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World:

¶ “EU Pushes Back As US Revives Trade Pressure On Bloc And Accuses Brussels Of Enabling China To Evade Tariffs” • The EU pushed back at renewed trade pressure from Washington, as the Trump administration said the EU was enabling Chinese evasion of US tariffs and stepped up calls for it to roll back its flagship green rules on businesses. [Euronews]

¶ “UK Must ‘Face Up To Changing Climate,’ PM Says On Visit To Stourbridge” • Stourbridge, a market town in the West Midlands near Birmingham, was hit by a wildfire that gutted a number of homes. Visiting it, UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham related the fire to climate change and said it was an indication that a faster transition to clean energy is needed. [Euronews]

¶ “Ash Clouds, Lava Flows And Fertile Soil: What Are The Effects Of Mount Etna’s Eruptions?” • As the eruption of Mount Etna enters its seventh consecutive day, plumes of thick black smoke continue to trigger chaos in the region. But the environmental consequences of Etna’s eruptions might not be as far-reaching or devastating as they appear. [Euronews]

¶ “Porsche Ditches Volkswagen Group Emissions Pool And Joins Up With XPENG” • The EU regulations require that automakers reduce the CO₂ emissions of the cars they sell, every year. If they don’t cut their emissions to the necessary level, they have to pay huge fines. But one car maker can pool with another, and Porsche is taking advantage of that. [CleanTechnica]

¶ “China Exports A Million Automobiles in a Month … Twice” • China exported over a million EVs for the second time ever last month, after passing the milestone just the month before. There were 553,000 new energy vehicle exports in July, 5.7% more than June and 145.5% more than July 2025. Over half of the country’s vehicle exports were plugins. [CleanTechnica]

¶ “More Renewables Lead To Lower Demand For Methane In Europe” • When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Europe was heavily dependent on cheap Russian methane. With the supply interrupted, alternatives needed to be found. Those turned out to be wind and solar, which now supply more electric power to Europe than it gets from methane. [CleanTechnica]

¶ “Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners Closes $3 Billion Growth Fund” • CIP finished fundraising for its second Growth Markets Fund with approximately $3 billion in commitments. CIP said GMF II is nearly triple the size of the first vintage and targets large-scale energy infrastructure projects in fifteen high-growth, middle-income markets. [reNews]

¶ “Australia’s Biggest Coal Mine Is Now A ‘Blank Canvas’ For A $1.8 Billion Clean Energy Project” • For decades, heavy coal mining machinery worked at the Stratford Mining Complex in New South Wales. In 2024, the digging ended. Now, that former industrial hub is turning into a A$1.8 billion ($1.2 billion) clean energy powerhouse. [Energies Media]

¶ “NextEnergy UK Acquires Standalone Battery Portfolio From Eku Energy” • NextEnergy UK has acquired three standalone battery storage system projects from Eku Energy. The 107-MW, 151-MWh portfolio consists of three projects in the southeast of England. One of these is already operating, and commissioning work is complete at the others. [Solar Power Portal]

¶ “Budapest Rooftops Could Host A Lot Of Solar Capacity” • Budapest’s rooftops could host about 5,000 MW of solar PVs. Though that amount is about 2.5 times the capacity of the Paks nuclear plant, it would generate about a third of the electricity Paks does because of the difference in capacity factor. Budapest wants rooftop PVs, however. [Balkan Green Energy News]

US:

¶ “Trump To Declare Hormuz US Territory ‘Soon'” • President Donald Trump said that he would “soon” declare the Strait of Hormuz a US territory. “After we finish defeating Iran, which is being very badly defeated – pretty soon I’ll be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States,” Trump said at a rally in Garden City, New York. [DW]

¶ “Trump Says Record-Setting Carrier Deployment ‘Not Nearly Long Enough’” • US aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, has spent over 200 continuous days at sea. President Trump weighed in on reports of morale problems on the ship, telling reporters that Lincoln’s deployment was not too long, and in fact was “not nearly long enough.” [The Maritime Executive]

¶ “Thousands of Comments Shared with Governor Katie Hobbs Passionately Oppose Desert Southwest Gas Pipeline” • The Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter shared with Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs’s office about 2,000 comments that had been sent to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last week opposing the Desert Southwest Pipeline. [CleanTechnica]

¶ “Trump’s Gift To Coal Miners: Less Coal Jobs, More Black Lung Disease” • President Donald Trump swept into the Oval Office with a grand promise to save coal jobs, but somehow he forgot the part about saving the humans who fill those jobs. That’s bad news for coal miners, who are dying off at an alarming rate from black lung disease. [CleanTechnica]

¶ “Governor Newsom To Pass Baton On Extending Operations At Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant” • Governor Gavin Newsom is passing California’s nuclear future to the next administration, he recently announced. Diablo Canyon, California’s only remaining nuclear power plant, is to stop operating in 2030, but some want to keep it going. [The Santa Barbara Independent]

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