A unanimous D.C. Circuit panel upheld FERC Order 2023 on July 31, rejecting dueling challenges to the study deadlines and penalties transmission providers including PJM must apply to interconnection requests.

PJM accepted 715 generation projects totaling 201.4 GW into study — led by storage (314), natural gas (147) and solar (117) — with Pennsylvania first among states at 39.8 GW, and separately opened its Expedited Interconnection Track to state-identified projects.

A short-term bill extending federal agency funding through Dec. 11 cleared its first Senate procedural vote Monday night with 89 votes, but Democrats are withholding the consent needed to finish it before the five-week recess.

Thune has no margin on a budget resolution covering Pentagon funding and farmer aid: Tillis is a no over the SAVE America Act, Cassidy a no over missing spending offsets, and McConnell remains absent.

Michigan Democrats choose between Abdul El-Sayed and Rep. Haley Stevens for Senate after outside groups, mostly AIPAC's super PAC, spent more than $56 million for Stevens; Cori Bush is challenging Rep. Wesley Bell in Missouri's 1st.

In a Dear Colleague letter, Sen. Bernie Sanders urged Senate Democrats to reject the PROMISE Act and any procedural shortcut altering Social Security, naming benefit cuts, a higher retirement age, reduced COLAs and privatization.

House Democrats' nonprofit arm reserved $8.4 million in TV and radio across 19 districts, including $682,500 in the New York City market hitting Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-N.J.) and Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.).

Gov. Mikie Sherrill and New Jersey lawmakers are pressing federal officials for answers following the death of a detainee at the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility.

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Spencer Horwitz's three-run double carried the Pirates past Milwaukee 4-3 on Monday, with Bubba Chandler allowing three runs (two earned) over 5 2/3 innings and Pittsburgh evening its record at 57-57.

The Steelers held their first full-pads practice of camp Monday at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, with Joey Porter Jr. and Jalen Ramsey working off to the side after opening camp on the PUP list.