** The Biden administration is considering a ban on new public land mining claims on millions of acres of sage grouse habitat, potentially affecting future lithium mining projects.
** U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota introduces a budget amendment that would prohibit the Biden administration from releasing rules or guidance to ban hydraulic fracturing.
** California regulators expect the state’s power supply crunch to worsen next year and forecast up to a 5 GW shortfall.
** Environmentalists, automaker trade groups, and utilities band together to encourage each other and all levels of government to boost the construction of electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
** A group of House Democrats say senators’ $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill doesn’t include enough funding to incentivize building electric vehicles and charging stations.
** Ohio electric vehicle startup Lordstown Motors makes a “critical, strategic pivot” and is in talks to build vehicles for other automakers or lease space in its northern Ohio factory.
** Republican lawmakers say the nation’s biggest oil and gas trade group has lobbied them to support carbon pricing, but most still haven’t changed their minds.
** The White House pushes OPEC+ to boost oil production amid rising gasoline prices and tells the Federal Trade Commission to investigate divergences between oil and gas prices.
** New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s resignation puts the state’s implementation of an ambitious climate policy into question.
** Iowa saw a 9.7% drop, or about 3,100 jobs, in clean energy and clean transportation jobs.
