By Annie Ropeik for Energy News Network.Broadcast version by Kathryn Carley for Maine News Service reporting for the Solutions Journalism Network-Public News Service Collaboration Overnight in early July last year, Vermont solar installer Bill Chidsey got a call that a grocery store he worked with in his village of Hardwick was flooded. He arrived to find feet of water in the Buffalo Mountain Market s utility room, spilling over from the rising Lamoille River in a record-breaking rainstorm. "The grocery store survived by an inch," Chidsey said. " .
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State officials in Maine are preparing the next generation for climate change-related activism and careers. A new state-run website helps young Mainers find ways to use their own talents and interests to counter any climate anxiety and work to build the state s climate resilience. Abigail Hayne is Maine s youth climate engagement coordinator. .
School buses are getting cleaner in Washington state after this year s legislative session. Lawmakers in Olympia passed House Bill 1368, which will fund the purchase of zero emission school buses. Rep. .
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