(ENVIRONMENTAL) RACISM: 'It comes to race': Marin City residents demand flood protections (KQED)
COP27: Ahead of COP27, researchers call for climate compensation fund (Reuters), Why these climate talks are different than other COPs (E&E News), Brazil's Lula to attend COP27 climate change summit (Reuters), British PM leaves door open to attending climate summit (The Hill), DOD hopes to build 'strategic partnerships' at climate talks (E&E $), UK criticised for failing to pay $300m in promised climate funds ahead of COP27 (The Guardian)
- POLITICAL PRISONERS: Activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah, on "full hunger strike" in Egypt prison, will refuse water during COP27 (CBS, Democracy Now)
- US: John Kerry: Carbon offsets can help wean developing countries off coal (Climate Home)
BANKS: As banks fund oil pipeline, campaigners question their environmental pledges (Mongabay), Carney-led finance group calls for more G20 climate plan details (Reuters)
OIL PROFITS: Phillips 66 reports profit soared in Q3 with high fuel demand (Houston Chronicle), Saudi Aramco profit jumps 39% on high oil prices (Wall Street Journal $), Saudi Aramco reports $42 billion in profit as cash rolls in for oil giants (New York Times $)
CLIMATE DIPLOMACY: US and UAE sign strategic partnership deal to spur $100 billion in clean energy investment (CNBC, The Hill)
FOSSIL FUELED ENERGY CRISIS: Russian oil is fueling American cars via this sanctions loophole (Wall Street Journal $), This winter, UK households can get paid to help prevent grid blackouts (Canary Media)
- LNG: U.S. regulators want more data on Texas Freeport LNG plant before restart (Reuters), Freeport LNG hasn’t filed plan to regulators as export restart date looms (Bloomberg $), Russia’s near-record LNG shipments show world’s struggle to cut reliance (Bloomberg $)
THE BEST SCIENCE MONEY CAN BUY: How the agriculture industry funds pro-beef 'science' (Gizmodo)
TURNING POINTS?: Three major developments in 2022 may shift the world’s climate trajectory (Washington Post $)
CLIMATE MIGRATION: Nomads move to towns in warming Ladakh (AP)
GOP vs. ESG: GOP to probe ‘cancer’ of climate-friendly investing after midterms (Washington Post $), Political spat over climate risks in investments gets hotter (AP)
AGENCIES: Forest Service under pressure to act on wildfire funding (E&E $)
DOE: Top US energy official back to Puerto Rico amid power woes (AP)
DOI: Ex-NPS chief wants ‘political football’ split from Interior (E&E News), Feds to Colorado river states: Reduce water usage, or we will do it for you (Grist), Fish and Wildlife seeks accord with Alaska Natives (E&E $)
WHITE HOUSE: Biden tells oil companies to 'stop war profiteering' and threatens new corporate taxes amid record petroleum profits (Gizmodo), Biden puts $13B toward lowering home energy costs this winter (Politico Pro $)
THE HILL: Republicans say Biden slashed oil drilling. The facts say otherwise. (Politico Pro $)
HOUSE: Republicans plan an energy agenda designed to keep Democrats on their heels (Politico)
POLITICS: Documents show lobbyists went all-in to shape climate bill (E&E $)
ELECTIONS: Fortune 500 companies have given millions to election deniers since Jan. 6 (ProPublica), In Colorado swing district, GOP bets on fossil fuels (E&E $), In Nevada’s Senate race, energy policy is a stark divide between Cortez Masto and Laxalt (Inside Climate News), Texas’ deadly blackouts could open the door for this Democrat to make history (HuffPost), New Mexico House race wrangles oil and gas, climate change (Reuters), Conspiracy theories, records requests and lies: What running an election looks like right now (The 19th* News), FEC deadlocks on Russian-funded energy company donations to Louisiana GOP lawmakers (Politico Pro $)
TRIBES: Hoopa Valley Tribe sues US over California water contracts (AP, E&E $), Tribe seeks to adapt as climate change alters ancestral home (AP)
CITIES AND STATES: How Tucson, Arizona is facing up to a megadrought (BBC), In court, the Maryland Public Service Commission quotes climate deniers and claims there’s no such thing as ‘clean’ energy (Inside Climate News), Wisconsin regulators should look to Iowa for third-party solar model, advocates say (Energy News Network), Diesel big rigs have belched smog for years. California may soon ban them. (Washington Post $)
IMPACTS: Ahead of COP27, new climate reports are warning shots to a world off course (Inside Climate News), Ghana's historic slave forts are being swallowed by rising seas (Context), France had hottest month of October since 1945 (Reuters), ‘Coldest village in France’ reports rare frost-free October (The Guardian), Climate change and rising seas threaten Egypt’s breadbasket (AP), Data centers aren’t prepared for the climate crisis (Protocol)
PHILIPPINES: Philippine President Marcos inspects landslide-hit province, death toll at 110 (Reuters)
HURRICANES: Intensifying Tropical Storm Lisa heads toward Belize; Martin forms in central Atlantic (Yale Climate Connections), Tropical Storm Lisa moves toward Central America (AP), Ian ruins man-made reefs, brings algae bloom to Florida (AP), Why experts worry about ‘rapid intensification’ of hurricanes (Yale Climate Connections), After Ian, Florida’s waterways could remain polluted for months (Washington Post $)
- THE MORE YOU KNOW: Hurricane or typhoon? How tropical cyclones get their names. (New York Times $)
DROUGHT: The Mississippi River's water level is at a record low, which affects grain exports (NPR)
WATER: He was accused of stealing huge amounts of water over 23 years. Here’s why no one noticed (Sacramento Bee $)
RENEWABLES: Energy prices threaten Mass. offshore wind project (E&E $), Rikers: a bright green future for a dark place? (New York Times $)
- MICROGRIDS: Puerto Rico will link up 7,000 solar systems to help its shaky grid (Canary Media), 7.000 sistemas solares vinculados van a ayudar a la red central en Puerto Rico (Canary Media)
"RENEWABLES": A new tax credit for biogas could be a boon to factory farms (Grist)
STORAGE: Zinc-based storage manufacturer Eos delays some production to 2023 to capitalize on federal tax credits (Utility Dive)
OIL & GAS: West accused of double standards over oil and gas exploration in DRC (The Guardian), Sale of oil and gas permits casts shadow over world’s second-largest rainforest (The Guardian), OPEC Sec Gen: Oil investment lag sowing seeds for future energy crises (Reuters), Oil and gas profits are an easy political target (Wall Street Journal $), US natgas futures drop 10% on profit-taking, mild forecasts (Reuters), Africa must use its gas reserves to drive the economy, industry officials say (Reuters)
ORPHANED WELLS: ‘All for naught.’ Biden orphan well plan faces trouble in Pa. (E&E News)
PLASTICS: Plastic makes up 81% of trash in national parks, report says (E&E News), The world's largest whales likely consume about 10,000,000 pieces of microplastic every day off California's coast, study finds (CBS)
PIPELINES: Pipeline developer outlines next steps for Mountain Valley (E&E $)
HYDROGEN: Nikola strikes hydrogen supply deal with Pa. hub developers (E&E $)
UTILITIES: Xcel to retire Texas coal-fired power plant early, speeding up companywide exit from coal to 2030 (Utility Dive, E&E $), PG&E formally asks NRC to extend Diablo Canyon power plant license to 2030 to boost grid reliability (Utility Dive), California’s natural-gas bans push largest gas utility to find a new strategy (Wall Street Journal $)
GRID: PJM capacity market flaws reduced latest auction revenue by $706M, or nearly 25%: market monitor (Utility Dive)
EVs: The country’s biggest electric bus microgrid is open for business (Canary Media)
HALLOWEEN: Drag queen Pattie Gonia wanted a scary halloween costume. She went as climate change (NPR), Pumpkins can be composted, donated to farms, fed to wildlife (AP)
ARTSY ACTIVISM: The activist who threw soup on a van Gogh says it's the planet that's being destroyed (NPR)
AVIATION: Iceland: Land of Fire and Ice — and “carbon-free” flights? (Canary Media)
DIRECT ACTION: Climate activists face charges after autobahn stunt delays emergency help (Reuters)
AGRICULTURE: Fertilizer producers add back cut production amid lower gas prices (Wall Street Journal $)
NEWS YOU CAN USE: 10 free (or nearly free) ways to save money on heat and hot water (New York Times $)
BOOKS: Chelsea Manning's memoir reflects on tormented childhood, gender and value of freedom of information (WBUR)
BUSINESSES: Google signs solar power supply deal with SoftBank-backed SB Energy (Reuters)
INTERNATIONAL: Brazil's 2021 climate emissions highest since 2005, report says (Reuters), Lula's victory in the Brazil elections is a win for the planet (TIME), Peers called on to kill [UK] public order bill targeting climate activists (The Guardian), Toxic air returns to haunt India's smog-choked capital (CBS), What’s next for the Amazon? (New York Times $)