** The Colonial Pipeline could get a $1 million fine following its shutdown of the key fuel supply artery to the East Coast last year prompted by Russian-based hackers.
** Boeing Co said on Thursday it will move its headquarters from Chicago to Arlington, Virginia, as the crisis-plagued U.S. planemaker works to repair relationships with customers, federal regulators and lawmakers.
** U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm says the Biden administration is working on a strategy to source uranium domestically and from allies so it can move away from Russian imports.
** California energy officials on Friday issued a sober forecast for the state’s electrical grid, saying it lacks sufficient capacity to keep the lights on this summer and beyond if heatwaves, wildfires or other extreme events take their toll.
** A coalition similar to the one that took a stand against the Dakota Access Pipeline is emerging in Iowa to fight a proposed interstate carbon dioxide pipeline.
** A Chinese company that’s the world’s largest battery maker considers building factories in South Carolina and Kentucky to support BMW and Ford.
** Driving an electric Ford Mustang Mach-E from North Carolina to Mississippi was slightly more stressful than driving a gasoline-powered vehicle, but those problems could be alleviated with more charging stations, writes the editor-in-chief of an EV publication.
** North America’s Building Trades Unions and Orsted sign an agreement to hire union workers to build the company’s U.S. offshore wind farms.
** White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair Brenda Mallory heads to the Senate this week for an oversight hearing at the Environment and Public Works Committee, where lawmakers will pore over the council’s work from the past year.
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** Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said a ban on Russian oil imports would be like a “nuclear bomb” for the country’s economy. The central European country is blocking the European Union’s proposals for a total ban on the import of Russian oil.
** The world doesn’t have systems to trace the origins of Russian oil processed outside the country, says Shell’s CEO. This means products like diesel or jet fuel refined with Russian crude elsewhere may bypass sanctions.
** Germany signed contracts to charter four floating terminals to import liquefied natural gas in partnership with utilities RWE AG and Uniper SE as it races to reduce its energy dependence on Russia.
** Austria’s top energy official acknowledged the country is years away from severing its connection to Russian natural gas and that amassing an emergency reserve would most likely include Russian supplies.
** Finland is prepared for the possibility of its eastern neighbour Russia cutting off its gas deliveries, a government minister told Reuters, ahead of the Nordic country’s decision on whether to join NATO.