In the last gasps of a gerrymandered majority, state Senate Republicans stage a veto override attempt rather than release funds to clean up contaminated drinking water. And in this week’s Climate Check, a review of the ways that the electric grids of the future will be designed to more quickly accommodate power from wind and solar sources.

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