Energy news in brief

** The Minnesota Court of Appeals rules that state regulators must consider the environmental impacts for a proposed natural gas plant in Superior, Wisconsin, dealing a setback to the project.

** A developer cancels plans for a 31-turbine wind project in western Michigan due to “stringent” restrictions, though local officials share a different account.

** A company completed the acquisition of two ethanol plants in South Dakota. Glacial Lakes Energy, headquartered in South Dakota acquired the Advanced BioEnergy ethanol plants in Aberdeen and Huron. Glacial Lakes purchases an estimated 90 million bushels of corn a year and produces 257 million gallons of renewable ethanol per year.

** A federal judge allows new minimum efficiency standards for light bulbs that the California Energy Commission adopted in November to proceed.

** A federal judge rules that Tesla must face a lawsuit by two former workers alleging “severe and pervasive racial harassment” at its California factory.