ENVIRONMENTAL (IN)JUSTICE: Climate pledge mobilizes $120M to focus on environmental justice (Axios), Sustainability power player: Why climate activist Jerome Foster II uses his voice for the marginalized (Ebony)
- SINOPHOBIA: Anti-China fervor casts a dark cloud over solar and u.s. climate goals (Washington Post $)
FOSSIL FUELED ENERGY CRISIS: Greenpeace warns Europe’s LNG hunt risks locking in pollution (Bloomberg $), Widespread Russian oil price violations likely took place in Asia in the first quarter (Bloomberg $)
CLIMATE LITIGATION: The Supreme Court just unleashed a flood of lawsuits against Big Oil (Grist), SCOTUS decision helps climate case — D.C. attorney general (E&E $)
CLIMATE DIPLOMACY: UN Permanent Forum: Native women key relation to land (Navajo Times)
FIREFIGHTERS & FIRELIGHTERS: From farmworkers to land healers (Yes Magazine),
ACCURACY IN COMMUNICATION: Drop the ‘natural’ in natural gas, climate activists urge US officials (Bloomberg $)
SMALL EVs 😢: The Chevy Bolt, GM's popular electric vehicle, is on its way out (NPR, E&E News, OilPrice), The death of the Chevy Bolt is bad news for Earth (Gizmodo)
AGM SZN: Shareholders at three big banks reject climate resolutions (E&E $)
MEDIA: The voices of NPR: How four women of color see their roles as hosts (The 19th* News), Tucker Carlson, Don Lemon and Jeff Shell lost their TV news jobs. Misogyny has a lot to do with it, experts say. (The 19th* News)
INFLATION REDUCTION ACT: IRA to accelerate renewables but financial challenges still acute: Bank of America, Ørsted Americas (Utility Dive)
SCOTUS: SCOTUS Justice Gorsuch sold house to guy whose firm brought clean power plan lawsuit (Gizmodo)
EPA: EPA aims to end waiver for 'force majeure' air toxics releases (E&E $), EPA won’t require carbon capture at all power plants — sources (E&E News), For years, the EPA and Texas ignored warning signs at a chemical storage site. Then an inferno erupted. (Texas Tribune, Public Health Watch and Grist), DuPont fined $12 million for deadly gas release in Texas (Courthouse News)
DOE: DOE seeks LNG emissions strategies as it promotes exports (E&E $)
DOI: Conservation groups file suit over oil and gas production on federal lands (New Mexico Political Report, E&E $), Interior advances plans for offshore wind in Northeast (E&E $), Deb Haaland visits Tulalip to hear from boarding school survivors (Indian Country Today)
EXECUTIVE BRANCH: ‘A large portion of this base is going to be underwater’: US military hub adapts to climate (Wall Street Journal $)
WHITE HOUSE: White House slams passage of House GOP debt limit bill: ‘No chance of becoming law’ (The Hill), Biden climate vow imperils Indonesian oil refinery loan (Bloomberg $), Biden’s big bet to take on coal power (Politico), Climate protesters trail Podesta, Zaidi (E&E $), Energy transition is ‘more profound than the internet,’ says John Podesta (Bloomberg $), Podesta on Inflation Reduction Act: We have to get the guidance right (Bloomberg $)
THE HILL: Ag Republicans: Let's put IRA programs in farm bill (E&E $), Congress should adopt 30% tax credit, streamlined permitting for regional transmission, clean grid group says (Utility Dive), Congressional Democrats blast proposed repeal of green tax credits in debt limit bill (The Hill), Ethanol, clean energy fuel drama over GOP debt limit deal (Washington Post $)
HOUSE: Republicans pass debt-ceiling hike as US creeps toward financial calamity (Reuters), House passes debt bill with more clean energy cuts (E&E News, The Hill), House Republican moves to undo Boundary Waters protections (E&E $)
SENATE: Why the Senate isn't jumping at the opportunity to end the debt crisis (Politico Pro $), Q&A: Whitehouse on Big Oil probe, committee plans (E&E interview $), IRA repeal threats, Biden snub: What’s up with Joe Manchin? (E&E News), U.S. Sen. Manchin joins effort to repeal Biden solar tariff waiver (Reuters, The Hill, E&E $), Trio of Democratic senators back resolution to undo Biden's solar tariff pause (Politico Pro $), Senate passes resolution targeting truck rule but Biden pledges veto (Politico Pro $, The Hill)
ELECTIONS: Climate law emerges as focal point for 2024 elections (E&E $), Why Republicans see electoral gold in talking up energy (Politico Pro $)
NOMINEES & CONFIRMATIONS: Senate committee approves nominees for top EPA posts (E&E $, Politico Pro $, The Hill), Senate takes up 9th Circuit nominee (E&E $)
TRIBES: Federal storm disaster aid approved for California tribe (AP)
CITIES AND STATES: Massachusetts prepares to launch new electric vehicle rebates early this summer (Energy News Network), Montana Republicans bar transgender lawmaker from house floor (Washington Post $)
IMPACTS: Bringing climate risk home, one property at a time (The Hill), Dermatologists have bad news to share about climate change (Heatmap $)
HEAT: Record ocean temperatures put Earth in ‘uncharted territory’, say scientists (The Guardian), These are the places most at risk from record-breaking heat waves as the planet warms (CNN)
DROUGHT: Fish rescued from dried-out river as drought, torrid heat hit Spain (Reuters)
WATER: Lorelei Cloud is the first-ever tribal member on Colorado’s top water board. Here’s how she plans to tackle her new role. (The Colorado Sun), ‘It’s gotten really ugly.’ A community of freedom-lovers squares off against climate change in the Arizona desert (Yale Climate Connections)
RENEWABLES: Unlocking Indigenous energy (Indian Country Today), Enel says Oklahoma is top candidate for its US solar panel factory (Reuters), BPU asks grid operator to get ready for more offshore wind energy (Politico Pro $), How the rooftop solar industry is adapting to California’s new rulebook (Canary Media), SolarShare Wisconsin Cooperative aims to make investing in clean energy accessible to all (Yale Climate Connections)
"RENEWABLES": Renewable Natural Gas maker Divert secures $63M (Axios)
BATTERIES: Can Latin America really build an OPEC for lithium? (Heatmap $),
Battery startup Sparkz strikes partnership with auto workers union (Reuters), South Korean battery groups’ domination of EV market in US faces China challenge (FT $)
BUILDINGS & APPLIANCES: Airbnb will help some hosts pay for new heat pumps (Canary Media), German company sells heat pump business to US firm Carrier (AP, New York Times $)
OIL & GAS: Oil patch is poised for buyout wave as US drillers seek new land (Bloomberg $, Bloomberg $), CEO of shale giant Pioneer Natural Resources to retire (Wall Street Journal $), Why gas prices tend to fall right before summer (Axios)
PLASTICS: Meet Mr. Trash Wheel, a champion for the end of single-use plastics (Grist)
COAL: Bank: Asia must quit coal faster to stem worst climate woes (AP)
HYDROGEN: Green hydrogen startup Ohmium raises $250 million in latest funding round (Reuters, AP)
NUKES: Company seeks first-time restart of shuttered nuclear plant (AP), Idaho National Lab’s open-source microreactor design and test bed spur start-up interest (Utility Dive)
UTILITIES: ‘Billions of dollars sitting on the sidelines’: NextEra executives cite big plans for renewables, hydrogen (Utility Dive), Energy transition threatened by permit roadblocks, Duke ECO says (Bloomberg $), Florida's largest electric utility [FP&L] doubles solar goal (E&E $), Utilities seize control of the coming boom in transmission lines (Inside Climate News)
EVs: One in five cars sold in 2023 will be electric, says International Energy Agency (FT $), China charges ahead in electric car battle (FT $), Electric car sales surged by 55% last year to surpass 10 million, and China led the way: IEA (CNBC), EVs have a sabotage problem (Heatmap $), Kia aims to lift electric-vehicle sales after record profit (Bloomberg $), Tesla says lack of lithium refining capacity will become EV production ‘choke point’ (Utility Dive)
CARBON CAPTURE: New rules for power plants could give carbon capture a boost. Here’s how. (New York Times $), British industry in push to make carbon capture a reality (FT $)
WILDLIFE: Climate-hit wetlands lay bare Britain's biodiversity struggle (Context)
INTERNATIONAL: Dutch government outlines new package to reduce emissions (AP), EU agrees rules to boost use of sustainable fuels in aviation (FT $), EU lawmakers seek methane curbs on Europe's fossil fuel imports (Reuters), How 60 million South Africans are being failed by the west's green ambitions (Bloomberg $), London court allows Greenpeace’s legal challenge of UK oil, gas drilling plan (Bloomberg $), South Africa seeks renewable energy procurement proposals (OilPrice), Will Paraguay’s elections usher in a new era for the Itaipú dam? (Energy Monitor)