Continuing the clean shift

This roundup of U.S. energy news headlines is part of our Canary Media Daily newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox each morning.

WIND

• U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum says Revolution Wind construction could be restarted, and that the federal government is in discussions with developers and the governors of Connecticut and Rhode Island. (Rhode Island Current)

ELECTRIC VEHICLES

• Last week’s ICE raid at Hyundai’s under-construction EV battery plant in Georgia will delay its opening. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

• Long before last week’s raid, Korean companies in the U.S. encountered difficulties obtaining visas for international workers with the expertise and know-how to get clean energy facilities up and running. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

OVERSIGHT

• The Senate energy committee votes to send Republican FERC nominees Laura Swett and David La Certe to the full Senate for a confirmation vote. (Utility Dive)

HYDROGEN

• The International Energy Agency reduces its estimate of how quickly clean hydrogen production will grow by 2030, citing canceled projects, rising costs, and policy uncertainty, but notes the sector will still expand significantly thanks to projects in China. (Reuters, IEA)

• The San Bernardino County Transportation Authority launches the nation’s first hydrogen-powered passenger train on a nine-mile route in southern California. (Press-Enterprise)

SOLAR

• Graduates from a New Jersey program training formerly incarcerated people for jobs in the solar industry are entering an industry with dimmed prospects as the Trump administration reverses Biden-era renewable energy programs and funding. (Inside Climate News)

CLIMATE

• California lawmakers introduce a last-minute bill package that would bolster the state’s utility wildfire fund, expand and integrate the state’s grid into an independent regional entity, and reauthorize the carbon cap-and-invest program. (Utility Dive, Los Angeles Times)

POLITICS

• Once a bipartisan topic, appliance efficiency rules have now become a target of Republicans’ deregulatory agenda. (Utility Dive)