** The Biden administration stands ready to deploy its tools to address the latest increase in oil prices, a spokeswoman for the National Security Council said this week.
** Electric vehicle charging and equipment company Blink plans to supply Level 2 chargers at General Motors dealerships in the U.S. and Canada.
** South Dakota lawmakers advance legislation that would require developers to provide cost assurances for decommissioning solar projects.
** The U.S. Department of Energy extends a critical grant deadline for an offshore wind pilot project near Cleveland, giving developers more time to arrange financing.
** Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, now the Biden administration’s infrastructure head, announces a $4.7 billion federal campaign to clean up orphaned oil and gas wells.
** An influential coal mining union presses U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin to salvage Democrats’ climate and social spending plan after he scuttles negotiations.
** A northern California county votes to ban natural gas hookups in all new residential and commercial construction beginning July 1.
World
** European natural gas slumped as a top LNG importer in China prepares to flood the market with fuel that could further ease supply concerns in the continent.
** Peru has demanded compensation from the Spanish oil giant Repsol after freak waves from a volcanic eruption near Tonga caused an oil spill described as the worst ecological disaster to hit the South American country in recent history.
** Having won rights to develop wind farms off the coast of Scotland, Shell, Total, and BP are set to invest more in wind power than in oil and gas drilling in the North Sea in the years ahead, the latest evidence of oil majors changing tack on renewables to better navigate the energy transition.