OIL & GAS: • A longtime Minnesota Pollution Control Agency employee files a whistleblower lawsuit claiming he faced retaliation for raising concerns about how the agency handles petroleum leak sites. (MPR News)• North Dakota officials are investigating an active but contained oil well fire at a site with about 1,360 barrels of crude oil and 1,670 barrels of produced water. (Valley News Live)
UTILITIES: ComEd increases its capital spending plan by $300 million over the next three years as its parent company Exelon spins off its regulated utilities. (Crain’s Chicago Business)
ELECTRIC VEHICLES: • The company behind a proposed Minnesota nickel mine signs a major deal to supply Tesla with 75,000 metric tons of nickel concentrate, a key ingredient in electric vehicle batteries, over six years. (Star Tribune)• Automakers plan to launch dozens of new electric vehicle models in the next two years, shifting the pressure on car companies from developing them to convincing consumers to buy them. (Wall Street Journal, subscription)
SOLAR: An Indiana municipal airport is moving forward with a solar project that was first envisioned by a high school intern and that will produce about $175,000 in net energy savings for the airport. (Chronicle-Tribune)
CARBON CAPTURE: • A planned pipeline that would transport carbon dioxide to North Dakota for disposal intends to capture emissions from an ammonia plant under a new partnership. (Bismarck Tribune)• The developer of a planned carbon...
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