- Wed 00:33The House of Representatives' Ways and Means Committee is expected to vote Tuesday on its section of the US 2025 budget considerations, which involves a mixed bag for clean energy tax credits.
- Wed 00:12Canada’s new prime minister will need an even-hand to juggle the pro- and anti-climate agendas of its two largest trading partners in the coming energy transition, say scholars with New York’s Columbia University.
- A Canadian carbon capture company launched its manufacturing facility on Tuesday, with the goal of scaling its production capacity to enable capture of 10 million tonnes of CO2 per year.
- Iowa’s Senate passed a bill on Monday to restrict the use of eminent domain for CO2 pipeline projects, following years-long challenges against a proposed project led by a multi-state developer.
- Tue 22:35Boulder v. Big Oil - The Colorado Supreme Court ruled 5-2 on Monday to allow Boulder’s climate lawsuit against ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy to proceed in state court, rejecting industry arguments that the case, which addresses the costs of climate change, should be governed by federal law. Plaintiffs had argued they have a better chance of success in state court. The decision, written by Justice Richard Gabriel, upheld a lower court's finding in favour of the city and county of Boulder. (E&E News)
- Tue 22:12A former member of President Donald Trump's transition team is urging the US EPA to expedite elimination of the endangerment finding by arguing that the Supreme Court decision in West Virginia vs EPA undermines the fundamental climate rule.
- Tue 21:34Diesel for data - The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality is seeking public comment on tech major Microsoft’s proposal to build a battery consisting of 128 diesel-fired electric generators that will power new data and computing facilities near Cheyenne. The diesel generators will be used for backup power, according to This Week in Energy, and will be built with storage tanks that would hold up to 1.8 mln gal of diesel fuel. Public comment will be accepted through May 21. No public hearing on the permit application will be held unless an aggrieved party requests one.
- Tue 19:50Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Tuesday new members to his cabinet, selecting a Toronto parliamentarian to lead the environment ministry.
- Tue 19:38A Louisiana House committee recently advanced a bill addressing the distribution of revenue generated from CO2 sequestration on state lands and water bottoms.
- Tue 19:04Canadian standards regulators are rolling out a new framework for classifying the carbon intensity of hydrogen on both sides of its southern border.
- Tue 16:25Uranium urgency - The US Department of the Interior announced it will expedite the permitting review for the Velvet-Wood uranium mine in San Juan County, Utah, under new emergency procedures established following President Trump’s national energy emergency declaration in January. The Bureau of Land Management is expected to complete the environmental review within 14 days. If approved, the project would produce uranium and vanadium with minimal new surface disturbance. Officials stated the mine would support national energy security by reducing reliance on foreign uranium and vanadium imports.
- Tue 16:18Brazil and China’s public and private sectors are coming together on decarbonisation initiatives, meeting and signing agreements this week that officials and observers alike have characterised as Global South leadership during a climate policy power vacuum.
- Tue 14:10The US DOE announced a proposal to eliminate or reduce 47 regulations from the Federal Register related to appliance standards, energy production, and reporting requirements for grant recipients.
- A US-headquartered investment firm has launched a $50-million fund to scale nature-based solutions in Latin America, with a goal of raising an additional $100 mln over the next months.
- Tue 01:02US Congress committee proposes to slash billions for emissions reductions projects in federal budgetBillions of dollars in funding for emissions reductions are up for repeal in the US as a Congressional committee works to finalise federal spending levels for the next decade.
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