** Exxon Mobil on Monday floated a proposal for a public-private carbon storage project that would collect planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions from U.S. petrochemical plants and bury them in deep under the Gulf of Mexico.
** The Biden administration has removed Trump-appointed atmospheric scientist Betsy Weatherhead from her role overseeing a comprehensive report on how climate change is affecting the U.S., the Washington Post first reported Monday.
** Mercedes-Benz has unveiled the EQB, a compact electric SUV that first appeared on the company’s EV roadmap late last year. It will be the automaker’s first electric SUV to go on sale in the US, after it cancelled plans to release the EQC stateside.
** NextEra Energy Inc. agreed to acquire four wind farms from Brookfield Renewable Partners LP for $733 million in the energy giant’s biggest purchase since 2019. Three are in California and one is in New Hampshire.
** The United Mine Workers of America said it would endorse Democrats’ plan to shift away from coal and fossil fuels in return for thousands of clean energy jobs and spending on clean coal technology.
** Electric vehicle manufacturing added 12,000 jobs in Georgia last year even as most of the state’s clean energy industry shrank during the pandemic.
** About 1,100 coal miners continue to strike in Alabama after the union rejects a tentative deal with Warrior Met Coal.
** A federal auditor reports oil and gas companies have littered the Gulf of Mexico with more than 18,000 miles of abandoned pipelines since the 1960s.
** The search for survivors from a capsized oil industry liftboat off Louisiana’s coast ends, leaving five people known dead and eight still missing.