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FOSSIL FUELS

• Exxon Mobil announces it will increase oil and gas production with the goal of growing earnings by $25 billion from 2024 to 2030, while reducing its spending on low-carbon initiatives by a third. (Reuters, Financial Times)

• Today, the federal government will hold its first oil and gas leasing sale in the Gulf of Mexico since 2023. (Reuters)

• TransAlta Corp. signs an agreement with Puget Sound Energy to convert the retiring Centralia coal plant in Washington to run on natural gas. (Washington State Standard)

WIND

• An alliance between the fossil-fuel and nuclear-power industries against offshore wind took root in recent years — and now it’s reached the White House. (Bloomberg)

• Wind energy executives hoped support from moderate Republicans and avoiding conflict would help the industry carry on under Trump, but they were quickly proven wrong. (E&E News)

POLICY

• Three Senate Democrats oppose Republican-led permitting legislation, saying it does not go far enough to streamline transmission development that can enable clean energy deployment. (Heatmap)

• Two-thirds of states have reduced staffing at their environmental agencies over the last 15 years, compounding the Trump administration’s layoffs and funding cuts at federal oversight agencies. (E&E News)

SOLAR

• Just one solar project has been approved on federal lands since President Trump took office this year, thanks to a permitting freeze, creating what Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) calls ​“an electron shortage across the country.” (Reuters, Latitude Media)

• SunRun finds continued success in leasing solar panels to consumers as federal challenges grow. (New York Times)

GRID

• The CEO of Texas’ grid operator credits the addition of 11 GW of generation capacity — mostly from solar and batteries — for reducing the risk of outages this winter, even as the region sees rising interconnection requests from large-load customers. (Houston Chronicle, KHOU)

DATA CENTERS

• Observers say the $165 billion Project Jupiter data center under development in southeast New Mexico is part of a trend by developers to site the facilities in lower-income, rural areas in an effort to skirt growing opposition. (New York Times)

• Some Democratic leaders in Congress shrug off advocates’ calls for a moratorium on data center development. (E&E News)

NEW FROM CANARY

• Judge strikes down Trump’s order blocking wind farm approvals — Clare Fieseler

• New York’s public utility approves plan to build 5.5GW of renewables — Alexander C. Kaufman

• Europe’s world-first carbon tariff is coming. Here’s what to know. — Maria Gallucci

• Fervo nabs $462M to complete massive next-gen geothermal project — Maria Gallucci

• Cornell’s deep-down and rocky quest to unlock geothermal for New York — Maria Gallucci

• New Jersey’s latest plan for 100% clean power comes at a tricky time — Rambo Talabong