Reporting by Aby Jose Koilparambil in Bengaluru
Massachusetts
National Grid’s Massachusetts utilities submit clean energy investment plan
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Nov 17 (Reuters) – National Grid (NG.L) said on Friday its two utility firms in Massachusetts have submitted an investment plan to authorities in the U.S. state as part of the group’s transition to cleaner energy.
If approved, the plan filed by Massachusetts Electric Co and Nantucket Electric Co would see a $4.86 increase in monthly bill for a residential customer with usage of 600 kilowatt hours per month over the five-year investment period, National Grid said in a statement.
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LONDONDERRY, NH — A Massachusetts man is due in court next week to face a drunken driving charge after a crash on early Tuesday morning.
Just before 1 a.m., several officers were sent to Route 28-Rockingham Road near Smith Lane for a crash report. When they arrived, they found a single vehicle had crashed into trees on the south shoulder of the road. A utility pole had also been severed.
During an on-scene investigation, police accused the driver, James Shea, 31, of Malden, Massachusetts, of being impaired, “attributing his condition as the sole cause of the accident,” police said on Facebook. He was arrested on driving while intoxicated and false report to law enforcement charges.
Police said Route 28 was closed for several hours during the cleanup and pole repair work.
Shea was released on personal recognizance and is due in Derry District Court on May 7.
BROOKLINE – President Joe Biden’s administration announced Wednesday it is forgiving $6.1 billion in federal student debt for people who attended The Art Institutes, and more than 3,500 borrowers who went to one of the chain’s for-profit schools in Massachusetts will benefit.
Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell said $80 million in federal loan debt will be discharged for former students of the New England Institute of Art in Brookline.
“Predatory for-profit schools”
The Art Institutes shut down last fall amid allegations of fraud, with a federal investigation finding that fewer than 57% of students found jobs in their fields of study within six months of graduation. U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said that students took out billions of dollars worth of loans to attend the schools, but “got little but lies in return.”
“These predatory for-profit schools harmed vulnerable students for their own financial gain, leaving student borrowers burdened with debt and without viable job or financial prospects,” Campbell said in a statement.
The NEIA filed for bankruptcy in 2018.
“Millions of students, including thousands of Massachusetts students, were taken advantage of by The Art Institutes and had their financial futures threatened,” Gov. Maura Healey said. “This will be transformative for these students’ lives and benefit our economy as a whole.”
Who qualifies for student debt forgiveness?
Students who enrolled in Arts Institutions between January 1, 2004 and October 16, 2017 will have their debt automatically forgiven. Borrowers do not have to take any action or make any further payments.
Biden’s push to broadly forgive student loan debt was blocked by the Supreme Court last year. The president said his administration has now been able to forgive $160 billion total for about 4.6 million borrowers.
MASSACHUSETTS — Thousands of students from Massachusetts who attended a now-shuttered chain of “predatory” arts colleges will have their loans forgiven, according to the Attorney General Andrea Campbell and the U.S. Department of Education.
About 3,500 students who attended Arts Institute colleges — including the former New England Institute of Art in Brookline — between 2004 and 2017 will have a total of about $80 million forgiven.
The now bankrupt Education Management Corporation ran over 100 Arts Institute colleges in the U.S. The last of the schools closed in September.
“These predatory for-profit schools harmed vulnerable students for their own financial gain, leaving student borrowers burdened with debt and without viable job or financial prospects,” Campbell said in a news release Wednesday. “Thanks in part to the diligent work of my office, I, alongside the Department of Education, am tremendously proud to announce meaningful debt relief for former students of The Art Institutes and help advance consumer and economic justice for these struggling borrowers.”
Following a state lawsuit in 2018, the New England Institute of Art was found to have broken the state Consumer Protection Act by lying to students about what types of jobs they would get upon graduation. Tuition at the New England Institute of Art ran close to $19,000 per year, not counting room and board.
In total, 315,000 former Arts Institute students will get their debt forgiven, totaling about $6.1 billion.
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