March 19, 2025

NetZero Insider was at CERAWeek in Houston last week, where Secretaries Chris Wright and Doug Burgum swept through to cheer on attendees with provocative messages and their plans to take the U.S.’ energy industry in an entirely new direction.

Another Trump cabinet member, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said the agency will seek to roll back as many as 31 regulations, including the 2009 endangerment finding, which established its authority to regulate greenhouse gases. The agency also put on hold the air quality permit for the Atlantic Shores offshore wind project in New Jersey last week. 

Speaking of the Garden State, the Board of Public Utilities outlined a draft Energy Master Plan that would continue the state’s existing, vigorous electrification strategy while also accepting “emerging clean firm technologies,” such as nuclear power. Meanwhile, a New Jersey Senate committee has backed two measures seeking to limit the energy that artificial intelligence data centers can take out of the transmission and distribution system. 

And further down the East Coast, Maryland legislators passed hundreds of bills ahead of “Crossover Day.” K Kaufmann provides a roundup of the fate of those related to energy. 

Here’s what else we had this past week: 

• ACEEE State Efficiency Scorecard Gives California Top Marks 

• Ahead of Crossover Day, Energy Bills Stalled in Md. General Assembly 

• Calif. Officials Approve New Safety Measures for Battery Storage 

• DC Circuit Reverses Course on Vacating FERC Approvals of 2 LNG Sites 

• Nevada Regulators Give Nod to NV Energy Clean Transition Tariff 

• NY Sells First Build-Ready Site for Renewables 

See you next week!