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Federal court orders regulators to fix process, reconsider gas export projects in South Texas

This week’s ruling was the latest twist since cities and groups in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley sued to block the projects.

The Texas Tribune

Death of Biden’s gas export pause

Climate activists saw the policy as a major win. It fizzled out within six months

Salon

Talen Urges US Regulators To Dismiss Opposition To Amazon's Data Center Agreement

In March, Talen announced an agreement to sell electricity and a data center campus at its Pennsylvania nuclear power plant to Amazon Web Services.

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Panel's approval of liquefied natural gas export terminal puts more pressure on Biden to block it

What would be the nation’s largest export terminal for liquefied natural gas has won approval from a federal commission

The Independent UK

Senate Approves FERC Nominees, Boosting Renewable Energy Goals

Senate approves new FERC members to advance renewable energy goals, pending confirmation of third nominee.

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Worried about safety, a small West Texas town challenges planned cross-border pipeline

Critics are calling on federal regulators to increase their scrutiny and oversight of the proposed pipeline, which would send gas from Texas to the Mexican coast for export to other countries.

The Texas Tribune

Licensing process continues for proposed Bell County hydropower energy facility

A proposal from hydropower company Rye Development could see the site of a former coal mine in Bell County repurposed as a pumped energy storage facility.

WEKU

Gas pipeline expansion could fuel Pacific north-west climate emergencies

Washington, Oregon and California have stringent laws to combat fossil fuel, but the approval of GTN Xpress could upend that

The Guardian - US

Communities on US LNG front line ask Biden to reject export terminal

Louisiana’s booming LNG industry is wreaking havoc on fishing community. Locals are protesting a potential new terminal.

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Indigenous advocacy leads to largest dam removal project in US history

Four dams are being demolished along the Klamath River in northern California, as salmon populations plummet.

Fortune

Unrealistic plans to crack down on U.S. power plant emissions won’t work. We’ve been down this road before–and so have others

The EPA’s proposed rule would force power plant owners to decide virtually overnight whether to install expensive carbon capture tech or shut their plants.

The Guardian - US

‘Carbon mega bomb’: climate experts urge Biden to block gas export hub

Despite pressure from environmentalists to halt Louisiana construction, the US president touts gas exports to Europe

The Independent UK

Feds OK natural gas pipeline expansion in Pacific Northwest over environmentalist protests

Federal regulators have approved the expansion of a natural gas pipeline in the Pacific Northwest over the protest of environmental groups and top West Coast officials

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Kiplinger

Clean Energy Backlog Eases with Groundbreaking New Rule: Kiplinger Economic Forecasts

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is opening up the pathway to the electric grid, easing a clean energy backlog with a groundbreaking new rule.

Roll Call

Congress faces permitting issues unresolved by debt ceiling law - Roll Call

The debt ceiling law resolved some environmental permitting issues, but that clouded the legislative path to addressing the remaining ones.

The Texas Tribune

Company confirms it has found new funding to build a massive gas terminal at the Port of Brownsville

Brownsville is the last major deepwater port in Texas that doesn’t have large fossil fuel projects. The 750-acre facility will export Texas natural gas to other countries.

Businessweek

Permits for US Energy Projects Are So Bad Unlikely Allies Emerge

The renewables and fossil fuel industries—and Democrats and Republicans in Washington—are uniting in their push to streamline the country’s thicket of regulations.

Reason

Amidst Dreams of Green Energy, Regulators and Industry Warn of Summer Blackouts

If you want to keep the lights on, it might be a good time to shop for a generator.

Ballotpedia

House Oversight Committee holds ESG hearing

Economy and Society is Ballotpedia’s weekly review of the developments in corporate activism; corporate political engagement; and the Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) trends and events that characterize the growing intersection between business and politics.

Roll Call

Manchin says he will oppose all EPA nominees - Roll Call

Sen. Joe Manchin III vowed to oppose all EPA nominees, citing his displeasure over a coming greenhouse gas emissions rule for power plants.

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