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Clean Energy

This week’s Midwest Energy News: Hundreds of new pipelines in Ohio, new hydropower plant in Kansas (but not enough water to make it work)

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Plus: An Ohio State University team aims to build the world’s fastest electric car.

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Transportation & Land Use

House action needed now after Senate passes transformative transportation bill

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On May 10, the Minnesota Senate passed a slightly modified version of an earlier comprehensive transportation funding bill 35-27. Fresh Energy supports this bill, which will provide transformative funding for transit, walking, and biking, and needed road funding.

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Clean Energy

Minnesota House passes clean energy and jobs legislation

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Last night, the Minnesota House of Representatives passed its Energy Omnibus bill. The bill establishes a solar energy standard of four percent by 2025, expands Minnesota’s solar market, increases the state’s Renewable Electricity Standard to 40 percent by 2030 for investor-owned utilities, and removes barriers to developing clean locally produced power.

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