** The U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear Oregon youth’s climate lawsuit accusing the federal government’s fossil fuel-friendly policies of violating their constitutional rights, ending the decade-long case.
** Pilot Company (Pilot), General Motors and EVgo Inc. announced their collaborative network has reached more than 130 electric vehicle (EV) fast-charging locations in over 25 states. The charging network offers an elevated experience along popular corridors and major interstates, enabling long-distance EV travel.
** Ohio’s largest utilities are opposing state legislation that could help rein in scandal-tainted electric bill riders that have cost their customers billions of dollars.
** Pennsylvania has plugged 300 abandoned gas and oil wells to avert possible methane leaks, but some $400 million in promised federal funding for future work remains up in the air.
** Tesla faces more challenges as Chinese EV company BYD reports annual revenue that exceeded the U.S. company’s, and as its market share continues to fall in Europe.
** Six Great Lakes tribes are no longer cooperating with the federal environmental review process for a Line 5 tunnel in the Straits of Mackinac, claiming that the Army Corps of Engineers is expediting the plan’s approval based on President Trump’s energy emergency declaration.
** Charter Steel, Wisconsin’s largest industrial energy consumer, has taken a groundbreaking step toward sustainability by launching Wisconsin’s largest behind-the-meter solar installation.
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** An LNG tanker is expected to arrive in Canada on April 1 to start cooling down LNG Canada’s plant in Kitimat, British Columbia, considered the final step before the plant begins production of the superchilled gas.
** An oil pumping station in Russia that was targeted by a suspected Ukrainian drone strike was still on fire a week later, with its parent company saying that the losses were hitting its shareholders.
** BYD, the world’s second-largest producer of batteries for electric vehicles, has confirmed plans to roll out all-solid-state batteries starting in 2027, bringing substantial benefits to drivers and the environment.
** The heads of some of the world’s top energy traders said they would be open to returning to Russia for business if sanctions were fully lifted, although some expressed caution about the prospect happening any time soon.