OIL & GAS: Environmental groups call on Colorado regulators to adopt tougher rules for analyzing the cumulative impacts of oil and gas drilling after a 466-well project is approved in the northeastern part of the state. (Colorado Sun)
ALSO:
• The U.S. EPA finalizes an air quality plan aimed at reducing ozone-forming emissions from oil and gas facilities on the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation in northeastern Utah. (Cortez Journal)
• Alaska leaders say a proposed liquefied natural gas pipeline and export terminal would reduce international dependence on Russian oil, but environmentalists say it will hurt wildlife and increase emissions. (High Country News)
• A New Mexico petroleum magnate buys a newspaper and donates to political campaigns to wield influence over oil and gas-related policymaking and regulations. (Searchlight New Mexico)
• U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, introduces a bill that would allocate federal funding for abandoned oil and gas well identification, monitoring and research. (Carlsbad Current-Argus)
GRID:
• Bonneville Power Administration seeks information on Thanksgiving Day attacks on substations in the Portland, Oregon, area that were among at least six such incidents across the Northwest recently. (KFLD, OPB)
• PacifiCorp becomes the first utility to join the California grid operator’s extended day-ahead power market and the Western Power Pool’s resource adequacy market. (news release)
• The U.S. Energy Department awards an Idaho researcher $700,000 to improve grid reliability by allowing it to think like a human. (Idaho Statesman)
SOLAR:
• Opponents and supporters of a California proposal to reduce net metering payments for rooftop solar duke it out in advance of regulators’ expected decision next week. (Los Angeles Times)
• A community in the Alaska Arctic begins work on a 280 KW solar-plus-storage installation that will function as an independent power producer. (Arctic Sounder)
• A California modular home manufacturer’s off-grid factory is powered entirely by an on-site solar installation backed up by a single Tesla Megapack. (Solar Magazine)
TRANSPORTATION:
• Oregon environmentalists say Portland’s plan to reduce truck emissions by replacing petroleum diesel with biofuels does not account for biodiesel’s environmental impacts. (Oregonian)
• Colorado regulators set a new goal of putting 35,000 hydrogen or electric medium- and heavy-duty trucks on the road by 2030. (Longmont Times-Call)
HYDROGEN: A startup secures a lease agreement for its proposed solar-powered green hydrogen fuel production facility in Lancaster, California. (news release)
COAL:
• Northwest Indigenous leaders call on the federal government to pressure Canada to halt coal mine expansions in British Columbia, saying they pollute waters that cross into the U.S. (Daily Montanan)
• Tri-State Generation & Transmission hires outside grant writers to help a Colorado community prepare for a coal power plant’s phased shutdown over the next several years. (Craig Daily Press)
NUCLEAR: California environmental advocates call on federal regulators to reject Pacific Gas & Electric’s relicensing application for the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant. (news release)
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