Discrimination, Climate Change Hurt Women-Led Households, UN Says: Women-led rural households are hurt worse by the impacts of climate change, a new UN report finds. Compared to male-headed households, families headed by women across 24 poor and middle-income countries lost an average of 8% more income due to heat waves and 3% more income due to floods. The report, which highlighted how women are prevented from responding or adapting to climate-fueled crises by discriminatory limits on their rights to control their own lives by limiting land rights and decision making over work, is yet another finding of the disproportionate harms borne by women as a result of the mutually-reinforcing crises of climate change and misogyny. (AP)

'Lost Winter' Ends With Meteorological Extremes: Ten days of extreme weather across the country — including a heatwave in the central U.S., a massive blizzard in California, and (ongoing) wildfires in Texas — punctuated the beginning of meteorological spring and capped what many are calling a "Lost Winter." The warmest winter on record across the contiguous 48 states, according to AccuWeather, smashed records across the northern part of the country, where cold winters help define regional identities. Buffalo, Detroit, and Cleveland all broke daily records on Monday with high temperatures in the 70s, Topeka Kansas hit 82°F on Sunday, and Fargo, North Dakota, saw average temperatures 14°F above average from December through February. Climate change, mainly caused by the extraction and combustion of fossil fuels, also creates conditions favorable for massive precipitation events like the blizzard that dumped as much as 11 feet of snow on California's Sierra Nevada mountains. (Lost Winter, Fargo: Axios; Detroit, Buffalo, Cleveland, Topeka: Washington Post $; Warmest winter: E&E $; Blizzard: Axios, Washington Post $; Wildfires: AP, NBC, AP, Axios, Bloomberg $; Climate Signals background: Extreme heat and heatwaves, Extreme precipitation increase; Wildfires) 

Hearing Begins Over Puerto Rico Utility Debt Restructure: A crucial hearing in federal court regarding Puerto Rico's struggling power company and its proposed debt restructuring began Monday. Puerto Rico’s Electric Power Authority holds $9 billion in debt and has struggled to keep the lights on across an island replete with renewable energy resources but powered mainly by fossil fuels. The hearing, expected to last as much as two weeks, follows years of bitter negotiations between the territorial government and creditors. (AP)

CLIMATE DIPLOMACY: Africa to be $2.5 trillion short of climate finance by 2030, UN says (Reuters), US names officials to board of new global climate fund (E&E $)

CONSUMER BLAMING: Fury after Exxon chief says public to blame for climate failures (The Guardian), There’s a reason Exxon’s CEO says its emissions are your fault (Grist)

ISLAND NATIONS: Tuvalu preserves history online as rising seas threaten existence (Context)

SATELLITE: A new EDF-Harvard satellite will monitor methane emissions from oil and gas production worldwide (Inside Climate News, The Guardian, The Hill)

EPA: EPA’s expanded smog control plan draws support (E&E $), EPA faces $1B budget cut (E&E $), The climate dispute behind the EPA power plant rule split (Politico Pro $)

DOE: EIA reaches agreement with bitcoin miners, will destroy collected data and publish new survey proposal (Utility Dive), DOE agreement may revive review of crypto energy use (E&E $), Think tank energy expert heads to DOE's carbon capture office (E&E $)

DOI: Mining company can’t tap water needed for Okefenokee wildlife refuge, US says (AP), What‘s in, what’s out in Interior funding bill (E&E $)

WHITE HOUSE: John Kerry, the Forrest Gump of climate, bows out (Bloomberg $, E&E $, Wall Street Journal $, The Guardian), White House reviewing EPA power plant rule (Politico Pro $)

THE HILL: Here's what's in the first spending package (E&E $), Totals, policy riders, earmarks: What’s in the six-bill funding package (Politico Pro $)

HOUSE: House to approve bill elevating DOE's grid security work (E&E $)

ELECTIONS: Many environmentalists don’t vote. This group wants to change that (Bloomberg $)

TRIBES: Rejecting tribe's religious freedom claims, court declines to block mine (E&E $), ‘On stolen land’: Tribes fight clean-energy projects backed by Biden (Washington Post $), Culture and conservation thrive as Great Lakes tribes bring back Native wild rice (Mongabay)

CITIES AND STATES: In Louisiana, bodies are more regulated than industry (Atmos), Alabama Supreme Court IVF ruling renews focus on plastics, chemical exposure and infertility (Inside Climate News), As Massachusetts solar growth lags, stakeholders debate changes to state incentives (Energy News Network), As seas rise, task force recommends new bridges for Outer Banks island (Yale Climate Connections), Colorado River states ready separate cut plans (E&E News), New Jersey waters down proposed referendum on new fossil fuel power plant ban (AP), Washington state ballot initiative threatens $4.6B in climate funds (E&E $), Will Colorado jump-start national push to ban new oil wells? (E&E $)

FERC: Tribes seek to cement FERC policy giving them veto power (E&E $), FERC rejects $1.1B Bridgepoint-Energy Capital Partners private equity deal on competition concerns (Utility Dive)

IMPACTS: Iowa flood data boosts global climate resilience effort (E&E $), Record-smashing heat in the world’s oceans, explained (Bloomberg $), Greece records hottest ever winter, raising fears of summer fires (Reuters)

WATER: Trillions of gallons leak from aging drinking water systems, further stressing shrinking US cities (AP)

BUILDINGS: She’s a clean-energy pro. Electrifying her home was still a slog (Canary Media), How to go all-electric without blowing all your fuses (Washington Post $)

OIL & GAS: Gas prices jump as top US driller slashes output to fight glut (Bloomberg $), US LNG export capacity expected to be 76% higher than eu demand (Energy Monitor)

METHANE (ET AL.): New push to cut short-lived climate pollutant emissions (Axios)

GRID: 26% of grid batteries have defects, audit says (E&E $), EVs will put more stress on California’s grid. Smart charging can help (Canary Media)

CARBON PRICING: A carbon tax is back on the table (Heatmap $)

CARBON CAPTURE: Valero joins Summit's carbon capture project (Reuters)

POP CULTURE: Nonprofit creates ‘Bechdel test for climate change’ (The Hill)

INTERNATIONAL: China targets modest reduction in energy intensity for 2024 (Bloomberg $), EU cannot close borders to solar imports, energy chief says (Reuters), EU countries agree to extra year of gas saving measures (Politico Pro $), EU warns of winter energy price hike as Russia-Ukraine gas deal ends (E&E $)

• We need to talk about water – and the fact that the world is running out of it (The Guardian, George Monbiot column)
• Gas utility planning processes should be more like their electric utility counterparts (Utility Dive, Sarah Steinberg and Brad Cebulko op-ed)

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