** Congressional Republicans and GOP presidential hopefuls have called for a crackdown on Iran’s ability to profit from oil sales in the wake of Hamas’s attacks against Israel this month.
** The Biden administration said the construction of a road that would be expected to facilitate mining operations in Alaska would impact more tribal communities than previously thought.
** The latest evidence of a pivot by oil explorers from US shale to offshore appeared Monday as the US Energy Information Administration warned that a drop in onshore production is accelerating into November.
** New York’s state government rejected requests from a group of offshore wind energy developers who asked to renegotiate existing contracts amid rising prices and inflation.
** Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., led a coalition of 16 senators urging the Biden administration to withdraw environmental regulations that they said are a “clear attempt to shut down oil and gas operations.”
** Ford Motor Co. Executive Chairman Bill Ford on Monday called on autoworkers to come together to end a monthlong strike that he says could cost the company the ability to invest in the future.
** Advocacy group Climate Power is committing $80 million in advertising to call attention to President Joe Biden’s climate and environment agenda ahead of the 2024 election, the group announced Monday.
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** Scotland’s biggest offshore wind farm has begun operating at full capacity, removing emissions from power supply. Seagreen, off the Angus coast, can generate enough electricity to power two-thirds of Scotland’s households.
** Stalled spending on electrical grids worldwide is slowing the rollout of renewable energy and could put efforts to limit climate change at risk if millions of miles of power lines are not added or refurbished in the next few years, the International Energy Agency said.
** Bulgaria has the right to impose a tax on the import and transit of Russian natural gas and the fuel shouldn’t receive “special treatment,” according to Prime Minister Nikolai Denkov.
** Global emissions of planet-heating carbon dioxide are expected to rise around one percent to reach a new all-time high in 2023, the climate scientist behind the preliminary research said Tuesday.
** Germany has fired up a refurbished coal unit to help meet energy needs as the region’s first cold spell takes hold.
** Qatar needs buyers for two-thirds of the supply from its liquefied natural gas expansion projects, as it leverages growing fears over energy security to nail down more long-term deals.