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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.
Camilla Dominovsky, NPR News.
Tesla's autopilot can control speeds and steering on highways.
Full self-driving supervised can take over driving on surface streets with close monitoring.
Supervised was added to the name after regulators objected.
But now an administrative judge in California found Tesla is still misleading consumers with the word autopilot, which makes the tool sound more autonomous than it is.
Tesla now has a few months to change course or it will lose its license to sell cars in California.
In a post on X, Tesla said that no customer had complained about the terminology and, quote, sales in California will continue uninterrupted.
The Biden administration had set ambitious targets for new vehicles gas mileage.
Under President Trump, the federal government had already zeroed out the penalty for flunking those standards, making them toothless.
Here's President Trump in the Oval Office.
The change will boost the bottom line of automakers.
Trump says it will also benefit driver's budgets, although economic analyses have found that stringent standards actually save households money by requiring less gas.
The auto industry expected sales to fall after the $7,500 tax credit went away.