Today’s headlines: Vermont partners with Nova Scotia on offshore wind, new permitting bill opposition, and more

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PERMITTING BILL

• Proponents of the permitting bill are looking to line up at least 70 supporters in the Senate to show the House there’s a solid coalition backing its passage. (Politico)
• Former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, a Democrat who’s running to be New Mexico’s governor, joins the state’s current House members in opposing the permitting bill, which Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) is sponsoring. (Politico)
• Rep. Sean Casten (D-Ill.) expresses concerns about the legislation, saying developers have ​“overwhelmingly” told him they’d use it to build gas power. (Axios)

WIND

• Vermont signs a memorandum of understanding with Nova Scotia to explore collaboratively developing wind power off the coast of the Canadian province and sending it to New England. (Seven Days)
• Norway grants two companies a total of $428 million to build floating offshore wind test projects. (Reuters)

FOSSIL FUELS

• American oil and gas companies brought in more than $130 billion in profit from April to September this year as prices soared amid the Iran War, up from $47 billion during the same period last year. (New York Times)
• The owners of a proposed $1 billion natural gas plant in northern Wisconsin cancel the project after years of legal challenges, permitting delays, and local opposition. (Wisconsin Public Radio)
• The future of Centralia, Washington’s coal plant, kept open by the Trump administration, will be debated in a Puget Sound Energy rate case beginning next week. (Washington State Standard)

DATA CENTERS

• Think tank Ember estimates that by 2030, just 3% of data centers around the world will be able to shift their electricity use, casting doubt on the promise of flexible data center loads reducing grid strain. (Latitude Media)

SOLAR

• SEG Solar secures land near Houston for a $950 million solar cell facility with a 4-GW annual manufacturing capacity. (Reuters)
• A federal court rules that Texas has the right to block a Chinese-linked solar developer from connecting a project to the grid. (Utility Dive)

ELECTIONS

• California voters will decide on Tuesday whether to reform the state’s Environmental Quality Act to speed environmental permitting for clean energy and other projects — a proposition that has divided renewables developers and environmentalists. (CalMatters)
• The city of Ann Arbor, Michigan, files a lawsuit to invalidate a ballot proposal to potentially create a city-owned electric utility, arguing that organizers circumvented the process to revise the city charter. (Michigan Public)