ENVIRONMENTAL (IN)JUSTICE: Green groups release equity guide for $20B climate fund (E&E $), In Chicago, environmental justice was birthed by a Black woman. A new podcast tells her story. (Capital B News), 'Inherited' podcast tells of loss, resilience and survival amid climate disasters (WBUR), PragerU course depicts Indigenous people as savages (Black Wall Street Times), To spur clean energy, transmission buildout, NRDC calls for focus on affected communities (Utility Dive), Trumpâs border wall caused âsignificantâ cultural, environmental damage, watchdog finds (Politico, E&E $), The Sierra Club hired its first Black leader. Turmoil over racial equity followed. (Washington Post $)
COP28: COP28 needs to show action not words for business, finance leaders (Reuters)
FOSSIL FUELED ENERGY CRISIS: Europe's renewables push undermines Russian weaponization of energy: Kerry (Reuters)
CLIMATE DIPLOMACY: Caribbean groups call on US for more climate finance (E&E $), Climate adaptation finance to Africa must increase tenfold, research shows (The Guardian), Neocolonial debt traps are forcing poorer countries to rely on fossil fuels (Truthout), Rich countries sink billions into oil and gas despite COP26 pledge (Climate Home), 'Summer of simmering': Guterres uses Asean summit to issue climate warning â video (The Guardian)
- AFRICA CLIMATE SUMMIT: Africa climate summit wraps up with seminal â but flawed â âNairobi Declarationâ (Energy Monitor), You can't win without us': Africa leaders eye bigger climate role (Context), Catalyzing Africaâs climate potential (New York Times $)
DENIAL: A scientist manipulated climate data. Conservative media celebrated. (E&E News)
MEDIA: Nonprofits investing $500M to help struggling local newsrooms (The Hill), When covering car-cyclist collisions journalists often use passive sentences (NPR)
INFLATION REDUCTION ACT: New rules help to answer whether clean energy jobs will also be good jobs (Inside Climate News), How Biden's climate law is fueling the US battery boom (Axios, Politico Pro $), Democrats' climate law projected to drive record increase in US solar installations, report finds (Politico Pro $)
AGENCIES: FEMA gives special status to 500 climate-vulnerable neighborhoods (E&E $), Forest Service taps infrastructure bonanza (E&E $)
EPA: Groups seek EPA intervention on âCancer Alleyâ air pollution (E&E $), EPA boosts enviro justice efforts with FOIA rule update (E&E $), EPA adds 3, proposes 4 new Superfund sites (E&E $), New Biden WOTUS rule set to take effect Friday (Politico Pro $)
DOI: Biden to cancel ANWR leases, expand Arctic drilling protections (E&E News), Biden to cancel oil & gas leases in Alaska wildlife refuge, but Willow project remains (Democracy Now), Greens lobby Biden for new Oregon national monument (E&E $)
WHITE HOUSE: Biden approved a big oil project. Now, heâs cracking down on drilling. (New York Times $), Podesta: Offshore wind economics 'will work out' (Politico Pro $)
THE HILL: 'I'm discouraged': Permitting overhaul on life support (E&E $)
HOUSE: Third House committee targets emissions reduction plans (E&E $), Willis blasts congressmanâs âinterferenceâ in Fulton Trump probe (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
SENATE: Popular Senate carbon tariff bill gains House champions (E&E News), Senate details spending plans, puts off energy bill (E&E $)
POLITICS: âSickeningâ: GOP explodes at Biden over ANWR decision (E&E News), Utility group taps Trump official as next CEO. Is it backsliding on climate? (E&E News)
ELECTIONS: Can climate policy survive a future GOP administration? (TIME)
NOMINEES & CONFIRMATIONS: Senate confirms 2 Federal Reserve nominees (E&E $), Sources: Manchin backs FERC energy analyst for commission seat (E&E News)
CITIES AND STATES: WAâs carbon-pricing auctions collect nearly $1.5 billion as allowances reach record price (Seattle Times), Cities are advertising themselves as âclimate havens.â Experts say thereâs no such thing (The Hill), How reflective paint brings down scorching city temperatures (Wall Street Journal $), Oil and gas industry adds billions to New Mexico's budget as economists warn of volatility (Carlsbad Current Argus), Heat and hurricanes: What keeps the NYC climate chief up at night (New York Times, Rohit Aggarwala interview $)
- CALIFORNIA: This California high school includes sustainability and green jobs in its curriculum (Grist)
FERC: Court upholds Trump-era rule that cuts funding to small solar (Politico Pro $)
SEEMS PRETTY BAD: Superbugs catch a ride on air pollution particles. Is that bad news for people? (NPR, NPR)
IMPACTS: Why the US is undercounting climate-related deaths and what it could mean for future prevention (WBUR), Antarctica warming much faster than models predicted in âdeeply concerningâ sign for sea levels (The Guardian), At least 39 dead as cyclone hits Brazil's southernmost state (Reuters, CBS), Earthquakes in a warming world (Atmos)
- EAST ASIA: In photos: flooding from heavy rain inundates China (Washington Post $), Extreme rain in Hong Kong turns city streets into raging rivers (Washington Post $)
- GREECE/BALKANS: Flooding in Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria causes at least 15 deaths (Washington Post $, CBS), Severe flooding in Greece leaves at least 6 dead and 6 missing, villages cut off (AP), âA biblical catastropheâ: Death toll rises to four as Storm Daniel lashes Greece (The Guardian), Climate breakdown has begun': This summer was the hottest on record (E&E $)
HEAT: America could be in for a rough fall (The Atlantic), Creating a heat standard for vulnerable farmworkers could take years (NPR), Adriana Carilloâs lifeâs work is to find migrants lost in the desert (Yale Climate Connections), Heat wave in DC area is most intense on record this late in year (Washington Post $), Too hot to handle: As schools reopen in a heat wave, a warning of the climate future (Boston Globe $)
- TENNIS: It's so hot at the US Open that one participant is warning that a player is 'gonna die' (CBS, NPR), Climate protester glues feet to floor at US Open, interrupts Coco Gauffâs semifinal win over Muchova (AP, New York Times $, The Guardian), Stopping tennis to call attention to climate change (New York Times $)
OCEANS: Scientists want to treat coral like Walt Disneyâs head in Futurama (Gizmodo, Washington Post $)
WILDFIRES: Scientists identify âopportunity hotspotsâ to tackle wildfire-related carbon loss in the US West (The Hill), In a charred moonscape, a band of hopeful workers try to save the Joshua Tree (NPR), US air quality hit as 1,008 wildfires burn across Canada (Axios), Alaska firefighters experiment with targeting blazes to save carbon (Washington Post $)
- MAUI: In fire-stricken Maui, sustainable land management is key (Modern Farmer), Maui beckons tourists, and their dollars, to stave off economic disaster after wildfires (AP)
HURRICANES: Jova becomes Western Hemisphere's strongest hurricane so far in 2023 ... for now (AccuWeather), Man struck by tree while cleaning hurricane debris is third Florida death from Hurricane Idalia (AP), President Biden declares 3 Georgia counties are eligible for disaster aid after Hurricane Idalia (AP), Tropical storm Margot is forecast to become a hurricane (New York Times $)
WATER: In Minnesota, thirsty crops put ground water levels at risk (MPR)
DEFORESTATION: Amazon deforestation continues to plummet (Grist)
RENEWABLES: Americaâs wind-farm revolution is broken (Wall Street Journal $), Climate tech investors push past politics in deal boom (Axios), Residential solar installations slow in Texas as US is on track for record growth (Houston Chronicle), Sun Cable: Mike Cannon-Brookes takes charge of âworld-changingâ solar project (The Guardian), US solar growth to surge 50% in annual record â report (E&E $)
- AFRICA: Africaâs vast solar and mineral resources at risk of being left untapped, IEA warns (Wall Street Journal $), Africa presents challenges, solutions in clean energy transition (Reuters)
'RENEWABLES': What are biofuels and why is it so confusing whether they are a source of clean energy or not? (AP)
OIL & GAS: The real reason that gas prices may soon climb â again (HuffPost)
PIPELINES: South Dakota regulator rejects Navigator CO2 Ventures carbon pipeline application (Reuters, E&E $)
UTILITIES: As Duke Energy rate hikes loom in N.C., deal could lessen blow for energy burdened (Energy News Network)
EVs: California scales back electric car rebates to focus on lower-income car buyers (CAL Matters) Toyota, a hybrid pioneer, struggles to master electric vehicles (New York Times $)
ICE-Vs: Stellantis sees long road ahead for internal combustion engine cars (Reuters)
AVIATION: 'It's delicious': Ryanair boss hit with cream cake in climate protest â video (The Guardian, The Guardian)
AGRICULTURE: In the Netherlands, pitchforks fly for an empire of cows (Mongabay)
BOOKS: EVs will save the planet â but not roadkill (Heatmap, Ben Goldfarb interview $)
FOOD: âMajor disruptorâ: El Niño threatens the worldâs rice supplies (The Guardian)
CATS: âSavvyâ cat reunited with owners weeks after floods destroyed Alaska home (Washington Post $)
CARBON REMOVAL: The business of carbon removal (NPR)
FINANCE: Bezos Earth Fund's Steer calls for more creative climate finance (Reuters), IMF, World Bank to step up cooperation on climate, debt, digital transition (Reuters)
IN MEMORIAM: Joseph Fiordaliso, who championed clean energy as head of New Jersey utilities board, dies at 78 (AP)
WILDLIFE: Another sea cucumber smuggling bust reveals ongoing problem (E&E $), Judge orders an ESA do-over for eastern hellbender (E&E $, AP)
INTERNATIONAL: Blow to Rishi Sunak as offshore wind auction appears to have zero bidders (The Guardian), Japan prosecutors arrest ex-vice foreign minister in bribery case linked to wind power company (AP)