California sues Trump for revoking vehicle emissions standards

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ELECTRIC VEHICLES

• California and other states file a lawsuit seeking to preserve its vehicle emissions standards and electric vehicle sales mandates after President Donald Trump signs a congressional resolution revoking a federal waiver for the rules. (Los Angeles Times, Colorado Sun)

ELECTRIFICATION

• California researchers say an experiment aimed at cutting electrification costs by upgrading multiple households in a single neighborhood, allowing for contractor time savings and buying products in bulk, was successful. (KQED)

• California regulators allocate up to $5 million annually for electrification-related upgrades for low-income households. (Action News Now)

POLITICS

• U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, a New Mexico Democrat, speaks about his efforts to defend federal clean energy tax credits against Trump administration and GOP attacks. (Canary Media)

• Alaska solar industry officials call on Congress to reject proposed clean energy tax credit cuts, saying renewables have become ​“unnecessarily politicized.” (Alaska Public Media)

GEOTHERMAL

• Meta agrees to support XGS Energy’s proposed 150 MW enhanced geothermal project in New Mexico and purchase power from the facility for its data centers. (Data Center Dynamics)

• Colorado’s State Land Board rescinds Mount Princeton Geothermal’s proposed lease extension after backers of its proposed project pull out. (Chaffee County Times)

• GeoAlaska plans to begin geothermal drilling this year in an active stratovolcano on Augustine Island in Alaska. (Think Geoenergy)

HYDROPOWER

• The Trump administration pulls the federal government out of an agreement with Northwest states and tribal nations aimed at recovering salmon in the Columbia River, and indicates it will no longer consider removing 14 fish-harming hydropower dams. (OPB)

FOSSIL FUELS

• Alaska youth advocates urge the state’s Supreme Court to consider their lawsuit seeking to block a proposed liquefied natural gas pipeline and export project, saying it violates their constitutional right to a livable climate. (E&E News)

• Alaska petroleum firm Furie looks to ease a looming natural gas shortage with a state-subsidized drilling project in the Cook Inlet. (Northern Journal)

• A federal oil and gas lease sale in Wyoming nets $7.7 million, which an industry insider described as ​“peanuts” compared to revenues under previous administrations. (Cowboy State Daily)

BIOFUELS

• A Montana agency provides a tax exemption on $67.4 million worth of equipment at Calumet’s biofuel refinery in Great Falls after the firm appealed a previous assessment. (Montana Free Press)

CLIMATE

• Oregon lawmakers consider a third statewide carbon market, but clash over whether to spend potential revenues on highways or other projects. (E&E News)

UTILITIES

• Nevada’s consumer protection bureau criticizes NV Energy for seeking a $224 million rate hike, saying the utility needs less than half that amount to service its customers. (Nevada Current)

GRID

• Pacific Gas & Electric brings a new substation online designed to accommodate growing power demand on California’s Monterey Peninsula. (KION)

NEW FROM CANARY

• Republicans’ ​“Big Beautiful Bill” puts hundreds of gigawatts of planned clean energy projects at risk of not being built as it threatens to dismantle key tax credits, Dan McCarthy reports.