On Our Radar: Urban Energy Patterns

A map opens the way for visualizing energy patterns and building materials' "intensity" in the United States. NASA, Terra MetricsA map opens the way for visualizing energy patterns and building materials’ “intensity” in the United States.

Two students unveil an interactive Web-based map that allows people to visualize energy use in specific neighborhoods in more than 40 American cities. [urbmet.org]

Maine regulators clear the way for three utilities to distribute electricity harnessed from ocean tides, setting terms for what could be the first long-term power purchase agreements involving tidal energy in the United States. [Associated Press]

Bakersfield, Calif., ranks first again in air pollution in the American Lung Association’s annual State of the Air survey. The association says that while air quality is improving nationally, four in 10 Americans live in counties that have unhealthy levels of particle or ozone pollution. [American Lung Association]

Donald Trump tells a Scottish parliamentary committee that he was “lured” into building a golf resort in Scotland with false assurances that an “obnoxious and ugly” offshore wind farm would not be constructed nearby. [BBC News]