Despite fracking promise, there’s no mistaking candidates’ energy policies

OIL & GAS: Vice President Kamala Harris’ promise not to ban fracking if she’s elected president pleases oil and gas executives while disappointing environmentalists — though both say there’s a wide gulf between her positions and Donald Trump’s. (E&E News)

ALSO:

• Texas regulators select 17 natural gas generation projects totaling nearly 10 GW to receive up to $5.4 billion in state-backed loans. (Utility Dive)
• Arizona’s attorney general joins environmentalists in a lawsuit challenging state regulators’ decision to exempt a proposed 200 MW natural gas plant from environmental review. (KJZZ)

POLITICS: Experts debunk false and misleading claims about electric vehicle mandates, electricity availability, and other energy topics former President Trump and Sen. J.D. Vance are making on the campaign trail. (E&E News)

GRID:

• A Minnesota professor says grid reliability measures like underground power lines, energy storage systems and climate resilience hubs are needed amid aging grid infrastructure and more extreme weather. (MPR)
• A FERC commissioner dissents as the regulatory body approves incentives for a Maryland transmission project, saying state regulators should make sure projects are in the local interest before they get federal funding. (Utility Dive)

BUILDINGS: Massachusetts climate activists are pleased by how quickly a few dozen cities and towns have adopted an optional building code that helps to lower building emissions. (Energy News Network)

ELECTRIC VEHICLES:

• California lawmakers pass legislation authorizing regulators to require manufacturers to equip electric vehicles with bidirectional chargers that can send power back to the grid. (E&E News, subscription)
• Florida lags on spending nearly $110 million in federal funding to install fast chargers, raising questions about whether it will move fast enough to meet a deadline for more funding. (Miami Herald)

WIND: Maine officials, business owners and other environmentally minded stakeholders are looking to increase the number of small-scale distributed wind turbines in the state. (Portland Press Herald)

SOLAR: Mississippi solar advocates grow frustrated with a board of state regulators who rejected rules to make rooftop solar more affordable and cut speakers off at a ​“solar summit” that featured a representative of an oil-and-gas-funded, anti-renewables think tank. (Floodlight)

URANIUM: The Navajo Nation adopts emergency legislation to strengthen radioactive material transportation regulations after an Arizona mine began shipping uranium ore across tribal land to a Utah mill. (Associated Press)