What’s holding up tribal clean energy?

CLEAN ENERGY: Tribal nations often feel the impact of fossil fuel plant shutdowns, but many lack the needed funding to build clean energy projects and connect them to the grid, a tribal clean energy group says. (Utility Dive)

ALSO:

• Deputy Energy Secretary David Turk calls on Congress to pass an energy permitting deal, saying the Biden administration can’t advance its climate goals without one. (Politico)
• Pennsylvania, home to the country’s biggest shale gas production region, tries to balance a stable fossil fuel industry with emissions reductions and a clean energy transition. (Canary Media)
• Michigan’s top infrastructure official doubts former President Trump would follow through on a promise to roll back unspent Inflation Reduction Act funds, saying it would be wildly unpopular based on investments so far. (Bridge)

GAS:

• Twenty years since fracking began in southwestern Pennsylvania, there is growing evidence that the practice causes widespread adverse health impacts. (Observer-Reporter)
• San Antonio, Texas’ municipal utility says the state grid operator will likely force it to continue running three gas-fired power plants scheduled for closure because they’re situated near a transmission trouble spot. (Houston Chronicle)

NUCLEAR: Google signs a deal with a California nuclear startup to develop a fleet of small modular reactors to help power the tech giant’s data centers, but did not disclose the number or location of the proposed facilities. (Canary Media)

PIPELINES:

• The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe files a new lawsuit claiming the Dakota Access pipeline is operating illegally after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers flouted regulations to allow the project. (North Dakota Monitor)
• A federal court temporarily halts two permits to build a 32-mile Tennessee pipeline to a coal plant the Tennessee Valley Authority plans to retire and replace with a gas-fired power plant to let a lawsuit be heard. (Tennessean, Associated Press)

UTILITIES: The Ohio Attorney General wants to keep information from a state criminal case against former FirstEnergy executives from going to shareholders in a separate federal case, arguing that it could infringe on their rights to a fair trial. (Energy News Network)

COMMENTARY: Colorado academics urge both presidential candidates to craft policies aimed at encouraging critical mineral mining by streamlining regulations and increasing incentives. (Utility Dive)