BOSTON – Five months of negotiations resulted in a deal Tuesday between leaders of the state House of Representatives and the Senate to raise the cap on the amount of solar energy that public and private electricity customers can feed into the power grid by 3 percent, while decreasing the value of the incentives for new projects.
The compromise would also let power companies petition the Department of Public Utilities to charge solar-producing customers a minimum bill to cover the cost of maintaining electricity transmission and distribution infrastructure, according to a summary obtained by the News Service.
President Obama is signaling his plans for an extensive effort aimed at getting Merrick Garland confirmed to the Supreme Court.
A front-page New York Times article lays out what it describes as "a deliberate White House strategy," consisting of three phases, including "speeches, interviews and other public events" by the president and "targeted advertising" by supportive outside groups. It will be an "all-out public relations campaign aimed at demanding a final, up-or-down vote."
