In with AI, out with climate: Agency bosses share new priorities

Driving the news: Zeldin's statement offers five broad areas for focus for the agency. They include clean air, land and water, "energy dominance," easier permitting, auto jobs and more.

• On AI, it looks to "ensure data centers and related facilities can be powered and operated in a clean manner with American-made energy."

State of play: Interior Secretary Doug Burgum issued memos that look to breathe bureaucratic life into President Trump's executive orders.

• Goals include more aggressive onshore and offshore leasing policies in the Gulf of Mexico, where Biden officials have scheduled historically few sales, and paring back various onshore restrictions in Alaska and elsewhere.
• They also look to carry out the reversal of Biden-era bans on East Coast and West Coast oil leasing.

What we're watching: The certain legal battles over steps like overturning Biden's withdrawal of offshore regions and EPA auto emissions rules.