(ENVIRONMENTAL) RACISM: Audubon faces a backlash after deciding to keep name that evokes a racist enslaver (NPR)
CLIMATE NEGOTIATIONS: Nations approve key UN science report on climate change (AP), What is the IPCC AR6 synthesis report and why does it matter? (The Guardian)
WHITE HOUSE: Inside the Biden team's wild week on the environment (E&E $)
9:37 🚂 TO THE PETROCHEMICAL DYSTOPIA: EPA chief: ‘Unlawful’ for states to unilaterally reject East Palestine waste (The Hill), EPA tells states not to block waste from Ohio derailment (AP), Regan warns governors not to block Ohio train waste shipments (Politico Pro $)
DOI: Interior mulls blocking mining activities in S.D. watershed (E&E $)
IRS: Treasury Department guidance urgently needed to tap IRA’s clean energy ‘gold mine,’ analysts say (Utility Dive)
WILLOW: Haaland criticized over ‘difficult’ choice on Willow project (AP)
FREDDY: Death toll rises, locals pick up pieces after Cyclone Freddy (AP)
GOP: GOP hopes energy bill hits Biden, lays marker on future negotiations (The Hill)
THE HILL: Ads push GOP energy bill, target Dems for 'woke ideology' (E&E $)
PUERTO RICO: In Puerto Rico, advocates want the clean energy revolution to be local (Energy News Network), Seeking energy security from Michigan to Puerto Rico (Energy News Network), Puerto Rico’s first community-led microgrid is ready to launch (Canary Media)
CITIES AND STATES: What does a black vulture over Manhattan mean for climate change? (New York Times $), Colo. governor seeks emission cuts from oil and gas producers (E&E $), Ugly deeds, politics and high drama swirl amid the waters of a re-emerging Tulare Lake (SJV Water)
CALIFORNIA: Bay Area officials vote to ditch new gas furnaces and water heaters (Canary Media), California's historic snowpack eases drought concerns through spring (Axios), A California town's frantic fight to save itself from floods (LA Times $), Flooding vulnerabilities of L.A. River's Glendale Narrows spark concern amid record rain (LA Times $)
IMPACTS: Climate change makes cherry trees blossom early — and puts them at risk (Washington Post $), How climate change is throwing off key timing for wildflowers and trees in spring (PBS NewsHour)
MILITARY: Climate change & war: how US military emissions factor into costs of war & shape military policy (Democracy Now)
FINANCE: How climate tech incubators rallied to help startups after SVB collapse (Canary Media), ESG is ‘Satan’s plan,’ Utah's treasurer says (Gizmodo), Green Climate Fund credibility hangs over response to violence in Nicaragua project (Climate Home)
FERC: FERC works ‘feverishly’ on transmission reform, with near-term focus on interconnection rule (Utility Dive)
FASHUN: What do clothes look like in a climate-changed future? (New York Times $)
NUKES: UK backs Rolls-Royce project to build a nuclear reactor on the moon (CNBC), Everything we know about the Minnesota nuclear plant leak (Axios)
UTILITIES: Texas court ruling casts uncertainty over ‘21 Blackout costs (Bloomberg $), Texas set power prices too high during 2021 storm, court says (E&E $)
OIL & GAS: Fossil fuel executives see a ‘golden age’ for gas, if they can brand it as ‘clean’ (Inside Climate News), ‘Ukraine is a false justification’: America’s destructive new rush for natural gas (The Guardian)
EVs: Why is it so hard to charge electric vehicles on the road? (Vox), Biden ‘EV revolution’ delayed as utilities, carmakers await critical IRS guidance on Inflation Reduction Act (Utility Dive)
ACTIVISM: ‘We have money and power’: older Americans to blockade banks in climate protest (The Guardian)
DATA: How big is your carbon footprint? (The Guardian)
GNAR: Ski Resorts Are Embracing a New Role: Climate Activist (NBC Dallas-Fort Worth)
HYDROGEN: Ban hydrogen in homes? Mass. debate mirrors national quandary (E&E $)
MINING: A government program hopes to find critical minerals right beneath our feet (Grist), Europe moves to revive mining to cut reliance on China (Wall Street Journal $)
PUZZLES: Finnish school children solve this climate puzzle every year. Can you? (Bloomberg $)
INTERNATIONAL: Nature’s stewards under attack (Climate Home), Samoa PM urges world to save Pacific people from climate crisis obliteration (The Guardian), Waste pickers collect food waste, help combat climate change (AP)