** More than half of the jurors selected for Energy Transfer’s defamation trial against Greenpeace have ties to the fossil fuel industry or view pipeline protests negatively, signaling how difficult it was to seat a jury in oil country.
** Michigan utilities could be fined up to $10 million under a new order for failing to improve the number and duration of power outages that have affected customers of the state’s two large investor-owned utilities.
** Young climate advocates in Nebraska call on lawmakers to support a state constitutional “green amendment” that creates a legal right to a clean environment, water and soil.
** Wisconsin’s dairy industry sues the Democratic state attorney general for hiring an outside attorney to work on environmental cases whose salary is paid by a Bloomberg Philanthropies-backed fellowship program.
** A battery materials company cancels plans to manufacture a key EV battery component at a Kentucky factory and will return a $164 million Department of Energy grant.
** Texas, Mississippi, and Louisiana call on the Trump administration to scrap Biden-era rules designed to make oil companies pay for cleanup of abandoned offshore wells and platforms.
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** The State Department this week terminated a U.S. Agency for International Development initiative that has invested hundreds of millions of dollars to help restore Ukraine’s energy grid from attacks by the Russian military, according to two USAID officials working on the agency’s Ukraine mission.
** BP, one of the world’s largest oil companies is set to lay off thousands of employees in a cost-cutting maneuver. The company announced in January, it would eliminate 4,700 jobs and 3,000 contractor positions, The Guardian reported. Executives hope the moves, part of a plan to cut $2 billion in costs by 2026, will please shareholders after the company’s poor performance compared to other oil conglomerates.
** Petroleos Mexicanos’ losses are worsening, compounding a crisis for President Claudia Sheinbaum as she seeks to rescue the state oil driller from sliding output, money-losing refineries and almost $100 billion in debt.
** A new report shows the United Kingdom is making major strides in transitioning away from dirty energy sources to clean energy. The Guardian analyzed data gathered by Carbon Brief showing that dirty energy sources like oil, gas, and coal accounted for a record-low 29% of the U.K.’s electricity in 2024.
** India’s state-run refiners will fully commission the world’s longest liquefied petroleum gas pipeline by June, a key development that will sharply cut fuel transportation costs and help prevent deadly road accidents. The $1.3 billion project will likely replace hundreds of trucks that travel across the length and breadth of the country to move the fuel from refineries to bottling plants, raising the risk of accidents.