(ENVIRONMENTAL) RACISM: Study: race must be a factor in combatting air pollution (Grist)
BENZENE IN YOUR BEDROOM: Worried about your gas stove? Here’s what to do. (New York Times $)
CLIMATE DIPLOMACY: World well short of pace needed to meet UN’s 2030 sustainable development goals (AP), ‘Culture wars’ are risking paralysis of Europe’s green deal (Bloomberg $), UN adopts "historic" high seas treaty to protect marine life (Axios, E&E $), UN’s climate work at risk, after EU limits budget increase (Climate Home), West faces climate ‘hit’ if global clean energy push fails, warns fund chief (FT $)
- ...AND FINANCE: Macron's Paris summit seeks new life for global finance agenda (Reuters), What is the 'Bridgetown Initiative' asking for at Paris financial summit? (Reuters, explainer), How will the EU's new carbon border tax affect developing nations? (Context, explainer), Rihanna calls on Yellen, World Bank to ‘step up for communities hit hardest by climate emergencies’ (The Hill), Debt relief urgent for poor countries hit by climate shocks, says IMF chief (The Guardian)
BRETTON WOODS: Debt relief urgent for poor countries hit by climate shocks, says IMF chief (The Guardian)
FOSSIL FUELED ENERGY CRISIS: EU leaders set to call on China to help stop Ukraine war -EU official (Reuters), China’s imports of Russian crude oil hit a record high (OilPrice), Russia’s crude oil exports still higher than before it pledged to cut (OilPrice, Bloomberg $), Russia undercuts the OPEC+ script (Bloomberg $)
MONTANA CLIMATE TRIAL: Groundbreaking youth-led climate trial comes to an end in Montana (The Guardian), Mont. officials tell youth they can’t consider climate change (E&E News), Young plaintiffs’ attorney closes Montana climate change trial with call for action (AP)
COST OF OIL: Flares of despair: The human costs of Iraq’s oil – in pictures (The Guardian)
INEVITABLE: For tree-sitter, no hiding from heartbreak of deal to greenlight Mountain Valley Pipeline (Energy News Network), White House adviser Podesta says controversial pipeline was ‘inevitable’ (The Hill)
PRIVATE EQUITY: Private equity ties to Atlanta’s Cop City spark questions about the city’s state of democracy (Prism Reports)
INFLATION REDUCTION ACT: Clean energy sector debates impact of GOP efforts to repeal tax credits (The Hill)
AGENCIES: How the debt deal would modernize Nixon-era NEPA reviews (E&E News)
EPA: Federal court blocks key part of EPA's HFC rule (E&E $, Politico Pro $), EPA nominee: 200 enforcement jobs ‘will be restored’ (E&E $), Interest groups flood EPA with comments on tailpipe rules (E&E $), Watchdog: EPA bungled tracking of water infrastructure funding (Politico Pro $)
DOE: East Coast states float clean energy grid plan with DOE (E&E $), Northeastern states seek DOE support for transmission collaborative across three regions (Utility Dive), Panel to scrutinize DOE office involved in Microvast spat (E&E $)
DOI: How the courthouse came to be a major habitat for the ESA (E&E News)
WHITE HOUSE: Biden team cracks down on federal building emissions (E&E $, Washington Post $), Top Biden officials think their climate policies are GOP-proof (E&E $), VP Harris urged climate activism. Now protesters are targeting her gala. (E&E $)
HOUSE: House committee sets vote to block contentious BLM rule (E&E $), House GOP tees up two hearings on Biden vehicle plans (E&E $), Rep. Cori Bush did the math: $97 trillion of free labor during slavery (Black Wall Street Times)
SENATE: Senate Budget hearing to tie 'dark money' to 'Big Oil' (E&E $), Senate to release first spending bills (E&E News), Agrivoltaics finds new fans in US Senate (Canary Media), Cortez Masto seeks new water pipeline in the desert (E&E $)
POLITICS: Meet the Texas commissioners who could stymie Biden’s climate agenda (Politico), Congress is stuck on rewriting permit rules. SCOTUS brought its wrecking ball. (Politico), These influencers are shaping the GOP 2024 energy strategy (E&E News)
ELECTIONS: Marianne Williamson’s climate doctrine (Heatmap, interview $)
TRIBES: Tribal activists oppose Nevada mine key to Biden's clean energy agenda as 'green colonialism' (AP)
CITIES AND STATES: In rural Alaska, a long-televised weather show will stop airing this month (Washington Post $, Alaska Public Media), N.Y. to make home sellers reveal past flood damage to buyers (E&E $), Oil and gas setbacks may help protect children from harmful emissions (New Mexico Political Report), Ohio Republicans target Illinois climate law (E&E $), Railroad industry sues Calif. over zero-emission train mandate (E&E $)
IMPACTS: 53% of parents say climate change affects their decision to have more kids (CNBC), Heat, drought and fire: Europe’s year of extremes in 2022 will not be a ‘one-off,’ new report finds (CNN), Himalayan glaciers on track to lose up to 75% of ice by 2100, report says (Reuters), What is El Niño? (CNN)
INSURANCE: Homeowners in California and Florida are running out of options to protect their homes (NBC)
HEAT: Saving lives from extreme heat: Lessons from the deadly 2021 Pacific Northwest heat wave (The Conversation)
OCEANS: The North Atlantic is experiencing a ‘totally unprecedented’ marine heat wave (CNN)
WILDFIRES: Rare summer snow in Canada’s west won’t pause heat and fire threat long (Washington Post $)
HURRICANES: Hurricanes push heat deeper into the ocean than scientists realized, boosting long-term ocean warming, new research shows (The Conversation), Tropical Storm Bret spins toward eastern Caribbean as islands brace for heavy winds, flooding (AP, Washington Post $), Tropical Storm Bret struggling with wind shear (Yale Climate Connections)
DROUGHT: Drought could jeopardize cargo flows through Panama Canal (OilPrice)
TORNADOES: See the devastating aftermath of tornadoes in Mississippi (Gizmodo)
WATER: Texas farmers are worried one of the state’s most precious water resources is running dry. You should be, too. (Texas Tribune)
SCIENCE!: Hidden beneath the surface (Washington Post $), Bursting the bubble on climate change (CNN)
RENEWABLES: $5 a month for renewables? That’s too much for most Americans. (E&E $), Offshore wind costs could balloon by $280B, report finds (E&E $), Solar installations had a record Q1, but market volatility expected to persist through 2024, SEIA reports (Utility Dive), Transmission problems pose risk for renewables (OilPrice), Wind power seen growing ninefold as Canada cuts carbon emissions (Bloomberg $), Buying renewable energy doesn’t mean what you think (Washington Post $)
BATTERIES: New York City’s biggest battery to offer summer relief for power grid (Bloomberg $), EU could fall short of net-zero goals due to insufficient battery production: study (S&P Global), 4 die in fire caused by batteries in e-bike shop near Chinatown (New York Times $), How e-bike battery fires became a deadly crisis in New York City (New York Times $)
BUILDINGS: Federal buildings to get $1B sustainability upgrade from climate law (The Hill), We’re building roofs wrong. A different approach can save money and lives. (Washington Post $)
STORAGE: California’s storage portfolio could provide grid benefits of up to $1.6B per year by 2032, report finds (Utility Dive), Energy storage growth stalled in early 2023, projected to bounce back: report (Utility Dive)
MINING: Norway to open parts of Arctic seabed for exploration and mining (Bloomberg $)
OIL & GAS: Net zero world seen crushing Canada’s oil output 76% by 2050 (Bloomberg $)
PIPELINES: Court allows embattled Line 5 pipeline to keep operating (E&E $)
COAL: Closing the coal ash loophole (Grist)
HYDROGEN: Renewable group shifts position, shakes up hydrogen debate (E&E News), First Solar, 10 other companies urge IRS to adopt hourly time-matching rules for green hydrogen tax credits (Utility Dive), South Africa partners with Dutch, Danish governments on green hydrogen fund (Reuters, Bloomberg $)
NUKES: Swedish parliament passes new energy target, easing way for new nuclear power (Reuters)
STEEL: What it would take to make steelmaking greener (Bloomberg $)
UTILITIES: Duke Energy changed security reviews of critical assets following December substation attacks (Utility Dive)
EVs: Switching to EVs could prevent 89,000 US deaths — report (E&E $)
TRASH: The ‘sisyphus of trash’ struggles to clean relentless waves of plastic from a New York island’s beaches (Inside Climate News)
IN MEMORIAM: How Daniel Ellsberg opened the door to one of the most consequential climate stories of our time (Inside Climate News)
INTERNATIONAL: Ahead of elections, Argentina’s leaders wrap fossil fuels in the flag (Climate Home), France to shut down climate protest group citing public safety risks (The Guardian), Kenya set to finish power line holding up cross-border supply (Bloomberg $), Lacking land, Israel to cover its rooftops with solar panels (Reuters)