Camila Dominovsky

And it can halt projects in their tracks.

Democrats want to make it easier to build wind and solar.

Republicans want to make it easier to build pipelines and power plants.

That's hypothetically the opening for a bipartisan deal, but many efforts have failed.

The latest attempt at permitting reform, the SPEED Act, delighted the oil industry and frustrated renewable groups.

It managed to pass the House.

The debate now heads to the Senate.

Camila Dominovsky, NPR News.

Billions of dollars for EV chargers have been stuck in limbo, unspent, which these mostly Democratic-led states say is unconstitutional.

Here's California Attorney General Rob Bonta.

Even, he says, if the president disagrees with the statute.

A similar coalition of states previously sued over a freeze on funds for EV chargers along highways.

That suit was a success, and those funds have been unfrozen.

The funds in the new suit aren't just for highway chargers, but things like neighborhood chargers, heavy truck chargers, and charger maintenance.

Camila Dominovsky, NPR News.

We are looking at the market as it is today.

The F-150 Lightning won awards and outsold other electric pickups, but Ford lost money on every one that it sold.

Andrew Frick is the president of Ford Model E. Ford is following the customer.

And today's market includes lower-than-expected sales and President Trump stripping away support for EVs.

Ford will make an extended-range F-150, a form of plug-in hybrid which can run on gas, as well as a smaller all-electric pickup in the works.