(ENVIRONMENTAL) RACISM: Brittney Griner reportedly sent to ‘slave-like’ Russian prison (The Root, ESPN, Reuters, The Guardian, Daily Beast)
- VOTER SUPPRESSION: Long lines during only weekend of early voting in Georgia runoff election (NewsOne)
OWNING THE LIBS: Herschel Walker, South Park, and the Prius: how loving gas-guzzlers became political (Grist)
COP27: COP27 climate summit missed chance for ambition on fossil fuels, critics say (Reuters)
CLIMATE DIPLOMACY: Groups ask EU to drop carbon removal from climate plans (AP), How ‘spurious science’ threatens Antarctica (E&E News),
FOSSIL FUELED ENERGY CRISIS: Big Oil made big bucks. Will the windfall fund green energy? (E&E $)
CLIMATE LITIGATION: ‘This case has made legal history’: Young Australians just won a human rights case against an enormous coal mine (The Conversation), Greta Thunberg and 600+ Swedish youth activists sue gov’t over climate inaction (Democracy Now)
DENIAL & DISINFO & GREENWASHING: EU’s proposed carbon removal rules open to greenwashing, say experts (FT $), 'A forgotten conflict': Sahrawi activists slam Moroccan greenwashing amid Western Sahara occupation (Democracy Now)
FOSSIL VOLATILITY:
GOP vs. ESG: BlackRock, UBS ask to be removed from Texas’ energy boycott list (Bloomberg $), ESG woes may hurt public pensions’ returns (Bloomberg $)
IN MEMORIAM: Congressman Donald McEachin dies at 61 (Richmond Times-Dispatch, Virginia Mercury, Washington Post $, WWBT, ABC 27, WAVY, WDBJ, NBC Washington, USA Today, CNN, New York Times $, Bloomberg $, The Hill, Politico, Reuters, Axios, CBS, NBC, Business Insider, New York Post)
AGENCIES: GAO: Prioritize vulnerable communities for disaster aid (E&E $)
DOE: DOE tests blockchain technology to ensure grid security, resilience in first-of-its-kind demonstration (Utility Dive), DOE to test rapidly deployable, portable wind turbines for military use, disaster relief (Utility Dive), DOE watchdog begs for cash to combat ‘large-scale frauds’ (E&E News), DOE girds for House Republican oversight (E&E $)
WHITE HOUSE: Biden requests $3B for residential solar, battery systems in Puerto Rico (Utility Dive), Top US, French officials discuss electric vehicle dispute (Politico Pro $), Biden's clean-energy czar faces his toughest task yet (Washington Post $)
THE HILL: Congress looks to intervene in rail dispute as strike deadline looms (New York Times $)
HOUSE: Energy companies expect more friends in Washington as Republicans take over house (Wall Street Journal $), House Democrats to elect next generation of leaders (E&E News)
SENATE: Infrastructure law hearing to focus on EV sector, builders (E&E $), Senate committee takes up energy, drought, resource bills (E&E $)
POLITICS: Another Fox News-driven target of likely GOP probes: ‘Looting’ (Washington Post $), 'Nonpartisanship'? Murkowski, Peltola notch election wins (E&E $)
NOMINEES & CONFIRMATIONS: Dems look to make progress on energy, environment nominees (E&E $)
TRIBES: On Vancouver Island, Land Back looks like going home (Atmos)
CITIES AND STATES AND DISENFRANCHISED COLONIAL TERRITORIES: Puerto Rico’s troubled power utility faces make-or-break moment (Bloomberg $), Alaska fights for federal cleanup of contaminated lands (E&E $), The lowly boxcar can make your city a better place to live (Bloomberg $), Troubled Puerto Rico power grid faces uncertain future (Politico Pro $), California draft rule targets train pollution (E&E $)
- TEXAS: Houston power outage triggers boil water notice for millions (E&E News, AP, The Hill), Houston boil water notice forces schools to shut down (Texas Tribune), Texas enviro agency 'reluctant regulator,' state report says (E&E $)
CITIZEN SCIENCE: It takes a village to map the urban heat island effect (Bloomberg $)
IMPACTS: Climate change made rain more extreme during Pakistan’s deadly 2022 floods (Yale Climate Connections), Spotlight on illegal buildings as Ischia death toll now at 8 (AP, Reuters)
GREAT BARRIER REEF: Great Barrier Reef should be placed on the ‘in danger’ list, UN-backed report shows (CNN, AP, New York Times $)
FLOOD INSURANCE: Private flood insurance coming to FHA-backed mortgages (E&E $)
HEAT: The 2021 Pacific Northwest heat wave was a climate change warning (Axios)
HURRICANES: We’re decoding ancient hurricanes’ traces on the sea floor – and evidence from millennia of Atlantic storms is not good news for the coast (The Conversation)
WATER: Water as part of the climate solution (Inside Climate News), Alfalfa and hay use more than half of Utah's water, but also helps the environment (Casper Star-Tribune), Drying California lake to get $250M in US drought funding (AP), Research tests drought strategies for ranchers on Colorado River (E&E $)
RENEWABLES: Climate tech accelerator aims to bridge gaps for Black and Brown entrepreneurs (Energy News Network), Green factories are changing minds in more conservative US states (Bloomberg $), JPMorgan downgrades First Solar, cites stock’s recent outperformance following climate bill passage (CNBC), Spain's Acciona to build $1.3 billion wind farm in Australia in expansion drive (Reuters)
"RENEWABLES": Shell buys Nature Energy in $2 billion push into biogas (Bloomberg $, Wall Street Journal $)
OIL & GAS: BP weighs ending its 70-year-old Statistical Review of World Energy (Reuters), Oil rises with OPEC+ seen considering cuts amid faltering market (Bloomberg $), Researcher says ancient agricultural fields are threatened by oil and gas near Chaco (New Mexico Political Report), The week that could unravel the global oil market (FT $)
🤔 🤔 🤔: Why Ohio’s top oil and gas producing counties continue to lag in jobs (Energy News Network)
PLASTICS: Behind the plastic industry's latest recycling push (E&E $)
COAL: ‘Still creeped out’: Queensland activist asks Adani to destroy surveillance photos taken of family (The Guardian)
UTILITIES: With federal aid on the table, utilities shift to embrace climate goals (New York Times $)
NUKES: How to tear down a nuclear power plant in Vermont and bury it in Texas (Bloomberg $)
GRID: A cleaner US energy grid will boost air quality — study (E&E $), Midwest transmission project goes on trial again in Illinois (E&E $)
EVs: Hamilton succeeds Rosberg as Extreme E's champion team owner (The Race, Reuters, Road & Track), Schools scramble to prepare for $1B in federal money for electric buses (Canary Media), Who's next? Chinese EVs drive Stellantis' Jeep off the road (Reuters)
PFAS: As the outdoor industry ditches ‘forever chemicals,’ REI lags behind (Grist)
AVIATION: Rolls-Royce tests hydrogen-fueled aircraft engine in aviation world first (FT $)
AGRICULTURE: Food of the future: London air raid shelter to underground farm (Reuters)
BOOKS: Best new books on the environment (FT $)
BUSINESSES: Amazon vows to replenish all the water it uses for data centers (Bloomberg $)
RELIGION: Rowan Williams urges wealthy to stump up cash for climate fund (The Guardian)
WILDLIFE: Climate change is causing narwhals to change migration patterns (Bloomberg $)
- COP15: International conference prompts new species protections (E&E $), COP15: Why the world needs a new deal to protect nature (Context, explainer), COP15 essential reading: Six books that explain the biodiversity crisis (The Guardian)
INTERNATIONAL: Italy plans 50% one-off windfall tax on energy firms in 2023 (OilPrice), Prince William focuses US trip on climate amid Harry row (AP), South Africa faces decade of blackouts without gas, study finds (Bloomberg $), Sunak eyes u-turn on onshore wind as tory divisions grow (Bloomberg $), Tories will not reach ‘embarrassingly poor’ [UK] nature targets by 2030, Labour says (The Guardian)