(ENVIRONMENTAL) RACISM: A Black town’s water is more poisoned than Flint’s. In a white town nearby, it’s clean (The Guardian), after horrific photos surface, Black leaders demand president Biden take action for asylum seekers now (NewsOne), before Gabby Petito, hundreds of Indigenous girls went missing in Wyoming to little media attention (NewsOne)
UNGA: ‘The world must wake up’: Tasks daunting as UN meeting opens (AP), António Guterres ‘sounds the alarm’ over global inequalities in UN speech (The Guardian, Democracy Now), Brazil committed to protecting environment, Bolsonaro tells UN; activists unconvinced (Reuters), Turkey’s Erdogan: refugee crisis from climate change coming (AP)
PIPELINES: Line 3 pipeline resistance continues as activists ask Biden admin to shutdown project (ABC), Dakota Access asks [Supreme Court] to reverse decision requiring environmental review (The Hill, E&E News, Politico Pro $)
CLIMATE LITIGATION: Why are BMW and Daimler being sued over climate change? (Reuters explainer), judge dismisses Greenpeace lawsuit against Walmart (The Hill)
EDUCATION: Teaching climate change in the classroom (NPR)
SHOCKING: Big tech’s pro-climate rhetoric is not matched by policy action, report finds (The Guardian)
AGENCIES: 'We need to put all of our tools to work if we're going to meet this moment': Michael Regan on combating climate change (MSNBC), DOE stirs up climate fight over building codes (E&E News), Biden administration shuns IPCC report in argument to expand offshore drilling (Truthout)
THE HILL: ‘The biggest mashup we’ve ever had’: Dems scramble on agenda (E&E News), committee to review building, home electrification push (E&E $)
- HOUSE: Stopgap spending bill tags billions for disaster recovery, resilience (Politico Pro $, E&E News), debt-limit suspension set to pass House, face standoff in Senate (Wall Street Journal $, Politico Pro $), Rep. Bush: I won’t vote for bipartisan infrastructure bill that comes before reconciliation (MSNBC)
- SENATE: Follow the money into Joe Manchin’s pockets (New Republic), Angus King’s moment: ‘I plan to be an activist chairman’ (E&E News)
CLEAN ENERGY BENEFITS: Study sees renewables boosting Appalachia (Axios)
WHITE HOUSE: White House Climate Adviser: ‘Sen. Manchin is not the enemy’ (MSNBC)
INFRASTRUCTURE BILL(S): Dems can’t agree on how to keep racism out of the biggest climate jobs program in history (Mother Jones)
POLITICS: Biden administration faces critical moment ahead of climate talks (TIME), Biden wants union jobs and clean air. Delivering both might be tough. (Politico), Biden set to play peacemaker for warring Democratic factions (Politico Pro $), Democratic infighting threatens Biden’s big agenda (Washington Examiner), Dems fear Biden’s domestic agenda could implode (Politico), progressive poll finds support for solar energy tax credit legislation (The Hill)
NOMINEES & CONFIRMATIONS: Biden Interior and Reclamation nominees glide through Senate hearing (Politico Pro $), Manchin presses Interior nominee on leasing program review (The Hill), Schumer sets vote on environment, judicial nominees (E&E $), U.S. Senate to vote soon on Chopra's move to top consumer watchdog (Reuters)
CITIES AND STATES: Michigan plans 1st U.S. charging road for electric vehicles (AP), Massachusetts utilities propose plans to ramp up electric vehicle infrastructure (Energy News Network), Ohio’s SB 52 raises profile for upcoming workshops on solar siting issues (Energy News Network)
- CALIFORNIA: California is sued over its rule on solar power installers. (New York Times $) (Politico Pro $)
- NEW YORK: New York nearly doubles goal for distributed solar installations on success of existing incentives (Utility Dive), New York OKs underground and underwater transmission lines to deliver upstate clean energy to NYC (Canary Media)
IMPACTS: Climate change ravaging crops in Guatemala, leaving millions on brink of starvation (NBC), as Italy’s glaciers recede, a stunning world of ice is being lost (Yale Environment 360), climate change is killing trees and causing power outages (NPR), U.S. flood insurance rates to rise for 77% of policyholders -study (Reuters)
HEALTH: Miami psychiatrist helps people cope with mental health toll of extreme weather (Yale Climate Connections), floods have swamped the US. the next health problem: mold (Wired), fires fuel new risks to California farmworkers (InsideClimate News)
DROUGHT: Amid drought, billionaires control a critical California water bank (Forbes), why can’t we just move water to solve a drought? (WANE), California’s water crisis is real. What are the solutions? (Capital and Main), Southwest US drought, worst in a century, linked by NOAA to climate change (Reuters)
WILDFIRES: Devastating wildfires led to record-high emissions this summer (Bloomberg $), inside the race to save world’s largest tree from wildfire (NBC)
HURRICANES: After Ida, U.S. cities eye more equal resilience plans (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
DEFORESTATION: As Amazon destruction continues, Brazil faces future of floods, drought (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
RENEWABLES: Wind farm draws fire for interfering with WWII incarceration site (E&E News)
STORAGE: A Colorado coal plant could help solve renewable energy's storage problem (NPR), Investors are whipping up an irrational frenzy in the long-duration energy storage sector (Canary Media)
LNG: Trade group wants restrictions on U.S. natural gas exports (Reuters), Industrials group points to winter gas price increase to push for limits on US LNG exports (S&P Global)
OIL & GAS: Electric vehicles may cut global refining capacity demand by half in 2050 - Rystad (Reuters)
- SHELL GAMES: Shell's big sale of Texas oil and gas holdings is a climate bait-and-switch (Gizmodo), Conoco kicks off oil industry’s carbon Shell game (Wall Street Journal $), making sense of Shell's exit from the Permian Basin (Axios)
ORPHANED WELLS: Will taxpayers bear the cost of cleaning up America’s abandoned oil wells? (The Guardian)
UTILITIES: After Ida outages, utility proposals include city takeover (AP), US can meet Paris climate commitments but will need to rely heavily on electric utilities: report (Utility Dive)
ACTIVISM: Student activists to lead global climate strike on Friday (Democracy Now)
BUSINESS: Salesforce says it has reached net-zero emissions (Axios), how more than 100 beauty brands are teaming up to address climate change (Bustle, Fashionista), McDonald's plans to 'drastically' reduce plastic toys in its Happy Meals by 2025 (CBS, The Hill), Walmart to tag 2,000 products deemed healthier for planet and people (CBS)
FINANCE: Climate disclosures linked to capital (Axios), thinking of investing in a green fund? Many don't live up to their promises, a new report claims (TIME), Vanguard says it supported more environmental and social resolutions (Reuters)
INSERT JOKE HERE: The things we don't know about our toilet paper (Axios)
WILDLIFE: Australia has lost one-third of its koalas in the past three years (Reuters)
FURBABIES: Pets can help fight climate change with an insect-based diet. Owners just need to come around to the idea. (Washington Post $)
INTERNATIONAL: British export finance agency aims for net zero emissions by 2050 (Reuters), five things to watch for from Canada's Liberal minority government (Reuters factbox), One in five carbon credits under Australia’s main climate policy are ‘junk’ cuts, research finds (The Guardian), IEA calls on Russia to ‘do more’ to ease energy crisis (Politico Pro $) |
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