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BUDGET BILL

• The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee releases its portion of the GOP budget bill, which would roll back federal funding for pollution mitigation projects and a regulation meant to drive EV sales. (The Hill)

• Republicans say they’re disappointed in Elon Musk’s panning of the budget bill, which would roll back incentives and hurt his businesses. (E&E News)

• Senate Republicans plan to include public land sales in the budget bill to help pay for tax cuts. (Bloomberg)

• In Pennsylvania, 74 schools that received state funding to build solar panels may not be able to go ahead with the projects if Congress phases out renewable energy tax credits. (WHYY)

ELECTRIC VEHICLES

• Automakers are divided on whether to support or oppose the rollback of EV tax credits in the bill, stopping the industry’s lobbying group from weighing in on the legislation. (Politico)

• Opponents of Ford’s planned $2.5 billion electric vehicle battery manufacturing plant in Michigan say they’re encouraged by Chairman Bill Ford’s recent comments that the project could be in jeopardy if federal production tax credits are eliminated. (Crain’s Detroit)

• California Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla pushes to block President Trump’s EPA nominees over the Senate’s vote to revoke his state’s vehicle emissions rules. (The Hill)

CLEAN ENERGY

• The International Energy Agency predicts global investment in clean energy will reach $2.2 trillion this year, marking another record high. (report)

FOSSIL FUELS

• Texas residents grow frustrated as data center developers begin planning and building their own gas-fired power plants instead of waiting for grid connection, affecting nearby neighborhoods and locking in reliance on fossil fuels for decades to come. (Texas Tribune/​Inside Climate News)

• Natural gas leaks — common in states with aging infrastructure like New York — can impact pollution levels in neighboring states, new research finds. (Inside Climate News)

GRID

• Power market executives tell federal energy regulators that grid rules instituted during times of slow demand growth aren’t adequate anymore and that all states should be adding new generation as AI, increased electrification, and extreme weather raise power outage risks. (E&E News)

• California firm Energy Vault prepares to begin operations at a lithium-ion battery and hydrogen fuel cell energy storage system designed to provide backup power to a wildfire-prone Napa Valley community. (Associated Press)

OFFSHORE WIND

• After losing $3.3 million in federal funding, the University of Maine scales back plans for analyzing data from its test floating wind turbine and developing strategies for commercializing the technology. (Bangor Daily News)

WORKFORCE

• A shortage of engineers in the U.S. and beyond is leading to longer timelines and higher costs for transmission and other energy projects. (Bloomberg)

MINERALS

• China’s restrictions on exports of rare earth metals and magnets threaten the energy sector supply chain. (Axios)

• AI’s growing capabilities are helping energy companies map out new areas to explore for mineral and fossil fuel resources. (E&E News)