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Share: The company to offer seven $1,000 grants to engage local middle and high schoolers on the regions growing clean energy sector and highlight the urgency of climate change In celebration of Earth Day, FirstLight Power, a leading clean power producer and energy storage company, announced today that the company is launching the Valley Climate Champions education grant program. The program was created to engage Franklin County middle and high school teachers and students on the regions growi...

Google, Others Exhort Biden Administration to Adopt ‘Higher Impact’ Procurement Strategies (Credit: Pixabay) Google, Adobe, Trane Technologies, and Hewlett-Packard joined with a number of environmental groups to send a letter to President Joe Biden, urging his administration to adopt “higher-impact carbon-free federal electricity procurement,” as opposed to traditional clean energy procurement. The letter points out that such a move aligns with the president’s goal — stated in the E...

Online presentation to highlight importance of native plants as insect habitat Adults of the moth Schinia florida, pictured on an evening primrose flower. Northfield naturalist Charley Eiseman said the caterpillars of this species feed in evening primrose flower buds and fruits. Contributed Photo/CHARLEY EISEMAN Northfield naturalist Charley Eiseman, pictured in 2016 while teaching a workshop at the Edge of Appalachia Preserve in West Union, Ohio, holding a Virginia creeper leaf being “mined...

Could a Texas-style blackout disrupt New England? Unlikely, but the crisis is a warning The region’s electricity grid differs from the Lone Star State’s in key ways By Jon Chesto Globe Staff,Updated February 19, 2021, 9:03 p.m. Email to a Friend A transmission tower supports power lines after a snow storm on Feb. 16 in Fort Worth, Texas.Ron Jenkins/Getty All the oil, gas, and wind supplies in Texas simply weren’t enough to keep the lights on. Single-digit temperatures froze up mu...

Biden administration taps another Mass. energy expert, Phil Giudice He most recently chaired FirstLight Power, a local operator of hydroelectric facilities By Jon Chesto Globe Staff,Updated February 17, 2021, 11:42 a.m. Email to a Friend Phil Giudice was most recently the chair of the board of FirstLight Power, operators of hydroelectric, energy storage, and solar in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Giudice is a former top Massachusetts energy official. (Photo: Business Wire) The Biden administra...

Youth Climate Strike protesters gather on the steps of the Massachusetts State House. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) The climate bill currently sitting on Gov. Charlie Baker’s desk is bold and ambitious. It holds great promise for Massachusetts, as we transition to a clean energy economy that will bring cleaner air and job growth. But it also has real consequences for the entire nation. As former heads of New York State Energy Research and Development Authority  (NYSERDA) and the Massachusetts Dep...