9 May 2025 • Supported by

POLITICS

• A Republican Congress member says there’s “a lot of disagreement” in his party over whether to preserve, edit, or repeal Inflation Reduction Act tax credits. (E&E News)
• Senate Democrats push back against the U.S. EPA’s plans to dismantle the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program. (E&E News)
• Texas lawmakers approve legislation to require nearly every solar and wind farm in the state to back up their energy production with gas-fired power plants or batteries or face a steep fine, potentially shutting down thousands of megawatts of existing projects. (Houston Chronicle)

NUCLEAR

• Ontario, Canada, greenlights the construction of a 300 MW GE Vernova Hitachi small modular nuclear reactor, which could be the first SMR in North America if completed by 2030 as planned. (Axios)

COAL

• Indiana leads 14 coal-producing states in urging a federal judge to deny the Trump administration’s attempt to pause litigation over a Biden era mine safety rule, which the Interior Department says is being replaced with its own version. (Bloomberg Law) 

WIND

• The multistate lawsuit challenging President Trump’s wind energy order could receive quiet backing from red states where land-based wind projects have also been affected, an expert says. (CAI)
• Welcon, a European supplier for the Empire Wind farm, calls out the Trump administration’s “banana republic” for canceling the offshore project and wasting years of work and billions of dollars in investment. (New York Times)

FEDERAL FUNDING

• Churches adding solar, industrial buildings switching to LED bulbs, and dozens of other projects are highlighted on a new map illustrating the ways more than $3 billion in Inflation Reduction Act funding has been used in Pennsylvania. (Allegheny Front)
• Electrification nonprofit Rewiring America announces it’ll lay off 28% of its staff, as it has remained unable to access Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund dollars since the EPA first tried to claw back the funds in February. (Latitude Media)

GRID

• Two new reports find the Southeast is the only region that hasn’t approved a new regional transmission project in more than a decade, and that utilities could increase grid reliability and save more than $8 billion by investing $5 billion in regional grid improvements. (Utility Dive)