** FERC rejects American Electric Power’s request to sell up to 750 MW of capacity in an upcoming auction, saying it wouldn’t aid PJM Interconnection’s resource adequacy needs like AEP claims.
** “We will be in this fight for as long as it takes:” Officials in Connecticut and Massachusetts are among those planning legal challenges against the Trump administration’s repeal of a scientific finding that underpinned the EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
** More U.S. House Republicans are raising questions about the Trump administration’s claim that offshore wind poses national security risks: “America’s energy policy should be grounded in facts.”
** A worker says he helped lay radioactive oil and gas drilling waste at a Texas site where an elementary school and housing subdivision were built.
** Leaders of a Kentucky county still feel optimistic about Ford’s now-shuttered EV plant, which is to be converted into a grid-scale battery factory with plans to reopen next year.
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** Oil and gas companies are beginning to look beyond the Permian Basin and Eagle Ford shale in the U.S. to opportunities in South America, Africa, and the Middle East, raising questions about the limits of domestic production.
** French authorities said they released a tanker intercepted last month in the Mediterranean Sea which is suspected of being part of Russia’s sanctioned shadow fleet shipping oil in violation of international sanctions. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said in a post on X that the tanker Grinch is to leave French waters after having paid a penalty of “several million euros” and “three weeks of costly immobilization.”
** Ukraine carried out long-range drone attacks overnight against a key Black Sea oil terminal and a plant making components for explosives located deep inside Russia, a security official told Business Insider on Tuesday. Drones struck the Tamannaftogaz oil terminal in Russia’s Krasnodar region, hitting one of the largest ports in the Black Sea region, a source in the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said.