🏭 1. Power up: Hill Republicans are mad — but not too mad — that SCOTUS declined to stay EPA's power plant emissions rule.
- "I am disappointed with the decision by the Supreme Court and trust that the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals will uphold the Constitution and strike down this illegal rule," Western Caucus Chair Dan Newhouse said in a statement.
✏️ 2. State (Department) of play: Rep. Dan Crenshaw and other Republicans sent a letter this week to the State Department criticizing the administration's support for a U.N. treaty to limit plastic production.
🪖 3. Defense of climate tech: Military spending on resources such as batteries, low-carbon fuels, on-site power and electric vehicles has become a vital source of capital for certain climate tech companies, our colleague Alan Neuhauser writes in Axios Pro: Climate Deals.
- Read his deep dive here, and click here to subscribe to Climate Deals.
