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BUDGET BILL

• Senate committees edit sections of the ​“Big, Beautiful Bill” that didn’t comply with the Senate parliamentarian’s rulings and omit other sections entirely in moves that could preserve more of the Biden administration’s energy and environmental moves. (E&E News)

• After record growth in the first quarter of this year, utility-scale battery storage installations could fall 29% next year as the budget bill raises industry uncertainty. (E&E News)

• The Trump administration’s budget proposal would slash energy research funding at national labs, often in contradiction with its priorities of scaling up geothermal and nuclear power. (E&E News)

• Trade groups representing utilities, power plant developers, and electrical equipment manufacturers urge the Senate to pass the more lenient rollback of technology-neutral clean energy investment and production tax credits it has proposed in the ​“Big, Beautiful Bill,” as opposed to the House’s quicker cuts. (Utility Dive)

• As Senate Republicans propose a slower tapering of clean energy tax credits, they’re facing pressure from the White House to repeal them entirely. (New York Times)

FOSSIL FUELS

• Global carbon emissions from the energy sector hit a record high last year as both fossil fuel and renewable power use rose, the Energy Institute finds. (Reuters)

• Experts say global events have less effect on oil prices and production on the Gulf Coast than they once did, largely because the development of fracking has made the U.S. less dependent on foreign oil. (The Advocate)

NUCLEAR

• Unit 1 at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island could be up and running again by 2027, officials announce. (ABC27)

• The Tennessee Valley Authority plans to implode two stacks and another structure at its coal-fired Bull Run Fossil Plant in Tennessee to make way for development of a pilot fusion power plant. (Knoxville News Sentinel)

CLEAN ENERGY

• Support for EV and solar panel tax credits has fallen over the past three years among Democrats and independents, while backing for offshore wind and solar farms has declined among all U.S. adults, a poll finds. (Associated Press)

GEOTHERMAL

• A suburb of Austin, Texas, aims to power 7,500 planned homes and commercial buildings with a sprawling geothermal energy project. (Texas Tribune/​Floodlight)

ELECTRIC VEHICLES

• Tesla sales decline in Europe for the fifth straight month, even as EV sales grow overall. (Associated Press)

• Michigan EV adoption has quadrupled over the past three years and now totals more than 85,000 registrations, though high purchase prices and repair costs, along with range anxiety, remain deterrents for buyers. (Bridge)

BUILDINGS

• Many low-income households can’t access the free, energy-saving Weatherization Assistance Program because they can’t afford to make basic but expensive repairs required for qualification. (Grist)