CLIMATE DIPLOMACY: How the US wants to pressure China to help avert climate catastrophe (Washington Post $)
DENIAL: False claim 'albedo effect' proves global warming is engineered | fact check (USA Today), Joe Rogan is fueling climate misinformation on TikTok, watchdogs warn (Inside Climate News)
MVP: Manchin gets Mountain Valley Pipeline deal into debt bill (Bloomberg $), Manchin pipeline in debt ceiling deal prompts Democratic pushback (The Hill), Debt limit bill includes permitting reforms and transmission study, authorizes Mountain Valley pipeline (Utility Dive), Debt deal includes a green light for a contentious pipeline (New York Times $), Debt limit bill would speed completion of controversial West Virginia gas pipeline (CNBC), Debt limit deal would allow controversial Mountain Valley pipeline's completion to be expedited (CBS)
THE HILL: Debt ceiling bill clears key procedural hurdle to advance to House floor (Politico $), Why the debt bill's energy provisions are a BFD (Axios), Environmental groups slam ‘poison pills’ in debt ceiling bill (Grist), Biden’s climate gamble in the debt deal (E&E News), First Republican publicly supports ousting McCarthy as Speaker (The Hill), ‘Terrible public policy’: why the debt deal infuriates climate activists (Washington Post $)
POLITICS: Another target of GOP spending cuts: renewables for farmers (Grist)
ELECTIONS: Tim Scott's "happy warrior" climate vibes (Axios)
CITIES AND STATES: Native Hawaiians reclaim energy sovereignty (Axios), Georgia peach crop decimated by bad weather, warming climate (WABE)
~CALIFORNIA: Catastrophe exposure' pushes state farm to stop selling insurance in California (Gizmodo), No kidding: California overtime law threatens use of grazing goats to prevent wildfires (AP), Can the ‘California effect’ survive in a hyperpartisan America? (New York Times $)
IMPACTS: New alarms over consequences of Antarctic ice melt (Axios), As water levels drop, the risk of arsenic rises (Inside Climate News), Land around the US is sinking. Here are some of the fastest areas (Washington Post $), California builds the future, for good and bad. What’s next? (New York Times $)
HEAT: Summer heat (New York Times $)
RENEWABLES: Harnessing the same forces as lightning, new technology extracts electricity from humidity (Boston Globe $)
BUILDINGS: Testing New York apartments: how dirty is that gas stove, really? (New York Times $)
EVEREST: Climate change to blame for up to 17 deaths on Mount Everest, experts say (The Guardian)
TRANSMISSION: A backed-up grid threatens clean energy growth from Virginia to Illinois (Canary Media)
DATA: Environmental platform urges more than 1,600 high-emitting firms to disclose data (Reuters)
REMOVAL: Should we pull carbon out of the air with trees, or machines? (Grist), Rock ‘flour’ from Greenland can capture significant CO2, study shows (The Guardian), DOE lab assesses CCS viability in California (E&E $)
COAL: The little-known, massive advantage that renewables hold over coal (Yale Climate Connections)
EVs: Ford hands Tesla a big win in VHS versus Betamax-like battle (Bloomberg $), Mass Pike EV chargers took the holiday weekend off (Boston Globe $), Solar trees could soon be charging your car (CNN)
CARS: Toyota, Daimler Truck, Hino, Mitsubishi Fuso joining forces in ecological technology (AP)
ACTIVISM: The Pacific climate warriors: youth activists on rising seas, hope, and organizing (Teen Vogue), Following setbacks, climate activists rethink their approach (New York Times $)
INSURANCE: Insurers' climate alliance loses nearly half its members after more quit (Reuters)
FINANCE: Climate change is exacerbating inflation worldwide (Scientific American)
PUMP: Arnold Schwarzenegger: ‘No one gives a s--- about’ climate change — this is what it should be called instead (CNBC)
INTERNATIONAL: Hobbled by bureaucracy, a German R&D program falls short of climate-friendly goals (Inside Climate News), Ugly fight over climate bill exposes cracks in German coalition (New York Times $), EU doubles firefighting fleet in preparation for climate change impacts (Reuters), After a hard-right turn, Alberta’s conservatives retain power (New York Times $), Climate battle looms as Smith wins Alberta election and targets Trudeau (Reuters)