** Facing the need to win battleground Pennsylvania, Vice President Kamala Harris is swearing off any prior assertion that she opposed fracking, but that hasn’t stopped Republican Donald Trump from wielding her now-abandoned position to win over voters in a state where the natural gas industry means jobs.
** Former President Donald Trump said he had “no choice” but to support electric vehicles after Tesla CEO Elon Musk “endorsed” him. Trump then went on to criticize the EV industry at length.
** Coal stockpiles at U.S. electric power plants totaled 138 million short tons at the end of May, the most since the first half of 2020 when the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic reduced electricity demand and coal consumption, according to a government report.
** A company cancels its plans to build a Virginia battery plant that would have been backed by a $100 million federal grant.
** CenterPoint Energy releases a new, more aggressive plan to trim trees, replace utility poles and harden the grid against hurricanes after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott criticized its original proposal.
** Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says he sent a letter to state regulators asking them to reclaim $800 million in ratepayer money from CenterPoint Energy for its purchase of large generators that went unused in its emergency response to Hurricane Beryl.
World
** A large vessel docked at Russia’s liquefied natural gas export plant in the Arctic last week, according to satellite images, in what appears to be the first move to circumvent US sanctions against the facility.
** Saudi Arabia raised the price of its flagship crude to Asia for the first time in three months, a tentative sign that the kingdom remains confident about demand in the world’s largest importer.