** An equipment failure causes 25,200 gallons of crude oil to spill at a North Dakota saltwater disposal well.
** The Indiana NAACP opposes a proposed state Senate resolution calling for a carbon tax and dividend, saying it would further fossil fuel pollution in disadvantaged communities.
** Minnesota-based 3M announces a $1 billion spending plan over the next 20 years that includes a carbon neutrality goal by 2050.
** More than 300,000 customers of Oregon’s two largest utilities are without electricity following last weekend’s extreme winter storms, and it’s unknown when full power will be restored.
** Concerns are being raised in Montana about who will be saddled with cleaning up and plugging the Colstrip plant’s coal ash ponds, estimated to cost between $400 million and $700 million.
** Construction begins on a solar project that will power roughly one-third of New Mexico State University’s 900-acre Las Cruces campus.
** Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), a staunch advocate for action on climate change, will chair the Appropriations Committee subpanel responsible for funding the EPA and Interior Department, the full committee announced. He is also one of the original sponsors of the Green New Deal.
** U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit issued an injunction Saturday, requiring ConocoPhillips to halt work on its Willow project in the western Arctic on federal lands in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, while the court weighs an appeal in a case brought by environmental and native groups challenging the Bureau of Land Management’s approval of key permits reported POLITICO.
** Wisconsin regulators will require utilities to disclose the diversity of their workforce and suppliers as well as the portion of household income their customers spend on energy.