Measuring the clean manufacturing boom

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OFFSHORE WIND

• The Trump administration reverses course, lifting the stop-work order on the Empire Wind project following intensive lobbying by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Norwegian wind developer Equinor, though a social media post from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum suggests Hochul may now be expected to make concessions on a gas pipeline project. (Washington Post)

FEDERAL FUNDING

• The U.S. Energy Department reportedly plans to cancel seven loans that were conditionally approved under the Biden administration, including for a New Jersey transmission project and a low-carbon ammonia facility in Nebraska. (Semafor)

• A federal judge says he will order the Trump administration to restore $176 million in congressionally allocated environmental funding for 13 nonprofits and six municipalities. (Inside Climate News)

• An appeals court questions the timing and legality of the U.S. EPA’s termination of Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund grants, and may send the question to another court. (Politico)

POLITICS

• Germany’s government signals to France it will settle a longstanding rift and no longer oppose treating nuclear power as a renewable source. (Reuters)

• China’s lead on clean energy manufacturing is spurring some Republicans to support retaining Inflation Reduction Act incentives, though President Trump has indicated he’s not interested in competing on cleantech. (Politico)

• Energy Secretary Chris Wright is reportedly poised to name a new director of the Loans Program Office, the agency’s third since President Trump took office. (Latitude Media)

BATTERIES

• Battery recycling company Li-Cycle files for bankruptcy, but a bid by a Swiss-based conglomerate might save a facility under construction near Rochester, New York, that was expected to create 270 jobs. (Rochester Business Journal)

PIPELINES

• South Dakota carbon pipeline opponents expect a provision to be stripped from federal budget negotiations that would allow pipeline developers to bypass state and local permitting. (Iowa Capital Dispatch)

NEW FROM CANARY

• A new American Clean Power reports clean energy manufacturing supports 122,000 jobs and creates $33 billion of economic activity annually, largely in Trump-voting states, Julian Spector reports.

• State funding and strong educational partnerships with employers has helped South Dakota build a pipeline of clean energy manufacturing, operation, and maintenance workers in the wind-heavy state, Bart Pfankuch reports.

• The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rejects grid operator MISO’s plan to fast-track new gas power plants to address its predicted power shortfall, Jeff St. John reports.