** Still on hold: Arkansas has halted its $54.1 million build-out of electric vehicle charging stations after the Trump administration froze federal funding.
** The Greek shipping company Eurobulk has been hit with a $1.1 million fine by a Texas judge after the company pleaded guilty to illegally discharging oily bilge water from one of its vessels.
** The United Nations’ international climate fund asks other countries to step up after the U.S. pulled its $4 billion commitment.
** The Trump administration fires most of a small team overseeing the federal government’s $3.5 billion plan to build regional direct-air carbon removal hubs.
** New York gets one step closer to becoming the first state to essentially ban fossil fuel use in new buildings as the state building code council approves draft rules requiring most new buildings to be fully electrified starting in 2026.
** Oak Ridge, Tennessee, which played a key role in the Manhattan Project, is revving up for a new wave of nuclear energy development.
** Greenpeace asks the North Dakota Supreme Court to move the Dakota Access pipeline trial from the county where the protests took place, arguing that a jury wouldn’t be able to render a fair verdict based on several jurors’ negative views on the protests.
World
** A petrol giant in Norway has announced a ban on fuel sales to all US forces following Donald Trump‘s treatment of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House, it has been reported.
** Britain is paying almost £180,000 an hour to switch off wind farms because there is nowhere for the excess power to go. So-called constraint payments, where turbines are switched off to help balance the grid, have already cost £252m in the first two months of 2025.
** – European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the bloc would grant carmakers a three-year window in which to hit carbon dioxide emissions targets that were originally set for this year.
** China’s liquefied natural gas imports fell to a five-year low last month on weak demand and higher European prices luring cargoes there.