Renewables are bigger in Texas

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POLITICS

• A group of 21 House Republicans representing districts benefiting from Inflation Reduction Act investment sign a letter urging colleagues to preserve the law’s clean-energy tax credits. (Politico)

• Climate United sues the Trump administration and Citibank to regain access to its portion of federal ​“green bank” funding. (Politico)

• The former head of the U.S. EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice says ​“the worst outcome I feared is happening” as the Trump administration dismantles a decade of work. (Inside Climate News)

• State legislatures introduce a wave of new bills to limit large solar and wind energy projects. (Heatmap)

CLIMATE

• The U.S. withdraws from the board of the United Nations’ climate damage fund that helped vulnerable countries deal with extreme weather. (The Guardian)

• Farmers who labeled projects as ​“climate friendly” to win Biden-era funding now fear they are at risk under President Trump. (Washington Post)

UTILITIES

• Several states are devising new incentives and legislation to encourage power plant construction as data centers are expected to drive electricity demand growth. (Associated Press)

• Utility ratepayers will end up paying for at least part of the electrical system upgrades needed to power the growing number of data centers, a new paper from two Harvard University researchers argues. (Heatmap)

FOSSIL FUELS

• Oil and gas executives will celebrate the Trump administration’s regulatory rollbacks and discuss uncertainty around tariffs as they meet in Houston for CERAWeek. (Axios)

• The Trump administration has quietly abandoned carbon pipeline safety rules proposed in the last days of the Biden administration. (Grist/​Verite News)

• New York utilities are poised to spend tens of billions to replace aging gas pipes in the coming decades, but electrifying neighborhoods instead could cut costs, according to a new report from a climate think tank. (New York Focus)