** Oil and gas industry insiders say they didn’t ask for the U.S. EPA to pause greenhouse gas emissions reporting, saying they would prefer modifications to the program instead.
** The Interior Department cites a failure to reach an agreement on mitigating electromagnetic impacts in its first explanation for why it halted work on Revolution Wind.
** Pennsylvania environmental regulators signal they will approve permits for a large new natural gas power plant even though the facility is projected to produce more emissions than the coal-fired plant that used to operate on the site.
** A Missouri solar installer founded in 2012 is closing as a result of policy uncertainty under the Trump administration.
** The Sierra Club and landowners ask Iowa regulators to reject Summit Carbon Solutions’ request to amend its carbon pipeline permit by removing language that would require approvals in North and South Dakota before construction can start.
** Wisconsin environmental groups raise concerns about the amount of energy and water use expected from data centers in the southern part of the state and others in the pipeline.
** Hyundai Motor Group confirmed it is going forward with previously announced plans to expand its Georgia plant, just weeks after an immigration raid delayed the startup of an electric vehicle battery plant at the site. As part of a broader investment strategy, Hyundai said it would spend $2.7 billion to increase production capacity at the Ellabell site by 200,000 over the next three years, to a total of 500,000 vehicles a year.
** Jerry Jones-backed Comstock Resources is marketing legacy Haynesville Shale acreage in East Texas and Louisiana as it focuses on the emerging western Haynesville play.
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** Ukraine, which has become increasingly frustrated with the pace and direction of peace talks with Russia, has stepped up drone attacks on Russian energy infrastructure in recent weeks, systematically targeting key facilities to try to reduce Moscow’s export revenues and stir domestic discontent.
** Russia’s revenues from oil and gas are expected to plunge in September by 23% from a year earlier, as international crude prices have declined and the Russian currency has strengthened, calculations by Reuters showed.
** As of August 2025, Japan has established an osmotic power plant in the city of Fukuoka — the first of its kind in Asia and the second worldwide, following a similar facility established in Denmark in 2023. Osmotic power, commonly referred to as “blue energy,” draws from the principles of osmosis, relying on the difference in salinity between two streams of water to generate electricity.
** Chinese state trading firm COFCO has bought up to nine 60,000-metric-ton cargoes of Australian canola, three trade sources told Reuters, after Beijing last month imposed preliminary anti-dumping duties on imports of the oilseed from traditional supplier Canada. The purchases amount to around 540,000 tons, equivalent to about 8% of China’s total canola imports last year.
** The nuclear energy fever has reached Southeast Asia, a region heavily dependent on coal and gas for electricity generation, with no operational nuclear reactors. As nuclear power has seen a renaissance in many countries, except Germany, in recent years, Southeast Asia’s fast-growing economies have started to draft plans to use nuclear reactors to meet rising power demand while reducing carbon emissions.
