** A U.S. District Court Judge puts ConocoPhillips’s mining and gravel construction at a National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska project on hold for two weeks reports the Anchorage Daily News.
** The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will vote to advance Michael Regan’s nomination to be EPA administrator on Tuesday.
** The company building a disputed Russian-German underwater gas pipeline that’s been the target of U.S. sanction threats said work on it has resumed, the German news agency dpa reported Sunday according to the Associated Press.
** AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka told Jonathan Swan in an interview for “Axios on HBO” that he wished President Biden hadn’t canceled the Keystone XL pipeline his first day in office — because it will cost some good-paying union jobs.
** Ford says it will double its investment in electric vehicles to $22 billion by 2025 reported Reuters.
** Turkey’s state-owned oil and gas company is considering partnerships and plans to raise funding this year to carry out work on the biggest natural gas discovery in the Black Sea, according to people with knowledge of the matter reported Bloomberg.
** Enrollment in a Louisiana petroleum engineering curriculum has plummeted over the last five years as fossil fuels struggle to compete with renewables reported the Acadiana Advocate.
** A bill introduced in Georgia would prohibit localities from writing energy policy into their building codes, stop fossil fuel bans and hamper efforts to transition to renewables.
** Representatives of a dark-money political advocacy group sign a guilty plea admitting involvement in a major bribery scandal involving Ohio’s power plant subsidy law reported the Cincinnati Enquirer.
** Some Democrats in Congress are calling on the Biden administration to cancel the Dakota Access pipeline after similar action against Keystone XL.
** Sen. Chuck Grassley seeks to work with the Biden administration to preserve renewable fuel standards following uncertainty under President Trump.
** Los Angeles county’s transportation authority announces a deal for roughly 47.5 million gallons of renewable natural gas as part of its transition away from diesel fuel.
** A Navajo Nation citizen and founder of a solar energy firm is named the Department of Energy’s Office of Indian Energy senior advisor.
