I’m back from a week-long vacation, refreshed and ready to return to the daily grind!
In the news today and from the weekend…
Grid:
- Ohio Capital Journal reports that AEP plans to better prepare its infrastructure and customer notification procedures ahead of potential forced outages.
- E&E News reports a federal judge declines to postpone a spring 2024 deadline for Ameren Missouri to reduce a major coal plant’s emissions, despite the utility’s claims that it needs to keep the plant open until 2025 to ensure reliability.
EPA:
- Bismarck Tribune North Dakota’s coal industry and top Republican officials welcomed last week’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that limits how the EPA can regulate greenhouse gas emissions from coal plants.
- E&E Climatewire reports as the smoke clears from the Supreme Court’s major climate ruling last week, legal experts and clean energy groups say the country still has many options for achieving a dramatic reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
- E&E Climatewire reports the Supreme Court’s recent climate ruling means carbon capture will likely form the backbone of any new EPA regulations targeting carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, energy experts and legal analysts said.
Coal:
- Wall Street Journal reports an energy-starved world is turning to coal as natural-gas and oil shortages exacerbated by Russia’s war against Ukraine lead countries back to the dirtiest fossil fuel.
- Washington Examiner reports the Supreme Court decision in West Virginia v. EPA clipped what environmental lawyers saw as one of their best chances under existing law to transform the power sector away from coal.