Today’s headlines: A new bipartisan permitting bill, Trump spikes offshore wind costs, and more

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PERMITTING

• Several Democrats and Republicans in Congress team up to introduce a permitting bill that would curb the president’s authority to claw back already-granted permits. (Heatmap, news release)

• A group of blue-state attorneys general expands their lawsuit against the Trump administration to include a complaint that the Interior Department is skipping environmental reviews in the name of helping solve a non-existent energy emergency. (E&E News)

OFFSHORE WIND

• Interior Secretary Doug Burgum suggests in an interview with Fox Business News that the Supreme Court could step in to overturn recent court wins for the offshore wind projects that the Trump administration ordered to stop work in December. (Heatmap, Fox Business News)

• Dominion Energy increases its cost estimate for its offshore wind farm by $300 million, largely due to the Trump administration’s tariffs and its stop-work order in December. (Virginia Business)

FOSSIL FUELS

• The Trump administration prepares to issue a license formally allowing more oil companies to drill in Venezuela. (The Hill)

• Mississippi residents near a large Chevron refinery press for the oil company or other industrial facilities to buy their homes due to air pollution, which they expect will get worse if the plant begins processing more Venezuelan oil. (New York Times)

TRANSPORTATION

• A year after congestion pricing went into effect in parts of Manhattan, air quality has improved, traffic fatalities are down, and public transit ridership is up, but the Trump administration continues its efforts to stop the program. (Inside Climate News)

• California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) releases details of his proposed $200 million EV rebate program, which would require participating automakers to match state incentives. (CalMatters)

• Ford and Tesla are pivoting away from electric vehicles to focus on making grid-scale batteries for data centers and utilities. (New York Times)

TRANSMISSION

• New federal planning rules have improved transmission planning and development in the U.S. in recent years, a new report finds, although Texas and the Southeast are still underperforming. (Utility Dive)

AFFORDABILITY

• New England’s high electricity prices are the result of costly infrastructure upgrades and reliance on natural gas and oil for power generation, not, as Trump claims, the region’s pursuit of renewable energy development. (CNN)

ENERGY EFFICIENCY

• A fresh report underscores that energy efficiency and demand-response programs are a massively untapped resource for meeting skyrocketing power demand. (Grist)

SOLAR

• The Trump administration’s clampdown on clean energy has slowed solar development in rural areas, even as farmers look to the sector to supplement their income. (Daily Yonder)