** The U.S. Senate Finance Committee advanced legislation on that would boost electric vehicle tax credits to as much as $12,500 for EVs that are assembled by union workers in the United States.
**The Biden administration has decided it will not renew a waiver that allowed the politically connected U.S. oil company, Delta Crescent Energy to operate in northeast Syria under President Donald Trump’s pledge to “keep the oil” produced in the region, according to a U.S. official familiar with the decision.
** The world is increasingly likely to see a year in which global average surface temperatures meet or exceed the Paris Agreement’s ambitious temperature target of 1.5°C (2.7°F) above preindustrial levels, a new report predicts.
** Exxon Mobil’s three largest refineries – two in Texas and one in Louisiana – are the nation’s top three emitters of small particulate matter, according to the analysis of the latest tests submitted to regulators by the nation’s 10 largest refineries.
** Iran’s Goreh-Jask oil pipeline is due to ship its first crude oil in June, with all construction having finished last week. This pipeline will enable Iran to transport huge quantities of oil from its major oil fields via Goreh in the Shoaybiyeh-ye Gharbi Rural District of Khuzestan Province 1100 kilometres to the port of Jask in Hormozgan province on the Gulf of Oman.
** Shares of General Electric (NYSE:GE) shot up more than 6% Thursday as the company announced its third order win in two days, this one for supplying its Cypress onshore turbines for an 88 MW wind farm in Vietnam.
** June will be a critical month for Enbridge Energy’s Line 3 crude oil pipeline as the company resumes construction and opponents mobilize for large-scale protests and civil disobedience.
** Sewage sludge that wastewater treatment districts across America package and sell as home fertilizer contain alarming levels of toxic PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals”, a new report has revealed.
** Nissan will invest more than 200 billion yen ($1.8 billion) in building new electric-vehicle battery plants in the U.K. and Japan, according to a report.