OIL & GAS: Vice President Kamala Harris’ promise not to ban fracking if she’s elected president pleases oil and gas executives while disappointing environmentalists — though both say there’s a wide gulf between her positions and Donald Trump’s. (E&E News)

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POLITICS: Experts debunk false and misleading claims about electric vehicle mandates, electricity availability, and other energy topics former President Trump and Sen. J.D. Vance are making on the campaign trail. (E&E News)

GRID:

  • A Minnesota professor says grid reliability measures like underground power lines, energy storage systems and climate resilience hubs are needed amid aging grid infrastructure and more extreme weather. (MPR)
  • A FERC commissioner dissents as the regulatory body approves incentives for a Maryland transmission project, saying state regulators should make sure projects are in the local interest before they get federal funding. (Utility Dive)

BUILDINGS: Massachusetts climate activists are pleased by how quickly a few dozen cities and towns have adopted an optional building code that helps to lower building emissions. (Energy News Network)

ELECTRIC VEHICLES: 

WIND: Maine officials, business owners and other environmentally minded stakeholders are looking to increase the number of small-scale distributed wind turbines in the state. (Portland Press Herald)

SOLAR: Mississippi solar advocates grow frustrated with a board of state regulators who rejected rules to make rooftop solar more affordable and cut speakers off at a “solar summit” that featured a representative of an oil-and-gas-funded, anti-renewables think tank. (Floodlight)

URANIUM: The Navajo Nation adopts emergency legislation to strengthen radioactive material transportation regulations after an Arizona mine began shipping uranium ore across tribal land to a Utah mill. (Associated Press)

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