** The US Defense Department canceled a tender to buy cobalt, in a fresh sign of the challenges facing Western countries trying to bolster domestic supplies of the battery metal. The Defense Logistics Agency first sought offers in mid-August for up to 7,500 tons of cobalt over the next five years in a contract worth as much as $500 million.
** Arizona, California, and Oregon are among more than 20 states that filed a lawsuit accusing the Trump administration of unlawfully terminating the U.S. EPA’s $7 billion Solar for All program aimed at expanding low-income households’ access to solar.
** California solar roof shingle manufacturer GAF Energy plans to move its headquarters from San Jose to Texas, citing better market opportunities.
** A federal court in Montana dismisses a youth-led lawsuit accusing the Trump administration’s pro-fossil fuel policies of violating constitutional rights to life and liberty.
** Wyoming’s Public Service Commission plan to appeal a judge’s decision granting PacifiCorp its proposed 29.2% rate hike after regulators had significantly reduced it.
** Amazon and Energy Northwest plan to deploy 12 small modular reactors developed by X-Energy at their planned 960 MW nuclear plant in southern Washington.
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** China said that its purchases of Russian oil were “legitimate” and decried recent “unilateral bullying” measures by the United States as the trade row between the two countries continues to intensify. The rebuke came after President Donald Trump said that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised to stop buying Russian oil, and that he would get China to follow suit.
** Plans for a groundbreaking rare earths refinery in East Yorkshire have been abandoned, after the company behind the project decided to seek investment in the United States instead. Pensana has spent the past seven years developing a rare earths mine in Angola. The $268m (£185m) project, one of the largest of its kind in the world, will begin delivering raw materials in 2027.