Energy & Fuel

Coal Ash Sinkhole Expands In NC, Contaminating Stream Amid Legal Dispute

"For the past three years, a sinkhole in a Mooresville parking lot has released coal ash into a tributary of Lake Norman, in part because of a legal impasse about who is responsible — the property owners or Duke Energy — for repairing the damage."

Source: States Newsroom, 06/29/2023

"Solar Helps Texas Carry Energy Load As Heatwave Puts Power Grid To Test"

"As a deadly, record-breaking heatwave puts Texas’s grid to the test, renewable power sources are helping the state maintain energy reliability, contrary to some of the state’s lawmakers claims that clean energy is less reliable."

Source: Guardian, 06/29/2023

"Auto-Industry Group Assails Biden’s Plan to Electrify America’s Cars"

"The auto industry’s largest lobbying organization has come out against the Biden administration’s most ambitious climate change regulation, a proposed rule designed to ensure that two-thirds of new passenger cars sold in the United States are all-electric by 2032."

Source: NYTimes, 06/29/2023

Punitive Damages Add To Costs For Pacificorp’s Role In 2020 Wildfires

"Two days after jurors in Multnomah County found that the utility PacifiCorp was to blame for wildfires in 2020, they ordered the company to pay punitive damages. That’s in addition to the more than $70 million already owed to the plaintiffs in the case."

Source: OPB, 06/28/2023

"In Rush for Key Metals, Canada Ushers Miners to Its Fragile North"

"Canada is offering incentives to mining companies to dig in its northern regions for the critical minerals needed for EVs and solar panels. But based on past abuses, critics fear carbon-rich peatlands will be lost, wild rivers polluted, and enormous cleanup projects left behind."

Source: YaleE360, 06/27/2023

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