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Trump Officials Talk Regulatory Rollbacks at NARUC Meeting
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin proudly told NARUC attendees the agency’s proposed rescission of the 2009 endangerment finding would be the “largest deregulatory action in the history of the country.”
DTE
EPA Proposes Rescission of Endangerment Finding that Underpins All GHG Rules
EPA is proposing to rescind its 2009 endangerment finding, which qualifies greenhouse gases as pollutants and has been used by Democratic presidential administrations to regulate emissions from power plants and other sources.
Consumers Energy
Opponents Take DOE to Court over J.H. Campbell Retirement Delay
After DOE ignored their rehearing requests, opponents of its Federal Power Act order keeping the J.H. Campbell plant have appealed the issue to the courts.
Yes Energy
Industry Experts Find Faults in DOE’s Resource Adequacy Analysis
Industry experts say that while DOE's report points to a well known issue, it focuses only on keeping old plants online instead of needed new capacity.
DOE
DOE Reliability Report Argues Changes Required to Avoid Outages Past 2030
DOE's report tries to apply one reliability metric to different markets and finds significant new capacity will be needed in some markets to avoid reliability problems by 2030.
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Senate Passes Trump’s Big Bill that Slashes Clean Energy Tax Credits
The U.S. Senate met through the weekend and overnight June 30 to work on Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill, passing it 51-50 with Vice President JD Vance casting the tiebreaking vote. 
DOE
DOE’s Wright Fields Senate Questions About Funded Project Reviews
Senators asked Energy Secretary Chris Wright about project spending his department has put under review or already cut when he testified about the Trump administration’s 2026 budget request.
BPA
Trump Directs Feds to Withdraw from Deal on Snake River Dams

President Trump issued a memo directing the federal government to withdraw from a deal with four tribes and two states that considered the future operation of four dams on the Lower Snake River and eventually could have led to their breach.

DOE
Energy Department Staff Cuts Just Getting Started

Government job cuts have been a major theme of the Trump administration, and while DOE has faced some cuts former officials say are already significant, many more employees are going to leave in the months to come.

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Clean Energy Facing Grim Financial Environment in N.J.
Federal funding disruption and a surge in electricity demand will require states to implement resource adequacy and financial support policies for new energy sources, speakers at an energy conference in New Jersey said.

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