Clean energy’s looming copper crisis

OIL & GAS:

• The CEO of a North Dakota cooperative utility announces that the organization will build a 1,400 MW natural gas plant, marking its largest capital investment to date. (KFGO)
• Eastern Ohio city officials are unsatisfied with a state agency’s response to their concerns and calls for action to clean up a fracking waste processing facility that the state attorney general says threatens the area’s drinking water. (Times Leader)
• A Federal Reserve official says he looks to North Dakota and the Bakken region’s oil industry to provide vital insight into the health of the U.S. economy. (North Dakota Monitor)

PIPELINES:

• Tribal leaders and environmental justice groups urge a Canadian consulate in Detroit to recognize long standing treaties with First Nations and retract a 1977 treaty that allows Line 5 to operate in the Great Lakes. (Michigan Advance)
• The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ environmental assessment of the Dakota Access pipeline now is likely to stretch into 2025. (E&E News, subscription)

CLEAN ENERGY:

• Students across the U.S. are turning to community colleges for training in electrification, wind and solar installations and energy efficiency. (Associated Press)
• Two school districts in Lansing and southwestern Michigan receive federal funding to invest in solar, geothermal and energy efficiency projects. (City Pulse; The ​‘Gander)