Revolution’s rush forward, what’s next for Ford’s battery plant, and more headlines

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OFFSHORE WIND

• “We take nothing for granted”: Revolution Wind developer Ørsted says it’s scrambling to install the project’s final seven turbines before the Trump administration can cause additional delays: (New York Times)

• Analysts predict Dominion Energy’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project will also win its court battle against the Trump administration’s stop-work order. (Utility Dive)

• PJM Interconnection moves to support Dominion Energy in its suit against the Trump administration, saying a potential cancellation of the Virginia offshore wind project would cause ​“irreparable harm” to electricity supply in the region. (Heatmap, lawsuit)

ELECTRIC VEHICLES

• The National Labor Relations Board rules that workers at the BlueOval SK battery-manufacturing plant in Kentucky won a union election last year, which may allow them to negotiate during the plant’s planned closure and conversion to making grid batteries under Ford’s sole ownership. (WKU Public Radio, Kentucky Lantern)

• California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) proposes allocating $200 million for an EV incentive program to help replace federal tax credits nixed last year. (Politico)

OVERSIGHT

• The U.S. EPA proposes changing the Clean Water Act to speed permitting for large energy and infrastructure projects, including fossil-fuel pipelines. (Inside Climate News)

POLITICS

• The Trump administration should ​“prepare for hundreds of additional similar lawsuits” if it doesn’t reinstate all of the blue-state climate grants it terminated last year, a former senior Energy Department official says. (Latitude Media)

FOSSIL FUELS

• Unnamed sources report Exxon Mobil is preparing a Louisiana refinery to process Venezuelan crude oil, though President Donald Trump has threatened to block the company from investing in Venezuela. (Reuters, Houston Chronicle)

• Major oil companies argue before the U.S. Supreme Court that localities’ climate lawsuits should be heard in federal and not state courts. (Inside Climate News)

NUCLEAR

• The U.S. Department of Energy and NASA reaffirm plans to build a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030. (news release)