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Communicate Only Through the Act!

Source: Boston Globe
Per this May 2 story, certain Massachusetts AirBnB hosts will get help in installing heat pumps from the app-based rentals service.
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California, Here We Come

Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
This op/ed from a professor begins with the familiar gambit about imagining California as its own country...and proceeds to invoke a California that runs entirely on clean energy from sun, wind and storage.

Explainer: How Do Public Policies Reinforce Building Electrification Financing (Part Two)?

Tyler Clevenger
Each building owner, with a team of investors, needs to work out a particular electrification schedule. Broad public policies, though, can advance new technologies or marketing strategies that can help more buildings go electric sooner. This sequel to our earlier explainer sets out some scalable policies from across the United...
Can Clean Peak Standards brighten the view in this part of Brooklyn?

Activists in Brooklyn's Sunset Park neighborhood have explored whether Clean Peak Standards can address air quality and energy inequity. (Photo by Victoria Belanger via Flickr Creative Commons.) 

Explainer: Can Clean Peak Standards Make Energy Economics Meet Energy Justice?

Elwin Lim
One state has tried requiring power at peak demand periods to come from clean sources. This mandate can improve air quality in low-income communities. Critics question its effect on emissions, though, and its optimal design as clean-energy storage for utilities evolves.