed offshore wind project won’t move forward unless Connecticut buys 400 MW of power Massachusetts didn’t purchase. (CommonWealth Beacon)

ALSO:

  • The 126 MW Downeast onshore wind project in Maine’s Washington County will take delivery of a large turbine transformer this week, resulting in transportation-related traffic disruptions. (Bangor Daily News)
  • Equinor orders 54 wind turbines from Vestas for its 810 MW Empire Wind 1 offshore project in New York. (news release)

TRANSIT: 

  • Lawyers for New York’s governor try to toss out two lawsuits seeking the implementation of the Manhattan congestion tolling plan by claiming she can’t be forced to end her indefinite pause since it’s technically not a final agency decision. (Streetsblog)
  • Exhaust from a traffic-congested stretch of Washington, D.C., is polluting the adjacent historically Black neighborhood; a recent study finds Black Americans are more likely to suffer from fine particulate matter air pollution compared to others. (Inside Climate News)

FOSSIL FUELS:

  • In Brookfield, Connecticut, local officials fight plans to expand a natural gas compressor station for the Iroquois pipeline around a residential and school zone, pointing to new research highlighting the project’s health risks. (News Times)
  • Environmental justice activists are shocked to see driller EQT, which has faced over 2,000 environmental violations, selected for federal environmental justice funding for monitoring at some of its Pennsylvania facilities. (EHN)
  • A Pittsburgh-area town sues driller EQT to demand clean water, alleging a frack-out instigated by the firm polluted their water sources. (Public Source)
  • In Maryland, community activists witness a large coal dust cloud being stirred up by rail maintenance equipment at the CSX Curtis Bay facility, expressing dismay that pollutants are still becoming airborne. (Baltimore Brew)

GRID: 

HYDROPOWER: Federal officials are granting roughly $5 million to New Hampshire for hydroelectric facility upgrades, repairs and up/downstream wildlife corridors. (NHPR)

SOLAR: New York City solar-and-storage developer AMS Renewable Energy acquires a solar construction firm based upstate in Oswego. (news release)

POLICY: Rudy Wynter, the departing president of National Grid New York, discusses the state’s energy goals and changes in the utility business over her three decades with the company. (E&E News, subscription)

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Bridget is a freelance reporter and newsletter writer based in the Washington, D.C., area. She compiles the Northeast Energy News digest. Bridget primarily writes about energy, conservation and the environment. Originally from Philadelphia, she graduated from Emerson College in 2015 with a degree in journalism and a minor in environmental studies. When she isn’t working on a story, she’s normally on a northern Maine lake or traveling abroad to practice her Spanish language skills.