(ENVIRONMENTAL) RACISM: 'We won't forget the children': additional unmarked graves likely at US Indian boarding schools (Indian Country Today)
CLIMATE LITIGATION: Steven Donziger's harrowing legal battle with Chevron (The Daily Show with Trevor Noah), Italian climate activists sue government over inaction (The Guardian)
ELECTRIFICATION: Here's why your gas stove is killing you (Full Frontal With Samantha Bee), SLO mayor appears on ‘Full Frontal with Samantha Bee’ to blast gas industry ‘intimidation’ (San Luis Obispo Tribune)
ALTERNATIVES TO ACTION: Amid drought, Utah governor declares weekend of prayer for rain (Washington Post $, Earther)
FOR PEAT'S SAKE: An enormous missing contribution to global warming may have been right under our feet (Washington Post $)
CLICKTIVISM & MEDIA: An army of 100 bots is reading climate change news and clicking every ad along the way (Vice), the new journalism — and the PR firms behind it (Washington Post $)
HEAT, WATER, & PUBLIC SPACES: The battle for London’s Victorian drinking fountains (The Guardian)
AGENCIES: Coal groups seek review of EPA climate authority (E&E $), [Granholm]: Adversaries have capability of shutting down US power grid (The Hill)
FED: Fed chair Powell warns of 'profound challenges' posed by climate change (CNN), Fed’s Powell differs with European peers on climate policy (Bloomberg $), Powell says Fed does not seek to set climate policy for U.S. (Reuters), Powell says climate change is not a main factor in the Fed’s policy decisions (CNBC)
HOUSE: House Democrats propose $547B boost for highways, transit amid infrastructure talks (The Hill, Reuters, E&E $), Lauren Boebert spends drought hearing rambling about ‘green new deal extremists’ (Earther), Congressman plans legislation to recognize struggling Native American tribe in Mono Lake Basin (LA Times $)
SENATE: New Mexico senator [Heinrich] presses EPA on Texas permit (E&E $)
JOE MANCHIN: Manchin: ‘All the confidence in the world’ for bipartisan infrastructure deal (Politico), Manchin declares opposition to voting rights bill (Politico), Manchin vows to block Democratic voting rights bill and preserve filibuster (New York Times $, The Guardian, The Hill, CNN, Axios), Manchin offers little comfort to frustrated Democrats (CNN), what Joe Manchin's constituents think of his bipartisanship (CNN)
WHITE HOUSE: The Biden White House is strangely calm about our burning planet (New Republic), this is what Biden’s budget does for the environment (Outside), White House mulls Interior advice on monuments (E&E $)
AMERICAN JOBS PLAN: Parliamentarian changes Senate calculus for Biden agenda (The Hill), ‘perplexing’: Granholm slams Senate Republicans’ infrastructure position (Politico), White House rejects latest GOP offer on infrastructure with talks set to continue next week (Washington Post $, Reuters), Granholm: infrastructure plan 'has got to be done soon' (The Hill), progressives fret over Biden’s wooing of GOP over infrastructure (Bloomberg $)
POLITICS: US conservatives stake claim to climate activism with Miami rally (Reuters), youth-led Sunrise Movement calls for national job guarantee (Yale Climate Connections), Republicans pledge allegiance to fossil fuels like it’s still the 1950s (The Guardian), sweet cherries, bitter politics: two farm stands and the nation’s divides (New York Times $)
STATE ELECTIONS: Last-minute campaigning underway as Virginia Democrats prepare to pick statewide nominees Tuesday (Washington Post $)
CLIMATE DIPLOMACY: Wealthy nations continue to finance natural gas for developing countries, putting climate goals at risk (InsideClimate News), wealthy nations breaking climate pledge with gas dash in global south (The Guardian), rich states haven't done enough for the environment, Pakistan PM says (Reuters),
G7: Climate crisis to shrink G7 economies twice as much as Covid-19, says research (The Guardian), Yellen says she urged G7 to keep up fiscal support for recovery, climate investments (Reuters), G7 agreements on tax, climate and recovery (Reuters, Factbox), G7 targets environmental crimes in push for greater disclosure (Bloomberg $)
CITIES AND STATES: Brookline [Massachusetts] tries again for a fossil-free future (WBUR), Arizona shows pitfalls of Biden's 100% clean energy plan (E&E $)
CALIFORNIA: As disasters worsen, California looks at curbing construction in risky areas (New York Times $)
ILLINOIS: As Illinois strains to pass a major clean energy law, a big coal plant stands in the way (InsideClimate News and Chicago Sun-Times), Illinois had a chance to pass one of the most progressive clean energy bills in the country. It failed. (Grist), Illinois stakeholders still hopeful on clean energy deal — but will it come soon enough for solar companies? (Energy News Network)
TEXAS: Texas lawmakers approve bill mandating power plant weatherization, market reforms (Utility Dive), Texas lawmakers tackle costs of winter freeze, say more action needed (Wall Street Journal $)
FERC: FERC should expand organized markets across the US, former chairs and commissioners say (Utility Dive, E&E $)
INSURRECTION REPERCUSSIONS: JPMorgan freezes donations to Republicans who contested 2020 election (Reuters)
IMPACTS: Maine’s blueberry crop faces climate change peril (AP), beleaguered by disaster damages, the U.S. may finally start spending on resilience (Grist), flooding and drought fuels mental health crisis in Kenya (Climate Home), food fears rising (Axios), nations rush to insure coral reefs to protect wildlife, hotels (E&E $), threat of flooding in coastal Louisiana and Texas after waterlogged spring (Washington Post $), Turkey’s leader vows to cure Marmara of ‘sea snot’ flare-ups (AP)
WATER INFRASTRUCTURE: What lurks beneath: A new answer to more intense storms (Washington Post $)
DROUGHT: Extreme drought worsening, officials tell committee (Navajo Times), Lake Oroville’s water woes could turn into power problem (CBS13-Sacremento), Scientists say dire climate change scenarios should be taken into account in Colorado River Basin water management (New Mexico Political Report), US Southwest, already parched, sees ‘virtual water’ drain abroad (Grist)
ICE ICE BABY WHERE'D YOU GO: Arctic sea ice thinning twice as fast as thought, study finds (The Guardian), old maps led researchers to see slower Arctic melting (E&E $), an Alaska glacier hurtles downhill in a rare exhibition of ‘this amazing science’ (Washington Post $), the secret life of glaciers (FT $)
WILDFIRES: Twice burned: how federal agencies are failing their wildland firefighters (Grist), more than 200 firefighters battle massive Phoenix blaze, the largest response in department history (Washington Post $, AP), close calls, or worse, spark [Colorado] push for wildfire mitigation (AP), wildfire leads to evacuation of Northern California casino (AP)
CYCLONIC STORMS: Tropical Depression Choi-wan dumps heavy rains on Taiwan, kills at least 8 in the Philippines (Yale Climate Connections),
BOOM: An explosion in Texas shows the hidden dangers of tanks holding heavy fuels (InsideClimate News)
DEFORESTATION: More deforestation - and less rain - threaten Brazilian agribusiness (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
RENEWABLES: Could offshore wind be a 'game changer' for W.Va. economy? (E&E $), geothermal clean energy projects in Europe stall during pandemic (Thomson Reuters Foundation), offshore wind farms show what Biden’s climate plan is up against (New York Times $)
BATTERIES: US lithium mining faces new hurdle in form of rare flower (FT $)
STORAGE: Saudi Aramco bets on Energy Vault's block-stacking energy storage (Canary Media)
OIL & GAS: Big Oil is awash in rainbows for Pride Month (Grist), oil prices are surging. Why isn't drilling? (E&E $), Russia and Saudi Arabia reject calls to end oil and gas spending, call IEA’s net-zero plan ‘unrealistic’ (CNBC), what a Dutch court ruling means for shell and Big Oil (Bloomberg $)
PIPELINES: Pipeline foes gear up for large northern Minnesota protests (AP), Enbridge entering a new phase of construction on Line 3 — and a new phase of protests (Energy News Network)
COAL: Judge: US can’t delay challenge to public land coal sales (AP, E&E $, Reuters)
NUKES: More than 8 million Californians live within 50 miles of stored radioactive waste (MSNBC)
UTILITIES: Progressives call for publicly-owned power (The Hill)
GRID: PJM reliability valuation proposal could boost energy storage in capacity market, group says (Utility Dive), JM’s low capacity-auction prices spell trouble for Exelon’s Illinois nuclear fleet (Canary Media)
EVs: Biden’s electric vehicle plan includes battery recycling push (Reuters), as electric vehicle sales surge, discussions are now turning to noise and safety (CNBC), Ford shatters EV sales record with electric Mustang (E&E $), Tesla Model 3 becomes most popular battery electric car on UK roads (The Guardian), The fastest way to get more people to buy electric vehicles (Vox)
GRID + EVs: When the power grid runs low, your EV’s battery could help (Bloomberg $)
MINERALS: Metals needed for climate tech often found near tribal lands (E&E $)
ACTIVISM: Berlin police detain journalists at anti-Autobahn protest (AP)
DIDN'T SEE THAT HEADLINE COMING: Uneaten oysters provide pearl of an environmental solution during COVID-19 pandemic (Good Morning America)
SINKING CITIES: New high-tech ‘flying’ boat could help save Venice’s iconic canals (Good Morning America)
AVIATION: Pressure on UK as Germany backs ending free carbon permits for airlines (The Guardian), United’s supersonic jet sustainability claims sure sound suspect (Earther)
AGRICULTURE: World’s soils ‘under great pressure’, says UN pollution report (The Guardian, E&E $)
BUSINESS: Why company carbon cuts should include ‘scope’ check (Bloomberg $), linking financial and environmental data benefits investors and businesses (Energy Monitor)
CARBON PRICING: Ride a Green Swan: central banks grapple with climate risk (Reuters), Germany backs carbon pricing in EU climate policy overhaul - document (Reuters)
FINANCE: ‘This isn’t ideological’: reluctant ‘green hero’ behind Exxon coup (The Guardian), Engine No. 1 Exxon pick is a different kind of climate activist (Bloomberg $), central banks finally grasp the need for daring climate action (Bloomberg $), Chinese central bank governor backs push for climate risk disclosure (FT $, Bloomberg $), central banks face new balancing act with their huge asset piles (Bloomberg $), it will be a while before climate disclosure assurance is up to standard: HSBC (CNBC)
RICH PEOPLE: 100 richest UK families urged to commit £1bn to tackle climate crisis (The Guardian)
BITCOIN: Square to invest in solar-powered Bitcoin mining facility (Bloomberg $)
LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION: Why Intel and TSMC are building water-dependent chip factories in one of the driest U.S. states (CNBC)
WILDLIFE: Biden aims to restore species protections weakened by Trump (AP, E&E $, The Hill, Politico Pro $), Florida manatees are dying at alarming rates: ‘We’ve never seen anything like this before’ (Washington Post $)
INTERNATIONAL: Denmark suspends Baltic gas pipeline, in setback for Poland (AP), fishermen feeling the impact of Sri Lanka ship disaster (AP), data recovered as ship with chemicals sinking off Sri Lanka (AP), South Africa pushed by presidential body to boost climate target (Bloomberg $), UK tells business: phase out carbon or lose out on contracts (Bloomberg $)