News from the States (September-October)

Connecticut  Gov. Ned Lamont revamping transportation plan to unclog choke-points (Hartford Courant)  Connecticut Interagency PFAS Task Force Releases Draft PFAS Action Plan for Public Comment  Governor Lamont: Wall Street Journal Recognizes Positive Shift in Connecticut’s Economic Outlook  Governor Lamont Applauds PURA Approval of Millstone Contract Between Dominion, Eversource, and United Illuminating

Maine  Representative Golden requests public hearing for CMP power line (Central Maine)  Maine won’t wait on climate change  Speaking Before The United Nations, Governor Mills Announces Maine Will Be Carbon Neutral by 2045  Mills Administration Announces Maine Climate Council Membership

Massachusetts  Governor Charlie Baker Testifies Before the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Transportation  Baker-Polito Administration Announces Availability of $8 Million in Climate Change Funding for Cities and Towns  Time To ‘Radically Increase’ Electric Cars in Massachusetts, Senate Climate Change Committee Member Says (NewBostonPost)  Baker-Polito Administration Announces $24 Million in Funding to Dredge New Bedford Inner Harbor

New Hampshire  N.H. Joins Northeast States Considering Transportation Carbon Price Program (NHPR)  Governor and lawmakers gather in Franklin on Thursday for signing of compromise, $13 billion state budget (Union Leader)  Governor Chris Sununu Signs Bipartisan PFAS Governors Letter  New laws set stage for NH’s possible transportation future (NH Business Review)

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New York  Governor Cuomo Directs New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to Sue the International Joint Commission for Water Level Mismanagement That Devastated Lake Ontario Shoreline Communities  New York City Wants to Put a Climate Change ‘Laboratory’ on Governors Island (The New York Times)  Carbon Pricing Can Help NYS Meet Clean Energy Goals (NYISO)  Statement from Governor Cuomo, Governor Inslee and Governor Newsom on Trump Administration Revocation of Clean Air Act Waiver  New York Electric School Buses to Feed Power Grid (Bloomberg)

Rhode Island  DEM Seeks Input on Proposed Climate Resilience Fund Regulations  Rhode Island's first community solar project opens  Small Farms Key to Addressing Climate Emergency (ecoRI News)

Vermont  Governor Phil Scott and Québec Officials Attend the Historic East Richford-Sutton International Bridge Reopening  Governor Scott appoints Kim Greenwood as deputy commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation  Mayor of Burlington proposes statewide carbon pollution fee (AP)

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