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DOE commits $450M to install rooftop solar for highest-need Puerto Ricans

Gabriela Aoun Angueira reports in Grist about Department of Energy plans to allocate nearly $500 million to install rooftop solar and battery backup systems on the homes of vulnerable residents in Puerto Rico, aiming to provide reliable and affordable energy to high-need households amid frequent blackouts.

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The situation in Puerto Rico is untenable
www.theatlantic.com

The situation in Puerto Rico is untenable

Although the effort to rebuild Puerto Rico has made progress, the island is still confronting questions of status, economics, and emigration that Hurricane Maria helped expose.
Vann R. Newkirk II: Donald Trump doesn’t care about Puerto Rico
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Vann R. Newkirk II: Donald Trump doesn’t care about Puerto Rico

Recent comments by the president that serve to erase the severity of Hurricane Maria’s death toll on the island confirm that he’s never really seen the disaster as anything more than a conspiracy against him.
Trump’s dubious revisionist history of Hurricane Maria
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Trump’s dubious revisionist history of Hurricane Maria

The president grades himself highly for how the federal government responded to the disaster in Puerto Rico.
Added to the storm’s toll, guilt and heartache for Puerto Ricans who fled
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Added to the storm’s toll, guilt and heartache for Puerto Ricans who fled

After Hurricane Maria, the reasons for leaving Puerto Rico were obvious. Still, an exodus has stirred guilt, resentment and fear it could slow the recovery.
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