Today’s headlines: Interior lets offshore wind slide, new fusion funding, and more

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ENERGY SHOCK

• The U.S. and Iran agree to a two-week ceasefire before President Donald Trump’s threats to attack power plants and otherwise decimate Iranian life come to fruition. (Politico)

• The ceasefire deal will let Iran and Oman charge fees to ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, though fossil fuel price shakeups will take a while to settle. (Associated Press, Axios)

• Skyrocketing fossil fuel prices are driving some U.S. state leaders to propose rolling back climate goals they inaccurately blame for rising electricity prices. (Bloomberg)

WIND

• The U.S. Interior Department quietly fails to appeal a court decision that allowed work to restart on offshore wind projects halted by the administration, an omission that could be an early sign of hope for the industry, experts say. (Grist)

NUCLEAR

• The DOE today will announce $135 million for fusion energy research and development. (Axios)

• Idaho, Nebraska, Tennessee, and Utah tell the federal government they’re interested in hosting nuclear energy projects, including waste storage facilities. (Axios)

PERMITTING

• Wind and solar developers have been held up for nearly a year because of the shutdown of a federal government website that helps identify endangered species in a project area. (E&E News)

• Clean energy advocates look to use stalled onshore wind projects as leverage as Congress continues to debate permitting reform. (E&E News)

• Congressional Republicans say they won’t turn to GOP-only reconciliation legislation to advance permitting reforms. (E&E News)

SOLAR

• Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) signs a law allowing residents to use small DIY balcony solar systems that plug into standard outlets. (Portland Press-Herald)

OVERSIGHT

• The Tennessee Valley Authority plans to move quickly to replace retiring CEO Don Moul, but could encounter challenges due to President Trump’s plan to cap salaries at $500,000 — which amounts to a more-than-90% pay cut from what Moul made. (Knoxville News Sentinel, E&E News)

FOSSIL FUELS

• An analysis projects that Woodside’s $18 billion liquefied natural gas facility under construction in Louisiana will produce substantially more greenhouse gas emissions than any LNG port that’s been built in the U.S. and dozens that have been proposed over the next decade. (Verite News)

• Federal energy regulators will investigate the potential environmental impacts of the revived Constitution pipeline proposal, which would carry natural gas from Pennsylvania into New York. (E&E News)

DATA CENTERS

• Residents in a small Wisconsin city vote to restrict future data centers, a relatively new approach by opponents that the industry fears could become more common across the country. (Politico)

GRID

• Nine Midwest utilities ask federal regulators to suspend a policy requiring competitive bidding for new transmission projects, which they argue will help solve supply problems but critics say stifles competition and will raise prices. (E&E News)

• Major grid infrastructure upgrades are needed to take full advantage of vehicle-to-grid technology that allows EVs to dispatch excess power to the grid, a University of Michigan researcher says. (Grist)