Today’s headlines: Trump juices coal, Waymo batteries get a new home, and more

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COAL

• President Donald Trump will soon announce a plan to use the wartime Defense Production Act to inject $700 million into the coal industry, with $425 million going toward upgrading existing coal plants and another $75 million for a California export terminal. (Reuters)

BATTERIES

• Battery recycler B2U Storage Solutions partners with Waymo to reuse old batteries from the robotaxi firm’s Jaguar I-PACE fleet for grid storage. (Latitude Media)

• Battery storage is progressing in Oklahoma, where regulators recently approved a utility’s purchase of three projects and another 2.3 GW of storage is under development. (Latitude Media)

ELECTRIC VEHICLES

• The U.S. saw hybrid vehicle sales jump 33% in May compared to a year earlier as gas prices remain high. (Wall Street Journal)

NUCLEAR

• Top U.S. nuclear fuel enricher Urenco aims to boost its production capacity by nearly 50% through a major expansion project to counter the country’s move away from Russian uranium. (Bloomberg)

METALS

• Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond (R) sues to block the construction of what would be the country’s largest aluminum smelter, in part due to the facility’s massive energy needs. (Oklahoman)

DATA CENTERS

• Early voting results suggest Monterey Park, California, will become the first city in the U.S. to vote to permanently ban data centers. (The Guardian)

• The North Carolina House passes a Republican-led bill aimed at reining in data centers’ impact on residential utility bills, though Democrats argued against provisions that would keep coal- and gas-fired plants running until the state can replace them with nuclear generation. (WUNC)