OIL & GAS: California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs into law three bills cracking down on the oil and gas industry, including one that allows local governments to block new drilling, one that ups cleanup ...

GRID: Jersey Central Power and Light files a plan with New Jersey regulators to get approval for what it calls its “largest-ever infrastructure upgrade investment plan,” $935 million worth of grid ...

CLEAN ENERGY: A public-private partnership signs a deal to test emerging clean energy technologies on 65,000 acres of former coal mine land in Southwest Virginia. (Virginia Mercury) ...

OIL & GAS: New research on hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas in Pennsylvania confirms earlier data that links the practice to an array of health harms, such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, ...

ELECTRIC VEHICLES: As the United Auto Workers strike expands, the union’s deal with Mack Trucks, which doesn’t cover a non-unionized electric truck plant in Virginia, shows how automakers could move ...

CLIMATE: Delaware’s governor calls climate change the most important global issue of our time as he signs seven environmental bills into law, including a greenhouse gas reduction target and a school ...

ELECTRIC VEHICLES: Rhode Island’s governor wants the state to adopt clean car standards and phase out new gas-fueled vehicle sales by 2035. (WPRI) ...

OIL & GAS: A peer-reviewed study finds natural gas-gathering pipelines in the Permian Basin release at least 213,000 metric tons of methane annually, about 14 times more than U.S. EPA inventory ...

HEAT WAVE: Record-breaking heat pushes California’s peak power demand to an all-time high, but grid operators say conservation measures helped them avert widespread rolling blackouts. (Los Angeles ...

ELECTRIC VEHICLES: Illinois officials award $2.2 million in tax incentives to a Decatur auto parts manufacturer that will retool a factory to make compressors for electric vehicles. (Pantagraph) ...

COAL ASH: An Alabama coal-fired power plant with 21 million cubic yards of wet coal ash in an open pit near wetlands and a spill into North Carolina’s Lake Sutton during 2018’s Hurricane Florence ...

OIL & GAS: Group of Seven world leaders, including President Biden, agree to support public natural gas investments in the face of fuel shortages, reversing their earlier pledge to halt fossil fuel ...