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The American Meteorological Society, Interfaith Power & Light, and Creation Justice Ministries will convene perspectives on the roles of faith-based communities and organizations to strengthen community resilience from high-impact weather events. TOMORROW at 2:00 pm ET.

Floods, Landslides Kill At Least 91 In Brazil: At least 91 people are dead, with more than two dozen still missing after heavy rains set off mudslides in flooding in northeastern Brazil over the weekend. Climate change, caused mainly by the extraction and combustion of fossil fuels, increases the potential for extreme precipitation. The fourth major flooding event in the country in five months, the destruction of informal housing on hillsides prone to collapse highlights the interconnection of housing injustice and the inequitably-borne impacts of climate change. (AP, CNN, Reuters, BBC, Reuters, CNN, Reuters; Climate Signals background: Extreme precipitation increase)

G7 Pledges Moves Away From Fossil Fuels, With Caveats: Seven of the world's wealthiest nations announced Friday they had agreed to decarbonize their power sectors by 2035 and dramatically ramp up EV adoption by 2030. For the first time, the G7 also acknowledged the need to assist developing countries address the damages caused by climate impacts and their need for adaptation. This assistance includes "providing enhanced support regarding averting, minimizing and addressing loss and damage associated with the adverse impacts of climate change," they said. The G7 nations also called for an end to government financing for overseas fossil fuel investments by the end of the year, while leaving an out for European nations currently struggling to obtain alternatives to Russian methane-based gas. (AP, Washington Post $, Politico EU, Al Jazeera, The Hill, Washington Examiner, Bloomberg $, Reuters, CNN, Reuters, The Guardian, Climate Home)

Impact Of (Early) Heatwaves Inequitably Felt: Pre-(official)summer heatwaves are already breaking records and hitting dangerous levels with more, inequitably-harmful, heat to come. Three women were found dead in their senior living facility in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood earlier this month, days after residents in the facilities began complaining of excessive heat. The families of the deceased, who have filed wrongful death suits against the facility's manager, say some units in the building were as hot as 103°F on the day the women were found. Climate change, mainly caused by the extraction and combustion of fossil fuels, is making heatwaves more frequent and severe. The impacts of that heat are not equally felt, however. Black New York City residents are twice as likely to die from heat as white New Yorkers, but the inequity permeates the city's response far beyond body counts, including disparately-appointed libraries in lower-income parts of the city, or the cops armed with 9mm pistols who demanded Shakema Edwards lift her shirt to prove to them her swimsuit had the proper lining before allowing her to access a public pool in Brownsville, Brooklyn. The city's public pools are largely segregated, in part because of racialized siting decisions during the Great Depression and New Deal. (Heatwaves: NBC; Chicago deaths: Block Club Chicago, Chicago Sun Times, Chicago Tribune, WGN, AP, The Guardian; New York: New York Times $; Climate Signals background: Extreme heat and heatwaves)

Hurricane Agatha Pummels Southern Mexico: Hurricane Agatha slammed into Puerto Angel, on Mexico's southern Pacific coast Monday afternoon. The Category 2 storm is the first named storm of 2022 and the strongest ever to hit the country's western coast in May since official record keeping began 73 years ago. Strengthened by unusually warm water, Agatha packed 105-mph winds, extremely dangerous storm surge, and threatened to dump heavy rainfall inland — which could set off "life-threatening flash floods and mudslides." The storm system could continue across the Yucatan Peninsula, the western end of Cuba, and as far as southern Florida. (Washington Post $, Yale Climate Connections, Axios, Yale Climate Connections, AP, Insider, Broward Sun-Sentinel, CNN, USA Today, AP; Potential path: Naples News; Climate Signals background: Hurricanes)

FOSSIL FUELED WAR: Europe faces an old methane hotspot in rush to exit Russian gas (Bloomberg $), Europe’s bid to kick Russian natural gas faces opposition (Wall Street Journal $), High gas prices, energy security fears impede decarbonisation push (Reuters), Russian gas phaseout and the future of Europe’s power generation (S&P Global), Europe’s bid to kick Russian natural gas faces opposition (Wall Street Journal $)

• RUBLES OR NOTHING: Russia cuts gas to Dutch energy firm, Denmark could be next (Bloomberg $, Politico EU, Reuters, CNN)
• RUSSIAN OIL: EU leaders agree on Russian oil embargo (Politico EU), EU struggles to reach an agreement on Russian oil embargo as Hungary holds firm (CNBC), Europe's scramble for gas could cause the next energy shortage (CNN)

CLIMATE DIPLOMACY: German Chancellor accused of comparing climate activists to Nazis (CNN), ‘We are in danger now’: Vanuatu declares climate emergency (Al Jazeera), California, New Zealand announce climate change partnership (AP), Seychelles says the rich world is failing on climate (Bloomberg $)

CLIMATE LITIGATION: German judges visit Peru glacial lake in unprecedented climate crisis lawsuit (The Guardian), The legal strategy young people are leveraging to address the climate crisis (NPR)

SOCIAL COSTS: The Supreme Court just okayed Biden’s “social cost of carbon.” It’s still way too low. (Vox)

IT IS AN OIL PAINTING…: Man in disguise attacks Mona Lisa with cream in apparent climate protest (Washington Post $, CBS, Axios, AP, ARTnews, Forbes, NBC, Reuters, Buzzfeed, New York Post)

DENIAL AND CARBON ACCOUNTING: EU missed climate spending target, despite claiming it was met - auditors (Reuters)

ECOFASCISM: ‘Eco-fascist’ violence targets old scapegoats for new fears (The Hill)

YOU DON'T SAY: HSBC feels the heat after senior banker downplays climate risk (Reuters)

DAVOS: Oil and gas industry pledges cybersecurity cooperation at World Economic Forum (Utility Dive)

DEMOCRACY: Preserving democracy is part of preserving the planet (Yale Climate Connections)

CLIMATE SCIENCE: Weather’s unwanted guest: Nasty La Niña keeps popping up (AP)

AGENCIES: FEMA report cites climate change in Michigan dam failure (E&E $), Regulators take aim at ESG ratings in fight against greenwashing (FT $)

• 😬😬😬: US Forest Service planned burn caused largest New Mexico wildfire (New York Times $, The Hill, Axios), Forest Service struggles to keep pace amid climate disasters (E&E News)

EPA: Companies rush to cash in on EPA rules for capturing methane emissions (Wall Street Journal $), Biden wants to rebuild the EPA. he doesn’t have the money to do it. (Washington Post $)

DOT: Federal regulators crack down after pipeline caught spewing CO2 (The Verge)

WHITE HOUSE: Biden releases plan to avoid ‘dangerous’ CO2 pipeline failures (E&E News)

THE HILL: Are high energy prices displacing climate action in Congress? (E&E News), Climate activists frustrated as another deadline passes without spending deal (The Hill), Five things to watch for in next year’s ‘climate’ Farm Bill (The Hill)

• HOUSE: Q&A: Ro Khanna on plans to tackle climate misinformation (E&E $)
• SENATE: US Senator Manchin could back climate provisions in slimmer spending bill, sources say (Reuters)

POLITICS: Strange bedfellows: farmers and Big Greens square off against Biden and the GOP (Politico Pro $), What this moment before midterms means for the Biden administration's climate goals (NPR), Trump policies sent US tumbling in a climate ranking (New York Times $)

TRIBES: Delays in Navajo-Gallup pipeline mean new wells have to be drilled (New Mexico Political Report), Indigenous organizers in Alaska lead the way toward livable climate future (Truthout)

CITIES AND STATES: Bills in blue states target the fossil fuel industry for climate damage (Washington Post $), Hit hard by high energy costs, Hawaii looks to the sun (New York Times $), Mayor Wu announces new citywide composting program (Boston Globe $), The Texas grid is designed to fail (Vox), The quest to keep carbon in North Carolina’s wetlands (Washington Post $)

• CALIFORNIA: California legislature advances raft of climate-related bills (E&E $), L.A. is banning most gas appliances in new homes. Get ready for electric stoves (LA Times $), How San Diego secured its water supply, at a cost (AP), Is this California’s year for a long-term drinking water assistance program? (Capital and Main)

IMPACTS: Most of US West is in severe drought as peak wildfire season looms (Wall Street Journal $), America's first Black Marine base is threatened by the effects of climate change (NPR), Ancient pollen offers clues to how plants adapted to climate change in the past — and potentially the future (Smithsonian Magazine), Here’s where dangerous ticks are spreading across the US — and what to do about them (Vox), Prepare for a hot and wet summer, New England (WBUR)

• AGRICULTURE: Climate change threatens to unbuckle US Corn Belt — study (E&E $)
• CITIES: California’s drought has caused entire towns to sink nearly a foot in just one year. This map shows where (San Francisco Chronicle), Climate change threatens important African coastal sites (Smithsonian Magazine)
• COMPOUNDING IMPACTS: Disaster upon disaster: Wildfires are contaminating the West's depleting water with ashy sludge (CNN)
• GRID STABILITY: Why are blackouts looming? Blame extreme weather, not wind and solar (Canary Media), California and the West face a summer of power outages (Axios), California drought could halve summer hydropower generation, leading to more natural gas, EIA finds (Utility Dive)

WILDFIRES: Critical fire condition warnings issued across US Southwest (AP), Greenville [California] was destroyed by wildfire. Can it be rebuilt to survive the next one? (LA Times $), New Mexico wildfire scar burn has forest officials worried (AP)

HURRICANES: A Gulf of Mexico current could throw this hurricane season for a loop (Gizmodo)

WATER: ‘Everyone loses’: California’s Sacramento Valley struggles to survive unprecedented water cuts (Grist)

ADAPTATION: 17 years post-Katrina, New Orleans-area protections complete (AP)

HEALTH: New England psychiatrists, pediatricians say more kids are experiencing climate change anxiety (NHPR)

RENEWABLES: A 3-pronged approach to adopting clean power (Marketplace), Cameroon slashes taxes to tap its solar power potential (Thomson Reuters Foundation), China is on track to double its solar panels from last year’s record (Bloomberg $), Green energy complicates the Taliban’s new battle against opium (New York Times $), Soon you'll be able to buy solar panels at Ikea (CNN)

• YOUR MOVE, FLORIDA: Sun-starved Sweden turns to solar to fill power void (Bloomberg $)

WOOD: Do wood burners add to air pollution in cities? Yes, say citizen scientists (The Guardian)

HYDRO: Evicted villagers pay a high price for India's hydropower push (Thomson Reuters Foundation)

BATTERIES: EV battery boom heads to rural Wash. (E&E $), The price of key battery metals used in electric vehicle production is expected to fall in coming years (Business Insider)

ALL ABOARD!: Faster, cleaner, greener: What lies ahead for the world's railways (CNN)

STORAGE: Optimize rising renewables levels by increasing deployment of different types of energy storage: MIT (Utility Dive)

EFFICIENCY: Quarter of UK households look to improve energy efficiency as bills surge (FT $)

LNG: China's LNG imports set for first big decline as demand wanes (Reuters), Malaysia's Petronas to trade some Canadian, US LNG in spot market (Reuters), Europe's dash for gas puts Australia's LNG import plans at risk (Reuters)

OIL & GAS: Climate pressure from employees, shareholders rattles Big Oil (Washington Post $), Brent crude breaks $120 a barrel as gas prices soar (The Hill), Consultant who ditched Shell: ‘Take a look at yourselves in the mirror’ (The Guardian), Why can't the US stop soaring oil and gas prices? (BBC)

PLASTICS: We never got good at recycling plastic. Some states are trying a new approach (NPR)

COAL: As China mines more coal, levels of a more potent greenhouse gas soar (Washington Post $), Britain could keep coal-fired power plants open this winter (Reuters), Facing a power crisis and searing heat, India falls back on coal (Washington Post $), India aims to cut power output from at least 81 coal-fired plants over 4 years (Reuters)

NUKES: Hinkley Point B owner says it will not extend life of nuclear plant (The Guardian), Mini nuclear reactors have an outsized waste problem (Bloomberg $, Bloomberg $)

HYDROGEN: Germany looks to speed up green hydrogen development in Australia (Reuters), Hydrogen may be a climate solution. There's debate over how clean it will truly be (NPR), Is hydrogen overhyped? A Virginia clean energy advocate doesn’t think so (Energy News Network), One of the world’s top LNG importers say its future is hydrogen (Bloomberg $), Miracle fuel hydrogen can actually make climate change worse (Bloomberg $)

UTILITIES: How a Florida power project flew under the regulatory radar (New York Times $)

GRID: MISO industrial customers petition FERC to avoid sky-high capacity charges if they cut electricity use (Utility Dive)

EVs: To reduce traffic, this company wants cargo e-bikes to replace delivery vans (Bloomberg $), China's EV growth forecasts are starting to look shaky (Bloomberg $), The great American road trip, electrified (Axios), The world's car buyers are ready to go electric (Axios), While electric vehicles proliferate, charging stations lag behind (Wall Street Journal $)

VROOM VROOM: Indy 500 waves green flag on sustainability with lofty goals (AP)

AGRICULTURE: Cultured meat, without the slaughter, is slated to get a big boost (Gizmodo)

BOOKS: Banned books every climate nerd should read (Gizmodo), Bill McKibben, American idealist, sours on America’s ideals (New York Times $)

BUSINESS: More women were appointed to boards in 2021. Do they reduce the company’s emissions? (Forbes)

CARBON CAPTURE: Colombia's Ecopetrol aims to boost gas output, start CCS project (Reuters), In a bid to save its coal industry, Wyoming has become a test case for carbon capture, but utilities are balking at the pricetag (Inside Climate News)

CARBON REMOVAL: Greenhouse gas removal ‘not a silver bullet to achieve net zero’ (The Guardian), A new coalition is placing a big bet on carbon removal technology (Grist)

CARS: US emissions up 4% as drivers log record number of miles (E&E $)

NATURALLY: Beekeepers and communists: how environmentalists started a global conversation (The Guardian)

TREES: Yes, you can save lives by planting trees, a new study says (Grist)

FINANCE: ESG haters think climate investors are controlling everything. if only (Bloomberg $), Green capital scores against coal in Australia (Wall Street Journal $), IMF secures $40 billion so far for new sustainability trust (Reuters), Tech billionaire brings down breakup plan by Australia’s biggest polluter (Wall Street Journal $, FT $), Who is tech tycoon-turned climate activist Mike Cannon-Brookes (Bloomberg $)

FASHION: Sustainable fashion activists break down their career paths (Teen Vogue)

IN MEMORIAM: Hazel Henderson, groundbreaking environmentalist, dies at 89 (New York Times $)

HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS: Here’s how kitty litter could help slow global warming (Wall Street Journal $)

WILDLIFE: Elephants are attacking humans as climate change pushes them to the brink (Newsweek), One of UK’s rarest corals set to expand its range as climate change warms seas (The Guardian), Who may benefit from climate change? Rattlesnakes, study suggests (USA Today)

INTERNATIONAL: Israel unveils roadmap for 20% renewable energy by 2025 (Bloomberg $), South Africa aims to factor climate-related spending into budget (Bloomberg $), UK imposes windfall tax on oil and gas company profits as inflation bites (Washington Post $, CNBC), Why  Britain is spending £37 billion to make energy-supply crisis worse (Bloomberg $)

• We cannot have a clean energy future without copper (The Hill, Fred DuVal op-ed)
• The Guardian view on Australia’s election: Labor needs to go bigger on climate (The Guardian, Guardian Editorial Board)
• Why electricity Blackouts are coming to Michigan (Wall Street Journal, Jason Hayes op-ed $)
• Drought adds to pressure on US gas inventories: Kemp (Reuters, John Kemp Column)
• My family sees climate change in the Arctic.  Here’s how we’ve learned to take action (LA Times, Katey Walter Anthony op-ed $)
• Stigma is costing oil and gas majors their staff (FT, Margaret Heffernan column $)
• Who cashes in after a California wildfire? (LA Times, Matt Sedlar op-ed $)
• EPA must provide certainty for low-carbon fuels In 2023 and beyond (The Hill, Michael McAdams op-ed)
• The hamburger is an American staple: Climate change threatens it in profound and subtle ways (The Hill, Mike Hoffmann op-ed)
• The Observer view on the summits that forecast global environmental dangers (The Guardian, Observer Editorial Board)
• US must lead on decarbonizing international financing for development projects (The Hill, Rep. Jared Huffman op-ed)
• Europe should use its Putin-proofing energy plans to reinvigorate climate action (Climate Home, Richard Black op-ed)
• Another nuclear plant closes: Get ready for electricity shortages (The Hill, Robert Bryce op-ed)
• America’s summer of rolling Blackouts (Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal Editorial Board $)
• Another monster hurricane season looms as we dawdle on climate change (Washington Post, Washington Post Editorial Board $)

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