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Biden Administration launching offshore wind offensive

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The Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is announcing a new priority Wind Energy Area in the New York Bight—an area of shallow waters between Long Island and the New Jersey coast. To date, LPO has provided $1.6 billion in support of projects totaling about 1,000 MW of onshore wind.

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EPA Awards $56M in Recovery Funding to 10 States to Clean Up Underground Petroleum Leaks

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The greatest potential hazard from a leaking underground storage tank is that the petroleum or other hazardous substances seep into the soil and contaminate groundwater, the source of drinking water for nearly one-third of all Americans. New York: $9M. New Jersey: $4.8M. North Carolina: $7.5M. Georgia: $4.9M.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Material is being financed and procured through the New York Power Authority. Solar Thermal System: A solar thermal system on the building roof will provide hot water for the operations building and the maintenance building. NJ Transit, New Jersey: $250,000. TIGGER will fund the labor portion of the project only.

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The Cat Is Still On The Roof – And The Roof! The Roof! The Roof Is On Fire!

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Worried about your finances and the crash of the economy? More importantly we are obligated to help change the course of the certain hell and high water that is coming for anyone under 30 years old. That ain’t nothing compared to what’s on tap for you next. “What!?

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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It covers ten Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont). Financing Investments and Other Public Expenditures. Allowance value can be used to finance government expenditures of various kinds.

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