** The U.S. House passes legislation that would require federal agencies to analyze the economic impacts of reducing Glen Canyon Dam’s hydropower output to benefit endangered Colorado River fish.
** EPA administrator Lee Zeldin has promised to end a contentious feature in many automobiles: the automatic start-stop feature that temporarily shuts down engines at red light stops. He says the start-stop function, which automakers began installing to reduce emissions in return for federal incentives, annoys most motorists, who consider it “the single worst feature in their motor vehicle.”
** Peabody Energy says its Powder River Basin coal mine production sold out due to strong U.S. demand.
** Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren urges the Trump administration to refrain from shrinking Bears Ears National Monument in Utah, saying that changing the boundaries would risk “the loss of valuable progress” and lead to inefficiencies.
** Greenpeace asks a North Dakota judge to slash the nearly $667 million in damages the nonprofit was ordered to pay the Dakota Access pipeline developer for its alleged role in protests against the project.
** Officials at an Arkansas water utility break ground on a 5 MW solar facility expected to lower its energy costs.
** Documents show that insurer Chubb is now longer covering the contentious Calcasieu Pass liquified natural gas export terminal in Louisiana after it withdrew for business reasons, perhaps because of new standards for methane emissions.
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** Egypt is seeking to buy more fuel oil on which to run some of its power plants as natural gas supply is more expensive for the cash-strapped North African country.
** Crude flows from the expanded Trans Mountain pipeline have materially shifted since the relations between the United States and Canada soured under U.S. President Donald Trump. China has now become the biggest buyer of Canadian crude shipped via the Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline to Canada’s West Coast, according to data from Kpler cited by Reuters.
** U.S. shale giant EOG Resources will evaluate 900,000 acres in a hydrocarbon-rich basin in Abu Dhabi under a new concession agreement with ADNOC.
** The Danish Ministry of Energy has announced it is considering lifting Denmark’s 40-year-old ban on nuclear power, in order to enhance the country’s energy security. The Danish Government will thus analyse the potential benefits of new nuclear power technologies, with a report expected to be ready in 2026.
** The National Electric Power Company of Honduras (ENEE) has submitted to the country’s Electric Energy Regulatory Commission (CREE) the bidding rules for an international public tender to procure of 1.5 GW energy generating and storage capacity. The auction will be launched once the CREE approves the rules.
** The Italian oil and gas company Eni has announced the start of gas production from the Merakes East field, located in the Kutei basin offshore Indonesia. The field will contribute up to 100 mcf/d (1 bcm/year) to Eni’s production. Eni is the operator of the block, in which it holds an 85% stake.
** The world is set to make abundant energy by the second half of the decade as the production of batteries and solar panels surges — but there’ll also be an excess of planet-warming fossil fuels, a report released by the International Energy Agency said.
