Small pipeline spill leads to sweeping federal order

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PIPELINES

• Federal regulators direct Energy Transfer to detail past repairs to its hazardous liquid pipeline network nationwide, which totals about 20,000 miles, following a 600-gallon crude-oil spill outside Detroit. (Inside Climate News)

• The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe files a federal lawsuit challenging the Army Corps of Engineering’s approval of an easement for the Dakota Access pipeline’s river crossing upstream of the tribe’s reservation. (North Dakota Monitor)

• A North Dakota judge rules state regulators did not adequately account for public welfare, alternative routes, and local setbacks when they approved a permit for Summit Carbon Solutions’ carbon pipeline, whose future in North Dakota remains unclear. (North Dakota Monitor)

OIL & GAS

• North Dakota is on pace to lose $66 million in tax revenue this year from more than 700 oil wells that no longer qualify for, but still reap the benefits of, a permanent tax exemption that was designed to help low-producing wells stay afloat. (North Dakota Monitor)

COAL

• The U.S. EPA looks for Wisconsin state regulators to take oversight authority over the state’s six coal ash storage sites to eliminate duplicate regulation. (Wisconsin Public Radio)

• Democrats and clean energy advocates turn the Trump administration’s orders to keep coal plants open in Michigan and Indiana into an affordability issue as the November election nears. (Capital and Main)

ELECTRIC VEHICLES

• Demand has surged on the used vehicle market for Ford’s electric F-150 Lightning, which the automaker stopped making after retooling its entire EV strategy. (Bloomberg)

DATA CENTERS

• Cleveland’s city council prepares to extend the city’s moratorium on data centers for another three months to take more time to craft industry regulations. (Signal Cleveland)

• About 50 clean energy advocates demonstrate outside Ameren Missouri’s headquarters, calling on the utility to deploy more renewables and battery storage and scale back its fossil fuels as more data centers come online. (St. Louis Public Radio)

GRID

• Columbia, Missouri officials prepare to consider plans for a $34 million transmission line that was first proposed more than a decade ago. (Columbia Daily Tribune)

WIND

• Central Wisconsin county officials give Alliant Energy one month to formally address residents’ concerns over setbacks, property values and the decommissioning of a proposed 150-MW wind project. (Wasau Pilot & Review)