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BUDGET BILL

• 13 Republican House members urge the Senate to preserve clean energy tax credit provisions, even though all 13 voted for the budget bill that would roll them back — or would have had they not slept late that day. (Politico)

• The Senate looks to finish reworking the budget bill by the end of this week. (E&E News)

SOLAR

• Sunnova, a major U.S. residential solar installer, filed for bankruptcy as its business suffers in the face of higher interest rates and policy shifts in California and at the federal level. (CNBC)

• Solar project financier Solar Mosaic LLC stops issuing loans and prepares to file for bankruptcy. (Financial Post)

• Solar manufacturer Qcells launches a new venture that will recycle about 500,000 solar panels annually at its Georgia factory. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

• Illinois’ renewable energy targets and solar programs can help the state keep expanding solar capacity as federal incentives are in jeopardy, advocates say. (Inside Climate News)

OFFSHORE WIND

• Maryland regulators issue the final approval needed for US Wind to begin construction on a 114-turbine offshore wind farm, though local opposition remains strong and the possibility the Trump administration could intervene still looms. (Maritime Executive)

• No new offshore wind projects are likely to proceed in the U.S. under current economic and political conditions, says an investment analyst: ​“We don’t see anything else going ahead.” (Heatmap)

NUCLEAR

• Westinghouse aims to build all 10 large nuclear reactors called for in President Trump’s nuclear-boosting executive orders. (Financial Times)

FOSSIL FUELS

• President Trump’s orders keeping fossil fuel-fired power plants in Michigan and Pennsylvania open represent an unusual use of federal powers and could cost consumers millions of dollars. (New York Times)

• A new analysis finds the U.S. power sector is responsible for 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions since 1990 — a finding that contradicts Trump administration efforts to deem power plant emissions insignificant. (The Guardian)

BUILDINGS

• A slate of private investors and high profile customers will allow Sublime Systems, which produces an innovative, low-carbon cement, to keep building its first factory despite losing $87 million in federal funding. (Boston Globe)

ELECTRIFICATION

• Southern California air quality regulators vote to reject proposed rules that would have phased out residential gas water heaters and furnaces following opposition from industry and the Trump administration. (CalMatters)

CARBON CAPTURE

• The Trump administration removes California startup Heirloom’s proposed direct-air carbon capture project in Louisiana from its federal funding ​“kill list” following Republican officials’ lobbying. (Politico)