** ONEOK, Inc. plans to be a part of the virtual BMO Capital Markets Real Assets Conference on Sept. 2. It took part in the Seaport Global Annual Summer Investor conference held Wednesday.
** Senate Democrats on Aug. 25 unveiled a plan to tackle climate change that calls for the U.S. government to spend more than $400 billion a year to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The plan is the latest in a series of blueprints from Democrats detailing how the U.S. can combat global warming.
** California based Tetra Tech has won a $39 million five-year USAID contract to help the five Central Asian countries—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan—to meet their national energy priorities.
** The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority will be required to acquire thousands of megawatts of renewables and storage in the coming years, according to a Monday order from the island’s energy regulators that also rejected many natural-gas additions included in the utility’s integrated resource plan.
** Mountain Valley Pipeline developers ask federal regulators for another two years to complete construction.
** Federal nuclear safety regulators fine TVA more than $600,000 for retaliating against two whistleblowers at a Tennessee nuclear plant.
** A judge revokes a Pennsylvania environment department order shutting down drilling at a Mariner East pipeline drilling site, agreeing with company officials that the state overreacted to an existing leak.
** The owner of two Cincinnati-area coal plants, Texas-based Vistra Energy, joins the coalition calling for the repeal of HB 6, the Ohio power plant bailout law at the center of an alleged bribery scheme.
** North Dakota officials continue an ongoing project to reclaim hundreds of abandoned coal mines in the western part of the state.
** The campaign of presidential candidate Joe Biden states its commitment to federal ethanol blending requirements while criticizing the Trump administration for delaying a key decision on the issue.
** A small earthquake last week prompted safety inspections at the Fermi 2 nuclear plant in southeastern Michigan while federal regulators will review operations this week.
** A planned government study of whether trash incinerators can destroy PFAS chemicals was abruptly canceled on Tuesday.
** Two separate coalitions of environmental groups sued the Trump administration over its plans to expand drilling in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.