(ENVIRONMENTAL) RACISM: AGs warn Army Corps about 'Cancer Alley' plant (E&E $), 'the trauma keeps coming': how Black girls grapple with witnessing police violence (The 19th* News), Defenders of Wildlife staffers decry 'culture of fear' (E&E $)
CLIMATE LITIGATION: Shell on trial as court weighs its climate responsibility (Bloomberg $)
BP v. BALTIMORE FALLOUT: Justices send appeals courts back to work on climate cases (E&E $), judge grills Exxon on venue claim in climate battle (E&E $)
DENIAL: Top climate scientist quits government lab after denier invited to speak (Earther), ‘war’ footing needed to correct economists’ miscalculations on climate change, says professor (CNBC), fighting attacks on inconvenient science—and scientists (InsideClimate News)
SYSTEMIC CRISES: It’s not just up to you to solve climate change (Bloomberg $)
AGENCIES: Biden imposes flood standard after stumbling the first time (E&E $), state AGs slam 'deficiencies' in [EPA] wood stove tests (E&E $), Granholm to push innovation as Senate wraps up $250B package (E&E $), BLM retirees urge Biden to return HQ to Washington (E&E $), Interior OKs Trump-era drilling leases despite Biden freeze (E&E $)
EXECUTIVE BRANCH: Biden orders Yellen to outline climate risks to financial stability (Utility Dive)
THE HILL: Bank CEOs headed to Congress due for grilling over drop in loans (Bloomberg $), climate at issue as panels question bank CEOs, regulators (E&E $), Congress eyes spending spikes on grid security, clean energy (E&E $)
HOUSE: House panel to weigh competing drinking water bills (E&E $), hearing to survey Western drought, weigh responses (E&E $)
SENATE: Senate inks highway deal as parties split on broader package (E&E $), panel to query official on wildfires, climate mitigation (E&E $)
WHITE HOUSE: How Gina McCarthy reads the climate landscape (Axios), [Gina McCarthy] says reducing red meat isn't sole climate change solution (The Hill)
AMERICAN JOBS PLAN: Psaki: 'not quite there' on moving toward reconciliation for infrastructure (Politico Pro $), three disasters show gaps in $1.7 trillion infrastructure plan (Bloomberg $)
CLIMATE DIPLOMACY: China and US look to rekindle Paris bond to reach net zero (FT $), the key takeaways from G7 nations' pledge to end state funding for coal (Axios)
SCOTUS: Inside Barrett's family ties to Big Oil (E&E $), Biden admin asks Supreme Court to ignore ESA fight (E&E $), Guam can sue Navy for Superfund costs, Supreme Court says (Politico Pro $, E&E $, The Hill)
CITIES AND STATES: Washington state tribal coalition passes unprecedented climate change bill, puts consent instead of consultation into law (Indianz)
IMPACTS: Get ready to swelter: record temperatures possible as heat wave scorches Southeast (USA Today), India braces for second hurricane-strength storm in 10 days (Washington Post $), warming in Yellowstone most intense in 1,250 years (E&E $)
IMPACTS' IMPACTS: Extreme climate displaced more people than conflicts in 2020 (Bloomberg $)
RENEWABLES: How futuristic floating wind turbines might ride the waves (The Verge), solar power's decade of falling costs is thrown into reverse (Bloomberg $)
STORAGE: Duke Energy, Malta to study converting coal plant for long-duration storage (Utility Dive)
OIL & GAS: Fracking companies continue consolidation as Cabot, Cimarex form $14 billion firm (Wall Street Journal $)
EXXON: The showdown over Exxon's climate future is here (Axios), Exxon activist battle turns climate angst into referendum on CEO (Bloomberg $), Exxon to add two new directors in battle over company's future (Reuters), ExxonMobil faces ‘winds of change’ as climate battle reaches boardroom (FT $)
ABANDONED MINES: West Virginia’s coal mine cleanup process is an underfunded ‘house of cards.’ (Grist)
PLASTICS: Turkey slams the door on European plastic garbage (Politico EU)
PIPELINES: Enbridge pipeline showdown looms in Michigan (Indian Country Today)
COAL: Unpacking the fight to save coal in Wyoming’s ‘Carbon Valley’ (Grist), Poland defies EU court ruling to close major lignite mine (AP)
HYDROGEN: Cummins to build green hydrogen equipment factory in Spain (Bloomberg $)
UTILITIES: Duke-supported group launches campaign against North Carolina bill to examine wholesale market reform (Utility Dive)
GRID: Biden's clean power goal faces a grid bottleneck (Politico Pro $)
CARS: Self-driving EVs could spike CO2 — study (E&E $), insurers examine cutting premiums for greener motoring customers (FT $)
ART: Artist Maya Lin’s tries to showcase different side of nature (CBS)
FINANCE: Dominican Catholic sisters help create climate-friendly investment funds (Yale Climate Connections), how the clean-energy revolution is sweeping through markets (Bloomberg $), what does green mean? Investors grapple with definitions and data (FT $)
WILDLIFE: Lizards, snakes, and bones: a deadly tale of colonialism (Atmos)
INTERNATIONAL: Pakistan nears debt-for-nature swap agreement with creditors (Bloomberg $), Britain’s electric car charging network boosted by £300m funding (The Guardian), EU leaders to debate who will pay for green transition (Reuters), Green growth: the save-the-mangrove scheme reaping rewards for women in Kenya (The Guardian), Italy plans 'special areas' for renewables to help cut red tape (Reuters), member countries push back against IEA’s net zero road map (FT $), Uganda to state agencies: no cash without a climate plan (Thomson Reuters Foundation)