** More than 550 incarcerated men suffered in North Carolina prison cells without lights or running water for five days after Helene, until they finally were transferred to different facilities.
** Chevron announced a donation of $250,000 to support relief and recovery efforts after Hurricane Milton devastated parts of Florida. The funds will provide support for emergency teams and volunteer efforts.
**A South Dakota law set to be decided by voters in the Nov. 5 election continues to divide residents over whether it gives landowner protections in the face of carbon pipelines or limits local governments’ ability to regulate projects.
** Ameren Missouri will shut down one of its largest coal plants Tuesday after more than 13 years of litigation over its failure to comply with federal clean air laws, though advocates say justice has not been fully served.
** Automaker Stellantis, the parent company of Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram, has announced it is laying off 1,100 employees at its Warren, Michigan Truck Assembly Plant.
** California advocates look to block a company’s effort to reopen an offshore pipeline that spilled about 3 million gallons of oil in 2015, saying the aging and corroded equipment is at risk of rupturing again.
** California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Monday signed into law a controversial slate of plans to tighten fuel refinery storage rules in an effort to prevent future fuel shortages and price spikes at the pump. The ABx2-1 bill, approved during a special legislative session by the California Assembly on Monday morning and by the state Senate on Friday, will allow state regulators to oversee the amounts of fuel that oil refiners keep in their inventories.
** The federal Bureau of Land Management sells 66 geothermal leases on about 219,000 acres in Nevada and nets $7.8 million.
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** The EU’s duties on Chinese-made electric cars will speed up plant closures in Europe by local automakers, as tariffs will push Chinese manufacturers to build facilities in Europe, adding to overcapacity problems, Stellantis’ CEO said on Monday.
** Europe must cancel its plan to ban new fossil fuel-emitting cars from 2035 to reduce reliance on China’s battery supply chain and play to its technological strengths, BMW’s chief executive said on Tuesday.
** China’s Dongfang Electric Corp. has surprised the offshore wind industry with an announcement that it’s built a new turbine radically larger than anything previously available in the sector.
** General Motors, a car brand familiar to many American driveways, has developed a breakthrough electric vehicle battery in partnership with China’s CATL, a world leader in power pack production. The result is being touted in multiple reports as the fastest-charging battery, able to provide 124 miles in just five minutes, as noted by Electrek, Interesting Engineering, and others.