GEORGE FLOYD: 1 year later, what’s really changed since George Floyd’s murder? (NewsOne), one year after George Floyd's death, no major federal policing reform has passed Congress (Essence), inside George Floyd family’s meeting with President Biden and Congress (The Grio, AP), George Floyd's family announces $500K fund to ‘give breath’ to Minneapolis community (The Grio)
ENVIRONMENTAL (IN)JUSTICE: Climate changemakers fighting for environmental justice: "this is what transformation is about" (CBS), Palestine is suffering an ecological apartheid (Earther)
CLIMATE LITIGATION: Dutch court to rule on case targeting Shell's climate strategy (Reuters)
DENIAL: A critical review of Steven Koonin’s ‘Unsettled’ (Yale Climate Connections)
BUYING THE MARKETPLACE OF IDEAS: How so-called libertarian Charles Koch drove a national wave of anti-protest laws (Salon)
ACTIVISM: Amazon workers demand company quit polluting near communities of color (The Verge)
AGENCIES: DOJ enviro prosecutions still falling under Biden — study (E&E $), FEMA making $1 billion available for extreme weather events (CBS), USDA pledges money to measure climate benefits of conservation (Politico Pro $)
EPA: For the second time in four years, the Ninth Circuit has ordered the EPA to set new lead paint and dust standards (InsideClimate News)
DOE: Lisa Jackson, Granholm talk clean electricity standard (E&E $)
DOI: Biden releases plan for oil drilling near national monument (E&E $)
EXECUTIVE BRANCH: DHS to issue first cybersecurity regulations for pipelines after Colonial hack (Washington Post $)
PUBLIC LANDS: Tribes launch Bears Ears ad campaign (E&E $)
THE HILL: Hispanic Caucus pushes White House on climate investments (E&E $)
HOUSE: Why is the House taking so long to undo Trump methane rule? (E&E $), vote set on coal mine cleanup, orphaned well bills (E&E $)
SENATE: Manchin sounds skeptical note on sweeping EV plans (Politico Pro $), [Sen. Ben Cardin] prepares tax credit legislation for existing nuclear plants (Reuters), Republicans want more changes to innovation package (E&E $), Senate GOP looks to tie Biden's hands on Nord Stream 2 (E&E $), Wyden eyes Obama-era clean energy break in tax push (E&E $)
WHITE HOUSE: Meet Biden's trailblazing climate science adviser [Jane Lubchenco] (E&E $)
AMERICAN JOBS PLAN: Infrastructure talks hit a wall as Senate GOP and White House exchange blame (Washington Post $), Republicans float a $1T infrastructure counter they say Biden can love, but revenues still a problem (Politico Pro $, New York Times $, Reuters), 'time to move on': Infrastructure talks near collapse (Politico)
NOMINEES & CONFIRMATIONS: Committees to vote on Biden Interior, EPA nominees (E&E $), Kristen Clarke to become first Black woman to head DOJ Civil Rights Division (The Grio, New York Times $, NBC, CNN, USA Today, LA Times $, Roll Call, HuffPost, Reuters)
CITIES AND STATES: New Mexico rules to curb oil industry emissions take effect (AP), states warn banks — drop coal, and we drop you (Axios), electric grid sale presents rare opportunity for Rhode Island, clean energy advocates say (Energy News Network), California mulls 11.5 GW procurement package to bolster grid after Diablo Canyon, natural gas plants retire (Utility Dive), fixing Texas' unreliable power grid won't be cheap or easy. Can we trust politicians to get it done? (Houston Chronicle)
FERC: FERC complaint highlights 'structural problem' for renewables (E&E $), FERC grants embattled pipeline developer's bid for more time (E&E $)
LOBBYING: Green finance hires political stars to protect $30 trillion boom (Bloomberg $)
IMPACTS: Public called on to photograph ‘king tides,’ flooding in NJ (AP), the 'sea snot' invasion has arrived (Earther), melting Greenland glaciers may be leaking mercury (E&E $), ninety-five percent of bull kelp forests have vanished from 200-mile stretch of California coast (Yale Climate Connections)
CYCLONE YAAS: Cyclone Yaas churning toward India at hurricane strength, landfall predicted Wednesday (Washington Post $), at least two people killed as cyclone bears down on India's east coast (Reuters)
IMPACTS' IMPACTS: [Louisiana] launches $30M buyout plan in flood-prone Lake Charles (E&E $)
EMISSIONS: Net-zero emissions: winning strategy or destined for failure? (Yale Environment 360)
TRANSITIONS: Oil majors look to fill businesses’ growing appetite for green power (Wall Street Journal $), prepare for disorderly shift to low-carbon era, firms and investors told (The Guardian)
RENEWABLES: The power struggle over tomorrow's solar workers (E&E $), geothermal is gaining traction as a clean heating solution (Energy Monitor), Struxure gets $500M to grow ‘distributed energy-as-a-service’ to gigawatt scale (Canary Media), GridX raises $12M to bring utility rates into the distributed energy age (Canary Media)
OIL & GAS: Can the ‘right to a healthy environment’ stop Exxon’s expansion in Guyana? (Grist, E&E $), greens drop lawsuit after Biden revives Gulf safety rules (E&E $), IEA's urgent fossil fuel warning earns mixed reception from producers (Reuters)
PLASTICS: Plastic debris on remote islands raises temperatures by 2.5C and threatens turtle populations (The Guardian)
HYDROGEN: Sinopec to launch first green hydrogen project in 2022 (Reuters)
UTILITIES: NRG push for sweeping retail market changes in Northeast meets Texas-sized obstacles (Utility Dive)
WATER: The central California town that keeps sinking (New York Times $)
GRID: New England to eliminate minimum offer price rule (Politico Pro $)
EVs: GM now says it will support union at new battery factories (AP), Biden looks abroad for electric vehicle metals, in blow to U.S. miners (Reuters), how driverless cars could lead to more pollution (Earther)
FOREVER CHEMICALS: PFAS found in widely used home garden fertilizers (E&E $)
FINANCE: U.S. insurers rank lowest when it comes to climate, biodiversity (Bloomberg $)
CARBON PRICING: Global carbon pricing schemes raised $53 billion in 2020 - World Bank (Reuters)
CARBON CAPTURE: How prizes, feds may drive carbon capture (E&E $), rare climate bipartisanship emerges on carbon storage, air capture (Axios)
INTERNATIONAL: After a deadly landslide in climate-hit Uganda, survivors sue for action (Thomson Reuters Foundation), EU leaders tussle over emissions target in climate change talks (Reuters), Seven in 10 Australians want government to take more action on climate, survey finds (The Guardian), Shell wins $2.5 billion Australian power contract with battery storage (Reuters), trials to suck carbon dioxide from the air to start across the UK (Grist), UK declines to rule out new oil exploration despite climate report (Reuters), British banks finance 805m tonnes of CO2 production a year (The Guardian)