** Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich joins a climate change effort launched by former Secretary of State John Kerry.
** Five University of Wisconsin campuses will stop using coal as a heating source this year and switch to natural gas and heating oil.
** A nearly 50-year-old, 600 MW nuclear plant in eastern Iowa is set to retire later this year.
** Oregon Gov. Kate Brown is preparing an executive order to cut the state’s climate impacts, vowing “aggressive action” after the state legislature adjourned abruptly in wake of Republican walkout.
** PG&E says its cost to exit bankruptcy and compensate the victims of wildfires caused by its equipment is $57.65 billion.
** FERC issues the final environmental impact statemenent for a proposed liquefied natural gas export facility and pipeline network that would connect Alaskan North Slope gas to Asian markets.
** Laramie, Wyoming’s city council votes unanimously to accept recommendations aiming to make the city carbon-neutral by 2050.
** New Mexico’s Land Commissioner says oil and natural gas royalty payments for development on state trust lands netted nearly $109 million in February.
** A lawsuit for damages related to climate change brought by the city of Baltimore can be heard in Maryland state courts, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday. The decision is a setback for the fossil fuel industry, which had argued that the case should be heard in federal court, where rulings in previous climate cases have favored the industry.
** The Tennessee Valley Authority plans to move toxin-laden coal ash from a retired plant in Memphis to an off-site landfill, at the cost of roughly $300 million, the federal utility said Friday.