Killer scoop from Kelsey Brugger: "Speaker Mike Johnson urged EPA late last year to award a city in his district a grant focused on the environment and disadvantaged communities — funding from the Democrats’ climate law that Republicans have vowed to gut." eenews.net/articles/mike-…

Incoming Interior Sec. Doug Burgum, who will be leading Trump’s energy agenda, chats with PA Dem Sen. John Fetterman. Along w/ Defense nominee Pete Hegseth, FBI nominee Kash Patel and Agriculture nominee Brooke Rollins.

New: Republicans hopeful oil and gas will help plug a hole their agenda will blow in the budget may end up disappointed. “I don’t think there’s a lot there quite frankly in the near term,” said Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.), Trump’s first Interior secretary. eenews.net/articles/repub…

Democrats fear Musk takeover of weather service ift.tt/Ixr5BvT

Heinrich Thursday declined to endorse former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland’s gubernatorial bid, just weeks after the top Energy and Natural Resources Committee Democrat backed out of a potential run himself. Garrett Downs subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews…

New: President Donald Trump and Republicans promised to cut gas prices in half on the campaign trail. Now, Trump’s tariff moves on Canadian energy threaten to balloon energy costs where Republicans are vulnerable in the 2026 midterms. eenews.net/articles/trump…

Republicans have tried — and failed — to overhaul the Endangered Species Act for decades. This time could be different. “I’m not going to throw my arms open, but if anyone can get me to the table, it’s Westerman,” said Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.). eenews.net/articles/weste…

New w/ Kelsey Brugger — Republicans are mulling the sale of some public lands to help pay for a massive budget reconciliation bill to advance President Donald Trump’s agenda. But just how big they’ll be able to go is an open question. eenews.net/articles/repub…

i love politics, chapter 358749: Dems hopes to kill a federal lands provision in the big GOP tax bill may rest on the resolve of an unlikely ally: Rep. Ryan Zinke of Montana, Donald Trump’s first Interior Secretary, writes Garrett Downs subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews…

Reps. Garbarino and Kiggans - who last week called for some softening of IRA credit language — w pretty different takes leaving speakers office. Kiggans, calling the managers changes a compromise, was pleased. Garbarino NOT happy, waiting to see final text

Scoop: Several farm state GOP senators had a tense meeting with RFK Jr. and Calley Means today amid concerns over pesticides in MAHA report Three ppl described the meeting as "heated" Sens. Boozman, Grassley, Hoeven, Hyde-Smith and Marshall participated subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/0…

Jon Tester tells Garrett Downs he won’t run for elected office again. Dems “make this mistake too often; we try to recycle candidates.” Instead he’s “living the good life…looking at a field of wheat…and a field of alfalfa that I gotta get swapped out.” politico.com/newsletters/in…

Senate leaders have agreed to remove a new excise tax on wind and solar projects from their megabill in order to secure enough support for passage

“There was virtually nobody else who supported it,” said Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), who said his office’s phone lines were ringing off the hook over the idea, despite North Carolina not being impacted.

House Republican appropriators vote to rename the Kennedy Center opera house the “First Lady Melania Trump Opera House”

in case you missed it - a great story on the public lands fight here from Garrett Downs & Amelia Davidson “He’s not wrong about the concept, he was just not wise in the approach he used,” Republican Thom Tillis said of the Senate Energy chair. eenews.net/articles/how-m…