** U.S. Senate committees will hold confirmation hearings this week for Brenda Mallory to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality, Janet McCabe to be deputy EPA administrator and David Turk to be deputy Energy secretary.
** Cheniere Energy Partners, L.P. announced that it has amended its earlier announced tender offer and consent solicitation in respect of its 5.250% Notes due 2025 to eliminate the tender cap and extend the offer to purchase any and all of the outstanding $1,500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Notes.
** Tractor Supply Company, the largest Out Here lifestyle retailer in the United States, is supporting its communities and customers in Texas by donating $100,000 to agriculture, pet and livestock organizations in the Lone Star State recovering from the recent winter storms.
** A briefing between the State Department and congressional staff over Vladimir Putin’s Russia-Germany gas pipeline got tense this week, with Biden officials deflecting questions about why they hadn’t moved faster and more aggressively with sanctions to stop its completion.
** After a decades-long effort to rescue the California condor from the brink of extinction, government officials say the critically endangered vultures are now at risk of being killed by spinning turbine blades in Kern County’s Tehachapi Mountains.
** Petaluma, California, has voted to outlaw new gas stations, the first of what climate activists hope will be numerous cities and counties to do so.
** The U.S.-based oil major Chevron is doubling down on its investment in geothermal power by investing in a Swedish developer of low-temperature geothermal and heat power projects called Baseload Capital.
** A Wyoming bill would allow used wind turbine blades to be buried in former coal mines as part of the reclamation process.
** A Nevada businessman says a state-wide natural gas ban would “harm those who can afford it the least.”
** Tribal leaders in Minnesota ask Gov. Tim Walz to issue an executive order halting Line 3 pipeline construction amid ongoing lawsuits challenging the project.
** Researchers install ultraviolet spotlights on Nebraska power lines to limit sandhill crane collisions.