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SOLAR: An alleged terror attack temporarily disables a 100 MW solar array in Nevada that provides power to 13 Las Vegas casinos. (Casino.org)

GRID:
•Heavy winds, rain and snow again damage utility equipment in California, leaving more than 420,000 households without power.(Los Angeles Times)
• Pacific Gas & Electric says it may be another week before it is able to restore power to some customers after a heavy storm battered northern California. (San Francisco Chronicle)

OIL & GAS:
•The U.S. Coast Guard works to determine the source of a large oil slick in an area with numerous abandoned oil and gas wells off the California coast. (Los Angeles Times)•California budgets $100 million over the next two years to plug and reclaim 700 of the state’s 5,300 identified orphaned oil and gas wells. (Press-Enterprise)
• The federal Bureau of Land Management seeks public input on a proposed oil and gas lease sale for 52 parcels in Montana and North Dakota. (news release)

BIOFUELS: An uncompleted aviation biofuel refinery in southern Oregon appears to beheadedforforeclosure after developers fail to make payments on $300 million in debt. (Oregonian)

LITHIUM: Arguments conclude in an Indigenous and environmentalist advocates’ lawsuit aimed at blocking the proposed Thacker Pass lithium mine in Nevada, leaving the case in a federal judge’s hands.(NPR)

ELECTRIC VEHICLES: Montana lawmakers consider imposing fees on electric vehicles after the governor vetoed a similar proposal in 2021.(Daily Montanan)

COAL:
•A New Mexico municipal utility calls on state lawmakers to allow it to recover costs associated with the closure of the San Juan coal power plant. (Farmington Daily-Times)•Wyoming officials struggle to diversify the economy as the coal industry — long the state’s cash cow — declines. (Casper Star-Tribune)

STORAGE: New Mexico lawmakers propose offering tax credits for residential and grid-scale energy storage projects. (Carlsbad Current-Argus)

CLIMATE: Washington state schedules the first pollution allowance auction under its carbon cap-and-invest program for late February. (Grist)

• A New Mexico lawmaker urges colleagues to pass a bill that would require and fund an independent study of potential groundwater contamination at the shuttered San Juan coal power plant.(Albuquerque Journal)
• A New Mexico editorial board urges lawmakers to spend an oil and gas-fueled budget surplus on initiatives that would help insulate the state from the boom-bust cycle. (Albuquerque Journal)