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ELECTRIC VEHICLES

• EV sales are on track to make up less than 6% of all new car sales in October, a massive plunge from record sales in the months leading up to the expiration of federal tax credits. (E&E News)

OFFSHORE WIND

• U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. orders the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to investigate alleged harms caused to fishing businesses by offshore wind farms. (Reuters)

• The monthlong pause in construction on the Revolution Wind project due to the Trump administration’s attempts to stop the development has left dozens of union painters without work or paychecks. (Rhode Island Current)

FEDERAL FUNDING

• The Trump administration’s cancellation of $8 billion in blue state climate grants will overwhelmingly affect state governments, public universities, and nonprofits, EFI Foundation finds. (E&E News)

FOSSIL FUELS

• Every fully operational LNG terminal in the U.S. has recently violated a federal pollution rule, an analysis from the Environmental Integrity Project finds. (The Guardian)

• Reviving plans for the Keystone XL pipeline would require warmer relations between the U.S. and Canada but could ultimately serve as a cornerstone for a larger trade deal, a researcher says. (E&E News)

• U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum says demand may outpace the capacity of the proposed Alaska liquefied natural gas pipeline and export terminal after a Japanese utility agrees to buy fuel from the project. (E&E News, Alaska Beacon)

GRID

• Texas’ grid operator reports that total large load interconnection requests have grown from 56 GW to 205 GW over the last year as data centers push to come online faster than traditional transmission planning can manage. (Inside Climate News)

• OpenAI calls on the federal government to install more than 100 GW of new power capacity each year to boost industry and compete with China. (Latitude Media)

• An Oregon advocate steps up opposition to the B2H transmission project in the Northwest after discovering PacifiCorp plans to sell all of the line’s power to a single industrial user, most likely a data center. (Oregonian)

DATA CENTERS

• Nvidia will deploy Emerald AI software at an under-construction Virginia data center in an effort to manage the facility’s power usage during times of grid stress. (Axios)

CLEAN ENERGY

• The University of California Irvine plans to open the nation’s first renewable energy-powered all-electric hospital in the southern part of the state in December. (LAist)

NUCLEAR

• Constellation Energy will offer emissions-free energy certificates for sale on the REC market. (Latitude Media)

• Two companies pitch separate plans for small modular nuclear reactors in Kansas, including a project that would house reactors one mile underground to directly power data centers. (Topeka Capital-Journal)

NEW FROM CANARY

• Despite Trump troubles, Hyundai charges ahead with green-steel project — Alexander C. Kaufman

• Connecticut and Maine team up to fast-track renewables — Sarah Shemkus

• Judge orders New York to finally come up with cap-and-invest rules — Colin Kinniburgh

• China moves to supercharge green hydrogen as US pulls back — Alexander C. Kaufman

• Critics decry company created to rush power to Indiana data centers — Kari Lydersen

• Eavor is about to bring its first-of-a-kind geothermal project online — Maria Gallucci