(ENVIRONMENTAL) RACISM: Eviction ban's end could leave millions baking in heat waves (E&E $), Surge in environmental justice enforcement prompts intensified corporate attention to community issues (Reuters), As target warehouse opens on Little Village Hilco site, alderman celebrates new jobs — while activists vow to keep fighting (Block Club Chicago)
PROTESTS: Drought and water mismanagement spark deadly protests in Iran (Climate Home, Thomson Reuters Foundation)
RECYCLING MYTH: Big Oil’s solution for plastic waste littered with failure (Reuters)
CLIMATE LITIGATION: States urge court to block feds from using climate metric (Bloomberg Law)
DENIAL: Buddy Carter serves on the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis but believes there's no crisis (Savannah Morning News), TC Energy to switch to green power to run N. American energy pipelines (Reuters)
AGENCIES: U.S. studies plan to pay fishing industry for offshore wind impacts (Reuters)
FERCALICIOUS: Democrat [Casten] plugs 'hot FERC summer', sings to 'FERCalicious' on House floor (The Hill, PoliticoPro $)
POLITICS: Joe Manchin makes $500k a year from one of the dirtiest coal plants in West Virginia (Vice), New Mexico Democrats call on Congress to fund climate change jobs in federal budget bill (Carlsbad Current Argus)
NOMINEES & CONFIRMATIONS: White House nominates Jainey Bavishi, climate adaptation expert, to key NOAA post (Washington Post $)
CARBON COST: Study: Cost of carbon emissions measured in lives lost is high (Axios, New York Times $
LOBBYING: Washington’s most powerful oil lobby faces reckoning on climate change (Wall Street Journal $)
REGULATION: The unraveling of the Trump era (The Atlantic)
INTERNATIONAL: Is Russia finally ready to tackle climate change? (Moscow Times), Why the Paris climate agreement might be doomed to fail (InsideClimate News), NSW coal mine approvals could undo work on net-zero emissions targets, analysis suggests (ABC AU)
IMPACTS: Historic floods fuel misery, rage in Detroit (E&E, Greenwire $), Extreme weather is upending lives in the West. 'You walk around with this vague sense of terror.' (CNN), ‘Climate change has become real’: extreme weather sinks prime US tourism site (The Guardian)
HEAT: Western heatwave highlights need for better farmworker protections (POLITICO)
DROUGHT: As drought in the West worsens, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe in Colorado faces a dwindling water supply (The Colorado Sun), ‘Adapt or we’ll break’: a water expert lays out the West’s risky future in the megadrought era (Gizmodo)
WILDFIRES:California, Nevada governors tour site of huge wildfire (AP), Wildfires in West cause air pollution (ABC), Artificial intelligence could be the latest tool in fighting wildfires (NBC), Meet the people burning California to save it (New York Times $)
MORE WILDFIRES: Wildfire rages for 2nd day in Lebanon, spreads to Syria (AP), Wildfires in southern Turkey leave 3 dead, 58 hospitalized (AP)
FLOODING: Belgium and Germany deal with ‘unimaginable’ piles of post-flood trash (Politico), Record funding for flood defences in England as climate crisis worsens risks (The Guardian)
BRAZIL: The Amazon Is Fast Approaching a Point of No Return (Bloomberg $)
BATTERIES: Why is a big oil company investing huge amounts of money in Wyoming wind? (The Guardian, Business Insider), How drones help workers inspect wind turbines (Bloomberg $)
ENERGY TRANSMISSION: Unfortunately, I care about power lines now (The Atlantic)
METHANE: Mexican methane leak rate 'alarming' for climate change, report says (Reuters)
CALIFORNIA POWER: California Renews Power-Conservation Plea Amid Heat, Fires (Bloomberg $)
OIL & GAS: Power plants forced to report emissions cut carbon exhaust, study finds (Houston Chronicle)
POLLUTION: Less than half of Seattle homes have air conditioning. After a deadly heat wave, ‘Everybody’ wants it. (New York Times $)
PIPELINES: Critical pipelines have reported more than 220 cyber incidents since May TSA directive (CNN)
COAL: Susan Sarandon shows support for striking Alabama coal miners in NYC (Al.com)
SO GASSY: Gassy coal mines can be environmental commodities. CNX shows how (The Gazette)
TAR SANDS: We love you, Alberta—just not your tar sands (The New Yorker $)
TIDAL: The ‘world’s most powerful tidal turbine’ starts to export power to the grid (CNBC)
EVs: DOE says new building codes to cut energy costs by $138B, but EV backers see failure to advance charging (Utility Dive)
ACTIVISM: The activists sabotaging railways in solidarity with Indigenous people (The Guardian)
GARDENING: He wrote a gardening column. He ended up documenting climate change. (New York Times $)
EXXON: Exxon sting ensnares think tanks with climate credentials (ClimateWire $)
CORPS: Climate change: Huawei and ZTE dial into China’s carbon neutrality call with low-emission technology using renewable energy (South China Morning Post), Shell raises dividend by almost 40% amid soaring oil prices (The Guardian, Reuters)
FINANCE: The private climate finance surge (Axios)
INSURANCE: Lloyd's of London plans electric vehicle, hydrogen insurance in climate change fight (Reuters), Why sea-level rise will wipe out billions in waterfront Silicon Valley tech properties (The Independent)
BATS: Here’s what climate change will mean for bats (The Revelator)
LANDOWNER: Queen secretly lobbied Scottish ministers for climate law exemption (The Guardian, Gizmodo)
SUMMERTIME SADNESS: The imaginary summer (New York Times $), Is extreme weather changing your summer activities? Tell us how (NPR)
BIODIVERSITY: A new ‘green status of species’ will measure the recovery of threatened plants and animals (Washington Post $)
MOVIES: Parable of the Sower is finally becoming a feature film (Gizmodo), ‘Never Gonna Snow Again’ review: You’re getting warmer (New York Times $)
INTERNATIONAL: Colombia's Medellin plants 'green corridors' to beat rising heat (Thomson Reuters Foundation), Climate change is a global threat demanding national solutions (FT $)
AUSTRALIA: Climate crisis cuts Australian farm profits by a quarter over past 20 years (The Guardian)