RENEWABLES: A bill requiring 100% clean energy in Washington by 2045 gains final approval in the state Senate and now heads to the governor to sign. (Greentech Media)

ALSO:

• An economic working paper suggests renewable portfolio standards aren’t cost-effective, but critics question the study’s methods. (E&E News, subscription)

• Wind and solar groups are skeptical whether they would benefit from an Ohio bill to save nuclear plants and reward carbon-free generation. (Toledo Blade)

• Vanderbilt University unveils a plan to power its campus with renewable energy and reduce its environmental impact. (Associated Press)

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WIND:

• The wind industry celebrates Wyoming regulators’ decision to award a key permit in a $3 billion transmission line project that will potentially bring 3 gigawatts of new wind power to the West Coast. (Greentech Media)

• Fourteen companies have told federal energy regulators they’d like to build the first floating offshore wind farm off the coast of California. (Bloomberg)

SOLAR: A North Carolina solar farm is part of a study on bifacial modules that collect the sun’s energy on both sides of the panels. (Courier-Tribune)

STORAGE: An explosion at an Arizona battery facility that injured several firefighters comes at a sensitive time for the fledgling storage industry. (Greentech Media)

ELECTRIC VEHICLES:

• Ford plans to invest $500 million in electric vehicle startup Rivian and plan a new EV model for the automaker. (Detroit News)

• New Jersey activists and officials rally in support of a stalled bill to encourage electric vehicle use and building a statewide charging station network. (NJ.com)

EFFICIENCY: New York Mayor Bill DeBlasio wants the city to ban the construction of glass buildings to promote energy efficiency. (Associated Press)

OIL & GAS:

• Environmentalists want California’s governor to phase out oil and gas development and believe he’s considering such a move. (Los Angeles Times)

• A remote Alaskan village surrounded by a national wildlife refuge is divided over plans to drill there. (Reuters)

• President Trump is considering a waiver of Jones Act requirements that would allow shipping of natural gas by non-U.S. flagged ships to ports in Puerto Rico and the Northeast. (Bloomberg)

PIPELINES: A proposed pipeline from Pennsylvania is seen by some activists as contrary to New York’s climate leadership. (Grist)

COAL:

• As Indiana’s legislative session ends today, former U.S. EPA head Scott Pruitt’s lobbying effort to save seven coal plants has likely failed. (Associated Press)

• A Missouri newspaper verifies claims that every coal ash storage pond in the state with available data is contaminating groundwater. (Columbia Missourian)

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CARBON: Since the Industrial Revolution, the United States has emitted far more greenhouse gas emissions than any other country. (Vox/Carbon Brief)

COMMENTARY:

• A new poll suggests a majority of likely voters support renewable energy and other climate solutions, but that expanding the definition of clean energy to include nuclear draws wider political support, David Roberts writes. (Vox)

• Offshore drilling should be a litmus test for the 2020 presidential election, says the president of a small business chamber of commerce. (Post and Courier)