10 March 2025

POLITICS

• A group of 21 House Republicans representing districts benefiting from Inflation Reduction Act investment sign a letter urging colleagues to preserve the law’s clean-energy tax credits. (Politico)
• Climate United sues the Trump administration and Citibank to regain access to its portion of federal “green bank” funding. (Politico)
• The former head of the U.S. EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice says “the worst outcome I feared is happening” as the Trump administration dismantles a decade of work. (Inside Climate News)
• State legislatures introduce a wave of new bills to limit large solar and wind energy projects. (Heatmap)

CLIMATE

• The U.S. withdraws from the board of the United Nations’ climate damage fund that helped vulnerable countries deal with extreme weather. (The Guardian)
• Farmers who labeled projects as “climate friendly” to win Biden-era funding now fear they are at risk under President Trump. (Washington Post)

UTILITIES

• Several states are devising new incentives and legislation to encourage power plant construction as data centers are expected to drive electricity demand growth. (Associated Press)
• Utility ratepayers will end up paying for at least part of the electrical system upgrades needed to power the growing number of data centers, a new paper from two Harvard University researchers argues. (Heatmap)

FOSSIL FUELS

• Oil and gas executives will celebrate the Trump administration’s regulatory rollbacks and discuss uncertainty around tariffs as they meet in Houston for CERAWeek. (Axios)
• The Trump administration has quietly abandoned carbon pipeline safety rules proposed in the last days of the Biden administration. (Grist/Verite News)

ELECTRIFICATION

• The Trump administration’s funding freeze throws into doubt $1.1 billion in federal grants aimed at replacing diesel trucks with electric and hydrogen-fueled ones at the Port of Los Angeles. (E&E News)

• New York utilities are poised to spend tens of billions to replace aging gas pipes in the coming decades, but electrifying neighborhoods instead could cut costs, according to a new report from a climate think tank. (New York Focus)

NUCLEAR

• A nuclear trade group says the industry appears to be on solid footing with the Trump administration compared to renewable energy, given the broad bipartisan support for nuclear power. (MLive)