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Electric Trucks and Buses: A Challenge and Opportunity for Rural Co-Ops

By Dakoury Godo-Solo, Environmental Defense Fund and Lidiya Kassahun and Margarita Parra, Clean Energy Works

  • Rural electric co-ops face both challenges and opportunities as electric trucks and buses drive new demand. Proactive planning is essential to avoid costly grid upgrades, as well as missed economic and public health benefits.
  • A new report prepared by Clean Energy Works for EDF makes the case that by acting proactively now, rural co-ops can accommodate (and even attract) medium and heavy-duty EVs while also reducing long-term grid upgrade costs to their members.

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A Fair Transition is on the Horizon for Shipping Sector this October

By Erica Morehouse

  • The International Maritime Organization will have its chance to show leadership by adopting the Net Zero Framework, a set of global measures that include a fuel standard that accounts for the full lifecycle emissions of marine fuels and a legally binding greenhouse gas pricing mechanism to help steer international shipping toward net-zero emissions by 2050.
  • For shipping’s transition to be lasting and effective, climate action must be Just and Equitable. By fairly addressing unequal impacts and benefits and amplifying the voices of those most affected, Member States can ensure solutions that are both impactful and sustainable for all.

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New York’s new grid planning framework looks to meet growing energy demand

  • With electricity demand increasing for the first time in a generation, the New York Public Service Commission issued an order that takes technical and procedural steps to facilitate long term planning for customer needs.
  • The order establishes forward-thinking practices for how utilities should plan grid investments — while leaving important questions unresolved.

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Truly clean hydrogen is desperately needed: Will an ISO Standard help or hinder its climate potential?

By Morgan Rote, Pete Budden and Joe Williams

  • The first international hydrogen standard is poised to shape national hydrogen policies, but in its current form it overlooks critical science on electricity sourcing, methane leakage and hydrogen’s own warming impacts — risking the credibility of clean hydrogen as a true climate solution.
  • To ensure hydrogen delivers real climate benefits and advances COP30’s clean energy transition goals, the hydrogen standard should include robust, science-based guardrails.

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The stakes are high for low-carbon hydrogen

 

  • For blue hydrogen to be truly better for the climate than the fossil fuels it is intending to replace, three conditions must be met: high carbon capture rates and permanent storage; low upstream methane emissions and low hydrogen losses.
  • A vacuum in federal leadership demands accountability by industry and investors, resisting rollbacks that harm the credibility of the hydrogen industry and committing to transparency.

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August 2025: Electric trucks, buses round-up

row of yellow Lion electric school buses charging

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  • August saw several sustainability milestones, including 25 electric school buses added to the Little Rock School District fleet, 14 new electric transit buses for Vine Transit in Napa County and Chicago launching its first two electric garbage trucks with Republic Services. 
  • Initiatives were backed by federal and EPA funding, and aim to reduce emissions, improve air quality and lower operating costs, while supporting long-term goals for zero-emission fleets in schools, public transit and waste management. 

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