Rhode Island’s clean heat program falls short for low-income residents; electric buses debut in Providence schools.

The Rhode Island’s clean heat program has only provided heat pump subsidies to dozens of residential applicants, but no for low-income residents or commercial entities. The Providence Public School District in Rhode Island has begun using four electric school buses to transport students. New York utility regulators have approved $1.4 billion for a transmission project in the New York City area, and over half of the power lines that comprise northern New York’s Smart Path Connect transmission project have been energized. Two Pittsburgh-area firms receive $26 million in federal clean energy funds to expand manufacturing. A Long Island lineworker files a discrimination suit against PSEG Long Island for allegedly allowing over two decades of racial discrimination and harassment. The Cambridge, Massachusetts, city council may institute a ban on gas-powered leaf blowers a year earlier than previously announced. The head of the nation’ oldest land trust of the land trust discusses preserving Massachusetts’ open space as vital to solving the climate crisis.