(ENVIRONMENTAL) RACISM: A growing number of Native households in Nevada lack plumbing (Grist), Disconnected and 'dehumanized': How thousands across Phoenix survive without running water (Arizona Republic), In Nevada, a monument to violence built on stolen land (Grist), Racism robbed this historically Black California town of its water. Now, they're developing water of their own (KQED)
- JACKSON WATER CRISIS: Jackson, MS community orgs step up during water crisis (The Real News), See it: Mississippi water crisis sees disgusting brown water come from taps in homes (Washington Examiner)
PAKISTAN: ‘Very dire’: Devastated by floods, Pakistan faces looming food crisis (New York Times $), A child's death highlights threat posed to young by Pakistan's floods (Reuters), Pakistan to breach main highway to protect town of Dadu from floods (Reuters), UN chief calls for 'massive' help as Pakistan puts flood losses at $30 billion (Reuters, AP, Reuters)
FOSSIL FUELED ENERGY CRISIS: PM says Greece has taken action to secure winter energy supplies (Reuters)
COP27: African nations push for more climate finance ahead of COP (Reuters), Credibility of UN climate conference ‘hangs by a thread’ as delegates head to Cairo (National Observer)
CLIMATE DIPLOMACY: As cost of climate change rises, UN urges compensation (AP)
DENIAL & GREENWASHING: Oil companies say they’re going green, but their investments tell another story (Grist), Nike touts its climate initiatives. So why is Phil Knight bankrolling a logging industry ally? (HuffPost), Oil companies want you to buy their new 'green' image (Gizmodo)
GOP vs. ESG: Wall Street hits back at GOP in ESG war (The Hill)
INFLATION REDUCTION ACT: Biden's inflation law offers up to $14,000 for home upgrades. Here's how to qualify. (CBS), The civilian climate corps was dropped from the climate bill. Now what? (Washington Post $)
- SENATE SIDE DEALS: Democrats’ effort to speed up energy-project permitting faces more opposition (Wall Street Journal $), Appalachians protest Manchin’s Mountain Valley Pipeline plan; Sanders decries “disastrous side deal” (Democracy Now), Dozens of House Democrats urge Pelosi to split permitting from funding bill (Politico Pro $), Manchin’s big energy deal draws pushback from many Dems (AP), More than 70 House Democrats join push against Manchin’s permitting reform (The Hill, Washington Examiner), Permitting bill could pass over objections of liberals, activists (Washington Post $), Progressive revolt against Manchin’s energy side deal could snarl government funding (HuffPost), Sanders blasts permitting reform as Democrats’ divide grows (E&E News), Progressive opposition grows ahead of permitting bill release (E&E News)
BIG STATE GRID PROBLEMS: How California avoided widespread blackouts during its heat wave when Texas couldn't during its freeze (Houston Chronicle)
TIPPING POINTS: Major climate 'tipping points' are just on the horizon (Gizmodo, Grist)
EPA: EPA loses key ruling as Flint residents pursue water claims (AP), Regan faces whistleblower lawsuit (E&E $)
DOI: N.M. debacle won’t deter Forest Service prescribed burns (E&E News, New York Times $), BLM appoints new information technology leader (E&E $), Haaland heads home for pep rally after climate win (E&E News), Lawsuit aims to block 'Delaware-sized' oil and gas project (E&E $)
WHITE HOUSE: Treasury will warn White House that crypto needs major regulations (Washington Post $)
THE HILL: Can Congress spend its way out of climate change? (Houston Chronicle)
HOUSE: House Republicans build support for scrapping Biden NEPA rule (E&E $), Meet the MAGA House Republican going all-in on nuclear (E&E $)
POLITICS: Both GOP and Dems see vindication in Calif. grid misery (E&E News)
TRIBES: Judge restores oil lease on land sacred to US, Canada tribes (AP)
CITIES AND STATES & DISENFRANCHISED COLONIAL TERRITORIES: A plan to push cars out of Manhattan could make the Bronx’s air dirtier (New York Times $), Seattle utility aims to make electric vehicle charging more accessible (Yale Climate Connections), Dutch queen learns about flood control during Houston visit (AP), The impact of California's environmental regulations ripples across the US (NPR), Why are some Puerto Ricans demanding the island cancel its contract with power company LUMA Energy? (The Hill)
- CALIFORNIA: California is finally unlocking community solar for the masses (Canary Media), California planned to close down its last nuclear plant by 2025. What went wrong? (Utility Dive), Gavin Newsom faces new challenge with rising temperatures in California (The Hill)
FERC: Manchin: FERC Chair Glick making 'better decisions' lately (E&E $)
IMPACTS: Extreme weather sparked by climate change is putting a strain on infrastructure (NPR), Persistent rains pummel Chicago, submerging roads and swamping basements (New York Times $, Reuters), Rising seas are going to create a huge property tax headache for coastal communities (TIME), Summer is ending, but climate disasters keep coming (E&E News), The gulf of Maine is simmering, but its lobsters seem fine — for now (Washington Post $)
HEAT: ‘Can’t afford to live’: California heatwave leaves older adults teetering on edge (The Guardian), Extreme heat poses an emerging threat to food crops (Inside Climate News), US heat wave hits supermarkets’ produce sections (Wall Street Journal $)
DROUGHT: The rice capital of California is ‘now just a wasteland.’ Satellite images show how bad it is (San Francisco Chronicle, Wall Street Journal $, The Hill), Colorado river megadrought got you down? Feel hope with TikTok's 'WesternWaterGirl' (NPR), Global drought saps hydropower, complicating clean-energy push (Wall Street Journal $), Spotty fall colors likely in New England amid drought (AP), The olive oil capital of the world, parched (New York Times $), With drought, ‘Spanish Stonehenge’ emerges once again (New York Times $)
WILDFIRES: As wildfires grow, millions of homes are being built in harm’s way (New York Times $)
HURRICANES: Hurricane Earl swipes Bermuda, but Atlantic mostly quiet near season peak (Washington Post $), Little damage in California from Kay; the Atlantic goes quiet (Yale Climate Connections), There are storms off both US coasts after an unusually quiet summer (Gizmodo)
DEFORESTATION: Indigenous leaders seek global pact to preserve 80% of Amazon forest (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
RENEWABLES: Baltic Power signs deals to help build wind farm (Reuters), Do solar panels increase a home’s value? (Wall Street Journal $), Judge bans General Electric wind turbine from US market (E&E $), Questions abound as panel explores Calif. offshore wind (E&E $)
- WORKERS: Chart: Women hold less than a third of jobs in wind and solar power (Canary Media)
BATTERIES: California’s fleet of battery storage working to avert energy crisis (Energy Storage News), Demand for electric cars is threatening Chile's flamingos (Gizmodo)
BUILDINGS: UK must insulate homes or face a worse energy crisis in 2023, say experts (The Guardian)
- AIR CONDITIONING: After a record number of hot summer days, Montana needs air conditioning (WBUR), Air conditioning has a climate problem. New technology could help. (Washington Post $)
OIL & GAS: Dominion Energy proposes 150-well oil project in Wyoming (E&E $), How a CEO rescued a big bet on big oil; ‘There were a lot of doubters’ (Wall Street Journal $), How Chevron polluted the Amazon and fought environmental lawyer Steven Donziger (Truthout)
NUKETTES: Small nuke reactors emerge as energy option, but risks loom (AP)
PLASTICS: A new plant in Indiana uses a process called ‘pyrolysis’ to recycle plastic waste. Critics say it’s really just incineration (Inside Climate News)
PIPELINES: Natural gas pipeline fire in water SE of New Orleans (AP), US Coast Guard probes natgas pipeline explosion at Lake Lery, Louisiana (Reuters), Manufacturers push regulators for more natural gas pipelines (E&E News)
UTILITIES: CenterPoint delays mean solar panels costing thousands of dollars sit useless on Houston roofs (Houston Chronicle), Can the Northeast slash carbon and keep the lights on? (E&E News), Retail electricity prices continue rapid rise; US homes could pay more than 15 cents/kWh next year: EIA (Utility Dive)
EVs: GM targets 'mainstream' car buyers with $30,000 electric SUV (E&E $), Nikola founder faces securities-fraud trial over promises about electric trucks (Wall Street Journal $), Tesla looking into building lithium refinery (Wall Street Journal $, Protocol), US trade chief Tai discusses EV tax breaks with Japan's trade minister -USTR (Reuters), Wolfspeed to build new factory for silicon carbide EV chips (Protocol)
PFAS: PFAS linked to higher cholesterol levels, research finds (E&E $)
BOOKS: ‘Volt Rush’ review: electric cars, money and mines (Wall Street Journal $), Finding humor, and humanity, in Canada’s oil fields (New York Times $)
CARBON PRICING: With forests abound, Africa looks to grow its carbon market (AP)
CARBON CAPTURE: Companies unveil plans for massive Wyo. CO2 capture project (E&E $)
ART: This artist gets up to her neck in water to spread awareness of climate change (NPR)
FINANCE: ‘Transformational’: Could America’s new green bank be a climate gamechanger? (The Guardian), Biden's big climate bill isn't a venture capital fund (Axios)
IN MEMORIAM: Kurt Gottfried, physicist and foe of nuclear weapons, dies at 93 (New York Times $)
WILDLIFE: Beavers are finally getting the rebrand they deserve (Mother Jones)
INTERNATIONAL: Brazil faces two contrasting legacies for the Amazon in October’s elections (Mongabay), South Africa's Eskom to reduce power cuts throughout week (Reuters)
- UNELECTED MONARCHY: A king for the climate takes the throne in England (E&E News), As King Charles III takes the crown, here's how he may focus his reign (NPR), As Queen Elizabeth II dies, climate advocate King Charles III takes throne (Climate Home), Mourning period will not delay energy bill freeze, says No 10 (The Guardian), Timeline: The climate crisis through Queen Elizabeth II’s life and reign (Climate Home), What will King Charles's reign mean for climate action? (Thomson Reuters Foundation), With Queen Elizabeth's death, republicans sense their chance (Reuters)