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PA Solar Center and Capital Good Fund announce a partnership to finance nearly 70 solar projects statewide worth up to $40 million, helping small businesses and nonprofits go solar with no money down.
At a Pennsylvania Senate budget hearing, PUC Chair DeFrank testified that the PJM capacity market was not designed for data center demand and called for a comprehensive, diversified state energy plan.
Twenty-eight contributors to the Federal Judicial Center's Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence have signed an open letter condemning the deletion of its climate science chapter as a political attack on judicial independence. The chapter was removed in February after 27 Republican state attorneys general pressured the center to retract it, leaving federal judges without a peer-reviewed resource on climate science at a time when climate litigation is rapidly expanding in U.S. courts. Subscription may be required.
IBEW International Secretary Treasurer Paul Noble writes in The Electrical Worker about the ongoing fight against right-to-work laws and the union's strategy for protecting worker organizing rights state by state. Noble draws on his experience helping secure the Workers' Rights Amendment in Illinois to make the case for why every state should give workers the full freedom to organize and bargain collectively.