At Trump's urging the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool was altered to a blue-bottom earlier this month and soon experienced algae blooms and coating failures. Trump on June 19 posted repeated accusations of deliberate vandalism but provided no evidence. The Washington Post reported on June 21 that law enforcement arrested several people on suspicion of damaging the pool, including former U.S. Olympic canoeist and world champion David Hearn.

The National Energy Administration, in a Q&A on implementation of the renewable energy consumption minimum share and renewable electricity responsibility-weighting rules, said compute facilities, 5G base stations and charging infrastructure have seen explosive growth and will be an important component of future power demand. NEA expects compute-related electricity use to rise by more than 100 billion kWh per year during the 15th Five-Year Plan. Including these sectors in renewable consumption assessments should speed clean-power coverage of incremental demand and support nationwide green, low-carbon development. NEA also identified polysilicon and lithium-ion battery manufacturing as key links in the green energy industrial chain; bringing them under assessment is intended to enforce integrated green-production requirements for clean-energy-equipment makers and to foster coordinated upstream-downstream decarbonisation across supply chains.

European Commission President VON DER LEYEN said Moldova has completed 93% of the reforms under its growth plan.