America’s biggest carbon emitter?

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Amazon goes big: Amazon is investing in a natural gas power plant that could be the single largest source of carbon emissions in the U.S. The 7.5-GW facility is part of the tech giant’s plan to build a massive data center campus in Pecos County, Texas. (Cleanview)

Renewables strike back: Republican U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles, who helped phase out clean energy tax credits, loses his primary in Tennessee after a pro-renewables political action committee spends $2 million in opposition. Ogles is the third Republican to lose a race after the Invest in Tomorrow Coalition PAC stepped in. (Politico)

Fathom this: Ford unveils plans for the Fathom, an all-electric pickup truck it’ll build in Kentucky. The automaker aims to sell a base model for just under $30,000 and capitalize on a hot market for low-priced EVs. (Canary Media)

“We just had a record month:” The rollback of federal tax incentives has certainly dinged North Carolina’s rooftop solar industry. But developers are finding creative ways to survive and even thrive, including by offering lease options and incentives for batteries. (Canary Media)

Black lung rebounds: A new medical study finds black lung rates in Appalachian coal miners are rising at record speed. The incurable and fatal lung disease is just one dangerous consequence of the Trump administration’s push to revive the coal industry. (NPR)

More solar manufacturing: SEG Solar has completed construction on its Texas PV module manufacturing facility, its second in the U.S. The company will have 4 GW of annual production capacity in the state once it begins commercial operations this fall, and has another factory still in the works. (Renewables Now)

Even more solar manufacturing: Tesla is considering building a $10 billion solar cell manufacturing facility of its own in Fort Bend County, Texas, outside Houston. (Houston Chronicle)

Gas power mandate? Texas is installing tons of solar and battery storage, and it has Republican state senators worried. They’re now pushing utility regulators and grid operator ERCOT to require that a certain amount of new power generation come from fossil fuels. (Inside Climate News)

Oh, Crist: Charlie Crist, once the Republican governor of Florida, is now the Democrat running to lead St. Petersburg. But while he’s pushed to regulate utility companies in the past, in this campaign, he’s brought in more than $130,000 from lobbyists and groups linked to top utilities and data center developers (FloridaTrib)

Another wind buyout: The Trump administration will pay German energy company RWE $1.22 billion to abandon its offshore wind leases, include one off the Louisiana coast (Reuters)