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This week’s Indy Environment newsletter looks at what natural resources legislation died and what bills are still alive after a major deadline in the Legislature last week.

This week’s Indy Environment newsletter looks at a hearing Tuesday on AB380, legislation that would require gas utilities to go through a comprehensive planning process meant to consider the effects of decarbonization on their operations and ratepayers.

With the legislative session almost halfway over, this week’s Indy Environment newsletter looks at several bills, including proposals to transition away from natural gas, change mining oversight and create new programs for how water is managed across the state.

In this edition: A bill on “Stablecoin” that is totally not related to Innovation Zones, increasing utility regulator fines, changes to wrongful conviction compensation and heartburn on abolishing education-focused commissions, including one created by beloved former Assemblyman Tyron Thompson.

Proposed legislation could exempt certain pre-decisional meetings and records that involve environmental issues from the Open Meeting Law and the Public Records Act. Looming over that bill is a little-discussed confidentiality clause that the federal government requires.

The Public Utilities Commission voted unanimously on Wednesday to approve a $94,000 fine against Southwest Gas after commission staff discovered that the company had sought to include the cost of a replacement backhoe destroyed in a 2016 gas leak and explosion in its proposed rates to customers.

In its first hearing since lawmakers adopted a substantial amendment entirely replacing the original version of SB300, bill sponsor Democratic Sen. Chris Brooks told members of the Assembly Growth and Infrastructure Committee on Thursday that the measure was an attempt to align the business structure of NV Energy with new renewable mandates and technologies.

It’s no secret that Nevada energy companies — especially the state’s largest utility, NV Energy — are ready and willing to spend their money on state elections. The 2018 midterms were no different, as 36 companies and individuals combined to spend more than $497,000 on 59 state lawmakers.