Second key figure in Ohio bribery scandal found dead

PIPELINES:

• Iowa Senate lawmakers advance a bill that would enable landowners to seek a court review of requests to use eminent domain for carbon pipelines. (Iowa Capital Dispatch)
• Illinois lawmakers advance legislation that would create a temporary ban on carbon pipelines to consider new regulations. (WTVO)
• Indigenous leaders later this month plan to speak before a United Nations panel about their ongoing opposition to Line 5 through northern Wisconsin and Michigan. (WXPR)

ELECTRIC VEHICLES:

• Ford starts construction on a massive electric vehicle battery plant in southern Michigan after announcing, pausing and scaling back the project all in 2023. (Bridge)
• The company developing a $2.4 billion battery manufacturing plant in rural Michigan meets with vocal opponents during a rare public hearing as litigation over the project proceeds. (WOOD-TV8)
• Detroit community activists say they were kept in the dark about a proposed $210 million EV battery plant until after the project received millions of dollars in state tax incentives. (Crain’s Detroit, subscription)

GRID:

• Michigan’s attorney general opposes an Upper Peninsula utility’s request for a waiver on recently adopted rules involving bill credits for customers during sustained outages. (Michigan Advance)
• Regional grid operators reported no problems with managing the bulk power system during Monday’s total eclipse. (RTO Insider, subscription)