Ohio fracking waste goes untracked

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OIL & GAS

• Large amounts of fracking waste in Ohio that is often sent to conventional landfills goes unreported to state regulators, making it difficult to track the amount and source of the waste. (Allegheny Front/​Inside Climate News)

ELECTRIC VEHICLES

• Electric vehicle sales plunged in November after federal tax credits ended in late September, though analysts expected the decline and expect sales to rebound. (Inside Climate News)

PIPELINES

• Line 5 opponents criticize federal officials’ latest proposal to protect the Great Lakes by using horizontal directional drilling to snake the pipeline underneath the Straits of Mackinac instead of building a tunnel. (Bridge)

CARBON CAPTURE

• A North Dakota court ruling invalidating a state carbon capture law creates uncertainty for not only carbon pipelines and ethanol producers but oil and gas companies, industry representatives say. (North Dakota Monitor)

SOLAR

• A landfill solar project in the Cleveland area that’s part of a $129 million Biden-era grant is set to move forward while another stalls. (Cleveland.com)

DATA CENTERS

• Many of the hundreds of residents participating in a public hearing on DTE Energy’s request for a power supply contract for a hyperscale data center urge regulators to take caution. (MLive)

RENEWABLES

• Wisconsin regulators approve We Energies and two other utilities’ purchase of four solar, wind, and battery storage projects totaling 450 MW of capacity. (Wisconsin Public Radio)

MINING

• U.S. House Republicans intensify their investigation into the Biden administration’s decision to scrap mining leases near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters, seeking information on environmental groups’ role in the decision. (E&E News)

NUCLEAR

• Officials in a metro Kansas City town pass a resolution expressing an interest in nuclear energy development, which would join a wave of new development following a data center and a battery factory. (KSHB)

GRID

• Iowa regulators approve plans for a $221 million transmission project that will total more than 94 miles across several counties. (Daily Energy Insider)

NEW FROM CANARY

• Georgia hashes out plan to let data centers build their own clean energy — Jeff St. John

• Chart: Hungary is leading the world in solar adoption — Dan McCarthy

• The grid storage industry set a wild goal for 2025 — and then crushed it — Julian Spector

• In a geothermal milestone, Zanskar claims major discovery in Nevada — Alexander C. Kaufman