** A coal mine in southwestern Wyoming lays off 28 workers, citing a lagging market and competition with natural gas generation.
** California officials say the 178,549 public and shared private electric vehicle chargers in the state now outnumber gasoline pumps.
** A Massachusetts vehicle-to-everything pilot program will pay EV owners to let utilities tap the power stored in their vehicle batteries and provide the expensive bidirectional chargers that let electricity flow back to the grid.
** The Trump administration has denied a special request from Mexico for the delivery of Colorado River water to the city of Tijuana — marking the first such denial in 81 years.
** The National Transportation Safety Board said a proper risk assessment by the state of Maryland may have avoided the deadly Key Bridge collapse in 2024, and the agency warned that dozens of other bridges are at similar risk throughout the United States.
** Hyundai’s EV “metaplant” in Georgia officially opened Tuesday and is still staffing up.
** A report finds the Southeast leads the U.S. with 31% of announced EV and battery-related jobs and 38% of private-sector investments, with Georgia ranked first and North Carolina second.
** Federal officials approve the construction and operation of a deepwater liquefied natural gas export facility 40 miles off the U.S. Gulf Coast.
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** A fire at a drone-hit oil depot in southern Russia raged for a fifth day on Monday, the regional administration said, as firefighters tried to contain the blaze at the facility that delivers Russian crude to the Caspian pipeline.
** Russian President Vladimir Putin hasn’t changed his order not to strike energy infrastructure in Ukraine despite reports of Ukrainian hits on Russian energy assets, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday.
** Iranian oil tankers seized by U.S. forces in the Gulf were using forged Iraqi documents, Iraq’s oil minister Hayan Abdel-Ghani has reported. “We received some verbal inquiries about oil tankers being detained in the Gulf by U.S. naval forces carrying Iraqi shipping manifests,” the oil minister said on state television late on Sunday.
** Europe’s largest green hydrogen facility is underway in Germany, with the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 72,000 metric tons annually. The uniquely designed proton exchange membrane (PEM) water electrolyzer can supply the main plant it’s attached to with up to one metric ton of green hydrogen per hour to serve as a chemical feedstock.
** The United Kingdom is one of the countries looking to strengthen its energy security by diversifying its trade links beyond the U.S. In 2022, U.K. imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) rose to a record high of 25.6 billion cubic meters, marking a 74 percent increase from 2021. The U.S. provided half of these imports.
