What stopped Illinois’ storage bill?

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POLITICS

• The Senate Finance Committee is on track to release its portion of the ​“Big, Beautiful Bill” that deals with clean energy tax credits as soon as today. (E&E News)

• The budget bill passed by the House threatens as many as 300,000 clean energy-related jobs, as well as hundreds of thousands more indirect jobs that could stem from growing incomes and rising populations, according to a new report from BlueGreen Alliance. (report)

CLIMATE

• Minnesota’s former state House Speaker who was assassinated in her home on Saturday is remembered as a major power behind the state’s climate policies. (E&E News)

OVERSIGHT

• A group of 12 advocacy organizations sue the Trump administration in an attempt to reverse an order giving nearly 70 coal-fired power plants an exemption from certain EPA regulations on the emissions of mercury and other pollutants. (E&E News)

• Major fossil fuel, financial, tech, and other companies are rolling back or completely abandoning their once-ambitious climate commitments. (Bloomberg)

FOSSIL FUELS

• One year after the Mountain Valley Pipeline entered service, crews are still working to restore the land and curb erosion, though critics say the destruction of forested land ​“created a wound that can never be really healed.” (Roanoke Times)

• A federal court upholds the Biden administration’s approval of the Willow drilling project in Alaska and allows construction to continue, but orders the federal Bureau of Land Management to address a flaw in its environmental review. (Alaska Beacon, news release)

• Sources reveal the U.S. EPA’s lax enforcement of oil and gas industry regulations in Midwestern states as the Trump administration pushes to boost production. (CNN)

• Maryland residents who want new gas service to their homes will now have to pay for the connection, as public utilities regulators decide the old system of free or reduced-price hookups is at odds with the state’s climate goals. (Baltimore Sun)

NUCLEAR

• Democratic- and Republican-led states have filed more than 200 bills related to nuclear energy this year, with dozens going into law as states wrestle with how to meet rising power demand. (E&E News)

SOLAR

• New Jersey lawmakers advance legislation to expand the state’s community solar capacity by 50%, with the goal of helping residents rein in high utility bills. (Gothamist)

• Cutting federal clean energy tax credits could devastate Ohio’s growing solar manufacturing industry and eliminate about 70% of the state’s 8,000-person solar workforce, according to a solar trade group. (WOSU)

NEW FROM CANARY MEDIA

• Clean energy advocates and companies wrestle with the failure of an Illinois bill that would’ve incentivized energy storage and other power grid investments, Kari Lydersen reports.

• After years of delay, Ohio utility regulators are set to determine whether FirstEnergy will have to pay penalties exceeding half a billion dollars in response to the HB 6 power plant bailout scandal, Kathiann M. Kowalski reports.

• The EPA’s proposed rollback of power plant emissions rules threatens to have severe health and climate consequences, though a long legal road still lies ahead, Kathryn Krawczyk reports.