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North Carolina is making another effort at freezing the state’s 12.5% by 2021 renewable energy standard, via a bill introduced by lawmaker Chris Millis.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and various public entities have teamed up to move the city’s buildings’ electricity use to 100% renewable energy by 2025.

Last month, Maryland achieved a clean energy victory when the legislature voted to override governor Larry Hogan’s veto of the Clean Energy Jobs Act in a 32-13 vote.

President Trump’s long anticipated executive order advising the Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw parts of the Clean Power Plan (CPP) has left clean energy advocates unabashed, despite critics viewing the order as a total wipe out of Obama’s climate action legacy.

Port of Oakland commissioners voted late last week to approve a US$8.9 million deal to purchase solar power over the next 20 years.

Maryland has officially achieved a clean energy victory as the General Assembly voted yesterday to override governor Larry Hogan’s veto of the Clean Energy Jobs Act in a 32-13 vote.

The Maryland Senate ruled to postpone its vote on governor Larry Hogan’s veto of the Clean Energy Jobs Act that would increase the state’s RPS to 25% by 2020 and create thousands of new energy jobs.

Despite a number of new renewable energy proposals, Maryland governor Larry Hogan has kept "expensive" wind and solar at arm's length.

This week, Maryland governor Hogan vetoed the Clean Energy Jobs – Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard (RPS) Revisions bill (SB0921/HB1106) that would have increased the renewable energy mandate to 25% by 2020, up from the existing 20% target by 2022.