** Offshore wind developer Orsted won shareholder approval on Friday for a $9.4 billion emergency rights issue to help fund U.S. projects thrown into uncertainty by President Donald Trump‘s opposition to the renewable energy source.
** The federal government filed two lawsuits against Southern California Edison, alleging the utility’s equipment sparked fires including January’s Eaton Fire in the Los Angeles area, which destroyed more than 9,400 structures and killed 17 people.
** U.S. House Republicans pass resolutions using the Congressional Review Act to revoke federal Bureau of Land Management resource plans in Montana, North Dakota, and Alaska that restrict drilling, mining, and coal leasing.
** Advocates rally outside Arizona Public Service’s headquarters to protest the utility’s decision to renege on clean energy commitments, build a new gas pipeline, and keep a coal plant running beyond its retirement date.
** The cruise ship industry files a lawsuit seeking to block Hawaii’s new cruise-passenger “green fee” designed to fund climate change mitigation projects.
** Ford reports EV sales were up 19.3% in August from the same month last year as federal incentives wane, while GM reports an all-time monthly EV sales record in August.
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** Amid last month’s diplomatic efforts to pressure Russia into peace negotiations, new data showed that the European Union had imported Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) worth around €4.48 billion ($5.23 billion) in the first half of 2025. This was an increase from €3.47 billion over the same period last year, according to the EU statistics office Eurostat.
** India will continue to buy Russian oil as it proves economical, its finance minister said on Friday, despite the Trump administration’s decision to impose heavy import tariffs on Indian goods due, in part, to its energy purchases from Moscow.
** Pakistan signed $8.5 billion in new investment agreements with China during a visit to Beijing by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Pakistan’s state media reported Friday. The deal includes renewable energy projects and electric vehicles.
** German bath fittings maker Hansgrohe will quadruple its India production as it aims to target rich and affluent Indians, just when it is facing a slowdown in its other key market of China, top company executives said.
** Renewable Energy Magazine reported that the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark announced a £500 million ($675.2 million) finance guarantee for a wind farm expansion off the coast of the United Kingdom.
