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PIPELINES: Appalachian, Indigenous and southeastern activists protest laws to speed up allowing for pipelines and different initiatives, complaining their communities had been sacrificed as a bargaining chip to cross a local weather spending package deal. (Washington Publish)

ALSO: A coalition of U.S. lawmakers led by Sen. Bernie Sanders opposes laws to hurry completion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline and different power initiatives. (ABC Information)

BIOGAS: North Carolina environmentalists are outraged to study {that a} hog farm that homes a renewable gasoline undertaking spilled 3 million gallons of waste in Might. (WRAL)

SOLAR:
• A Virginia county approves a allow and siting settlement for Dominion Vitality to construct a 90 MW photo voltaic farm. (Gazette-Virginian)
• Residents of a rural Virginia neighborhood complain about Dominion Vitality’s building of a photo voltaic farm on 1,200 acres beforehand used for crop and tobacco manufacturing. (Chatham Star-Tribune)
• Florida regulators re-approve Duke Vitality’s plan to construct 10 photo voltaic farms after the state supreme courtroom orders them to revise their resolution. (Citrus County Chronicle)

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: A former U.S. EPA administrator for the Southeast discusses how local weather change, white flight and environmental injustice led to the water disaster in Jackson, Mississippi. (Inside Local weather Information)

UTILITIES:
• Memphis, Tennessee, activists query the Tennessee Valley Authority’s guarantees to do higher by Black and low-income residents if town council approves a brand new 20-year deal to buy energy from it. (Tennessee Lookout)
• An Alabama metropolis council approves a decision for its municipal utility and the Tennessee Valley Authority to complete capital initiatives totaling greater than $100 million. (WHNT)

ELECTRIC VEHICLES:
• Tesla information paperwork to construct a lithium refinery in Texas, however firm officers say the ultimate resolution to construct hinges on their capacity to acquire native property tax aid. (Reuters)
• An Arkansas metropolis provides a $200 incentive to builders to incorporate electrical automobile charging receptacles. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)

OVERSIGHT:
• Sixty-one Democratic Virginia lawmakers signal on to a letter arguing the state’s involvement in a regional carbon market is as much as the legislature and can’t be undone by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin via regulatory means. (Richmond Occasions-Dispatch)
• Virginia’s residents air board considers whether or not to cast off a committee that was established to enhance public engagement and transparency in environmental allowing. (Virginia Mercury)
• U.S. Vitality Secretary Jennifer Granholm visits Houston to speak about geothermal expertise and focus on local weather change and the Texas energy grid. (KPRC, KRIV)

OIL & GAS:  A unfastened barge strikes a pipeline in a Louisiana lake, triggering an explosion and fireplace. (NOLA.com)

CARBON CAPTURE: A Louisiana parish imposes a year-long moratorium on injection wells used for carbon-capture initiatives, with native officers saying they want extra time to develop laws. (The Advocate)

STORAGE: Duke Vitality provides two lithium-ion battery websites in Florida to strengthen the grid. (West Orlando Information)

ENERGY EFFICIENCY: Entergy companions with an Arkansas college district on power effectivity enhancements. (information launch)

COMMENTARY: Federal lawmakers shouldn’t think about laws to cut back public enter on environmental allowing for power initiatives at a time when communities are struggling the results of local weather change and previous power improvement, writes a staffer for an Appalachian advocacy group. (Virginia Mercury)

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