BLM Issues Final Methane Rules For Public Lands: The Biden administration released a finalized rule to crack down on methane pollution from oil and gas operations on federal and tribal lands on Tuesday. The rule, announced by the Bureau of Land Management, a part of DOI, will require drillers to submit plans to track and fix methane leaks in their operations and develop plans to eliminate methane pollution from leaks, venting, and flaring. It will also charge royalties on the methane gas released (purposely or not) into the atmosphere; BLM estimates the rule will bring in $50 million in annual royalties. Methane, the main component in so-called "natural gas," traps more than 80 times more heat in the atmosphere than CO2 over a 20-year time scale. More than 44 billion cubic feet of methane gas pollution was released from operations on public lands between 2010 and 2020 — enough to power more than 670,000 homes. The BLM rule follows the EPA's release of a more comprehensive methane reduction plan at COP28 last December and a proposed rule cracking down on methane leaks from pipelines earlier this month. The U.S. is the world's biggest methane polluter from oil and gas operations. The BLM rule will likely be challenged in court by fossil fuel interests. (BLM rule: (Washington Post $, AP, E&E News, Politico Pro $; Lawsuits: E&E News)

Climate Change Threatens 70% Of Wine-Growing Regions: A much as 70% of the world's wine-growing regions, from Spain, Italy, and Greece to southern California, will become potentially or completely incapable of producing premium-grade wine if global temperatures rise more than 2°C (3.6°F) above pre industrial levels, a new study warns. Grape harvests have already advanced by 2–3 weeks over the past 40 years. The research, published Tuesday in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, found 29% of current growing regions would be completely unable to produce premium wine due to the extreme climate conditions, while another 41% would be unable to produce premium wine without undertaking certain adaptation measures. (The Hill, CBS, Salon, Decanter)

Entergy Floating Gas Plant Plan 'A Loop Of Irony': A major Louisiana utility company wants to build a floating methane gas-fired power plant to supply electricity to oil and gas infrastructure. Entergy Louisiana says it is necessary to make those operations more resilient to extreme weather like hurricanes because land in the area is disappearing from a combination of subsidence and sea-level rise, Floodlight Reports. Climate change, mainly caused by the extraction and combustion of fossil fuels like oil and gas, is causing sea levels to rise and making extreme hurricanes more frequent. “It’s very clear that we are in a loop of irony at this point where the hotter it gets, the more water there is, and the less land there is as a result of oil and gas extraction, all while Louisiana is so interconnected to those international oil and gas systems,” Logan Atkinson Burke, executive director of the Alliance for Affordable Energy, told Floodlight. The plan is reminiscent of Entergy Louisiana's sister firm Entergy New Orleans, which built a methane-gas fired power plant in Eastern New Orleans to provide power after major hurricanes. That plant was built in 2020 over the objections of local residents calling for distributed renewable energy. The next year, that plant failed to prevent dangerous weeks-long (and longer) power outages after Hurricane Ida. (Floodlight); Climate Signals background: Hurricanes, Sea-level rise)

(ENVIRONMENTAL) RACISM: California’s Latino communities most at risk from exposure to brain-damaging weed killer (Inside Climate News)

TIME ITSELF: Climate change is altering earth’s rotation enough to mess with our clocks (Washington Post $, Heatmap $, AP)

CLIMATE DIPLOMACY: China challenges Biden's EV subsidy rules at WTO (Politico Pro $, E&E $), John Kerry’s four decades of raising climate awareness on the world stage (TIME)

INSURANCE: Amid record disaster losses, Swiss Re issues warning (Axios)

KEY BRIDGE: Bridge collapse wreaks havoc on coal, car supply chains (E&E $), Auto industry braces for ‘weeks of disruption’ after bridge collapse (Politico Pro $), Will Congress pay for a new Baltimore bridge? (E&E $), Lessons from another huge bridge disaster (E&E $), Another wayward container ship shows world trade’s fragility (New York Times $), Why investigators are looking into ‘dirty fuel’ in Baltimore bridge collapse (Washington Post $)

EPA: EPA takes first step toward a rule for existing gas plants (E&E $), Arizona GOP leaders, Chamber sue EPA over new air pollution standard (The Hill)

DOE: Biden DOE backs restart of retired nuclear plant with conditional $1.5B loan guarantee (Politico Pro $), DOE launches initiative to build EV battery workforce (E&E $), DOE makes $1.5B conditional loan commitment to help Holtec restart Palisades nuclear plant (Utility Dive), The ​‘clean cement’ projects getting $1.5B in Biden admin funds (Canary Media)

DOI: Pipeline protestor disrupts Haaland at Michigan forum (E&E $)

SEC: Energy companies renew bid to halt SEC climate reporting rule (E&E $)

TREASURY: Yellen to warn China against flood of cheap green energy exports (New York Times $)

EXECUTIVE BRANCH: US military drains fuel from tank facility that leaked fuel into Pearl Harbor’s drinking water (AP)

WHITE HOUSE: Biden’s uneasy energy empire (Politico), White House greenlights Endangered Species Act changes (E&E $)

THE HILL: Congress' bid to overhaul permitting faces deadline as key lawmakers eye exits (Politico Pro $), The real point of Republicans’ energy week (Heatmap $)

ELECTIONS: USAID might stop climate aid, boost fossil fuels under Trump (E&E $)

TRIBES: IPLC: the acronym that is keeping Indigenous advocates up at night (Grist)

CITIES AND STATES: Justice vetoes solar bill aimed at drawing industry to West Virginia (Dominion Post), California is preparing to defend itself — and the nation — against Trump 2.0 (Politico)

IMPACTS: ‘Everybody has a breaking point’: How the climate crisis affects our brains (The Guardian), After a hurricane or wildfire, communities can be overwhelmed by debris (Yale Climate Connections), Canada's maple syrup reserve is at a 16-year low (NPR), Climate change may accelerate world’s most powerful ocean current (E&E $), Here's what to know about dengue, as Puerto Rico declares a public health emergency (NPR), How climate-driven migration could change the face of the US (NPR), Sinking coastal lands will exacerbate the flooding from sea level rise in 24 US cities, new research shows (Inside Climate News), As climate change threatens cultural treasures, museums get creative to conserve both energy and artifacts (Grist)

HEAT: Extreme heat drives up food prices. just how bad will it get? (Grist), Extreme heat summit to urge leaders to act on threat from rising temperatures (The Guardian)

WILDFIRES: Yes, beavers can help stop wildfires. And more places in California are embracing them (LA Times $)

(DE)FORESTATION: Brazil, France launch $1.1 bln program to protect Amazon rainforest (Reuters)

RENEWABLES: Canada had designs on being a hydro superpower. Now its rivers and lakes are drying up. (Wall Street Journal $), Heat and drought are sucking US hydropower dry (The Verge), Solar growth clashes with endangered species habitat — study (E&E $)

• NEW ENGLAND WIND: Is offshore wind at a ‘breaking point’? New England will soon find out. (E&E $), Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut receive proposals for offshore wind projects (AP, E&E $, Reuters)

BUILDINGS: Berkeley will repeal its landmark ban on natural gas in new homes (New York Times $)

STORAGE: This Kentucky coal mine could transform into pumped-hydro grid storage (Canary Media)

METHANE: Hydroelectricity is a hidden source of methane emissions. These people want to solve that (BBC)

OIL & GAS: Oil and gas executives blast ‘LNG pause,’ call natural gas a ‘destination fuel’ (Inside Climate News), When natural gas prices cool, flares burn in the Permian Basin (Inside Climate News), Video: How the US fell in love with fossil gas — and LNG (Canary Media)

COAL: A Kentucky mining disaster killed dozens and destroyed homes. Will a lawsuit bring change? (The Guardian)

UTILITIES: A new era of price-based demand response emerges, but utilities and regulators need proof of its potential (Utility Dive), ERCOT to survey customers about cost of power outages (Utility Dive)

GRID: Grid watchdog’s extreme weather plan splits electricity industry (E&E $)

CRYPTO: Can Bitcoin mining really support renewable energy? (The Verge)

AGRICULTURE: Chemical capture: the power and impact of the pesticide industry (Civil Eats), What will it take to protect India’s angry farmers from climate threats? (Climate Home), Indoor farms are remaking the produce market — at a cost to the planet (Washington Post $)

FINANCE: BlackRock's Fink shows the realpolitik of the energy transition (Axios), Dutch pension funds willing to invest billions in energy transition (Reuters), Big Oil's climate planning not good enough, investor group says (Reuters)

INTERNATIONAL: Climate change, AI in focus at Commonwealth's Oct meet in Samoa (Reuters), NSW may be forced to pay $150m a year to extend life of coal-fired plant, energy expert predicts (The Guardian)

• EV home charging: I did the math—and saved hundreds of dollars (Wall Street Journal, Joanna Stern commentary $)
• Texas Board of Education puts oil and gas firms ahead of kids, hurting their finances and future (Houston Chronicle, Chris Tomlinson column)
• Race, the construction industry and the Francis Scott Key Bridge (The Hill, Roger House op-ed)
• Election year opportunities — and pitfalls — for emerging energy companies (Utility Dive, Steve Roberts and Nicole Kelly op-ed)
• The oil weapon against Moscow (Wall Street Journal, Andriy Yermak op-ed $)

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