Solar for no one

This roundup of U.S. energy news headlines is part of our Canary Media Daily newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox each morning.

WIND

• The U.S. Interior Department revokes approval of the 1.2 GW Lava Ridge Wind Project, which was set to be built in Idaho but had faced criticism from multiple fronts. (Idaho Capital Sun)

• The Lava Ridge revocation comes amid a wave of federal moves to stymie wind and solar project permitting and to roll back already-issued approvals. (New York Times)

NUCLEAR

• NextEra Energy asks federal regulators to let it reclaim interconnection rights from its shuttered Duane Arnold nuclear power plant in Iowa, which were transferred to a solar farm, in hopes of restarting the plant. (World Nuclear News)

• New York looks to extend its current subsidy program for Constellation Energy’s four nuclear reactors through 2049. (E&E News)

SOLAR

• Corporate funding for solar companies fell 39% in the first half of 2025 compared to the same period last year, and funding for storage dropped 41%, though mergers and acquisitions did accelerate over the same time. (Utility Dive)

• The Trump administration’s revocation of the Solar for All program comes just as California was launching its efforts to boost community solar. (Politico)

EFFICIENCY

• Twelve states and Washington, D.C., have used Inflation Reduction Act funding to launch rebate programs to help low- and moderate-income households make efficiency upgrades, and the U.S. Energy Department has ​“repeatedly” assured recipients that the money will flow. (Utility Dive)

FOSSIL FUELS

• The U.S. Energy Department will have to decide later this month whether to extend its order keeping a Michigan coal plant operating past its planned retirement. (E&E News)

POLITICS

• The Trump administration is pushing to oust the head of the International Energy Agency as it grows frustrated with the body’s forecasts of slowing fossil fuel use. (E&E News)

• The White House Office of Management and Budget directs the Bureau of Land Management to curb spending on renewable energy programs. (E&E News)

• The Trump administration looks to shut down a NASA mission that monitors carbon emissions around the globe. (Associated Press)

COMMENTARY

• EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin criticizes the cancellation of the Constitution pipeline project, which would’ve run through New York, and calls for it to once again pursue construction. (Boston Globe)

NEW FROM CANARY 

• Trump looks to kill​‘Solar for All’ just as it starts to deliver — Jeff St. John

• Ohio finally ends subsidies for two scandal-linked coal plants — Kathiann M. Kowalski

• California lawmakers have a radical idea for lowering electricity bill — Jeff St. John