** Colorado regulators consider a proposed rule requiring about 40 natural gas companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or pay into a carbon credit trading system.
** California’s grid operator says increased battery energy storage capacity helped it meet rising power demand this summer even though gas generation declined.
** New York communities are resisting a state mandate to buy only electric school buses by 2027, saying the costs are too high and the needed electric infrastructure isn’t in place.
** Three Ohio companies are investing in hydrogen-powered passenger vehicles as an alternative to gas and electric cars, despite the lack of widespread charging infrastructure.
** Tesla begins operating a lithium refinery in Texas that the company projects eventually will produce enough material for batteries in 1 million electric vehicles per year.
** A company pushes to build a carbon capture storage hub in the Gulf of Mexico to store tens of millions of tons of emissions from new liquified natural gas terminals and other fossil fuel facilities, prompting pushback from the fishing industry.
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** Sweden’s foreign minister said that China had denied a request for prosecutors to conduct an investigation on a Chinese ship linked to two severed Baltic Sea cables despite Beijing pledging “cooperation” with regional authorities.
** BMW has admitted to selling more than 100 high-end cars to Russians despite international sanctions. The German carmaker confirmed a report by Business Insider that revealed premium cars had been sold to Russian buyers, despite an embargo on car exports to the country introduced after the Kremlin launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
** Mexico will impose a 36.23% tariff on imports of steel wire used for welding from Vietnam, saying they are harming local producers in Latin America’s second-largest economy.
** Japanese car factories in Thailand — which for decades has been the premiere hub of auto manufacturing in Southeast Asia — are shutting down or scaling back. Subaru said it will stop producing cars at its plant this month. Suzuki plans to cease operations by the end of 2025. And Honda and Nissan say they are reducing production.