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SOLAR

• Democratic attorneys general from 21 states and Washington, D.C. sue the U.S. EPA over its cancellation of $7 billion in Solar for All funding. (NBC News)

• Indian solar manufacturers are shifting their supply chains to avoid the U.S.’s 50% tariffs on imports from the country. (Reuters)

• Southwestern utilities and electric cooperatives turn to solar to replace drought-diminished hydropower output from Hoover and Glen Canyon dams. (Circle of Blue)

NUCLEAR

• The U.S. Energy Department releases a fusion roadmap that includes challenges and strategies for companies and the government to achieve commercialization. (report)

OFFSHORE WIND

• US Wind asks a court for an injunction preventing the Trump administration from halting work on its wind farm off the Maryland coast before an ongoing lawsuit is resolved, saying a reversal of federal approvals would pose an ​“existential threat” to the company. (WBOC)

FOSSIL FUELS

• A Louisiana judge rejects a permit for the Commonwealth LNG liquified natural gas terminal, ordering state regulators to review how its greenhouse gas emissions will affect nearby Gulf Coast communities. (Louisiana Illuminator, Associated Press)

• The U.S. Interior Department rejects a mining company’s bid for a 6-million-ton federal coal lease in Utah, marking the third time in a month a sale has been nixed due to lowball offers and throwing the Trump administration’s energy dominance agenda into doubt. (Associated Press)

• “Grab yourself a couple of turbines”: Tech companies build their own gas-fired power plants in West Texas and Memphis, Tennessee, part of an emerging ​“energy Wild West” as companies look to bypass grid backlogs. (Wall Street Journal)

• Ten Democratic Congress members urge New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to reject a revived proposal for a natural gas pipeline, a project some worry she could support as part of a deal with the Trump administration that allowed work to restart on Empire Wind. (New York Times)

UTILITIES

• Minnesota tribes build momentum for energy sovereignty as they build clean energy projects and establish tribal utility commissions. (Minnesota Reformer)

GRID

• A group of 21 Democratic U.S. House members are pushing grid operator PJM to make it easier for new power projects to connect to the system, a move the lawmakers say could help rein in soaring energy prices. (Utility Dive)

• Baltimore Gas and Electric Company partners with Sunrun on a first-of-its-kind vehicle-to-grid program that leverages Ford Lightning trucks, solar, and batteries as grid resources. (Grist)

OVERSIGHT

• The Federal Reserve and other federal agencies toss regulations that required banks to plan for losses stemming from climate-related risks. (CNBC)

• The U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works schedules a hearing for four of President Trump’s nominees to the Tennessee Valley Authority’s board of directors, as activists warn against the administration’s attempts to privatize the federal utility. (Knoxville News Sentinel, news release)

CARBON CAPTURE

• California Resources Corp. breaks ground on its facility designed to capture carbon from a natural gas plant and geologically sequester it after state lawmakers lift a ban on carbon dioxide pipelines. (Politico)