** In a huge win for public health and the environment, a U.S. District Judge has ordered Chemours Chemical Company to immediately suspend the discharge of dangerous “forever chemicals” into the Ohio River from its facility near Parkersburg, West Virginia.
** California is leading the resistance against President Donald Trump’s deregulation agenda with new rules that will force companies operating in the state to produce audited reports on their carbon dioxide emissions, and analysts say these rules may soon apply to companies throughout the United States.
** Baker Hughes announced Tuesday an award from Fervo Energy Company, the leader in next-generation geothermal energy, to design and deliver equipment for five Organic Rankine Cycle power plants at Fervo’s Cape Station power generation project near Milford, Utah, United States. Once operational, the five Cape Phase II ORC plants will generate approximately 300 megawatts of clean, reliable, and affordable power to the grid, equivalent power to approximately 180,000 homes.
** Three years after a Pittsburgh-area coal plant closed, research has discovered that children’s asthma-related visits to the ER dropped by more than 41%. According to Philly Voice, the Shenango Coke Works in Avalon shut down in 2016 after years of public outcry.
** Ohio lawmakers are looking to eliminate an extra registration fee that is charged to those registering a hybrid vehicle in the state. Currently, drivers who register a hybrid vehicle in Ohio must pay an additional $100 registration fee on top of the standard registration fees.
** President Donald Trump proclaimed this week prices are “way down” in the United States, pointing to falling energy costs while blasting “corrupt politician-approved ‘Windmills'” as “killing every State and Country that uses them.” According to a recent Associated Press report, fact-checkers and energy analysts say turbines are not “killing” states or countries and flagged Trump’s wind claims as misleading.
** Ohio energy companies could take control of customers’ thermostats and water heaters. House Bill 427, recently introduced in the Ohio General Assembly, proposes creating a voluntary demand response program to give utility companies the ability to temporarily adjust energy usage when demand is high.
World
** Russia’s oil giants are being squeezed from all sides—by falling crude prices, sanctions, and punishing interest rates—leaving first-half profits in freefall and exposing the limits of Moscow’s ability to shield its energy sector from global headwinds.
** Russia’s Gazprom PJSC said it signed a legally binding agreement to build the long-anticipated Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline to China via Mongolia and would expand deliveries through other routes, in what will be seen by the Kremlin as a major political win.
** Investment in Colombia’s natural gas industry is expected to increase by 34.6% to $1.1 billion in 2025, driven by exploration and production efforts to reduce the fuel deficit, association president Luz Stella Murgas said on Tuesday.
** The world’s first mass-produced electric vehicle powered by a semi-solid-state battery has officially arrived, and it’s priced to shake up the global EV market. At the Chengdu, China Auto Show on Friday, China’s SAIC MG unveiled the all-new MG4, calling it the world’s first commercially available EV with semi-solid-state battery technology.
** India is not “profiteering” from Russian oil imports and its purchases have stabilised markets while keeping prices from rising to as much as $200 a barrel, Hardeep Singh Puri, country’s oil minister, said in the Hindu newspaper on Monday.
** India is raising its liquefied natural gas (LNG) import capacity by 27% to 66.7 million metric tons per year by 2030 by adding two more plants, oil minister Hardeep Singh Puri said in a post on social media platform X on Tuesday.
** BYD’s “gravy train” might be grinding to a halt. The Chinese EV giant’s share price slumped as much as 8% on Monday, as investors digested disappointing earnings released last week. On Friday, BYD reported that net profits in the second quarter had fallen 30% from a year earlier,