• Still on hold: Arkansas has halted its $54.1 million build-out of electric vehicle charging stations after the Trump administration froze federal funding.
• The United Nations’ international climate fund asks other countries to step up after the U.S. pulled its $4 billion commitment.
• New York gets one step closer to becoming the first state to essentially ban fossil fuel use in new buildings as the state building code council approves draft rules requiring most new buildings to be fully electrified starting in 2026.
• Oak Ridge, Tennessee, which played a key role in the Manhattan Project, is revving up for a new wave of nuclear energy development.
• Greenpeace asks the North Dakota Supreme Court to move the Dakota Access Pipeline trial from the county where protests took place, arguing that a jury wouldn’t be able to render a fair verdict based on several jurors’ negative views on the protests.