24 February 2026

COURTS

• Hearings begin today in a case brought by nonprofits to restore billions of dollars in climate grants that the EPA moved to claw back early in the Trump administration. (New York Times)

• The EPA’s endangerment finding repeal could throw a wrench in a Supreme Court case regarding the fossil fuel industry’s attempt to preemptively shut down local climate lawsuits. (E&E News)

• Environmental groups say they’ll appeal Virginia regulators’ approval of a Dominion Energy gas plant in a first-of-its-kind challenge under the Virginia Environmental Justice Act. (Inside Climate News)

OVERSIGHT

• The Interior Department says it’s completed a major rollback of National Environmental Policy Act regulations that will help speed energy, mining, and other projects. (The Hill)

• The EPA received hundreds of requests last year from coal plant operators, refineries, data center developers, and other interests seeking exemptions from air pollution rules. (Grist)

FOSSIL FUELS

• Local officials say they had heard nothing about plans for a $33 billion, 9.2-GW gas plant planned for Ohio until the Trump administration announced it last week. (Gazette-Mail)

• Power plant owners plan to retire 11 GW of utility-scale power generation this year, most of it from coal plants, including several the Trump administration prevented from shutting down last year. (EIA)

ELECTRIC VEHICLES

• Rivian and EnergyHub partner on a utility-managed charging program, in which Rivians will be available as dispatchable resources to more than 70 utilities using EnergyHub’s grid management platform. (Latitude Media)

DATA CENTERS

• A new report suggests as much as half of the data centers planning to come online this year may not materialize amid construction delays and a power supply bottleneck. (Sightline)
• Democrats looking to attract support in tightly contested congressional races are campaigning on promises to balance the dangers and promise of data centers. (E&E News)
• Democratic officials seeking reelection are also changing their tune on data centers after spending years trying to lure the facilities and their promised jobs and tax revenue. (Axios)