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DEP, Local Partners To Hold 5 Outreach Sessions For Input Into Priority Climate Action Plan Initiatives Starting Dec. 4

PA Environment Daily

The Department of Environmental Protection, Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, Lehigh Valley Planning Commission and Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission will host a series of five public outreach sessions inviting comments on Priority Climate Action Plan initiatives. Wysox, Bradford County, 6:00 p.m. Click Here to register.

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Stakeholder Engagement in California Offshore Wind Development

Legal Planet

As California continues to develop plans for floating offshore wind (OSW) implementation, state leaders have an opportunity to forge a national example on stakeholder engagement and energy justice. Advocates and community representatives have also expressed their ideas and needs in CLEE’s 2022 OSW stakeholder forums.

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A New Strategic Plan for California Offshore Wind

Legal Planet

Because CLEE has spent the last year conducting research and hosting a series of conversations on community benefits agreements in the context of offshore wind development, this post focuses on portions of the Strategic Plan that discuss the effects of offshore wind on communities and ways to mitigate those effects.

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Roundup: Biden Administration Revamps Procedures for Reviewing Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

This post is part of a series of quarterly roundups on scientific integrity. A companion document explains how OMB incorporated public input in these revisions. When reviewing proposed regulations, OIRA invites public input via meetings that outside parties request to present their views on the topic.

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Tips for Scientists to Work Effectively with Communities

Union of Concerned Scientists

Scientists are expressing a growing interest in working with local communities. Getting up to speed I find this kind of task is best learned as a real-life experiment where one ventures out as a “student of the community.” Pay attention to how the community is organized. This includes where and when public meetings take place.

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Illinois Utilities Ameren and ComEd Plan for the Grid of the Future

Union of Concerned Scientists

Indeed, CEJA spelled out a distribution grid planning process that starts with stakeholders, which include utilities, community organizations and businesses. Following the series of workshops, the ICC asked Ameren and ComEd to submit their multi-year integrated distribution plans. Starting with stakeholders.

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Gas Has Reliability Issues. Why Is the Tennessee Valley Authority Doubling Down on It?

Union of Concerned Scientists

In our series on the increasing unreliability of fossil gas , my colleagues at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) have laid out why growing concerns about grid reliability should not be met simply by increasing the number of gas plants on the grid. In fact, too many gas plants are the problem, not the solution. Muse isn’t buying it.