POLITICS: A permitting reform bill from U.S. Sens. Joe Manchin and John Barrasso advances to the full Senate as it gathers bipartisan support for its potential to speed both fossil fuel and clean energy deployment. (The Hill)

ALSO:

  • Manchin’s support of a sweeping climate law has benefited the state with new manufacturing and energy projects but is still unpopular with voters and may have hastened the end of his time in Congress. (E&E News)
  • A bipartisan group of senators introduce a bill that would bar companies with ties to China and other “foreign entities of concern” from receiving clean energy tax credits. (Bloomberg)
  • Former President Donald Trump wildly exaggerates the cost of a federal program to build out electric vehicle charging stations and says he will redirect any unspent funds if elected. (E&E News)

ELECTRIFICATION:

GRID: PJM Interconnection says the record-high prices resulting from its most recent capacity auction should encourage new generation resources and the continued operation of existing ones. (Utility Dive)

SOLAR:

  • California’s grid operator says smoke from dozens of wildfires burning across the West is diminishing solar output this summer even as high temperatures drive up demand. (Reuters)
  • Inflation Reduction Act funding will support multiple Ohio solar projects on former landfills and at a retiring coal plant. (Energy News Network) 

OIL & GAS: A satellite-aided study finds oil and gas-related methane emissions are four times higher than U.S. EPA estimates and the Permian Basin is the nation’s top emitter of the greenhouse gas. (news release) 

COAL ASH: Georgia Power faces big questions about its plan to clean up coal ash at power plants across the state — including whether the U.S. EPA will go along after it nixed a similar scheme in Alabama. (Grist/WABE)

COAL: Montana advocates push back on NorthWestern Energy’s plan to acquire a larger stake of the Colstrip coal plant, saying the aging facility is unreliable and will need about $2 billion in pollution control upgrades to continue operating beyond 2032. (Montana Free Press)

WIND: Stakeholders in Maine hammer out a fair cost to ratepayers for financing, building and operating the Pine Tree Offshore Wind research project, which is meant to jumpstart further development in the state. (Portland Press Herald)

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