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Global clean energy firm lays off 73 offshore wind employees based in Mass.

“Last year we announced that, due to market conditions and increased risk profile, we would delay certain expenditures related to our US offshore wind development projects,” the company said in a statement. “With the current regulatory and political environment, we have made the decision to reduce the scope of our development activities and the size of our US offshore team.”

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Maine ramps up training to meet ambitious heat pump goals

The sputtered drone of a vacuum pump filled the former milking barn that now houses Kennebec Valley Community College’s heat pump lab. Instructor Dave Whittemore, who held the yellow vacuum in one hand and displayed an app tracking atmospheric pressure on his phone in the other, explained in a raised voice how to do an “evacuation,” ridding the heat pump of air and moisture to avoid malfunctions down the road.

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Amherst revising its Housing Production Plan to address the needs of low- and moderate-income residents

According to the Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities, “A Housing Production Plan (HPP) is a community’s proactive strategy for planning and developing affordable housing by creating a strategy to enable it to meet its affordable housing needs in a manner consistent with the Chapter 40B statute and regulation.”

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