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PUBLIC LANDS

• The U.S. Interior Department plans to dramatically speed up permitting for oil and gas, uranium, coal, biofuel, geothermal, hydropower, and critical mineral projects on federal lands, accelerating environmental reviews to 14 days and impact statements to 28. (New York Times)

• An Interior Department document suggests the Trump administration is considering shrinking national monuments in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Utah to allow for expanded mining and drilling. (Washington Post)

POLITICS

• Internal emails reveal Trump administration attorneys rang alarm bells about ​“legal vulnerabilities” as the EPA attempted to revoke $20 billion in green bank funds that had already been distributed. (Politico)

• Twelve states sue the Trump administration over its tariffs, saying they’ll make essentials unaffordable and hurt businesses. (Associated Press)

• State lawmakers wrestle with how to appropriate funding as Congress’ budget remains unfinished and the Trump administration threatens to claw back funding for several clean energy and climate programs. (Heatmap)

CLEAN ENERGY

• NextEra Energy CEO John Ketchum calls renewables a ​“bridge fuel” and the cheapest, quickest option to add new capacity to the grid, noting gas and nuclear plants will take far longer to deploy. (E&E News)

• GE Vernova reports a rise in gas turbine orders and strong sales in electrical equipment, but says wind orders have fallen 43% over the last year. (E&E News)

CLIMATE

• New research refining the process of calculating how much individual polluters have contributed to climate change-related damages could bolster state laws that seek to make fossil fuel companies pay for the impacts of their emissions. (New York Times)

NUCLEAR

• After President Trump fired two Tennessee Valley Authority board members, it now lacks a quorum needed to make decisions, jeopardizing the ​“nuclear renaissance” Trump has pushed for. (Grist)

PIPELINES

• A federal judge orders the U.S. government to pay North Dakota $28 million for the Army Corps of Engineers’ role in the Dakota Access pipeline protests and failing to prevent millions of dollars in damages. (North Dakota Monitor)