** A North Dakota county board rezones 800 acres for a company’s plans to build a data center complex that will be powered by a 1,151 MW coal-fired power plant that was nearly closed in 2020 due to financial issues.
** Residents of a Wisconsin town call for tighter restrictions on Alliant Energy’s proposal to build a wind farm on 48,000 acres.
** A top California regulator calls on the state to pause a plan to penalize excess oil company profits and instead use other methods to address high gasoline prices while phasing out reliance on fossil fuels.
** The U.S. Interior Department awards 22 states and tribes $275 million to reclaim abandoned coal mines, including $1.7 million to the Navajo Nation.
** The CEO of Hansen Helicopters in Guam has been sentenced to nearly 4 years in prison and fined $250,000 for defrauding the FAA and the NTSB, aircraft parts fraud, use of unapproved parts that caused crashes and using mechanices who were not certified. The company was also fined $4.9 million.
** Commonwealth Fusion Systems just filed a permit to build what’s being touted as the world’s first grid-scale commercial fusion power plant — and the company wants to do it in Chesterfield County, Virginia. The Massachusetts-based company is planning a 400-megawatt facility called ARC.
** A windmill turbine blade hauled down I-70 in Maryland became loose Monday morning, crossing the median and causing traffic to be backed up for several miles. One person was hurt.
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** Chevron Corporation CVX announced that it will shut down its Aberdeen office in Scotland, ending more than 50 years of operations in the North Sea hub, according to Reuters. This strategic move is part of a comprehensive restructuring initiative aimed at streamlining operations and reducing costs by billions across the enterprise.
** India has dispatched a team of geologists to Zambia to explore copper and cobalt deposits, two Indian government sources said, as New Delhi steps up efforts to secure critical mineral supplies essential to its energy transition.
** Car dealers in one of China’s richest regions are appealing to automakers to overhaul sales strategies amid mounting pressure on their cash flow and high inventories in another sign of the growing toll of the price war in the world’s largest car market.
** The British Government is scrambling to safeguard oil supplies at one of Britain’s biggest refineries after the collapse of the facility’s owner. On Monday, the Insolvency Service was holding urgent talks with commodities giant Glencore about resuming deliveries to the Lindsey Oil Refinery after parent company State Oil called in administrators.