Clean energy transition at stake in Ohio Supreme Court election

ELECTION: This fall’s election for three seats on Ohio’s Supreme Court comes as the court hears challenges to state ratemaking decisions, renewable energy siting, and oil and gas drilling. (Energy News Network)

SOLAR: Fossil fuel interests have leaned on a local Ohio newspaper now owned by a network reportedly engaged in pay-to-play coverage to publish negative stories about a proposed commercial solar project that has divided local residents and officials. (ProPublica; Energy News Network archives)

CLIMATE: A Michigan survey of 300 senior-level executives reported that their companies have been harmed to some degree by climate change, and nearly 75% of respondents have considered relocating their companies to the Midwest. (Inside Climate News)

PIPELINES:

• Several Iowa residents submit complaints to state regulators about Summit Carbon Solutions’ responses to community questions about the company’s proposed carbon pipeline. (Iowa Capital Dispatch)
• North Dakota regulators direct staff to prepare an order for them to vote on as they near a permitting decision on the Summit pipeline. (North Dakota Monitor)
• The Ohio Tax Commission erroneously valued a gas pipeline at nearly $5.7 billion after failing to consider maintenance and inflated construction costs, its owner claims. (Bloomberg Tax, subscription)

ELECTRIC VEHICLES:

• Kamala Harris says at a campaign stop in Flint, Michigan, that she wants to invest in legacy auto manufacturing cities, in response to Donald Trump’s accusations that she wants to mandate electric vehicles. (E&E News, subscription)
• A global mining company plans to make marine battery packs for electric boats at a factory in Detroit. (Crain’s Detroit, subscription)

COAL: Iowa agriculture officials plan to reclaim and restore seven sites across the state that were historically used for coal strip mining. (Radio Iowa)

GRID:

• Dozens of southern Michigan landowners push back on a transmission company’s proposed routes for what would be the state’s first interstate transmission projects in decades. (MLive)
• A public meeting later this month in Iowa will discuss a developer’s plan for a 350-mile underground transmission line along a railroad right of way in the Midwest. (Telegraph Herald)

COMMENTARY: A Michigan auto industry advocate says former President Trump’s comments about domestic auto manufacturing becoming an afterthought risks losing an economic edge to China. (Michigan Advance)