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Left at the altar : NY climate activists lament unpassed environment bills
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A student group that lobbies for climate action is disappointed in New York lawmakers for failing to pass certain environmental bills during the past legislative session. Students for Climate Action was started in Sayville, Long Island, in 2017. The group has since launched student chapters across the rest of New York, Massachusetts and Texas.
Harrison Bench, deputy director of Students for Climate Action, wanted lawmakers to loosen state regulations to give schools more time to pay for solar energy projects.
“There s always going to be a very large, immediate cost to that,” Bench said. “But what this regulation is saying is, if you re unable to pay off that debt in 18 years, you cannot pursue that. And that is actually a shorter time here than the federal limit of 25 years.
Officials from Concord Public Schools in Arkansas, members of the community, and Entegrity hosted a flip the switch ceremony to celebrate the school’s new 341-kW solar array. The array, designed with a fixed tilt system, is located on 3 acres of school-owned land and will save the school over $17,000 a year in energy expenses by taking advantage of third-party financing and federal investment tax credits. The reduction in operating expenses will allow the district to reinvest back into the school’s budget and remain wise with taxpayer money.
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Concord’s local State Senator Missy Irvin voted in support of the 2019 Solar Access Act that enabled this project by allowing public entities to take advantage of low-cost solar energy with third-party ownership, net metering, and grandfathering. After the law went into effect, Concord Public Schools was one of the first school districts in the state to take advantage of it to reduce utility costs.
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