SCOTUS: Supreme Court buffers state climate rules from legal assault (E&E $)
EPA: EPA to set first-ever mercury limits on ore processors (E&E $)
DOE: A swaggering clean-energy pioneer, with $400 billion to hand out (New York Times $)
WHITE HOUSE: Biden to host Rose Garden conservation event (E&E $), In a climate trade-off, Biden backs Manchin’s fossil fuel plan (New York Times $)
THE HILL: Save Our Sequoias Act divides environmental groups (The Hill), Climate policy is health policy, Democrats say (Axios)
SENATE: Senate passes two resolutions overturning Biden endangered species protections (The Hill)
NEGOTIATIONS: U.S. and UAE wrap up climate summit in D.C. (MSNBC)
CITIES AND STATES: New York state just approved publicly owned renewables (Canary Media), New Mexico constitution focus of legal fight over oil and gas drilling (AP), Vermont clean heat bill becomes law as Legislature overrides governor’s veto (AP), New Hampshire utility proposes transmission line from Canada to carry renewable power to new england (Washington Post $), Red states stand to benefit from a ‘layer cake’ of tax breaks from Inflation Reduction Act (Inside Climate News)
IMPACTS: US west braces for another year of heat and drought: weather watch (Bloomberg $), Blackouts loom for most of US in extreme summer-heat scenario (Bloomberg $), Pacific Northwest heat wave to break records, worsen Canada wildfires (Axios), Severe storms have devastating impact on Central California farmers (CBS News)
EL NIÑO: El Niño forming quickly and could be "significant" event, NOAA finds (Axios), El Nino may slash Thai rice crop and spur inflation across Asia (Bloomberg $)
WILDFIRES: New Mexico wildfire reignites residents’ fears, frustrations from record-setting fire in 2022 (AP)
FLOODS: New flood control systems are getting federal funding. Here’s why it’s key to factor in climate change (PBS NewsHour)
DROUGHT: Climate change and droughts: What’s the connection? (Yale Climate Connections)
ARCTIC COUNCIL: Norway takes over presidency of Arctic Council from Russia (AP)
OSW: Whales are dying, but it’s not because of wind farms (The Verge)
WIND: Wind is main source of UK electricity for first time (BBC), Supply chain snarls that strangled wind power are nearly gone (Utility Dive), Port of Long Beach unveils plans to build massive offshore wind turbine facility (CBS News)
OIL & GAS: As the anniversary of Enbridge’s refusal to shut down Line 5 approaches, groups press Biden admin (Energy News Network), BP chief: Fossil fuels have done ‘enormous good’ (FT $)
CO2 REMOVAL: Can we fight climate change by sinking carbon into the sea? (Canary Media)
COAL: Coal-fired power fleet in US to halve by 2050, EIA projects (Reuters)
UTILITIES: National Grid's venture arm pours $14 million into two startups (Axios), Expensive energy may have killed more Europeans than COVID-19 last winter (Economist)
EVs: EV big rigs already make sense for half of the $4 trillion freight truck market, says Einride CEO (CNBC), To meet EV demand, industry turns to technology long deemed hazardous (Washington Post $)
CCS: What is carbon capture? Some say it will help save the world, for others it’s a dangerous distraction (CNN), What is carbon capture and storage? EPA’s new power plant standards proposal gives it a boost, but CCS is not a quick solution (The Conversation)
NUKES: Oliver Stone makes the case for nuclear power amid climate crisis (The Hill)
MINING: Tesla breaks ground on lithium refinery in Texas — a first for a US automaker (Grist), Environmentalists aim to block gold mine near Yellowstone — by buying it (Washington Post $)
H2: Australia needs bigger ambitions to be a hydrogen powerhouse (Washington Post $)
STEEL: Steel built the Rust Belt. Green steel could help rebuild it. (Grist)
FINANCE: Why you’re probably hearing less about corporate climate initiatives (New York Times $), ESG fireworks on Capitol Hill over climate change: smart business or ‘woke capitalism’? (USA Today), Energy stocks are in the doldrums after last year’s big rally (Wall Street Journal $), CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost faces ESG pressure from both parties (Axios)
TREES: Alameda man fights climate change with ambitious tree planting initiative (CBS)
VINO: How satellites help wineries pick new climate-friendly sites (Washington Post $)
BOOKS: A family drama unfolds as ecological disasters mount (New York Times $)
WILDLIFE: As ocean oxygen levels dip, fish face an uncertain future (Yale Environment 360), Bigger butterflies may cope better with climate change (New Scientist)
INTERNATIONAL: Spain unveils $2.4 billion emergency drought relief package (Bloomberg $), Spain announces exceptional drought measures worth $2.4B (AP), Unprecedented €2.2bn drought response plan approved in Spain (The Guardian), More than 150 countries agree to ban 3 toxic chemicals (Grist), Barcelona’s beaches could vanish as authorities abandon ‘enhancement’ (The Guardian), Spain’s drought shows climate change is here (Bloomberg $)