(ENVIRONMENTAL) RACISM: Discrimination seeps into every aspect of home buying for Black Americans (New York Times $)
CLICK FOR *FASCINATING* UK BUILDING HEAT RETENTION STRATEGIES: In a land of cold, the architecture is tested by heat (Washington Post $)
ETYMOLOGY: The fossil fuel origins of ‘gaslighting’ (Grist)
COP27: Climate change summit leaves hope for limiting global warming (Wall Street Journal $)
CLIMATE DIPLOMACY: Al Gore tells EU: Join us, don’t fight us over green subsidies (Politico Pro $), Can BECCS be saved from the net-zero scrapheap? (Energy Monitor), Germany’s Habeck backs ‘Buy European’ response to US trade threat (Politico Pro $), Macron to promote nuclear energy in US, as industry faces crisis in France (Washington Post $), Who should pay for loss and damage? Spoiler: not China (Climate Home), Countries are negotiating a global plastics treaty. it won’t be easy. (Washington Post $)
- DEBT CRISIS: Global poor lose services as developing countries face higher debt payments (Wall Street Journal $)
- MONARCHAL SCIONS: Prince William and Kate are coming back to the US for the first time in 8 years. Here's what to know. (CBS)
FOSSIL FUELED ENERGY CRISIS: Berlin’s push for Nord Stream 2 contributed to Ukraine war, German minister says (Politico Pro $), Big Oil made big bucks. Will the windfall fund green energy? (E&E News), Qatar signs limited natural-gas supply deal with Germany (Wall Street Journal $), US tries to break EU deadlock over Russian oil price cap (Politico Pro $), EU is hooked on Russia LNG and paying billions to keep it coming (Bloomberg $)
CLIMATE LITIGATION: Oil companies urge Supreme Court to review climate case (E&E $)
GOP vs. ESG: Republican states take drastic measure in latest salvo against ESG movement (Fox Business)
WORLD CUP: What is outdoor air conditioning? And how bad is it for the environment? (TIME), “Sportswashing & greenwashing”: Ex-soccer player Jules Boykoff on Qatar hosting World Cup (Democracy Now)
IN MEMORIAM: Joye Braun, the firestorm, dies at 53 (Indian Country Today, AP), 'Climate warrior': Va. House Democrat McEachin dies at 61 (E&E $)
SCOTUS: This question could seal fate of SCOTUS Forest Service fracas (E&E News)
AGENCIES: DOJ files complaint against Jackson, Mississippi over water crisis (NBC, Politico Pro $), US taps interim manager for struggling Jackson water system (AP), NASA cancels greenhouse gas monitoring satellite due to cost (AP)
EPA: EPA adds asthma experts to kids' health advisory panel (E&E $), Expansive EPA smog control plan faces industry pushback (E&E $), White House aides move to EPA (E&E $)
DOE: DOE labs launch thermal energy storage consortium to spur development, market adoption (Utility Dive), DOE girds for House Republican oversight (E&E News)
DOI: Wyoming sues Biden administration over canceled lease sales (Politico Pro $)
EXECUTIVE BRANCH: Naval Academy fortifies sea wall as climate threats rise (E&E $)
WHITE HOUSE: Podesta builds 'lean' team to roll out climate law (E&E $)
THE HILL: Spending deal elusive as government shutdown nears (E&E News), Congress prepares intervention in looming rail strike (E&E News, Politico, New York Times $, Axios, Politico Pro $), Looming rail strike threatens biofuel, ag transport (E&E News), What we know about the railroad labor talks (New York Times $), Top [House] Dem urges 'digital battery identifiers' for EV tax credit (E&E $), Manchin eyes omnibus for lands package (E&E $)
POLITICS: Republicans who blasted EVs might be powerless to stop them (E&E $), Tesla hires former Hill staffers as climate bill lobbyists (E&E $), Western voters favor public lands (High Country News)
NOMINEES & CONFIRMATIONS: Committee deadlocks on EPA air nominee (E&E News, The Hill, Politico Pro $)
CITIES AND STATES: State, local governments increasingly turn to zoning reforms (Yale Climate Connections), NY Dems offer bill for funding climate-resilient transit (E&E $), Teen school board member in Idaho wants to expand climate change curriculum (Yale Climate Connections), Ann Arbor proposes ban on natural gas connections for new buildings (Michigan Live)
- PENNSYLVANIA: Fracking company featured in ‘Gasland’ faces criminal pollution charges in Pennsylvania (Wall Street Journal $), Pennsylvania’s first proposed hazardous waste landfill would be near homes and schools (Environmental Health News)
- MONTGOMERY COUNTY: Strongest new buildings electrification rule passed in Maryland (Bloomberg Law, WYPR, WTOP, DCist, WUSA-9, DC News Now, RTO Insider), East Coast's first countywide gas ban passed in Md. (E&E $)
- CALIFORNIA: Why cultural burning might be an answer to California’s fire season (ABC10), This California city needs housing. But is a new development destined to burn? (Grist)
IMPACTS: How India’s caste system keeps Dalits from accessing disaster relief (The New Humanitarian)
GREAT BARRIER REEF: UN wants great barrier reef labeled ‘in danger.’ Australia says ‘no need.’ (Washington Post $, AP), Great Barrier Reef flagged as ‘in danger’ World Heritage site. What does this mean? (The Guardian, explainer), We all know the Great Barrier Reef is in danger – the UN has just confirmed it. Again (The Conversation)
HEAT: Rare Northwest heat wave gets a new name: 'Gray swan' (E&E $), Working in extreme heat is risky for pregnant workers. Advocates say passing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act could help. (The 19th* News)
HURRICANES: Even weak tropical cyclones have grown more intense worldwide – we tracked 30 years of them using currents (The Conversation)
WATER: California cities brace for water cuts and a fourth year of drought (Gizmodo), Pink snow is a red flag for the West’s water (High Country News)
RENEWABLES: Solar-panel shortage snarls US green-energy plans (Wall Street Journal $), Huge Australian wind farm secures $1.3 bln funding with no power contracts (Reuters), One man’s determined fight for solar power in rural Ohio (Inside Climate News), NY project will use high-tech sensors to get more clean energy onto grid (Canary Media), Tomatoes and solar panels could go well together (Canary Media)
DAPL: Judge orders Enbridge, tribe to form emergency pipeline plan (AP)
OIL & GAS: Deckhand dies near oil platform in Gulf of Mexico (E&E $, Houma Today), Deepwater oil and gas production will grow despite no new major GOM discoveries, report says (Houston Chronicle), Exxon to exit Equatorial Guinea amid wider Africa crude phaseout (Reuters), OPEC+ leans toward maintaining flat production, delegates say (Wall Street Journal $)
NUKES: NuScale’s small modular reactor design draft application has several ‘significant’ issues, NRC staff says (Utility Dive)
PLASTICS: Future global treaty on plastics must cut production to ease pollution, some states say (Reuters)
UTILITIES: Eversource, Avangrid aim to ease soaring Connecticut electricity bills as lawmakers push for hearings (Utility Dive), Georgia Power steadfast as decision nears in $2.9B rate case (AP), High electricity rates impede crucial but costly technology investments to manage rising DER levels: utilities (Utility Dive)
GRID: Maine Supreme Court upholds lease for $1B power line project (AP)
EVs: Competitors chip away at Tesla’s US electric vehicle share (AP), Why America doesn’t have enough EV charging stations (Wall Street Journal $)
AVIATION: World’s first test run of a hydrogen jet engine a success (The Verge)
DIRECT ACTION: Tyre Extinguishers deflate tyres of 900 SUVs in ‘biggest ever action’ (The Guardian)
AGRICULTURE: Cool bananas: Efficient cold chain technology for a clean agriculture boom (Energy Monitor), Restoring nature could depend on how countries help farmers (Reuters)
CARBON "PRICING": Big polluters given almost €100bn in free carbon permits by EU (The Guardian)
CARBON REUSE: Products made with captured greenhouse gas are reaching commercial scale (Wall Street Journal $)
FINANCE: TPG taps Montag for ambitious carbon-credit effort (Wall Street Journal $)
HOLIDAY GIVING: A gift guide for doing good: How to give in support of climate causes (Gizmodo)
LAUNDRY: Why you should almost always wash your clothes on cold (Washington Post $)
WILDLIFE: Here is what scientists are doing to save Florida's coral reef before it's too late (NPR), US bat species devastated by fungus now listed as endangered (AP)
INTERNATIONAL: Netherlands to buy out farmers amid pushback over nitrogen goals (Bloomberg $), Norway to postpone oil and gas licensing round (Reuters), South Africa central bank flags risks of erratic power, high debt (Reuters)
- KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON?: Sunak searches for Tory compromise over onshore windfarms U-turn (The Guardian)