Milk-source heat pumps?

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CLEAN ENERGY

• A fight is underway in Jackson County, Kansas, between farmers who plan to lease some of their land for use as a 500-MW solar project, and others who see it as a threat to rural life. (Topeka Capital-Journal)

• Michigan energy regulators propose rewarding or penalizing power companies based on how strongly they incentivize small-scale solar, home batteries, and smart energy-saving home technologies. (MLive)

WASTE HEAT

• A U.K. cheesemaker’s use of waste heat to help run its operations could be replicated to cut energy costs at dairy farms in the U.S. (Canary Media)

COAL

• A federal attorney indicts four managers of an Illinois coal mine, accusing them of hiding an underground fire while continuing to force miners to work and obstructing a federal investigation into the incident. (Capitol News Illinois)

• The South Dakota School of Mines will get a portion of $180 million in federal funding to establish mining workforce development programs as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to rebuild the coal industry. (Nebraska Examiner)

• The University of North Dakota secures a contract with the DOE to experiment with producing nitrogen fertilizer from the Falkirk coal mine. (North Dakota Monitor)

DATA CENTERS

• All party nominees running for Ohio governor have called for restrictions on data center development, while the Republican and Democratic nominees for a U.S. Senate seat widely diverge on their approaches. (Ohio Capital Journal, Ohio Capital Journal)

• Indianapolis’ city-county council will vote today on whether to follow the lead of several other counties in the state and place a moratorium on data center development. (Indianapolis Star)