** A proposed hydrogen pipeline that would stretch 200 miles across the Navajo Nation is an environmental threat and a safety concern due to lack of regulations, a Navajo grassroots group argues in an educational campaign about the project.
** Minnesota Power now estimates a coal ash spill at a northern Minnesota power plant is five times larger than original estimates as clean up efforts continue.
** The average monthly wholesale spot natural gas price at the U.S. benchmark Henry Hub fell by 20% to $2.56 per million British thermal units (MMBtu) between January and June of this year, according to data from Refinitiv Eikon.
** Hyundai nears completion of its electric vehicle factory near Savannah, Georgia, with production expected to begin this fall, roughly two years after construction began. Hyundai already has hired more than 850 workers for its new Georgia electric vehicle factory, and now begins to ramp up hiring to fill thousands more jobs.
** Houston Mayor John Whitmire promises to hold CenterPoint Energy “accountable” for widespread outages during Hurricane Beryl, but the mayor and city have little power to regulate the utility.
** Rhode Island is now the first state to finish building out its high-speed highway charging network with funds from the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure program.
World
** Rosneft PJSC’s major Tuapse refinery in southern Russia caught fire after a Ukrainian drone attack early Monday, regional authorities said. This is the first successful Ukrainian attack on a major Russian refinery since mid-May, and it comes just as Russia’s oil-processing industry is on track to raise its runs to a six-month high to meet growing domestic fuel demand.
** Slovakia will not be a “hostage” to Ukraine-Russia relations, its Prime Minister Robert Fico told his Ukrainian counterpart in a call on Saturday, after Kyiv placed Russian group Lukoil on a sanctions list, leading to a halt in deliveries. Slovakia and Hungary said this week they had stopped receiving oil from key supplier Lukoil after Ukraine imposed a ban last month on the transit of resources from the Russian energy company via its territory.
** A putrid smell hangs over the black-stained shores of Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, where an oil slick is emblematic of the steep decline in the country’s once-enviable petroleum industry.
** Porsche AG is considering taking a stake in Varta AG, according to people familiar, as the embattled battery producer weighs options to restructure its debt.
