Line 5 fight continues

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PIPELINES

• Four tribes and three environmental groups ask the Michigan Supreme Court to review a lower court’s decision to uphold a key permit for Enbridge’s Line 5 oil pipeline project. (Michigan Advance)

UTILITIES

• Naperville, Illinois, elects a slate of pro-climate city councilors who all promised to reject the coal-reliant Illinois Municipal Electric Agency’s push to extend its contract. (E&E News)

• Tens of thousands of customers remain without power in Michigan and Indiana after this week’s severe storms. (Detroit News, Poweroutage.us)

• Michigan’s attorney general calls out Consumers Energy for saying it will seek another rate increase later this year, just days after its last increase was approved. (Michigan Advance)

ELECTRIC VEHICLES

• The United Auto Workers last week announced its support of President Trump’s auto import tariffs, but the U.S. industry’s reliance on imported parts and Trump’s rejection of free trade with Canada and Mexico will pose further challenges. (The New Republic)

• University of Michigan engineers develop a new manufacturing process for EV batteries that they say could allow for faster charging in cold temperatures. (news release)

NUCLEAR

• Nano Nuclear Energy signs an agreement with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to build a research micro modular reactor on campus. (NucNet)

• Illinois Senate Republicans lend their support to a bill that would remove a prohibition on nuclear power plant construction over 300 MW. (Center Square)

GRID

• After MISO and SPP ask for input on a joint system study, clean energy groups suggest the RTOs increase bidirectional transfer capacity between the two systems. (RTO Insider)

SOLAR

• Avangrid starts delivering electricity from its 150 MW Powell Creek solar project in Ohio’s Putnam County. (PV Magazine)

MORE FROM CANARY MEDIA

• A new report finds electric bills would rise across the country if Congress guts Inflation Reduction Act clean energy incentives, with the biggest bill increases likely to come in states across the southwest, Dan McCarthy reports.