OIRA Revamp Released: The White House released the first proposed overhaul of how the government evaluates proposed regulations on Thursday, suggesting changes to the regulatory process not updated in at least 20 years. The new Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs guidelines and best practices for how federal rules are drafted would update how the costs and benefits of proposed rules are calculated to more accurately and equitably reflect their impact. Among the changes are a reduced annualized discount rate (thus giving more equal weight to future impacts in cost/benefit analyses as future costs are discounted less) and changes to incorporate the outsized effects of a rule's benefit to low-income communities compared to wealthy ones (because $100 given to a low-income person has a greater impact than $100 given to a wealthy person). “This is a huge issue for climate change because we have to reduce emissions now but the consequence of those reduced emissions are spread over centuries,” Billy Pizer of Resources for the Future told The Hill. The OIRA revamp — which President Biden ordered on the first night of his presidency — will be finalized after a 60-day comment period ending June 6. (E&E News, The Hill)

EPA Set To Release Major New Tailpipe Regs: The EPA will announce major new limits on cars' tailpipe pollution on Wednesday that could dramatically increase the number of Electric Vehicles sold in the U.S. in less than a decade. The new EPA rules will effectively require two-thirds of new passenger vehicles sold in 2032 to be EVs — just 5.8% of new cars sold last year were fully electric. Though many carmakers have invested in EV production in recent years, the proposed regulations would require substantial improvements by carmakers that have historically resisted efforts to reduce the climate damage caused by their products. The reported move would be the federal government's most significant climate regulation to date, and follows the EU's 2035 phase-out of gas-powered cars. (Washington Post $, New York Times $, CNBC, Wall Street Journal $)

Warming Juices MLB Home Run Numbers: Climate change is increasing the number of dingers hit in Major League Baseball by about 50 home runs per year, or 500 since 2010, a study published Friday in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society finds. Warmer air is thinner, reducing drag and allowing baseballs to fly farther, confirms the study, which examined 220,000 individual hits across 100,000 Major League Baseball games. Though a 1% increase in the likelihood of a home run with every 1°F warmer daily temperatures may not sound like much, a major league hitter has just 425-450 milliseconds (0.425-0.450 seconds) in which to assess the pitcher's release, judge the ball's spin, location, speed and expected path and break, and then bring the bat into the contact zone, so every little bit matters — especially when that extra heat also takes an especially high toll on pitchers.  “Obviously I’m not a fan in any way as a pitcher,” Colorado Rockies reliever Brent Suter told the AP. “500 seems a lot, but I could believe it. … I remember pitching some games I was just, like ‘This does not feel like normal heat. It’s crazy hot.’” The study found the impacts of climate change were the greatest at the friendly confines of Chicago's Wrigley Field, where the Cubs still play more day games than most other teams, and were the smallest at Tampa Bay's domed Tropicana Field. “Global warming is going to reshape so many of the things that we care about in so many pernicious and subtle ways,” lead author Chris Callahan told the AP. “And the fact that we’ll get to go to fewer baseball games played in open air is not a civilization-ending crisis, but it is another sign of the way that we have reshaped our lives due to our greenhouse gas emissions.” (AP, Washington Post $, Bloomberg $, Gizmodo, Smithsonian Magazine, The Guardian, TIME, CNN, CNN, E&E $, NPR, The Conversation, Christopher Callahan and Justin Mankin author commentary)

ENVIRONMENTAL (IN)JUSTICE: The unequal racial burdens of rising seas (New York Times $), Stop blaming overpopulation for climate change—it’s deeply problematic (Vogue), These young Black climate activists are impacting the planet in big ways (Ebony), We have the power to demand climate justice – it's about time we used it (Glamour UK)

COP CITY: Atlanta wants to build an 85-acre ‘Cop City.’ These groups are trying to stop it. (HuffPost)

COP28: COP28 president: World needs business mindset to tackle climate crisis (The Guardian)

CLIMATE LITIGATION: Sixteen kids are fighting the climate crisis in court (Rolling Stone), Hawaii transportation department must face kids’ climate lawsuit, judge rules (Reuters)

(CLIMATE) DIPLOMACY: After six decades, a water treaty between India and Pakistan is in trouble (NPR), Suddenly, the US is a climate policy trendsetter (Canary Media)

• BRETTON WOODS: The World Bank is getting a new chief. Will he pivot toward climate action? (New York Times $

DENIAL: Florida health officials removed key data from COVID vaccine report (Tampa Bay Times, AP)

INFLATION REDUCTION ACT: A renter’s guide to the Inflation Reduction Act (Vox)

AGENCIES: NASA’s powerful new air quality monitor has launched into space (The Verge), 'Uncharted levels': Gases fueling climate change still rising at an alarming rate, NOAA says (USA Today)

EPA: Vetoed but not forgotten: What’s next for WOTUS? (E&E News)

DOE: DOE hydrogen hubs: 4 issues to watch (E&E News), Grid backlog of renewable projects surges — DOE lab (E&E $)

DOI: Meet Biden’s new offshore energy chief (E&E News), A massive Arctic drilling project is moving forward despite Biden’s campaign promises (Mother Jones), BLM delays Trump midnight orders opening Alaska lands (E&E $), Interior rolls out grants for efforts to refill Lake Mead (E&E $)

HOUSE: Republicans probe DOE report on financial conflicts (E&E $)

CITIES AND STATES AND DISENFRANCHISED COLONIAL TERRITORIES: Tennessee becomes new front in battle for American democracy (AP), This Louisiana town's 100-year-old gas lines are dangerous. Here's what's being done. (NOLA.com), Texas’s plan to avoid deadly blackouts could cost $18 billion (Bloomberg $), Microchips or microgreens? Oregon tweaks farm protection law (AP), Plan aims to cut emissions, even as North Carolinians drive more (WFAE), Puerto Rico’s utility requests $8.2B in federal investment for grid reliability projects: LUMA (Utility Dive), To mitigate climate change, Brown launches initiative to develop new sustainable energy solutions (Boston Globe $), WVa regulators to hear proposal to keep power plant open (AP), California seeks federal help for salmon fishers facing ban (AP, NPR)

IMPACTS: ‘Headed off the charts’: World’s ocean surface temperature hits record high (The Guardian), Seas have drastically risen along southern US coast in past decade (Washington Post $), Climate change will shift Richmond [Virginia]'s gardening season (Axios), Bumpy airplane ride? Blame climate change (NPR), New Mexico is losing a form of spanish spoken nowhere else on earth (New York Times $), New research shows how rapidly ice sheets can retreat – and what it could mean for Antarctic melting (The Conversation), Snow, floods and wildlife in peril: Grueling winter leaves Yosemite scarred (The Guardian), Why severe weather this year has been so destructive and deadly (CNN), A case of the disappearing waves (New York Times $), Small towns reclaim abandoned ski areas as nonprofits (AP)

• CALIFORNIA: The science behind California’s extremely wet winter, in maps (Washington Post $), Explosions, crushed buildings and flood fears. Mammoth Lakes [California] thrown into chaos by snowfall (LA Times $), California got all the snow and rain it needed. Now those could threaten a disaster. (Washington Post $), Why California's floods may be 'only a taste' of what's to come in a warmer world (NPR)

HEAT: Earth has second-warmest March even before arrival of planet-heating El Niño (Washington Post $, The Hill)

WILDFIRES: More than a decade of megadrought brought a summer of megafires to Chile (Inside Climate News)

HURRICANES: Heat-driven shifts in wind patterns could increase hurricane risks along US coastlines, researchers say (ABC, AP)

DROUGHT: Drought-ravaged Colorado River gets relief from snow. But long-term water crisis remains (LA Times $), The Great Salt Lake seemed like it was dying. But there’s been a ‘miraculous’ shift. (Washington Post $)

WATER: Farmers on the California-Arizona border may face their first-ever cuts to water (NPR), What happens when we run out of water? Thanks to climate change, a dystopian premise is coming true (Salon)

DEFORESTATION: Logging plan on Yellowstone’s border shows limits of Biden greenhouse gas policy (Inside Climate News)

HEALTH: A University of Maryland health researcher probes the climate threat to those with chronic diseases (Inside Climate News)

HOUSING: 'Big short' investor warns of new disaster in housing market (Newsweek), The mortgage that will pay to make your home more climate friendly (CNBC)

RENEWABLES: In Minnesota, ‘smart panels’ seen as a possible alternative to expensive electrical upgrades (Energy News Network), PacifiCorp plans nearly fourfold increase of solar and wind portfolio by 2032 (Utility Dive)

"RENEWABLES": Last push for ethanol as summer driving season nears (E&E $), Renewable diesel booms despite concern over effect on food prices (Wall Street Journal $)

BATTERIES: Tesla to build new China plant for energy storage battery (Wall Street Journal $, Bloomberg $, Reuters)

BUILDINGS: Feds say building codes lag. Some want to keep it that way. (E&E $)

OCEANS MINING: Drilling for Earth’s climate secrets buried under the sea (WHYY)

METHANE: Gulf oil platforms emit more methane than reported — analysis (E&E $)

OIL & GAS: In Africa’s Okavango, oil drilling disrupts locals, nature (AP), Montana court vacates air permit for NorthWestern Energy’s $275M Laurel power plant (Utility Dive, AP), Exxon mobil eyes potential megadeal with shale driller Pioneer (Wall Street Journal $, Wall Street Journal $), N.M. cites 6 companies for methane flaring and venting (E&E $), OPEC+ shock revives oil bulls even as demand warnings flash (Bloomberg $), Saudi Arabia-led oil cuts run into gusher of alternative supplies (Wall Street Journal $)

AWKWARD: Did a Harvard environmental law professor lobby for an oil company? (Gizmodo)

PIPELINES: $3M fine in Miss. carbon capture pipeline rupture (E&E $)

COAL: Earth could warm 3 degrees if nations keep building coal plants, new research warns (Inside Climate News)

GRID: A Maine jury will decide whether a transmission line can go forward (Boston Globe $), States push back on the power grid's 'shadow government' (Politico Pro $)

EVs: Calculating the fastest road to an electric car future (New York Times $), Tesla cuts prices again as it seeks to lure new buyers (Wall Street Journal $, Bloomberg $, The Hill), Walmart charging plan shakes up EV world (E&E $), Walmart just illustrated how mainstream EVs are now (Grist), With electric delivery vehicles in high demand, GM’s Brightdrop sold out for the year (SmartCities Dive)

MONARCHY: King’s green energy firm was investigated after 38-day greenhouse gas leak (The Guardian)

DIRECT ACTION: Climate change activists glue themselves to road to Alpine tunnel (Reuters)

BOOKS: Picture book helps kids learn about the downsides of gasoline (Yale Climate Connections), Four new provocative science fiction visions of the future (Washington Post $)

MOVIES: ‘How to Blow up a Pipeline’ turns fossil fuels into a movie villain (Bloomberg $), Heist thriller 'How to Blow up a Pipeline' explores the case for destructive protest (NPR)

MUSIC: A composer’s prayers for the earth, and humanity, in the age of climate change (Inside Climate News)

CARS, OTOH, ARE COMPLETELY SAFE: Some e-bike batteries can explode. Here’s how to stay safe. (Washington Post $)

DAILY LIFE: Sustainability power player: Environmentalist Leah Thomas shares 5 tips to lead a more sustainable life (Ebony)

CARBON CAPTURE: Louisiana could take control of carbon capture permits in the state. How would that work? (The Advocate)

FINANCE: Businesses face more and more pressure from investors to act on climate change (NPR)

BUT MAKE IT FASHION: Kyrgyz eco-activist's 'trashion' tackles a burning problem (Reuters)

SEAWEED: Seaweed recycling startups get funded, as Sargassum bloom hits Florida (Axios)

IN MEMORIAM: Ben Ferencz, last living Nuremberg prosecutor, dies at 103 (Washington Post $, AP, Reuters, Deutsche Welle, BBC, CBS, The Guardian)

WILDLIFE: How beaver dams can help fight wildfires (ABC, ABC)

INTERNATIONAL: Australia wants to turn wilderness restoration into an investable market (Wall Street Journal $), UK insulation scheme would take 300 years to meet government targets, say critics (The Guardian)

• Biden betrays our generation by greenlighting the Willow Project (CNN, Vanessa Nakate, Sophia Kianni, and Greta Thunberg op-ed)
• Banks must deploy cash to ease climate risk, not hide behind net-zero emissions pledges (MarketWatch, Aditi Sen op-ed)
• If Gavin Newsom really wanted to go after Big Oil, here’s what he would do (LA Times, Brandon Dawson op-ed $)
• The superyachts of billionaires are starting to look a lot like theft (New York Times, Joe Fassler op-ed $)
• One decision can help get Biden’s climate goals back on track (The Hill, Dan Becker and Maya Golden-Krasner op-ed)
• A land deal threatens Alaska’s national conservation lands (Truthout, Deborah Williams op-ed)
• Finally! A bill to protect workers from extreme heat (Las Vegas Sun, Gerardo Velásquez op-ed)
• Biden’s latest ‘compromise’ is an unacceptable betrayal of trans students (MSNBC, Hayes Brown op-ed)
• Catastrophic floods and breached levees reveal a problem California too often neglects (LA Times, Jeffrey Mount and Brett Sanders op-ed $)
• Eliminate useless uses of forever chemicals (The Hill, Jonas LaPier and Carol Kwiatkowski op-ed)
• How to avoid apocalypse fatigue (The Hill, William S. Becker op-ed)
• The world is changing — our approach to health must change, too (The Hill, Mandeep Dhaliwal op-ed)
• Australia’s climate battle has moved on – leaving deniers behind (The Guardian, Michael Mann op-ed)
• Keep clean water flowing by helping low-income water, wastewater consumers bills (The Hill, Robert F. Powelson op-ed)
• These tiffs over electric vehicles are not what they seem (New York Times, Robinson Meyer op-ed $)
• World’s road out of poverty is paved by energy — and plenty of it (The Hill, Scott Tinker op-ed)
• Can the UAE help get a planet-saving methane deal at COP28? (The Hill, Durwood Zaelke and Paul Bledsoe op-ed)
• The climate left rolls over Kathy Hochul (Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal Editorial Board $)
• State courts are no place for climate lawsuits (The Hill, Donald J. Kochan op-ed)

Five Right-Wing Outlets Air Grievances At The View's Views On Right-Wing Grievance Politics

Last week, Virginia Kruta at The Daily Wire was very offended that comedian Whoopi Goldberg, per Kruta's ‘extensive’ reporting, "mocked conservatives during Thursday’s broadcast of 'The View,' claiming that she hadn’t heard as many people denying climate change since their houses had been 'blown down … for the fourth or the fifth time.'" 

Kruta recaps the conversation, embedding a tweet thread from fellow right-wing media figure Nicholas Fondacaro, whose job at NewsBusters apparently consists mostly of recapping daytime TV shows, particularly The View, to generate conservative outrage.

And that's exactly what happened. In addition to Fondacaro's NewsBusters story and the one at The Daily Wire, The Daily Caller's Nicole Silverio ran a story about comments co-host and attorney Sunny Hostin made. Hostin argued "that the Republican Party is the party of dinosaurs" and explained, "it's clear that they don’t have any proposals, they don’t have a platform right now. It’s just grievance politics, it’s just scaring people. What I worry about is, they still want power, and when you still want power, the only way to get it when you don’t have a platform is by cheating.”

Echoing Kruta, Fondacaro, and Silverio, Breitbart's Pam Key also published a story about The View's view that conservatives are swept up in grievance politics. However, Key did include a quote from The View co-host and former Trump administration White House Communications Director Alyssa Farah Griffin in which she says that she's "a Republican who wants to address gun violence" but "the current GOP is… not offering solutions.” Griffin continued, “We deny the existence of climate change, we are going to discriminate against the LGBTQ commmunity, and we will say we cannot even get anything done on gun violence." 

Not to be outdone was Julia Johnson at The Washington Examiner, who was the only one of the lot who did even a smidge of actual reporting. Johnson found a different source for The View clip besides Fondacaro's tweet, and focused on co-host and comedian Joy Behar's view that "this is the beginning of the end of the Republican Party," because Gen Z is over here "like 'Hey, whoa, hold up, I don’t want to get killed in school. I don't want to, you know, be in the middle of another tornado or whatever the hell is going on in this country.'"

Like three of the other four outlets making "news" out of short daytime TV clips, Johnson also included Hostin's view that the GOP is all about "grievance politics."

So, daytime talk show hosts expressed the view that the GOP was too busy with grievance politics to do things that Gen Z cares about, like addressing climate change, and in response, five different conservative websites published grievances about The View. Typical. 

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