** The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a settlement with Hi-Noon Petroleum Inc. resolving alleged Clean Water Act violations involving a gasoline discharge into Grayling Creek in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. The company will pay $20,000 and finish a $45,000 supplemental environmental project after the August 2022 incident.
** Offshore wind developers have sent teams to search for debris on the beaches of Nantucket Island, a popular summer tourist destination, after one of their turbine blades suffered damage. Vineyard Wind said Tuesday it is mobilizing teams on Nantucket to recover debris on south-facing beaches. The development said a “blade damage incident” took place Saturday.
** A German energy company looks to build out the offshore wind industry in New Orleans after it was the only winner in last year’s lackluster leasing auction in the Gulf of Mexico.
** A South Korean company plans to make undersea cables for the offshore wind industry at a 700-foot-tall factory in Virginia, which will be the tallest building between Philadelphia and Charlotte.
** The U.S. Energy Department is funding the installation of thousands of solar-plus-storage systems in Puerto Rico as the island looks to rebuild its power infrastructure after Hurricane Maria seven years ago.
** Construction of U.S. solar-manufacturing plants by Chinese companies is surging, putting China in position to dominate the nascent industry, as other American factories struggle to compete despite federal subsidies.
** Boeing’s Washington state factory workers are voting whether to give their union a strike mandate as they seek a 40% raise in their first full negotiation with the planemaker in 16 years. Many of the estimated 30,000 workers who build Boeing’s 737 MAX and other jets will rally in support of a mandate at Seattle’s T-Mobile Park, although they cannot strike before their contract expires on Sept. 12.
** The cargo branch of Dubai-based Emirates, the world’s fourth-largest airline by freight traffic, committed Tuesday to purchase an additional five 777 freighters from Boeing for $1 billion, adding needed supply of widebody freighters as demand for air shipping grows.
** The U.S. Commerce Department plans to issue proposed rules on connected vehicles next month and expects to impose limits on some software made in China and other countries deemed adversaries, a senior official said Tuesday.
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** Russia plans to make extra crude production cuts to compensate for pumping above its OPEC+ quota in the warm seasons of this year and next, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Moscow’s additional curbs will most likely happen in summer and early fall for technological reasons.
** Construction of U.S. solar-manufacturing plants by Chinese companies is surging, putting China in position to dominate the nascent industry, as other American factories struggle to compete despite federal subsidies.
** China has announced that it will invest around $845 million (six billion yuan) into the development of next-generation EV batteries in the country. Six companies, including CATL, a global leader in EV battery tech, and auto manufacturers BYD and Geely, will get access to government funding for this “unprecedented” project, which focuses on building viable all-solid-state batteries (ASSBs), as CNN reported.
