PHILIPPINES FLOODING: Floods in Philippines leave 51 dead, over a dozen missing (AP, New York Times $)
PUT THE FUN BETWEEN YOUR LEGS: E-bikes could be a more affordable way to reduce emissions (NPR)
FOSSIL FUELED ENERGY CRISIS: Europe goes on Blackout watch as winter descends (Wall Street Journal $), Fear of global gas crisis eased by warm start to winter (Bloomberg $), France’s winter advice: brace for power outages — but no panic, please (Washington Post $), Britain opens nuclear fuel fund with aim to cut reliance on Russia (Reuters), Russia’s oil ban accelerates shift in global energy flows (Wall Street Journal $)
- GERMANY: Climate activists are fuming as Germany turns to coal to replace Russian gas (NPR, AP), Climate activists find a way to get Germany’s attention: Stop traffic (New York Times $), Germany’s Scholz tells citizens they need to keep saving energy (Bloomberg $)
CLIMATE DIPLOMACY: How Putin’s war and small islands are accelerating the global shift to clean energy, and what to watch for in 2023 (The Conversation), Extreme weather is now shaping international law (Axios)
- COP15: Nearly 200 countries approve a biodiversity accord enshrining human rights and the ‘rights of nature’ (Inside Climate News), Proposed EU nature restoration law could be the first big step toward achieving COP15’s ambitious plan to staunch biodiversity loss (Inside Climate News)
DENIAL & SCIENCE: Nobel-nominated vaccine expert warns of Covid complacency: ‘We’re still losing too many lives’ (The Guardian)
GOP vs. ESG: House majority gives Republicans a chance to take on ESG investing (The Hill)
EXTINCTION REBELLION: UK climate group calls temporary halt to disruptive protests (AP, Reuters, The Guardian, Bloomberg $, Daily Beast, FT $)
INFLATION REDUCTION ACT: 3 ways to tap billions in new money to go green — starting this month (Washington Post $), State, federal lawmakers direct millions toward climate resilience, adaptation projects (The Maine Monitor), The US passed a historic climate deal this year — here’s a recap of what’s in the bill (CNBC)
EPA: EPA investigating Colorado for discriminatory air pollution (AP)
DOI: Alaska offshore oil lease sale nets just one bid after being revived by Inflation Reduction Act (The Hill)
WHITE HOUSE: Biden’s dilemma: How do you define ‘green’ hydrogen? (E&E News), Government set to publish net zero review in early 2023 (Bloomberg $), Biden slammed as climate hypocrite for flying omnibus bill to St. Croix: 'Global warming being fought I see' (Fox News)
HOUSE: Republicans get a louder voice on climate change as they take over the House (NPR), The Pelosi Era comes to a close (New York Times $)
SENATE: Manchin threatens revolt over EV tax credit rollout (E&E $)
- HOPE YOU HAVE THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE: Farewell to the Senate’s biggest climate denier (HuffPost)
POLITICS: 5 doable resolutions for US climate policy in 2023 (Vox)
TRIBES: Northern Arizona tribe to get federal aid for flood damage (AP)
CITIES AND STATES: 3 reasons local climate activism is more powerful than people realize (The Conversation), NY state Governor Hochol signs landmark environmental justice legislation (Harlem World Magazine), A toxic stew on Cape Cod: Human waste and warming water (New York Times $), Delaware could join California in 2035 ban on sales of gas-powered cars (WHYY), N. Carolina doesn’t pick electric mix to lower carbon levels (AP), NYC launches $2 million study to ‘reimagine’ the Cross-Bronx Expressway (Gothamist), Seven tough issues that could disrupt Maryland Gov.-elect Moore’s climate agenda (Inside Climate News)
IMPACTS: The toll extreme weather took in the US during 2022, by the numbers (Washington Post $), Thousands of records shattered in historic winter warm spell in Europe (Washington Post $), Snapshots, hotshots and moonshots: Images of climate change in 2022 (Inside Climate News), Doulas work on the front lines of the climate crisis (Yes Magazine), Alpine slopes face snow shortage in unseasonably warm winter (AP), Heavy snow in Japan leaves 17 dead, dozens injured (AP)
HEAT: Is climate change linked to gun violence? A new study shows how KC area is impacted (Kansas City Star)
WILDFIRES: Hundreds of homes burned in massive wildfire in Chile's Vina del Mar (Washington Post $), More than 2,400 lives will be lost to bushfires in Australia over a decade, experts predict (The Guardian), Homes that survived the Marshall Fire harbored another disaster inside – here’s what we’ve learned about this insidious urban wildfire risk (The Conversation), How pop culture could hinder the public's understanding of wildfires (NPR), Summer wildfires increased fourfold in England in 2022 (The Guardian)
HURRICANES: Why the US is enlisting a spy agency during hurricanes (Washington Post $)
WATER: ‘The brink of disaster’: 2023 is a critical year for the Colorado River as reservoirs sink toward ‘dead pool’ (CNN), Conservationists fight to end Los Angeles water imports from Eastern Sierra’s Mono Lake (LA Times $)
BOOZE: Champagne’s future is at risk due to climate change (CNBC)
HOME HEATING: It’s freezing. Cranking up the heat is going to cost you (CNN)
RENEWABLES: Clean-energy funding stayed strong in weak market (Wall Street Journal $), Huge opportunities and huge threats loom for US clean energy in 2023 (Canary Media), Green-energy boom hinges on obscure tax rules (Wall Street Journal $), Spending bill earmarks to fund solar project bonanza (E&E News), Clean-energy funding stayed strong in weak market (Wall Street Journal $), How to pick a solar panel and battery backup system (New York Times $), Is a dam in rural Portugal a key to our alternative energy future? (New York Times $), Wind and solar boom set to go into high gear (Houston Chronicle)
- WIND: California offshore wind promises a new gold rush while slashing emissions (NPR), The US will need thousands of wind farms. Will small towns go along? (New York Times $), How ocean wind power could help the US fossil fuel industry (The Guardian), Soaring costs threaten US offshore-wind buildout (Wall Street Journal $), Offshore wind in 2022: Billions in bids and new confidence (E&E News)
BUILDINGS: Chimney sweeps are in hot demand as some turn to wood stoves with an expensive heating season (NHPR), ‘Rebound effect’ cancels out home insulation’s impact on gas use – study (The Guardian), ‘Amphibious’ houses are designed to float during floods (Yale Climate Connections)
LNG: 2022 will be remembered as the year the US became the world’s largest exporter of liquified natural gas (Inside Climate News, Bloomberg $)
PLASTICS: The climate impact of our insatiable plastic addiction (Bloomberg $)
UTILITIES: Power failures amplify calls for utility [TVA] to rethink gas (AP), DPU rejects bid to scrap wind contracts, approves them instead (Boston Globe $)
GRID: Attacks on 4 Washington substations cut power to thousands, officials say (New York Times $)
EVs: Hertz increased its fleet of electric rental cars — then, its profits exploded (The Cool Down), Shift to EVs triggers biggest auto-factory building boom in decades (Wall Street Journal $), 2022 was a big year for EV battery plants in the US how big? $73 billion big (NPR), 2023 will be the year of the electric SUV (Bloomberg $), ‘In the mood to roast it’: Tesla driver gives six warnings against buying the electric vehicle (Washington Examiner), Electric vehicles are complicating car safety testing (Washington Examiner), Record number of public electric vehicle chargers installed in UK in 2022 (The Guardian), Tesla reports record quarterly deliveries but misses estimates (Reuters, CNBC, New York Times $, Bloomberg $), Tesla in pole position in Norway's race to EV goal (Reuters), The race to make electric cars cheaper is making electric cars more expensive (Business Insider)
FOOD: How Central Ohio got people to eat their leftovers (New York Times $)
BOATS: In lakes and rivers, abandoned fiberglass boats present environmental hazards (NPR)
ACTIVISM: 8 artists who are grappling with climate change and imagining a better world (Yale Climate Connections)
BUSINESSES: General Electric set to spin off health unit—putting focus back on power division (Wall Street Journal $)
FINANCE: Taiwan central bank to incorporate climate change risks into forecasting (Reuters)
MEDIA: Liberal media made slew of dubious claims about climate change, year-end report finds (Fox News)
IN MEMORIAM: Victor Venema 1971 - 2022 (Sceptical Science, …and Then There's Physics)
WILDLIFE: Antarctica’s emperor penguins could be extinct by 2100 – and other species may follow if we don’t act (The Conversation), Hungry and on the march as the climate heats up: Termites in Australia (Washington Post $), The warming climate is altering a key amphibian habitat (Yale Climate Connections), To save the vaquita porpoise, conservationists entreat Mexico to keep gillnets out of the northern Gulf of California (Inside Climate News)
INTERNATIONAL: ‘Battle for the nation’s soul’: Norway faces debate about gas and oil wealth (The Guardian), ‘This nightmare is over’: Lula vows to pull Brazil out of Bolsonaro’s era of ‘devastation’ (The Guardian)
