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Model Sustainability and Green Building Initiatives for a More Verdant City and Town

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Modeled after laws in New York, Chicago, and the District of Columbia, this bill is designed to work with the County’s recently enacted PACE program to create market based incentives for building owners to increase energy efficiency. It is already a very green place and this legislative package, that admittedly would not (.

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Supreme Court to Hear Climate Change Regulation Case

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Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Instead, the government explained, it intends to issue a new rule that takes recent changes in the electricity sector into account. This litigation over the EPA’s scope of authority comes to the high court in a quartet of environmental cases on appeal from the U.S.

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California Leads In Electric Grid Modernization

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California ranks highest overall in efforts to modernize its electric grid, while Illinois, Texas, Maryland and Oregon round out the top five, according to the fourth Grid Modernization Index (GMI-4). assesses and ranks all 50 states and the District of Columbia based upon the degree to which they are moving toward a modernized electric grid.

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FERC Decision Puts State Renewable Portfolio Standards At Risk

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by directing PJM to expand its current pricing rules at its wholesale electricity auctions, including to take into consideration state mandated rate payer subsidized electric generation by wind and solar.

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Ohio Law Rolls Back Unwise Renewable Portfolio Standards

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While 30 states and the District of Columbia have adopted renewable portfolio standards (and 7 other states have some voluntary goal), Ohio is the first state to roll back such a clean energy mandate. Renewable portfolio standards are state laws designed to increase generation of electricity from renewable resources.

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California, Illinois, Texas Lead The Charge Toward A Modernized Electric Grid

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California, Illinois, Texas Lead The Charge Toward A Modernized Electric Grid originally appeared on Business Facilities (BF) Magazine. For the third year in a row, California is the highest-ranked state when it comes to moving toward a modernized electric grid, according to the 3rd Annual Grid Modernization Index (GMI). GridWiseChart.

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Massachusetts Holds On To Top Energy Efficiency Ranking

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“I am encouraged that ACEEE continues to recognize the excellent work we are doing in the Commonwealth to advance energy efficiency through innovative programs such as the VASaves Green Communities Program and Energy Performance Contracting for public agencies,” said Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe.