** Donald Trump’s on the warpath against his mortal enemy again, and it made a big splash on social media. The former president raged during a campaign speech in South Carolina that “windmills” are driving whales “crazy.” “Windmills are causing whales to die in numbers never seen before. Nobody does anything about that,” he declared.
** Ford Motor Co. is “pausing work” on a multibillion dollar electric vehicle battery plant that garnered substantial praise from Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and others but prompted outcries from local residents.
** Good news for people looking to buy an all-electric pickup truck: Ford recently slashed the price of its F-150 Lightning by nearly $10,000, The Verge reported. The price drops from $59,974 to $49,995 for the cheapest version and from $98,074 to $91,995 for the most expensive.
** The California High-Speed Rail Authority has been awarded more than $200 million from the Biden Administration in what is one of the largest pieces of federal funding awarded to the project in its history.
** The Biden administration hopes to create a commercial nuclear fusion facility within 10 years as part of the nation’s transition to clean energy, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said Monday. Calling nuclear fusion a pioneering technology, Granholm said President wants to harness fusion as a carbon-free energy source that can power homes and businesses.
** , and four other U.S. senators are pressuring the U.S. Treasury Department to step up oversight and offer more guidance to financial institutions on addressing climate change risks threatening the U.S. financial system.
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** Ahead of its 2035 ban on the sale of new gas-powered cars, lawmakers in the European Union are preparing to outline strict new emissions targets that internal combustion engined models must meet from 2025. However, the measures have proven controversial across the block and Europe has now unveiled a “watered down” version of the regulations, called Euro 7.
** Global demand for oil, natural gas and coal is likely to peak by 2030 — an “encouraging” development but “not nearly enough” to limit the rise in global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday.
** Mexico’s northern state of Sonora wants to export clean energy to California and Arizona from a massive new solar farm project and play a role in the chip supply chain given TSMC’s $40 billion investment in Arizona, Sonora’s governor said.