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POLITICS

• A Republican Congress member says there’s ​“a lot of disagreement” in his party over whether to preserve, edit, or repeal Inflation Reduction Act tax credits. (E&E News)

• Senate Democrats push back against the U.S. EPA’s plans to dismantle the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program. (E&E News)

• Texas lawmakers approve legislation to require nearly every solar and wind farm in the state to back up their energy production with gas-fired power plants or batteries or face a steep fine, potentially shutting down thousands of megawatts of existing projects. (Houston Chronicle)

NUCLEAR

• Ontario, Canada, greenlights the construction of a 300 MW GE Vernova Hitachi small modular nuclear reactor, which could be the first SMR in North America if completed by 2030 as planned. (Axios)

COAL

• Indiana leads 14 coal-producing states in urging a federal judge to deny the Trump administration’s attempt to pause litigation over a Biden era mine safety rule, which the Interior Department says is being replaced with its own version. (Bloomberg Law)

WIND

• The multistate lawsuit challenging President Trump’s wind energy order could receive quiet backing from red states where land-based wind projects have also been affected, an expert says. (CAI)

• Welcon, a European supplier for the Empire Wind farm, calls out the Trump administration’s ​“banana republic” for canceling the offshore project and wasting years of work and billions of dollars in investment. (New York Times)

FEDERAL FUNDING

• Churches adding solar, industrial buildings switching to LED bulbs, and dozens of other projects are highlighted on a new map illustrating the ways more than $3 billion in Inflation Reduction Act funding has been used in Pennsylvania. (Allegheny Front)

• Electrification nonprofit Rewiring America announces it’ll lay off 28% of its staff, as it has remained unable to access Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund dollars since the EPA first tried to claw back the funds in February. (Latitude Media)

GRID

• Two new reports find the Southeast is the only region that hasn’t approved a new regional transmission project in more than a decade, and that utilities could increase grid reliability and save more than $8 billion by investing $5 billion in regional grid improvements. (Utility Dive)