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EnergyPlatform.News(letter)
April 7, 2025
In this week’s edition of energy and environmental policy news across the states: Domestic uranium production gets a boost; Louisiana lands major supply chain plant for EV batteries; California rail: Behind schedule, over budget, under scrutiny; NC at a glance
Plus: Epstein: The EPA is right to challenge a bogus Obama-Biden rule
The transport of uranium ore from a northern Arizona mine to a southern Utah refining plant has resumed via tribal lands following months of negotiations, providing a pathway for the U.S. to increase domestic uranium production.
The agreement allows for up to 10 trucks to haul ore daily from Energy Fuels Inc.’s mine in the Kaibab National Forest through tribal lands to the White Mesa Mill plant near Blanding, Utah.
A Japanese company says it will establish the first U.S. based production plant for key components in electric vehicle batteries in Louisiana.
The $500 million plant will be located along the Mississippi River in Jefferson Parish, and UBE says it will produce 100,000 tons a year of dimethyl carbonate (DMC) and 40,000 tons of ethyl methyl carbonate (EMC).
California’s High-Speed Passenger Rail project is facing stronger scrutiny and the prospect of losing federal funding as stakeholders ponder whether to abandon the project, long pitched as needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
A snapshot of energy and environmental facts about the state of North Carolina.
Great news! The Environmental Protection Agency just announced it’s challenging the single most destructive regulatory action in U.S. history: the “endangerment" finding.
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