Today’s headlines: Investigating the TotalEnergies deal, derailing shipping emission rules, and more

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OFFSHORE WIND

• Democratic Congress members launch an investigation into the Trump administration’s deal with TotalEnergies to abandon its offshore wind leases. (Associated Press)

SHIPPING

• The Trump administration is circulating flyers at this week’s International Maritime Organization meeting that contain what one person who’d seen the memo called a ​“skewed” economic analysis of a global carbon tax on shipping, in an attempt to derail the policy for a second time. (Politico)

INDUSTRY

• U.S. Steel announces plans to build a direct reduced iron facility at its Big River complex in Arkansas, where the iron will be fed into electric arc furnaces to produce steel. (TribLive)

PERMITTING

• Sens. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Angus King (I-Maine) tell Interior Secretary Doug Burgum that they won’t vote for permitting reform if they don’t have assurances the Trump administration will follow the law and let permitted renewable energy projects proceed. (Latitude Media)

GRID

• More than 800 projects totaling 220 GW of generation enter PJM Interconnection’s reopened interconnection queue, with nearly half of that capacity coming from gas. (Utility Dive)

• The Midcontinent Independent System Operator says it has enough grid resources to meet power demand this coming year, throwing cold water on the Trump administration’s insistence that the region needs to keep retiring coal plants online. (E&E News)

DATA CENTERS

• Data center operator NTT Data will buy carbon removal credits from Climeworks in an unspecified deal. (Axios)

• Compass Datacenters pulls out of a massive project in Virginia after a court ruling halted its progress amid heightening opposition. (WJLA)

ELECTRIC VEHICLES

• Chinese EV firm BYD reports a 55% drop in its first quarter profits compared to a year earlier, extending three straight quarters of falling profits as domestic sales slow. (Reuters)