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Regional program helps Chicago area communities become EV Ready / Public News Service

By Kari Lydersen for Energy News Network.Broadcast version by Mark Richardson for Illinois News Connection reporting for the Solutions Journalism Network-Public News Service Collaboration University Park is a small suburb south of Chicago, built around sprawling warehouses for companies like Clorox, Amazon and Solo Cup that attract a steady stream of diesel truck traffic. Its residents, 88% of whom are African American, are also exposed to pollution from a steel and wire processing facility relocated there from a gentrifying Chicago neighborhood, as well as steel mills and an oil refinery in nearby Northwest Indiana. So, village manager Elizabeth Scott figured, the town was a prime candidate for improving quality of life and the environment by adopting electric vehicles — even if only two local households had EVs when Scott first checked the secretary of state’s website. .

North Dakota gets more federal funds to cap abandoned oil wells

A new round of federal funding is coming North Dakota s way to help plug dozens of abandoned oil wells. The U.S. Department of the Interior this week awarded $25 million to North Dakota to respond to what is described as "legacy pollution." With the financial boost, 46 orphaned oil and gas wells will be plugged, along with remediation work at more than 270 contaminated sites. .

NM agency considers new rule on fracked wastewater

Community effort aims to restore Apalachicola Bay oyster harvests livelihoods / Public News Service

New Mexico solar projects to receive $156 million

The spending comes as part of a federal grant package for solar projects targeted to benefit "households in low-income and disadvantaged communities."