California tackles high power bills

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POLITICS

• An Energy Department official touts a ​“best of the above” approach to power generation in a congressional hearing, as an alternative to the ​“all of the above” energy philosophy. (E&E News)

CLIMATE

• California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York lead state-level efforts to fight against the Trump administration’s attacks on the endangerment finding, a determination that greenhouse gases are a hazard to public health, which underpins much federal climate regulation. (CT Mirror)

• The U.S. Justice Department asks a judge to declare a Vermont law that would require fossil fuel companies to pay for climate impacts ​“unconstitutional and unenforceable.” (VTDigger)

EMISSIONS

• A new report from Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management highlights how the Trump administration has slowed but not fully stopped the clean energy transition. (Axios)

FOSSIL FUELS

• Top appliance companies have quietly removed comparisons of gas and induction stoves’ air quality impacts from their websites as they fight a Colorado law mandating warning labels on gas stoves. (Grist)

GRID

• PJM Interconnection rolls out a proposal that would allow operators to cut off power to data centers that aren’t using energy they’ve developed or acquired, before ordering rolling blackouts during emergency situations. (E&E News)

ELECTRIC VEHICLES

• Trump posts on social media that he doesn’t ​“want to frighten off or disincentivize investment into America by outside countries or companies” despite a recent immigration raid on Hyundai’s Georgia EV plant, hinting at the conflict between his administration’s immigration and economic agendas. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

• Hyundai’s CEO says construction on the company’s Georgia battery plant will be delayed for at least ​“two to three months” due to labor shortages after a federal immigration raid, but partner LG Energy Solution says that won’t alter its plans to invest in the U.S. (Bloomberg, Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

SOLAR

• Cutting down trees to build solar developments reduces net greenhouse gas emissions but can lower property values for neighboring homes, a new study from the University of Massachusetts Amherst finds. (ecoRI)

NUCLEAR

• County and town leaders in upstate New York say the idea of restarting the shuttered Indian Point nuclear power plant would be ​“anathema” to area residents. (E&E News)

• Plans to reopen Michigan’s Palisades nuclear plant get another $156 million loan disbursement from the Department of Energy. (WOOD-TV)

• A Colorado city’s proposal to replace the retiring Comanche coal plant with a small modular nuclear reactor runs up against the technology’s cost and long development timeline. (Colorado Sun)

ELECTRIC VEHICLES

• Rivian breaks ground on a $5 billion factory in Georgia even though federal EV tax credits are set to expire at the end of this month. (Associated Press)

CARBON CAPTURE

• Google announces it’ll buy 50,000 tons of carbon removal from Vaulted Deep over the next five years. (Fast Company)