** A North Dakota jury on Wednesday found Greenpeace liable for hundreds of millions of dollars in damages over its role in months-long protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016 and 2017.
** A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from terminating $14 billion in grants awarded to three climate groups by the Biden administration.
**The Biden administration buried for more than a year a final draft report that failed to prove that an increase in U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals was linked to a meaningful impact on greenhouse gas emissions, according to a copy of the findings, exclusively previewed to Fox News Digital.
** A newly constructed Tesla dealership in Illinois was vandalized with graffiti over the weekend, and police have now charged Erin White, 27, with the crime. White was arrested and charged with felony criminal damage to property and criminal trespass after the incident, in which police said graffiti, critical of President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, was found on Friday.
** Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison files a lawsuit with other states against the U.S. EPA and Citibank accusing them of illegally withholding funds from state green bank programs.
** Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe has about a week to act on sweeping legislation that would let utilities charge ratepayers for construction costs before projects are complete and also make it harder to retire power plants.
** The Department of Energy seeks public input on a planned electric transmission corridor that would pass through parts of Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, and five tribal reservations.
World
** Crude is on track for a quarterly loss as an escalating global trade war threatens demand while OPEC and its allies are set to raise production starting in April. The global market was already set for a glut, according to the International Energy Agency.
** South Africa is nearing a deal to provide funding to ArcelorMittal SA’s local unit and ensure its steel mills, which are crucial for the nation’s economy, remain open, people with knowledge of the matter said. The unit’s shares rose.
** Mexico’s Energia Real will invest $700 million in solar infrastructure over the next six years, one of the first major private investments in the nation’s energy sector after President Claudia Sheinbaum’s energy overhaul was ratified.
** Australia, one of the world’s biggest natural gas exporters, has pushed back forecasts for anticipated shortfalls in some of its most populated regions as consumption declines.
