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) 400 North Capitol Street, N.W. • Suite 382 • Washington, DC 20001 • (202) 624-8450 • Fax (202) 624-8463 Email [email protected] • www.coneg.org 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) News from the States (September-October) 2 .