** The Environmental Protection Agency is taking its first major action to address toxic wastewater from coal-burning power plants, ordering utilities to stop dumping waste into unlined storage ponds and speed up plans to close leaking or otherwise dangerous coal ash sites.
** The US government spent $1.1 billion on carbon capture projects that mostly failed.
** U.S. natural gas production will rise to an all-time high in 2022, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in its Short Term Energy Outlook (STEO) on Tuesday
** Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel announced on Tuesday that it has selected a location to build a new, $3 billion technologically advanced steel mill.
** In a signal to Florida Power & Light that legislators are committed to pursuing its top priority, a Florida Senate committee gave bipartisan approval Tuesday to a bill intended to restrict the expansion of rooftop solar in Florida.
** New York City electricity prices soared to a four-year high as the coldest day so far this winter spurs heating demand and natural gas costs rise.
** Tesla CEO Elon Musk has accused California’s government of pushing “anti-environment” legislation as the state is set to vote on a proposal that would cut incentives for rooftop solar systems.
World
** Russia is contributing to an undersupply of natural gas to Europe, the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) Fatih Birol said on Wednesday, noting it comes amid a standoff between Moscow and the West over Ukraine.
** Chinese coal futures fell to the lowest level this year after Indonesia allowed some cargoes to leave ports as it considers lifting a temporary ban on exports of the fuel.
