** Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is reportedly a contender for heading the EPA or Interior Department in President-elect Joe Biden’s administration according to a report by the Spokesman-Review.
** The Associated Press reports the U.S. Department of Energy awarded nearly $14 million to build a hydrogen energy production facility at Xcel Energy’s Prairie Island nuclear plant in Minnesota.
** A central Indiana county plans to extend a moratorium on large-scale solar projects for six months as local regulations are developed reported the Anderson Herald Bulletin.
** The city of Nashville announces a massive solar project in partnership with Vanderbilt University that will get it one-third of the way toward its goal of powering government operations with 100% renewable energy, according to the Tennessean newspaper.
** Georgia Sen. David Perdue, facing a runoff election in January, says climate change is a hoax, but the community where he owns a beachfront mansion is building an elaborate and expensive system of jetties and sea walls in response to rising sea levels reported The Intercept.
** A new study published in the journal Nature shows that climate change is pushing hurricanes further inland compared to 50 years ago.
** POLITICO reports New York appears to be falling short of its goal to have 10,000 individual electric vehicle charging sites by the end of 2021.
** Wyoming lawmakers advance a bill that would make wind energy producers pay more in taxes in the first three years of new projects in a 7-6 vote according to the Wyoming Tribune Eagle.
** Walmart announced it will test delivery using autonomous electric vehicles in a Phoenix, Arizona suburb early next year.