(ENVIRONMENTAL) RACISM: Chevron, violence, and gentrification: the Bay Area climate threats to AAPI (Atmos), 'our community is bleeding': Asian American lawmakers say violence has reached 'crisis point' (The Guardian), city residents use maps to fight inequality in their neighborhoods (Yale Climate Connections)
FLINT: Judge won't dismiss Flint water charges against former Gov. Rick Snyder (Detroit Free Press, AP, The Hill)
RECOVERY: As oil demand rebounds, nations will need to make big changes to meet Paris goals, report says (InsideClimate News)
CLIMATE LITIGATION:
SEE THE DENIAL ROUNDUP FOR MORE: Oil firms knew decades ago fossil fuels posed grave health risks, files reveal (The Guardian)
AGRICULTURE: Feeding cows seaweed could cut their methane emissions by 82%, scientists say (The Guardian, The Conversation, The Hill)
AGENCIES: EPA to environmental reporters: We are committed to openness (Columbus Dispatch)
LAWSUITS: Texas and Montana lead coalition of states suing Biden administration over Keystone pipeline (CNN)
EXECUTIVE BRANCH: National Climate Task Force targets rural recovery (E&E $)
THE HILL: House Democrats weigh big investments in EVs, climate (E&E $), Democrats kick-start Green Climate Fund spending fight (E&E $), Joe Manchin will decide whether Biden succeeds on climate change (Vox), lawmakers, experts push military clean energy transition (E&E $), Parties remain far apart on thorny energy transition issues (Politico Pro $), Republicans object to hearing focused on Texas blackouts (E&E $), Senate Dems pitch bill to boost black lung aid access (E&E $)
SENATE BANKING: Republican Senators warn Federal Reserve against climate change regulation (Forbes), Senate panel spars over financial regulators' climate agenda (The Hill), Senate Republicans warn Powell on climate regulation (Politico Pro $)
WATER: Long ignored, water systems are getting attention on Hill (Roll Call), lawmakers, advocates beg for major water spending (E&E $)
EJ FOR ALL ACT: Democrats reintroduce measure to address racial disparities in environmental impacts (The Hill), Democrats reintroduce sweeping environmental justice bill (E&E $)
GAUNTLETS, THROWN: Elizabeth Warren and AOC lay down climate challenge to Biden (Bloomberg $), progressive groups offer $2.3T climate wish list (E&E $)
AGENDA: One of Biden's biggest climate change challenges? The oceans (NPR)
NOMINEES & CONFIRMATIONS: Biden to name former Florida Sen. Bill Nelson and space program champion to head NASA (USA Today, The Verge, Politico, CNN, Washington Post $, The Hill)
CLIMATE DIPLOMACY: Biden meets with UN Security Council members to talk climate (AP), the graybeards running the world’s climate talks (Politico Pro $)
TRANSITION, PERSONNEL: Meet the climate team's chief of staff (E&E $)
CITIES AND STATES: Massachusetts lawmakers again approve climate change bill (AP), Missouri bills could end home efficiency loans, clean energy advocates say (Energy News Network), Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price on COVID-19 and recent winter storms (Washington Post)
IMPACTS: Forecast for spring: nasty drought worsens for much of US (AP)
STEEL: Steel industry under rising pressure to produce greener product (S&P Global $)
RENEWABLES: Amid rising rooftop solar battles, emerging net metering alternatives could shake up the sector (Utility Dive), where can we put all those wind turbines? (InsideClimate News)
BATTERIES: The race is on to strike ‘white gold’ at California’s Salton Sea (LA Times $), Dutch firm signs Nigerian deal to recycle solar batteries (Bloomberg $)
OIL & GAS: The first shale IPO since 2017 is failing to impress Wall Street (Bloomberg $), Total ties customers’ emissions reductions to executive bonuses (Bloomberg $)
PLASTICS: North Face rejected an oil order for jackets. It went south (E&E $)
PIPELINES: 'I don't feel safe here' (Heated), Enbridge Line 3 work halts temporarily (Indian Country Today), [Pennsylvania] DEP pointed feds to whistleblower complaints about shell pipeline (NPR), 21 states sue Biden for revoking Keystone XL permit (E&E $)
COAL: How coal failed in the Texas deep freeze (E&E $), the myth of ‘clean coal’ might finally die (Earther)
HYDROGEN: Factbox: hydrogen - energy's rainbow renewable (Reuters)
(ALLEGED) UTILITY CORRUPTION: Lobbyist named in $60M Ohio bribery probe is found dead (AP)
NUKES: Advanced nuclear reactors no safer than conventional nuclear plants, says science group (Reuters)
GRID: US grid at rising risk to cyberattack, says GAO (The Hill)
EVs: Amazon starts testing electric delivery vans in San Francisco (The Hill), Hino's partnership with Cummins puts it on the fast track to EV production (Utility Dive)
PFAS: Regulators find ‘forever chemicals’ in 60 closed landfills (AP)
TRASH: US continues to ship illegal plastic waste to developing countries (EcoWatch)
AVIATION: Global airline emissions plan falls short of EU goals, Brussels advised (Reuters, FT $)
BOOKS: Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe has book out in September (AP)
FINANCE: CEO pay tied to ESG sets Canadian banks apart from the crowd (Bloomberg $), BlackRock calls for mandatory disclosure of climate risk (Politico Pro $, FT $, Bloomberg $, Reuters)
INTERNATIONAL: For relief from scorching summers, Sydney will plant more trees (Bloomberg $), new [Inter-American Development Bank] fund to protect Amazon [rainforest] may receive up to $1 billion in donations (Reuters), six charts show how hard it is for India to hit net zero by 2050 (Bloomberg $), to zero out emissions, Chile must rethink its forestry industry (Bloomberg $), UK slashes grants for electric car buyers while retaining petrol vehicle support (The Guardian)