Daily on Energy: SCOTUS closes the open ends of WOTUS

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : IEA REPORT HIGHLIGHTS RENEWABLE ENERGY GROWTH:
66% : (Solar power, for its part, is expected to see new investments of more than $1 billion per day this year, according to the report.)
58% : The Bureau of Land Management held its first onshore oil and gas lease sale in nearly a year this morning, motivated by the Inflation Reduction Act's new leasing contingencies connecting traditional fossil fuel and renewable energy on federal lands.
51% : Justice Samuel Alito's opinion for the court in Sackett v. EPA provided that waters that can be regulated under WOTUS are limited to: Geographical features that are described in ordinary parlance as streams, oceans, rivers, and lakes, and; Adjacent wetlands that are 'indistinguishable' from those bodies of water due to a continuous surface connection Left off this list: Waters that have a significant nexus to interstate or traditional navigable waters, which the Biden administration employed in drafting its WOTUS rule.
49% : That's due to a combination of factors, including lower costs for renewable energy production, including for solar and wind technologies.
44% : Many governments also now view "clean energy sources -- renewables, electric cars, nuclear power -- as a lasting solution to their energy security problem, in addition to climate change," Birol said in a separate interview with CNBC's Arabile Gumede.
35% : Why that's no good: "Finding a significant nexus continues to require consideration of a list of open-ended factors," it added, continuing, "By the EPA's own admission, nearly all waters and wetlands are potentially susceptible to regulation under this test, putting a staggering array of landowners at risk of criminal prosecution for such mundane activities as moving dirt.
24% : The House failed yesterday to override Biden's veto of the bipartisan Congressional Review Act resolution that sought to cancel his moratorium on tariffs on Asian solar imports.

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