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Hot News | April 10, 2024
So long for now…
This is the last edition of Hot News for the foreseeable future
Hot News | April 9, 2024
Euro court rules climate action is a human right
Swill climate inaction violated human rights // Zurich AG will stop underwriting new fossil projects // Deadly cholera outbreaks across southern Africa
Hot News | April 8, 2024
Big 3 GHGs hit record postindustrial highs
Record GHG levels put humanity ‘between a rock and a charred place’ // Chinese pollution, deaths tracked together — study // Notable ‘floatables’ a … fecal … sign of climate crisis in Charleston.
Hot News | April 5, 2024
57 polluters, 80% of pollution
57 firms to blame for 80% of post-Paris carbon pollution // Pipeline safety regulators not gathering pipeline safety data —GAO // CSU forecasts extremely active Atlantic hurricane season
Hot News | April 4, 2024
$20 billion for clean energy financing
Biden admin. announces $20 billion for clean energy lending // Indonesian trans women left out of adaptation plans // Climate, insurance crises making swaths of US ‘uninhabitable’
Hot News | April 3, 2024
Pre-eclampsia rates linked to climate change in Bangladesh
Saltwater intrusion harming pregnant people in Bangladesh // Dutch court hears Shell appeal of 2021 ruling // Community renewables empower region abandoned by petro-colonialism
Hot News | April 2, 2024
US was biggest LNG exporter in 2023
US was biggest LNG exporter last year — EIA // Children’s books help kids, and parents, cope after disasters // Musk pushing away Tesla buyers
Hot News | April 1, 2024
EPA issues 💪🚚💨 rule
EPA keeps truckin’ on pollution reductions // Southern Africa drought threatens millions // Heatwaves moving slower, getting bigger, hotter, and more frequent
Hot News | March 29, 2024
Alfalfa (and climate change) pumping Colorado River dry
New gas plants unnecessary — report // Agriculture and drought sucking Colordado River dry // New England’s last coal plant to shut down
Hot News | March 28, 2024
‘Loop of irony’: Entergy wants to build a floating gas plant
BLM issues final methane rules for public lands // Climate change threatens 70% of wine-growing regions // Entergy floating gas plant plan ‘a loop of irony’
Hot News | March 27, 2024
Baltimore bridge collapse will block coal exports
Private lenders increasingly financing fossil fuels // 927 MW Sunrise Wind project approved off Martha’s Vineyard // Baltimore bridge collapse will block coal exports
Hot News | March 26, 2024
Strong support for global 🚢 pollution fee
Strong support for global price on shipping pollution // Judge SLAPPs down Elon Musk’s lawsuit // Groups connect home efficiency need with resources in Virginia
Hot News | March 25, 2024
$6B in DOE Dough to Decarbonize Industry
DOE divvies up $6 billion to boost industrial decarbonization // Santander bankrolling LNG // State Farm to cancel 72,000 California policies
Hot News | March 22, 2024
AI threatens Mexico water supplies
Building codes group sides with fossil fuels over experts // West African heat in February was hotter because of climate change // Climate change driving up food prices // AI expansion threatens Mexico water supplies
Hot News | March 21, 2024
‘Talking points from the ’70s’
EPA releases stronger fuel economy standards // Venting and flaring kill nearly 2 people every day // Oil and gas leaders at CERAWeek push ‘talking points from the 1970s’
Hot News | March 20, 2024
Farmworkers hit by climate extremes, societal inequities
Migrant farmworkers hit by climate, societal inequities // UN issues dire ‘Red Alert’ over climate inaction // Syrup farmers tap other options as winters warm
Hot News | March 19, 2024
FBI infiltrated Standing Rock protests
FBI infiltrated Standing Rock protests with up to 10 informants // Nearly entire planet breathing polluted air // IRS, DOE considering IRA tax breaks for burning wood
Hot News | March 18, 2024
🍫 💰 📈
Climate crisis heats up from Brazil to Bangalore // Climate change driving up chocolate prices // Pumped storage project on Native land unlikely to be built
Hot News | March 15, 2024
First US commercial offshore wind farm is operational
DOI and DOE make tribes, sage grouse moves // Country’s first big offshore wind farm up and running // $3.3 billion to address transportation harms
Hot News | March 14, 2024
🇺🇸 #1 oil and gas methane polluter
USA number 1 in oil and gas methane pollution // Rising water costs strain family budgets // AI, data centers strain grid, threaten climate crisis goals
Hot News | March 13, 2024
Forida to ban local worker heat protections
Florida bill banning worker heat protections on DeSantis’ Desk // EU leaders call for climate preparation // Drought limits Panama Canal traffic
Hot News | March 12, 2024
Gas pipeline could supply AI energy demands
MVP owner sees opportunity in AI power consumption // Small, ‘very beautiful’ heat pumps for apartments // Europe unprepared for climate change
Hot News | March 11, 2024
Big Oil lawsuits move closer to discovery, trial
‘Face the music’ — Big Oil lawsuits move closer to discovery, trial // Accidental gas pipeline leaks to be counted, punished under proposed EPA rule // Activists target insurance firms
Hot News | March 8, 2024
Biden touts ‘climate crisis’ progress in SOTU
AI could boost climate disinfo // Biden mentions climate, clean energy in SOTU // EVs won’t solve ‘car harm,’ analysis warns
Hot News | March 7, 2024
Climate Risk-apalooza
America underinsured in face of climate threats // SEC takes step for climate risk transparency // Global warming records keep getting broken
Hot News | March 6, 2024
SCOTUS cases could bigly impact disinfo online
SCOTUS social media cases have big disinfo implications // Drax, California sign wood pellet agreement // Studies: Sea ice even more threatened than previously thought
Hot News | March 5, 2024
Misogyny makes climate change worse for women-led households
Discrimination, climate change hurt women-led households, UN says // ‘Lost winter’ ends with meteorological extremes // Hearing begins over Puerto Rico utility debt restructure
Hot News | March 4, 2024
Climate progress worryingly uneven: IEA warns
Clean energy growth doubled, but not enough to outpace CO2 pollution // Defend environmental defenders, UN report urges governments // Methane satellite leaves polluters ‘no place to hide’
Hot News | March 1, 2024
EPA delays GHG rules for current gas power plants
EPA to separate, delay, broaden power plant rules // AI power demand threatens grid // Most infrastructure funds going to cars
Hot News | October 5, 2023
Pope Drops New Encyclical, Amphibians Having A Bad Time, & More
The Pope Has Strong Opinions // Alabama May Have Withheld Sanitation $ From Black Communities // World’s Amphibians Having A Rough Time
Hot News | October 4, 2023
Americans aren’t as NIMBY as you think
Arizona ends controversial lease with Saudi farm // NIMBYism isn’t for everyone // Alarming river dolphin die-off in Amazon
Hot News | October 3, 2023
Yet another heat wave
NYC revs up composting // Don’t put those shorts away yet // Microplastics are literally everywhere
Hot News | October 2, 2023
NYC’s Latest Deluge
NYC’s latest deluge dropped a month’s worth of rain in just hours // NOLA faces saltwater onslaught – and a new water crisis // Senator Dianne Feinstein’s death leaves a complex environmental legacy
Hot News | September 14, 2023
Suffering Record heat without AC 🥵
Historic summer heat highlights AC inequities // Humans push Earth into critical condition // Auto worker union strike looms at midnight
Hot News | September 13, 2023
Going the wrong way, fast 🛢️
US again leads world in growing gas exports, climate-damaging emissions // 2022 was a deadly year for environmental defenders // Climate deniers coming for your kids
Hot News | September 12, 2023
‘No version of physical reality on Mother Earth’
(20)23 billion-dollar disasters break records, with four months to go // Quarter of Libyan city ‘has disappeared’ after floodwaters destroy dams // Chippewa Tribes oppose gas plant on shore of Lake Superior
Hot News | September 11, 2023
98% of humans saw hotter temps due to climate change this summer
98% of humanity felt the heat of fossil fueled climate crisis this summer // UN gives ‘truly damning report card’ on (lack of) fossil fuel phase out // Fossil fuel front group once again caught in fake letter scam
Hot News | September 8, 2023
🌀 Lee explodes into Cat 5 monster
Hurricane Lee strengthens to Cat 5 monster in 18 hours // Climate change driving up crop insurance // ERCOT asks Texans to grid and bear it
Hot News | September 7, 2023
Summer 2023 hottest on record
This summer hottest on record ‘by a large margin’ // Biden issues new Alaska drilling protections // Texas pays Bitcoin miners to do nothing, asks families to cut demand in order to keep grid online through intense heat
Hot News | September 6, 2023
‘Those who produce the garbage refuse to pay their bills’
African leaders call for rich countries to ‘pay their bills’ on climate // Heat breaks records, disrupts learning across US // Pakistan epicenter of multifaceted climate crisis
Hot News | September 5, 2023
🚫 🔥 💣 🚂
PHMSA puts LNG-by-rail rule on hold // Africa Climate Summit opens // Climate change increases explosive wildfire growth likelihood 25% — study
Hot News | September 1, 2023
Leaked recording: UAE worried about reputation, COP28 criticisms
Project Canary CEO replaced with brother // UAE, PR pros prepare to protect reputation during COP28 // Coal and gas outages put customers on hook for keeping Texas grid online
Hot News | August 31, 2023
Idalia could cost Florida’s (un)insured
Idalia brings flooding, power outages, hits Big Bend // California inmates forced to breathe wildfire smoke // Idalia could cost Florida’s uninsured
Hot News | August 30, 2023
Idalia makes landfall as major Cat 3 hurricane
Idalia hits Florida with dangerous storm surge // Air pollution shortens global lives more than smoking, dipping // Gulf offshore wind could boost clean energy transition there
Hot News | August 29, 2023
🌀 Idalia bears down on FL coast
Idalia bears down of Florida Gulf Coast // Australian LNG strike threat roils markets // Exxon calls for more oil & gas says world won’t hit Paris goals
Hot News | August 28, 2023
Colonial plantations set stage for Maui fire disaster
‘Disaster capitalism at its finest’ — Maui fires a colonial inheritance // Green groups trying to become less white // Marathon raced to quench refinery fire as Louisiana struggles with wildfires
Hot News | August 25, 2023
$7 Trillion Went To Fossil Fuel Subsidies in 2022
Unlocking the secrets of the octopuses’s garden while mourning loss of thousands of emperor penguine chicks // Public pays $13 million a minute in fossil fuel subsidies despite climate dangers causing twice utility company profits // Can tiny forests deliver outsized climate benefits? Let’s hope!
Hot News | August 24, 2023
GOP Debates Climate Change, ‘Hoax’ Answer Draws Boos From Crowd
Fox asks climate question in GOP debate, and ‘hoax’ response draws boos // As Amazon threatens to turn into carbon source, tropical forests face risk of overheating // California has nearly 20x the solar it did 20 years ago, states deploy solar solutions
Hot News | August 23, 2023
Climate made 🇨🇦 🔥🔥🔥 2x more likely
Worst heat dome in decades stifles Midwest // Climate change made early summer Canadian wildfires twice as likely — WWA // Storms Harold, Franklin hit Texas, HIspaniola
Hot News | August 22, 2023
Ecuador votes to ban drilling in Amazon national park
Ecuador rejects oil drilling in Amazon national park // Maui fire devastation spirals // Hilary breaks ‘virtually all rainfall daily records’
Hot News | August 21, 2023
Fire aftermath presents new crises for Maui communities
Racist-built highways cost Black neighborhoods billions // As Hawai’i fires fade, new worries emerge // First SoCal hurricane since ’39 drops years worth of rain
Hot News | August 17, 2023
Hurricanes 13x deadlier than official counts
UAE failed to report methane pollution for almost a decade // Hurricanes far deadlier than official counts // Canadian wildfires rage, force mass evacuations
Hot News | August 16, 2023
Colo. River less depleted, still in crisis
Hoosier coalition calls for equitable EV charging plan // NOAA confirms July was hottest month on record // Colorado River slightly less depleted
Hot News | August 15, 2023
Colonization of Lāhainā set stage for Maui fires
Maui fires illustrate long history of colonialism // Panama drought limits canal traffic // Montana youth prevail in climate lawsuit
Hot News | August 14, 2023
‘Nowhere is immune’ — Maui fires’ toll grows
As smoke clears, toll of horrific Maui fires grows // Climate impacts worsen Afghan humanitarian crisis // 6 to 11 hurricanes coming? Hurricane season heats up as NOAA updates forecast
Hot News | August 10, 2023
Colonization of Lāhainā set stage for Maui fires
Maui fires illustrate long history of colonialism // Panama drought limits canal traffic // Montana youth prevail in climate lawsuit
Hot News | August 14, 2023
‘Nowhere is immune’ — Maui fires’ toll grows
As smoke clears, toll of horrific Maui fires grows // Climate impacts worsen Afghan humanitarian crises // Six to 11 hurricanes coming? Hurricane season heats up as NOAA updates forecast // DOE offers ‘a fig leaf for the fossil fuel industry’ with $1.2 billion in DAC funding
Hot News | August 10, 2023
‘Our home is on fire now’
Fires devastate historic Hawaiian town // Persian Gulf region suffers under brutal heat // Extreme heat threatens reproductive care
Hot News | August 9, 2023
Eversource quits AGA, will ‘focus on decarbonization’
New England utility leaves AGA to ‘focus on decarbonization’ // Hawaiians flee into the ocean as wildfires blaze // Climate change could be good for oil hedge funds, not as much for everyone else
Hot News | August 8, 2023
Climate threatens sovereign credit ratings
Climate change threatens US credit rating // Power line burial (or not) reflects broader inequities // Drax wood pellets pollute Mississippi town while withholding electricity from struggling UK
Hot News | August 3, 2023
Renewables’ insurability hurt by climate impacts
Climate impacts push UN uninsurable era to renewables sector // Rain, heat hit East Asia // Climate heated July temps for 81% of people on Earth
Hot News | August 7, 2023
Heat breaks 🛢️ refineries, drives up TX 🔌 costs 800%
Bangladesh hit with worst dengue fever outbreak on record as Pakistan tallies damage of last year’s floods // LNG export facilities struggle with funding, timelines // Texans paying 800% more for power as Gulf heat breaks oil refineries and fossil fuels prove unreliable and expensive
Hot News | August 2, 2023
US OSW could produce 4,000 GW of electricity
Offshore wind could meet quarter of US elec. demand by 2050 — report // LNG export terminals polluting more than claimed // Accelerating EV battery demands could strain supplies
Hot News | August 1, 2023
Businesses lobby against worker heat protections
Extreme heat exacerbates intersecting inequities // Big business lobbies to keep workers exposed to extreme heat // Twitter (X) sues anti-hate speech group over report on abuse on platform
Hot News | July 31, 2023
‘Global Boiling’ Is Here With ‘Hot Tub’ Atlantic, ‘Oven’ Parks, ‘Blowtorch’ Wildfires
‘The era of global boiling has arrived’ — Europe ‘like a blowtorch,’ US parks ‘an oven,’ Atlantic like a hot tub during hottest month ever // Climate deniers doubledown on disinfo to deceive public, but litigation’s doubled too // Biden announces actions to protect workers from heat
Hot News | July 27, 2023
White House Throws a Methane Party 🥳
White House Launches Methane Task Force // Millions Live in ‘Urban Heat Islands’ // UPS Drivers Get AC in Trucks, Likely Avoiding Strike
Hot News | July 26, 2023
Apocalypse nigh 🌊🗽
Tunisian Climate Migrants Stranded as Heat Climbs // Indigenous Brazilians Push Lula on Amazon Oil and Gas // The ‘Day After Tomorrow’ Might Actually Be Tomorrow
Hot News | July 25, 2023
$1 Solar, Greta Arrested, and Fossil Fueled Heatwaves
Record Summer Heat ‘Virtually Impossible’ Without Fossil-Fueled Global Warming // Greta Thunberg Fined For Climate Protest, Immediately Went Back To Protesting // One Dollar (Sort of) Buys A Lot of Solar Panels
Hot News | July 24, 2023
‘We Are Damned Fools’ But ‘We Still Have Time To Secure A Livable Future For Many’: Scientists
‘We’ve Fallen Off a Cliff’ but ‘We Still Have Time’ You ‘Damned Fools,’ Climate Scientists Warn Humans In Latest ‘Beyond Extreme’ Science Nonfiction // One Year Later, IRA Making Some Progress On Emissions, Less on Racial Justice // Climate Protesters Troll the Rich Fiddling With Golf While Planet Burns
Hot News | July 20, 2023
Children imprisoned in extreme heat in Louisiana
Children subject to extreme conditions in solitary confinement // Groups warn DOE against ‘certifying’ methane gas // Kerry’s China visit a positive step for climate talks
Hot News | July 19, 2023
Florida LNG export facility won’t be built
Gaza suffers from heat, lack of power // Port St. Joe LNG export facility won’t be built // Gas failures responsible for 70% of December ’22 PJM outages // Arizona hits 110°F for 19th-straight day
Hot News | July 18, 2023
Chinese diplomacy, TdF ice vests
Kerry-China seek to thaw relations as heat breaks records // Ice vests key in fossil-sponsored Tour de France // FEMA disaster fund almost empty
Hot News | July 17, 2023
Insurance, heat, and orphaned wells
Extreme heat across US // States struggle to clean up orphaned wells // In climate crisis, insurance industry abandons Americans but protects fossil fuels
Hot News | July 13, 2023
Extreme heat in [multiple locations]
Extreme heat grips southern US // Hot water temps pose ‘existential crisis’ to Florida coral // Spanish oil prices rise due to heat
Hot News | July 12, 2023
MVP construction blocked, again, by federal court
Amazon delivery workers strike for heat protections // EPA finalizes new HFCs rule // MVP construction temporarily blocked by 4th Cir.
Hot News | July 11, 2023
Broken EACOP promises Total-ly unsurprising
EACOP Impoverishes Thousands of Ugandans // Extreme Flooding Kills Dozens in Asia, US // Delayed Childhood Vaccinations Another Dangerous Climate Impact // Death Toll of 2022 Heat Waves in Europe 61,000
Hot News | July 10, 2023
Extremely hot planet summer 🥵
Hot, Hotter, Hottest: Records Smashed in Hottest Days Ever // 1,500 Lobbyists ‘Double Agents’ for Fossil Fuel Industry, Climate Action // ‘Forever Chemicals’ Contaminate Half of US Drinking Water // UN Cargo Shipping Rule Disappoints
Hot News | June 30, 2023
Affirmative action ban threatens EJ policies
SCOTUS strikes down race-conscious affirmative action // Solar bailing out Texas grid // Clean energy jobs grow to 40% of energy sector employment
Hot News | June 29, 2023
Death in Texas (prisons)
Southern heatwave kills, Texas inmates left to suffer // Wildfire smoke worsens existing inequities // Massive Hajj takes place in extreme heat
Hot News | June 28, 2023
$5 billion for 🇵🇷 fossil fuels 👀
Biden floats $5 billion fossil fuel buildout for Puerto Rico // Heat continues, smoke returns // Total sued in French court over EACOP
Hot News | June 27, 2023
👨⚖️ Alito’s wife had oil & gas lease when he undermined EPA water authority
Shell pipeline spill pollutes Niger Delta // Alito’s wife stood to profit from oil & gas extraction when he wrote Sackett ruling // Far more Americans at risk for flooding than gov’t estimates
Hot News | June 26, 2023
☀️🔌 saving Texas grid, for now
Renewables keep heat from messing with Texas grid // Portlandia v. Big Oil // CCS and LNG perpetuate EJ abuses
Hot News | June 23, 2023
Mosquitoes ❤️ Climate change
Negotiators work work work to overhaul climate finance // SCOTUS rules against Navajo in water case // Climate change is great … for mosquitoes
Hot News | June 22, 2023
Iran water shortages reaching crisis
Water shortages in Iran reach danger point // Paris summit takes on global climate finance // States prohibit utility politicking with customer cash
Hot News | June 21, 2023
Deadly heat and mosquitoes
Peru’s dengue fever outbreak is bad, getting worse // Texas heat strains grid as state strips worker protections // Deadly heatwave grips northern India
Hot News | June 20, 2023
FEMA buyouts worsen segregation
FEMA climate buyouts exacerbate segregation — study // gas stoves release benzene pollution greater than secondhand smoke // Enbridge must shut down line 5 pipeline on tribal lands, pay tribe for trespassing
Hot News | June 16, 2023
SCOTUS upholds tribal sovereignty in ICWA case
SCOTUS upholds ICWA, tribal sovereignty // BLM proposes more permanent wind, solar lease rates cuts // UN blasts fossil fuel industry, COP president
Hot News | June 15, 2023
🌀 Biparjoy bears down on Pakistan & India
Piparjoy bears down on climate-weary Pakistan, India // Administration speeds up rulemaking timelines // IEA expects peak oil demand in 5 years, Shell doubles down
Hot News | June 14, 2023
Human trafficking follows climate disasters in east India
Human trafficking increasing in eastern India after climate disasters // Bonn talks stall as COP28 conflicts loom // Advocates call for farmworker safety net, climate-fueled California fire increase
Hot News | June 13, 2023
ARE you in good hands? 🤨
Insurers flee from, underwrite climate change // Puerto Rican groups blast utility bankruptcy plan // Heat stifles Bangladesh tea pickers, India/Pakistan prep for Cyclone
Hot News | June 12, 2023
Mont. youth climate trial begins
Montana youth climate trial begins today // Wildfire smoke clears while disinfo clouds conservative media // GM joins Ford in adopting Tesla EV chargers
Hot News | June 9, 2023
Smoke, El Niño, and al-Jaber
Wildfire smoke harms to linger // al-Jaber silent on oil ties as (more) alarms raised // El Niño cycle officially declared
Hot News | June 8, 2023
🔥💨😷
World Cup carbon neutrality claims a bunch of hot air // Toxic wildfire smoke choking East Coast not even counted in climate costs models // Gulf facilities release massive pollution, blame hurricanes
Hot News | June 7, 2023
Extreme Heat Endangers Puerto Rico
Extreme Heat Is Endangering Puerto Rico // ‘Cop City’ Approved In Atlanta, Despite Opposition // Study Finds Arctic Will Be Ice-Free In Summer By 2030s
Hot News | June 6, 2023
SCOTUS Blocks Big Oil On Fracking
Record Amount Of CO2 Now In Earth’s Atmosphere // Supreme Court Serves Setback To Big Oil // Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, Peaches
Hot News | June 5, 2023
Chaco Cultural Site Protected From O&G Development
US Issues 20-Year Ban On Drilling Near Indigenous Cultural Site In New Mexico // Companies To Pay Billions In PFAS Settlements // Global Treaty Could End Plastic Pollution, Help Climate
Hot News | June 2, 2023
New Mexico Stops New O&G Production Near Schools
New Mexico Stops Oil And Gas Production Near Schools // Energy Department Kicks Nuclear Fusion Startups $46 Million // Water Constraints Limit Construction In Arizona
Hot News | June 1, 2023
Amazon Workers Walk Over Company’s Failure To Address Climate Crisis
Coal Companies Owned By West Virginia Gov. Family Sued For Unpaid Penalties // Amazon Workers Walk Over Failure To Address Climate Change // Scientists Find Earth Is In ‘Danger Zone’
Hot News | May 31, 2023
Delta Sued For Bogus Offsets
Delta Sued For Carbon Neutrality Claims // Canadian Wildfires Force Tens Of Thousands To Evacuate // Spelman College Partners With OceanX To Encourage Black Marine Scientists
Hot News | May 30, 2023
The Poison Pill In The Debt Deal
Debt Deal Will Greenlight Mountain Valley Pipeline // Climate Change Forces State Farm Insurance To Stop Insuring New California Homes // Shippers Establish Green Corridors To Accelerate Clean Shipping Technology
Hot News | May 26, 2023
SCOTUS Guts EPAs Ability To Regulate Water Pollution
SCOTUS Guts EPA Ability To Regulate Water Pollution // Solar Investment Eclipses Oil For The First Time // Only Forty-Nine Percent Of Americans Believe In Anthropogenic Climate Change, Survey Finds
Hot News | May 25, 2023
Typhoon Mawar Slams Guam
Typhoon Mawar Hits Guam, Island’s Strongest Storm In Over 20 Years // Pas Plus! France Bans Short Haul Flights // German Police Raid Climate Activist Pads
Hot News | May 24, 2023
Racist Housing Laws Keep Hurting Black People
Black Children More Likely To Have Asthma Because Of Pollution Where They Live // Pressure Mounts For Oil Exec To Not Lead Next U.N. Climate Conference // Protestors Stop Shell Shareholder Meeting
Hot News | May 23, 2023
Heat Islands Killing People Of Color
Climate Change and ‘Heat Islands’ Are Killing People Of Color // Breakthrough Deal Will Help Protect Drought-Stricken Colorado River // Biden Admin Pauses Resolution Copper Mine Construction On Apache Holy Site
Hot News | May 22, 2023
Methane Pollution Remains Out Of Control
Governments Failing To Target Global Methane Pollution // Wildfires in Canada Prompt Air Quality Alerts in the US // Cities Looking To Help People Stick With Bicycles Instead Of Cars
Hot News | May 19, 2023
Climate Change Is Making El Niños and La Niñas Worse
Climate Change Is Making El Niños and La Niñas Worse, Costing Trillions // World’s Largest Lakes Are Shrinking From Climate Change // How To Grill Cleaner Outdoors
Hot News | May 18, 2023
🌏🌡️ It’s Getting Hot In Herre 🌏🌡️
UN Report Finds Global Temperature Increase Getting Closer To 1.5C // US Power Grid Faces Tough Summer From Extreme Heat // Capping Wells In Texas Could Create Tens Of Thousands of Jobs – Report
Hot News | May 17, 2023
MVP Approved To Cut Through National Forest
Mountain Valley Pipeline Granted Permit To Cut Through National Forest // Biden Vetoes Attempt To Reinstate Solar Tariffs // Fossil Fuels To Blame For Western Wildfires – New Study
Hot News | May 16, 2023
Black & Brown Communities Exposed More To PFAS
Black And Brown Communities Disproportionately Exposed To PFAS // Biden Admin Wants To Allow Conservationists To Lease Federal Land // Environmental Campaigner Freed Early From Vietnamese Prison
Hot News | May 15, 2023
Cat 5 Cyclone Mocha Hits Myanmar
Cyclone Mocha Lands In Myanmar, Bringing Destruction // US Island Women Helping Reestablish Local Food Systems To Improve Climate Resilience // Deniers Ramp Up Twitter Hate Aimed At Climate Scientists
Hot News | May 12, 2023
EPA Tries To Limit Power Plant Pollution
EPA Proposes Limits On Power Plant Pollution // New Fund Climate And Efficiency Created To Help Low-Income Households // Federal Reserve Doesn’t Think Banks Should Assess Climate Risk
Hot News | May 11, 2023
Cancer Alley Residents Are Fighting Back
Cancer Alley Residents Are Fighting Back // Microsoft Signs Huge Nuclear Fusion Under Sustainability Banner // White House Backs Manchin’s Permitting Plan
Hot News | May 10, 2023
Italian Oil Major Sued For Greenwashing
Italian Oil Major Knew It Was Causing Climate Change, Kept Greenwashing Anyway // Huge Methane Leaks In Turkmenistan And Gulf Of Mexico // Court Reverses EPA Decision Not To Regulate Military Fuel Found In Drinking Water
Hot News | May 9, 2023
Flooding Hits Democratic Republic of Congo
Flooding Kills Over 400 In Democratic Republic Of Congo // Climate Driven Heat Waves Break Records In Asia And Europe // New Mine Headed For Swift Approval By Biden Administration Despite Community Concerns
Hot News | May 8, 2023
Research Finds Urban Planners Widely Discriminated
West Oakland Example Of How Urban Planners Disenfranchised People Of Color // Oceans Hottest On Record Since Atari5200’s Debut, Worrying Scientists // Fire At Shell Plant Sends 9 To Hospital In Houston
Hot News | May 5, 2023
Alabama Used Sewage To Discriminate
Black People In Alabama Suffered From Sewage For Decades // Utah Considers Removing Climate From Schools // Senate Republicans Announce Permitting Plan For Energy And Infrastructure Projects
Hot News | May 4, 2023
New York State Stops Methane In New Buildings
New York Becomes First State To Stop Methane Gas In New Buildings // EVs Are Improving Air Quality, But Still Mostly For The Wealthy // United Auto Workers (UAW) Won’t Back Biden, Citing EVs
Hot News | May 3, 2023
PJs, Peatlands, and Protests
Restoring Peatlands Proves To Be Effective Carbon Sink // Those With PJs Emit Tons, But Pay Pennies // Climate Protestors Block Meta Gala Goers Like Paris Hilton
Hot News | May 2, 2023
Google ❤️ Climate Disinfo
73 Million Broken Promises; Google Failing To Enforce Policy Against Climate Misinfo Ads // SCOTUS To Rule On Major Case That Could Curb Fed Rulemaking // Washington Gov. Inslee To “Pass The Torch”:
Hot News | May 1, 2023
House Invites Veto Of Solar Tariff Waiver
House Invites Another Veto With Repeal Of Biden Solar Tariff Waiver // The Dangers Posed By Extreme Heat Driven By Climate Change Are Becoming More Common Across The U.S. // Ear-SOREs No More! Lawn Mowers and Leaf Blowers Are Going Electric
Hot News | April 28, 2023
EU’s ‘irrational’ LNG build could 🔒 pollution, strand assets
EU’s ‘irrational’ LNG buildout could lock in pollution, upstream injustice // Heat stresses loom for Northern Hemisphere grids // Texas sinkholes raise questions over oil and gas operations
Hot News | April 27, 2023
“I poison my children in order to survive”
Carlyle heavily invested in fossil fuels // Catastrophic East Africa drought crisis impossible without climate change // Flooding in Upper Mississippi River and California
Hot News | April 26, 2023
South Florida condo evacuated
Another South Florida condo evacuated // Venture capitalists announce new net-zero group // Snowmelt fuels flooding
Hot News | April 25, 2023
‘Green Nobel’ Prize winners announced
SCOTUS declines to hear Big Oil venue appeal // Goldman Prize winners announced // Euro countries agree to collab on North Sea wind power
Hot News | April 24, 2023
Biden creates White House EJ Office
Biden creates White House Office of Environmental Justice // Gas industry to flood Eugene, Ore., with $4M to fight electrification // EPA preparing new rules limiting power plant pollution
Hot News | April 21, 2023
UN confirms: Climate change was very bad last year
Climate change was really bad last year, UN confirms // Desperate hunger widespread in cyclone-battered Madagascar // Biden pledges int’l. climate, deforestation funds, GOP seeks to gut IRA
Hot News | April 20, 2023
Massive heatwave bakes Asia, 1/3 🌎🌍🌏 population
Autopsy shows cops shot ‘Cop City’ protester 57 times // Severe heat breaks records across Asia // One-third of Americans suffering from worst Air pollution
Hot News | April 19, 2023
Global ice melt has global impacts
Melting ice has global impacts // Texas insurance crisis grows // Texas county gives away $2 million per job to petrochem, other industries
Hot News | April 18, 2023
UAE, Saudi Arabia buying Russian oil, boosting profits
Trump, Reagan appointees strike down Berkely electrification ordinance // UAE, Saudi Arabia buy Russian oil, boost their profits // More research shows EPA underestimating US oil & gas pollution
Hot News | April 17, 2023
Racism, inequities exacerbate climate impacts & taxes
Death, taxes, and systemic racism remain, only the climate seems to be changing // G7 promises renewables but still promotes gas // DOE reapproves AK gas export plan
Hot News | April 14, 2023
2+ft. of rain dumped on Ft. Lauderdale
Ft. Lauderdale submerged by 2+ft. of rain in 1 day // Climate change making droughts faster, more furious // Louisiana polluted, robbed by wasteful oil & gas operations
Hot News | April 13, 2023
Compound impacts compound California threats
Record number of shareholder resolutions expected; will face opposition // Ember report on global power sector outlines qualified optimism // Compound impacts compound California threats
Hot News | April 12, 2023
EPA sets new tailpipe pollution limits
DOI issues Colorado River cuts options // EPA proposes new tailpipe pollution limits // BLM approves major WY-CA transmission project
Hot News | April 11, 2023
Bitcoin Bilking Billions from Power Bills
Bitcoin ‘propping up our fossil fuel industry’ // Deniers get expelled from teacher conference for passing out comic books // Citigroup’s denial? Divestment activists taking nun of it
Hot News | April 10, 2023
⚾ Warming Juices MLB Home Runs
OIRA revamp released // EPA set to release major new tailpipe regs // Warming juices MLB home run numbers
Hot News | April 7, 2023
“They’re cowards”
Tenn. GOP expels Black lawmakers // Big utilities may sell gas pipelines // Indigenous and Black leaders blocked from Royal Bank of Canada general meeting
Hot News | April 6, 2023
NY Gov. walks back “Magic Math” methane proposal
Under pressure, NY Gov. walks back methane proposal // ‘Scary’ research finds glaciers can melt way faster // EPA proposes new coal plant pollution limits
Hot News | April 5, 2023
‘Magic Math’, Reclaiming Parking Spots, and Banking Blunders
Hidden car tax? Empty parking spots add $100 to average rent // NY Bill’s ‘magic math’ would weaken climate law to allow more methane emissions // Billions banking on climate budget-busting methane exports
Hot News | April 4, 2023
Lake Tulare returns to Calif’s Central Valley
California’s Lake Tulare refills, flooding and disaster ensue // UAE climate event speakers warned not to ‘criticize corporations’ // Another key permit tossed for beleaguered MVP
Hot News | April 3, 2023
🌀 Freddy sets off ‘mission impossible’ cholera outbreak
Waterborne diseases flourish in Freddy aftermath // Mounties arrest five Indigenous pipeline protesters over one allegedly missing chainsaw // California truckin’ towards diesel electrification
Hot News | March 31, 2023
On Thursdays, we do climate things, apparently.
House passes pro-fossil fuel energy bill // California sets snowpack record, West eyes flooding risks // Actions (announced) worldwide
Hot News | March 30, 2023
Historic 🇺🇳 resolution asks ICJ for climate guidance
UN seeks climate law opinion from International Court of Justice // Exxon opponents hacked in 2016 // NTSB investigating Pennsylvania gas explosion
Hot News | March 29, 2023
“Just like all the gold and the silver”
Cal. Gov. signs law to limit excessive oil profits // Native youth run across Texas, call out colonial legacy of oil & gas // Study: Warming will make tornado-spawning supercells more frequent, dangerous
Hot News | March 28, 2023
Cost of Climate Disaster: More Child Brides
Floods drive increase in number of Pakistani girls sold into marriage // Shell gets pollution off its books, communities suffer // US renewables produced more electricity than coal in 2022
Hot News | March 27, 2023
💇♀️💇♀️💇♀️ and climate action
Fatalistic climate doom unhelpful for action // Sydney hair stylists talk cuts with customers // California deluge impacts linger
Hot News | March 24, 2023
🇺🇸 ‘over exposed to climate risk’ like ‘mortgage risk in 2008’
Insurance industry’s core competency threatened by climate change // FBI monitored Chicago activists for supposed involvement in Atlanta’s Cop City opposition // Latest hair-raising climate victim? The hair-freezing contest
Hot News | March 23, 2023
Private equity linked to Cop City
12th atmospheric river slams California // Private equity connected to Cop City // Warm Gulf could mean heavy tornado season
Hot News | March 22, 2023
Euro LNG assets stranded by 2030
Report warns LNG assets will be stranded by 2030 // St. James residents sue over environmental racism // Biden designates new monuments
Hot News | March 21, 2023
“A how-to guide to defuse the climate time bomb”
UN synthesis report a ‘survival guide for humanity’ // 43,000 dead in Somalia from drought, food shortages // With veto, Biden protects ESG consideration for retirement investing
Hot News | March 20, 2023
SCOTUS To Rule On Navajo Water Rights
Navajo Nation’s plea for water rights reaches SCOTUS // Feds send Nevada $2.4 million for cloud seeding // Heatwave triggers mass fish deaths in Australia
Hot News | March 17, 2023
Musk vs Amazon, Texas ‘Politicizing’ Climate Science Textbooks, Shell Board Nope on Scope 3
Texas school board ‘politicizes’ climate science; or, Don’t mess with Tex(tbook)s // Musk’s Starlink helping illegal loggers and miners destroy Amazon rainforest // Shell board a nope on scope 3 emissions
Hot News | March 16, 2023
Bird Group Fail
Audubon Keeps Name Tied To Enslaver Despite Calls From Staff To Change It // EPA Finalizes Rule Requiring Power Plants To Clean Up Pollution Crossing State Lines // Arctic Ice Undergoing Fundamental Change That Won’t Be Reversed
Hot News | March 15, 2023
EPA Regulates PFAS
EPA Proposes First-Ever PFAS Limits // Biden Sued Over Willow Approval // SVB Default Could Hurt Renewables
Hot News | March 14, 2023
Willow Oil Project Approved
Record Cyclone Hits Mozambique and Malawi For A Second Time, Killing Over 100 // Biden Admin Approves Massive New Oil Drilling Project In Alaska // Scientists Find Climate Change Behind Extreme Drought And Rain
Hot News | March 13, 2023
Atmospheric river floods California
California Inundated By Heavy Rain (Again), Biden Declares Disaster // Ukrainian Activist Banned From CERAWeek // Biden and Von Der Leyen Talk Critical Minerals, Signal Collaboration
Hot News | March 10, 2023
Biden releases 2024 budget
Ambitious Biden budget comes for oil and gas // Householder, Borges convicted in $60 billion FirstEnergy bribery scheme // Solar stumbled in 2022, but set to make a comeback
Hot News | March 9, 2023
Ozone recovery vs. climate change 🔥
Australian bushfires’ depletion portends ‘race’ against ozone layer recovery // Gulf activists demand equitable energy transition while Granholm lauds oil & gas execs at CERAWeek // Pilot program to help rural communities access federal funds
Hot News | March 8, 2023
“A license to continue to operate”
Collagen industry linked with Amazon deforestation, Indigenous dispossession // Oil CEO admits industry needs carbon capture for ‘license to operate’ // Atmospheric river could flood California with rain, melted snow
Hot News | March 7, 2023
Drought (+🌡️, +🔥) ‘on a foundation of racism and violence’
Drought exacerbates water system built on ‘foundation of racism and violence’ // Indonesian landslides leave 15 dead // Climate-fueled fires, warming threaten Western forests
Hot News | March 6, 2023
Oil investors doubt industry’s future. Want 💰 now.
Administration weights multiple oil & gas issues // Oil shareholders want, and get, cash now // 190+ countries reach oceans agreement
Hot News | March 3, 2023
Gas Knew in ’72
Coal plants and planes pushed carbon emissions to new record in ’22, would’ve been worse if not for renewables // #Gasknewin’72— industry still denies gas stove health risks it documented 50 years ago // Doomscrolling improved? OptOut of corporate news with app for independent media
Hot News | March 2, 2023
Dems Join GOP To Sink ESG
Federal officials sue chemical company in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ // Congress attempts to sink ESG, prompting Biden’s first veto // New research finds top brands responsible for shipping pollution
Hot News | March 1, 2023
More Oil = Less Climate Change, According to BP 🤔
Wait, what? BP CEO argues for more oil and gas spending to solve climate crisis // Maryland Gov. withdraws PSC nomination of methane industry official // UN scientists want more research and regulation before considering solar geoengineering
Hot News | February 28, 2023
Tornadoes slam Oklahoma
Tornadoes leave trail of destruction in Oklahoma // Sámi activists close Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy // Climate change makes back-to-back hurricanes more frequent and nastier
Hot News | February 27, 2023
Oil & gas workers moving to wind and solar
Workers leaving oil & gas industries for renewables // Volatile methane gas prices squeeze California restaurants // War a known unknown of solar geoengineering
Hot News | February 24, 2023
U.S. nominates Banga to head World Bank
US nominates Banga for World Bank head // Unhoused LA County heat deaths undercounted // EPA releases $550 million for environmental justice grants
Hot News | February 23, 2023
🌀 hits Madagascar, heads to Mozambique
cyclone Freddy hits Madagascar, heads toward Mozambique // DOI proposes first Gulf offshore wind leases // Tanzania approves EACOP
Hot News | February 22, 2023
Wartime gas export contracts ‘a bait and switch’
Spate of wartime LNG contracts a ‘bait and switch’ // Climate change could threaten global internet connections // Deadly flooding hits Kentucky
Hot News | February 21, 2023
“No excuse.”
Anti-solar misinformation spread by group led by GOP insider, former Abramoff aide // IEA blasts oil & gas industry for methane pollution // Ice absent from Great Lakes, New England
Hot News | February 17, 2023
US flood zone 🏠🏠🏠 super-overvalued
Unaccounted flood risks threaten low-income home values most // Cat 5 Freddy bears down on Madagascar // Western voters support conservation
Hot News | February 16, 2023
FEMA fails to account for racism, climate change
FEMA failing to account for racism, climate change // Malaria mosquitoes’ territory expands as climate warms // Antarctic sea ice at lowest recorded levels, again; Thwaites Glacier weak spots getting weaker
Hot News | February 15, 2023
Mass exodus on a biblical scale
Senegal’s Saint-Louis at forefront of sea level rise-fueled disruption // Kentucky flooding deaths linked to coal strip mining // Freeport LNG seeks FERC commercial restart approval
Hot News | February 14, 2023
🐳🐳🐳 used for ‘cynical disinformation campaign’ against offshore wind
Concerns about whales ‘just a cynical disinformation campaign’ by offshore wind opponents // Gabrielle hits New Zealand // California precipitation a ‘double-edged sword’ for fire
Hot News | February 13, 2023
Texans question speedy Freeport reopening
Texans oppose premature reopening of exploded gas export facility // (Some) deadpool options for Glen Canyon Dam considered // DOE proposes stronger appliance efficiency requirements
Hot News | February 10, 2023
Shell directors sued for company’s climate failures
Enbridge paid Minn. cops to act as private police force against Line 3 protesters // Freeport LNG approved to load ships, gas futures rise // Shell board of directors personally sued for firm’s climate failings
Hot News | February 9, 2023
TOTALly massive profits
Lingering floodwaters create ‘humiliating’ conditions in Pakistan // TotalEnergies latest oil major to break profit records // Offshore oil & gas methane pollution dropping helicopters from the sky
Hot News | February 8, 2023
more like Back (to) Petroleum amirite?
Biden SOTU hits Big Oil, says it’s needed for 10+ years // Flood risks from glaciers and seas // BP slows clean transition as war fuels record profits
Hot News | February 7, 2023
3.4 million US adults displaced by disasters last year
1.4% of US adults displaced by extreme weather last year // Colorado River dams unlikely to be refilled // Neo-Nazi plot to target Baltimore grid foiled
Hot News | February 6, 2023
“Band-Aid on a bullet hole”
‘Band-Aid on a bullet hole’: Texans not buying new LNG plant’s CCS greenwash // Record heat fuels extreme fires in Chile // Oil & gas-backed disinfo campaign gets setback referendum on 2024 ballot, delays implementation
Hot News | February 3, 2023
Shell sued for Nigerian destruction
Nigerian communities sue Shell in UK court // Satellite detects methane cloud, over Wyoming this time // Loss and damage fund in danger of becoming ‘placebo’
Hot News | February 2, 2023
Oil major, accused of greenwashing, reports record profits
Pilot Program lowers Bronx indoor air pollution with electric stoves // LA County bans new oil wells // Shell accused of lying to investors over renewables, posts record profit
Hot News | February 1, 2023
Exxon’s 🤯🤯🤯 2022 💰💰💰
Exxon destroyed profit records in 2022 // Biden admin. would allow Alaska oil drilling operation to proceed // EPA protects Bristol Bay, vetoes Pebble mine // European renewables out-produced methane gas in 2022
Hot News | January 31, 2023
New 🌬️☀️ cheaper than existing coal plants
Literally one US coal plant is cheaper to run than replace with new renewables // Satellite spots NM methane cloud // 1% of shareholder dividends could have prevented 4.2 million utility shutoffs
Hot News | January 30, 2023
Is Google’s ‘climate hoax’ ad ban a hoax?
Google made millions of dollars from Daily Wire climate denial ads // Filipino workers allege offshore oil co. abandoned them to Hurricane Ida // Renters, public housing residents worry about gas stoves while the industry funds its own science and chefs rave over induction
Hot News | January 27, 2023
🚚💨 could alter 🧠 function
Mining and tribal protections, wilderness conflict // Clean energy investments match fossils for first time // Traffic pollution could disrupt brain function
Hot News | January 26, 2023
Reframing transportation could slash lithium demand
Reducing car-centricity of US transportation could dramatically cut lithium demand // PFAS found in Cancer Alley water // Reinstatement of Tongass protections finalized
Hot News | January 25, 2023
Doomsday clock 10 seconds closer to midnight
Inflation slows but gas exports keep pushing electricity prices up // Springing 10 seconds forward to doomsday // Alleged mastermind of Pereira, Phillips murders arrested in Brazil // Reports highlight potential of offshore wind
Hot News | January 24, 2023
“A fantasy story, like a fairy tale”
Distributed renewables are cheaper, more reliable for Puerto Rico // PHMSA to ‘strongly consider’ changing pipeline blast zone formula described as ‘a fantasy story’ // Montana group busy building beaver dams
Hot News | January 23, 2023
Exxon’s climate research could up its legal vulnerabilities
Exxon’s climate predictions increase legal peril // Melting sea ice could increase threats to polar bears, people // ‘Wood banks’ provide critical heat as gas prices spike
Hot News | January 20, 2023
Climate disinfo 🚀🚀🚀 around social media
Fossils pushed $3 – $4 million of social media content around COP27 // EACOP gets key approval from Ugandan govt. // California downpours end, will likely be heavier in future
Hot News | January 19, 2023
Cops kill “Cop City” protester outside Atlanta
Cops kill ‘Cop City’ protester outside Atlanta // Scientist criticizes gas industry use of his past research on asthma // Greenland warmest since before Norman invasion of England
Hot News | January 18, 2023
Methane gas prices 📈 as Freeport restart nears
Gas futures rise as gas flows to Freeport LNG // ‘State of calamity’ declared amid deadly Philippines flooding // Virginia Republicans attack climate, clean energy
Hot News | January 17, 2023
California death toll rises
California rains bring death, power outages // Commuters and mooners call for better cycling across the world // Last protesters removed from doomed German village
Hot News | January 13, 2023
“Beyond putting the 🦊 in charge of the 🐔 house”
UAE names oil CEO as COP28 president // GOP anti-ESG laws could cost taxpayers $700 million // Exxon knew … really accurately
Hot News | January 12, 2023
Coal and gas failed bigly during 🎄🎅❄️🥶
Gas & coal failures widespread during Christmas freeze // Amazon employees call for aid to Pakistan // California storms dump snow along with dangerous rain
Hot News | January 11, 2023
Influencers, high on (illegal?) propane 💰, bash electrification
GAO warns propane group is illegally lobbying, paying influencers // EPA seeks applications for $100 million in EJ grants // Four agency transportation plan gets rolling // 18 disasters killed 474 people, cost US $165 billion in 2022
Hot News | January 10, 2023
US climate pollution increased in 2022
Deadly storms keep pummeling California // CPSC could ban gas stoves over health dangers // US climate pollution rose in 2022
Hot News | January 9, 2023
People with disabilities suffer far more after disasters
Ableism compounds suffering after disasters // Great Salt Lake will disappear in 5 years // EPA sooting up to tighten PM2.5 standards
Hot News | January 6, 2023
Gas stoves cause 1/8 of 🇺🇸 kids’ asthma
Gas stoves cause 12.7% of US childhood asthma // California whiplash fueled by climate change // Urgent climate action can limit, but not prevent, glacier loss
Hot News | January 5, 2023
House GOP infighting doesn’t stop state attacks on ESG
Dangerous storm brings (more) destruction to California // Damn low water levels cause major power outages in Zimbabwe and Zambia // ‘Extreme’ European heatwave muddies ski slopes, boosts gas storage
Hot News | January 4, 2023
House GOP infighting doesn’t stop state attacks on ESG
House Republicans attack each other, state Republicans attack ESG // Climate crisis, misogyny inextricable // ‘Truly … brutal’ bomb cyclone poses serious Calif. flood dangers
Hot News | January 3, 2023
“Flimsiness of the gas system”
Arctic Blast exposes ‘flimsiness of the gas system’ // Warm atmospheric river dumps rain on California, causing flooding // Thunberg tweets not connected to Tate arrest, still amazing
Hot News | December 23, 2022
Nigeria, Pakistan still confronting impacts of climate disasters
Climate change threatens Antarctic biodiversity // Pakistan still reeling from fossil fueled year of crisis // Nigerian floods forcing children to leave school
Hot News | December 22, 2022
😱 ⛔📉 Indiana Ranks Worst Among Midwest States For Environmental Justice
Democratic Congressional members call for stronger oversight of gas stoves // Indiana ranks works among Midwest states for environmental justice // College textbook snot adequately addressing climate change
Hot News | December 21, 2022
🌬️🥶 ➕ 🇷🇺 💥 ➕ 🔌✉️🚙
Arctic air brings dangerous cold to US, could test Texas grid // Russian gas pipeline to Europe explodes // USPS will buy more EVs
Hot News | December 20, 2022
Money, declining local news, and Southeastern utilities
Consulting firm at center of web of cash, positive media coverage of Southeast Utilities // West Texas oil region hit by second earthquake in a month // The CFL is dead, long live the LED
Hot News | December 19, 2022
Toxic peanut butter
Colorado River in serious crisis // Biden buys SPR oil while offsetting Keystone leak disruption // Mold lingers after Hurricane Ian
Hot News | December 16, 2022
Cal. PUC makes big changes to ☀️🔌 incentives
Calif. PUC makes big changes to solar panel incentives // CPSC to investigate health dangers of gas stoves // Twitter suspends reporters critical of Musk
Hot News | December 15, 2022
Journal investigating undisclosed gas industry funding of hydrogen study
Vietnam, G7 reach JETP agreement // Journal investigating undisclosed gas industry meddling in hydrogen study // DOE to allow taxpayer funding for EOR
Hot News | December 14, 2022
D, for Destabilized
Deadly flooding ravages DRC capital // Green groups still mostly white // NOAA Arctic report card warns of destabilized region
Hot News | December 13, 2022
PA gas leak augurs danger of storage system
Massive Penn. gas leak was ‘lucky’ // 2021 gas mileage stagnated // Easy Permian shale emptied, drillers move into towns
Hot News | December 12, 2022
🚙 🔋 ✊✊✊
Unionized EVs are big victory for UAW at Ohio GM-LG factory // Big Oil’s big lies revealed in emails obtained by House Oversight investigation // JetBlue says it will reduce pollution instead of buying offsets
Hot News | December 9, 2022
Flocking to 🔥
Air pollution worsens as Poland burns more, dirtier coal // Keystone Pipeline dumps oil into Kansas Creek // Americans not accounting for climate risks when moving
Hot News | December 8, 2022
Vanguard quits NZAM & GFANZ
West Coast OSW auction rakes in $757 million // Vanguard quits NZAM and GFANZ // New DOE rule would electrify new federal buildings
Hot News | December 7, 2022
Manchin permitting deal off NDAA
Manchin permitting deal cut from NDAA // Renewables, grid investments protect NM utility customers from fossil fuel price spikes // IEA says renewables will overtake coal in 3 years
Hot News | December 6, 2022
Hoosiers paying high cost of utilities’ fossil fuel dependence
Hoosiers, not utilities, paying the high costs of fossil fuels // First ever US floating offshore wind auction to be held today // Whistleblower says biggest wood pellet maker lying about sustainability
Hot News | December 5, 2022
L.A. bans new drilling, Twitter is toxic, grid terrorism can’t stop 🌈👸
Increasingly toxic, Twitter ‘a shadow of its former self’ on climate // Drag show brightens town despite terrorist attack on power substations // LA bans new oil drilling, requires phase-out of current wells
Hot News | December 2, 2022
4 🇨🇳 companies circumvented ☀️🔌 tariffs
4 Chinese companies evaded US solar tariffs // Arch Capital and AEGIS London rule out EACOP coverage // (Increased) LNG exports to push gas prices (even) higher
Hot News | December 1, 2022
How do you get petition signatures when you’re wildly unpopular?
Climate, debt loads fuel Africa hunger crisis // Wildfire costs burning through state budgets // Oil-backed petitioners claim Calif. referendum would do the opposite of what it would do
Hot News | November 30, 2022
🎄 Offensive grows in War On Christmas
High fossil fuels costs leaving families in the cold (and possibly dark) // War On Christmas expands with drought // Puerto Rico municipalities file RICO lawsuit v. Big Oil
Hot News | November 29, 2022
Fla. LNG terminal would perpetuate racist polluting industries
Proposed LNG terminal would continue legacy of environmental racism in FL Panhandle // Drought shuts down 70% of Zimbabwe power supply // BLM releases draft public and Native lands methane rules
Hot News | November 28, 2022
20,000 dead from Euro heatwave
20,000 deaths from heatwave ‘virtually impossible’ without climate change // African energy risks stranded assets in absence of support for clean energy // Energy crisis fuels resurgence of Polish backyard coal mining
Hot News | November 23, 2022
New White House EJ screening tool + threats to safe drinking water
Biden-Harris administration launches environmental justice screening tool // Safe drinking water at risk due to railroad company intransigence // EU proposed price cap on methane gas
Hot News | November 22, 2022
☀️🔌 Helps Illinois 🐖🌽 mill keep running
EPA floats new social cost calculations on the DL // High heating costs force families to choose between food and heat; Freeport to resume exporting gas in Dec. // Solar panels help Ill. feed mill stay in business
Hot News | November 21, 2022
COP27 ends with historic loss & damage fund
‘You take a win when you can’ — COP27 ends with historic loss & damage fund, status quo emissions reductions // New desalination plant approved by California despite EJ, cost concerns, Big West Texas earthquake spurs calls for stronger fracking safeguards
Hot News | November 18, 2022
EU makes surprise L&D proposal at COP27
EU makes surprise ‘final offer’ on loss and damage // Pennsylvania gas leak sends 1 billion cu. ft. of gas into atmosphere in 11 days // ‘Incredible day for methane’ at COP27
Hot News | November 17, 2022
1.5 goal in hot seat at COP, gets boost from G20
Coal-free Somalia shut out from global clean energy finance // 1.5°C a BFD at G-20 and COP27 // Climate change made West African floods 20% worse, 80x more likely
Hot News | November 16, 2022
Loss & damage fund at crux of COP negotiations
Loss & damage negotiations help up by US // Nearly all of US hit by extreme weather disaster in last decade // Worldwide joint editorial calls for fossil windfall taxes
Hot News | November 15, 2022
😬 So about that fake tweet …
Sino-American climate talks to resume // Countries announce $20 billion Indonesia JETP // Freeport LNG says it will remain shuttered for longer
Hot News | November 14, 2022
$500 million 🇺🇸➕🇩🇪🇪🇺➕🇪🇬 🟰 🔥➕☀️ deal
Egypt will likely sell gas to Europe due to $500 million deal // Fake Freeport tweet illuminates how LNG exports are raising methane gas prices // Protesters speak up at COP27 // Iran sentences protester to death
Hot News | November 11, 2022
Biden announces methane rule expansion at COP27
‘If you want to address malaria, you don’t invite the mosquitoes’ // Biden to announce supplemental methane rule // Texas prisoners died from extreme heat, lack of AC
Hot News | November 10, 2022
Biden heads to COP, will tout IRA, get earful re: 💰💰💰
Dash for gas catastrophic for climate // Under pressure for more money at COP Biden to announce federal contractor emissions rule // NYC Marathon hottest ever //
Hot News | November 9, 2022
Oil law firm attacking Native American sovereignty, family protections in SCOTUS
SCOTUS to hear case on Native tribal sovereignty // Countries make loss and damage funding commitments // Expert report calls out greenwashing, lays out guidelines
Hot News | November 8, 2022
Qatar, FIFA get 🟥 for World Cup climate accounting
Countries announce groups focused on forests and drought at COP27 // Qatar World Cup carbon neutrality relies on dubious accounting // Draft NCA says US must make much deeper emissions cuts
Hot News | November 7, 2022
Loss and damage top agenda item at COP27
COP27 opens with big win for impacted countries on loss & damage // Shrimpers, EJ activists protest LNG in Lake Charles // SCOTUS will hear Navajo water case; climate-threatened tribes forced to relocate
Hot News | November 4, 2022
Requiem for UNESCO glaciers
UNESCO glaciers doomed and threatened by climate change // EPA awards community air pollution monitoring grants // 30 energy firms emit half of sector’s methane pollution
Hot News | November 3, 2022
Entities with 💰 not doing enough on climate change, multiple reports confirm
Small drillers want exemption from methane rule // rich countries and big banks are underachieving on climate // Lisa makes landfall, one of a rare two November hurricanes
Hot News | November 2, 2022
‘Net-Zero’ plans wildly reliant on 🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳
Pollution worst in racially segregated neighborhoods // National, corporate net-zero plans wildly optimistic about tree planting — report // US crops hit hard by climate impacts
Hot News | November 1, 2022
Biden floats tax 📈 on 💰💰💰 🛢️ companies
Hundred-year flood would devastate L.A. communities // Lisa expected to hit Central America at hurricane strength // Biden floats tax hikes on super-duper-profitable oil companies
Hot News | October 31, 2022
105 dead in 🇵🇭 ; Lula defeats Bolsonaro in 🇧🇷
105 dead in Philippines from storm-fueled floods, landslides // Lula da Silva defeats Bolsonaro in Brazilian presidential election // Gas pipeline valve leak caused fatal 2021 explosion — Fed // Miami Beach condo evacuated
Hot News | October 28, 2022
East Africa pipeline would release 25x Ugandan+Kenyan climate pollution
Non, merci b EACOP // EU to effectively ban ICE cars & vans by 2035 // Ian’s aftermath is a perfect storm of corruption and exploitation
Hot News | October 27, 2022
Too much pollution, too little ambition
Things are not great right now, multiple major reports confirm // Dearth of clean water after Nigerian floods fuels cholera outbreak // EPA announces clean school bus grants
Hot News | October 26, 2022
🌬️ ➕☀️ save Texans nearly $1 billion every month
Fossil fuels kill millions every year, doctors report // Cyclone Sitrang kills dozens in Bangladesh // Renewables savings are bigger in Texas
Hot News | October 25, 2022
Europe overwhelmed by gas
Invisible hand overwhelms European methane gas capacities
Hot News | October 24, 2022
And You Thought GrubHub Was Bad!
Methane gas shipping costs $450,000 per day // Roslyn slams Mexican coast after intensifying rapidly // NOAA: US drought will get worse this winter
Hot News | October 21, 2022
Cougars in LA Getting Risky To Get Frisky
Google profits off and enables climate denial // Don’t share this if you’re going to COP27 // Why’d the mountain lion cross the road? Wildfires.
Hot News | October 20, 2022
NDCs ‘Woefully inadequate’ for Paris goals
Emissions growth slows but countries’ goals ‘woefully inadequate’ // California study finds gas stoves leak benzene into homes even when turned off // (Re)Insurers abandoning fossil fuels, especially coal
Hot News | October 19, 2022
NJ flips bird to Big Oil, sues for climate deception & harm
New Jersey latest to sue Big Oil for deceiving public on climate // Floods threaten Chad nomadic herders, livestock // California offshore wind, wildfires, and Western drinking water
Hot News | October 18, 2022
Banks, truck makers both saying things but doing other things
Banks’ previous commitments to act don’t mean they actually have to act, or something // Pakistan floods hammer cotton farmers, industry // Big truck makers lobby against pollution rules behind closed doors
Hot News | October 17, 2022
Miss. River basin whiplashed by climate extremes
EPA confirms ‘Cancer Alley’ residents at higher risk of cancer // Low Mississippi River levels slow shipping while region recovers from summer floods // Chicago could eliminate fossil fuel hookups for new construction
Hot News | October 14, 2022
Harvey news photos perpetuated stereotypes
Harvey front page photos perpetuated harmful stereotypes — study // Nigeria’s worst flooding in over a decade kills 500 // Southeast Australia hit by flooding with more to come
Hot News | October 13, 2022
🏡 heating with 🛢️🔥 getting 💰💰💰
Gas, heating oil prices to jump this winter // Injustices intersect in ‘America’s winter garden’ // Ground sinking out from under NOLA community
Hot News | October 12, 2022
Heat threatens 🏈🏈🏈 players
Dozens dead, more missing after Venezuela landslides // Climate change endangers high school football players // Public debt a ‘knee on the neck of the Global South’
Hot News | October 11, 2022
Deadly 🌀 Julia dumps rain on Central America
Hurricane Julia kills dozens across Central America // Megadrought threatens Navajo lifeways // Oil workers strike, join protests in Iran
Hot News | October 7, 2022
COP27 plagued by access barriers
Young, African activists shut out from ‘African COP’ // Environmental racism harms health before birth // FAT BEAR WEEK highlights benefits of environmental protection
Hot News | October 6, 2022
2022 heat ‘virtually impossible’ without climate change — WWA
Climate destabilizing South Asian monsoons // 2022 Northern Hemisphere heat ‘virtually impossible’ without climate change // Methane leaks from Permian gathering lines 14x higher than EPA estimates
Hot News | October 5, 2022
1 California county uses more water than 2 states
East Africa on brink of drought-caused famine // Ag in 1 California county uses more water than 2 states // Opposition leader opposes EACOP, Ugandan police detain 9 protesters
Hot News | October 4, 2022
Black communities forgotten in Ian aftermath
Dunbar neighborhood got ‘destroyed too’ // Iranian leader calls for more brutal repression of protests // SCOTUS hears case on WOTUS
Hot News | October 3, 2022
Ian moves north
Hurricane Ian brings more rain, flooding, death up Eastern Seaboard // Fed will gather climate risk exposure info from 6 big banks // Australia joins US in finding Sexual Harassment widespread at Antarctic research stations
Hot News | September 30, 2022
A nightmare just happened to every single person I know…
Climate change increased Ian rainfall by 10% — analysis // Methane pollution from flaring 5x higher than EPA estimates // Ian’s destruction only beginning to become known
Hot News | September 29, 2022
‘My neighbors have very little breathing room in their one-story house’
Ian hammers southwest Florida // Nord Stream methane release ‘catastrophic for the climate’ // Swiss glaciers lost 6% total volume this year, nearly 2x previous record
Hot News | September 28, 2022
Ian hammers Cuba, bears down on Florida
Manchin permitting reforms dropped from ‘must pass’ govt. funding bill // Ian devastates Cuban rid, Tobacco Belt // Ian about to hammer Florida coast
Hot News | September 27, 2022
Carlyle omitted big oil & gas investment from climate report
Ian hits Cuba, on track to deluge Tampa Bay // Carlyle Group left heavily polluting investment out of climate report // Misogyny a frequent tactic against climate leaders
Hot News | September 26, 2022
Fiona “howitzer” pummels Atlantic Canada
Fiona ‘completely vaporizing’ homes in Canada as Puerto Rico remains without electricity // EPA prioritizes EJ with new office // US bitcoin mining pollutes as much as 6 million cars // Rocky Mountain high-er wildfires threaten Western water supplies
Hot News | September 23, 2022
BRAIN EATING AMOEBAS!!!
Waterborne diseases and standing water create ‘bleak’ situation for Pakistani families // Puerto Rico still largely without electricity as Fiona heads for Canada // Biden admin gave in to many gas industry demands
Hot News | September 22, 2022
Manchin fossil permitting bill (finally) drops
Racially disparate FEMA response compounds disasters — report // Manchin fossil fuel streamlining bill panned by Dems, GOP // Amnesty accuses Egypt of ‘shiny cover-up’ of human rights violations
Hot News | September 21, 2022
Polluters feasting on profit while our planet burns must pay —Guterres
Solar keeps some lights on in Puerto Rico // Senate set to ratify Kigali Amendment on HFCs // Guterres calls for windfall taxes on fossil fuel industry
Hot News | September 20, 2022
~2 million without 🔌 or 🚰 across Caribbean in Fiona’s wake
Millions without water, electricity in Fiona’s Wake // DOI says IRA trumps NEPA on Gulf drilling // Massive, public fossil fuels database released
Hot News | September 19, 2022
🌀🌊 pummel Puerto Rico and Alaska
Puerto Rico hammered by Fiona, entire grid down // Newsom signs climate bills into law // ‘Meteorologically perfect storm’ slams Alaska
Hot News | September 17, 2022
Pakistan flooding made worse by climate change — WWA
Big win in advocates’ fight against ‘Cancer Alley’ Formosa plant // Pakistan flooding made worse by warming // Biden announces 2035 floating OSW goal
Hot News | September 16, 2022
Pakistan flooding made worse by climate change — WWA
Big win in advocates’ fight against ‘Cancer Alley’ Formosa plant // Pakistan flooding made worse by warming // Biden announces 2035 floating OSW goal
Hot News | September 15, 2022
🚂 companies threaten mass disruptions over unpaid sick days
East Africa on Brink of famine as drought persists // Rail cos. refuse worker sick days, threaten nationwide shutdown // DOI reinstates Gulf oil & gas leases
Hot News | September 14, 2022
Pakistan flooding death toll rises
Pakistan flooding death toll increases as long-term damage looms // Private equity gets failing grades on climate risk exposure // Peruvian farmers rehab pre-Columbian dams in face of water shortage
Hot News | September 13, 2022
HRW raises 🚨 over Egyptian pre-COP27 crackdowns
Human Rights Watch raises alarm over Egyptian crackdowns ahead of COP27 // EPA IG to probe Jackson water crisis // Judge says Enbridge must pay for trespassing on tribal lands, lets Line 5 keep running
Hot News | September 12, 2022
Climate disasters take increasing toll on mental health
92 wildfires burning through the West // Nearly half of Houston dealing with climate disaster PTSD // This will be a winter of discontent
Hot News | September 9, 2022
“Let’s hope we’re not right.”
Frontline activists demand rejection of Manchin permitting side deal // Emissions cut failures on pace to trigger multiple climate tipping points // Extreme temps linked to hate speech online
Hot News | September 8, 2022
📲 Texting saves California’s grid
Savvy texts help California avoid power outages // UK’s energy chief is a climate denier // Greenwashing is in full effect for Big Oil
Hot News | September 7, 2022
California avoids blackouts as heat smashes records
California grid avoids blackouts as heat smashes records // EPA denies Cheniere ask to emit more formaldehyde // Thwaites Glacier capable of existentially-rapid retreat
Hot News | September 6, 2022
California is getting baked by extreme heat
Heatwave breaks records, threatens human health // Russia shuts off Nord Stream gas indefinitely // Cal. grid avoids big blackouts on Labor Day, danger still looms // White House climate & energy staffing changes
Hot News | September 2, 2022
Social cost of carbon 3.6x (!) current estimate
Economic damage of climate pollution 3.6x greater than current government — study // Indiana coalition demands more equitable EV plan // Western heat, fires strain grid, firefighters
Hot News | September 1, 2022
Extreme 🌡️➕🔥 coming for California
Record-, grid-, health-threatening heat coming for California // Pakistan, whiplashed by extreme weather, confronts flood-fueled disease // Heat, insufficient cooling disrupt learning nationwide
Hot News | August 31, 2022
Climate change making US border crossing more dangerous
Climate change will make migration to US even more deadly // Jackson, MS without potable water amid heat, flooding // First Solar to invest $1.2 billion in US manufacturing thanks to climate law
Hot News | August 30, 2022
Best-case scenario for Greenland ice sheet is very bad
Greenland ice already doomed to melt will raise global sea levels at least 10 inches // Pakistan’s catastrophic flooding bears hallmarks of climate change // Isle de Jean Charles, and its people, struggle to survive
Hot News | August 29, 2022
Kentucky schools hit hard by flooding
Kentucky schools, children hit hard by flooding ‘Will never, ever be the same again’ // Mass., Virginia set to follow California ICE-car sales ban // Wildfires especially lethal for elderly
Hot News | August 26, 2022
Black Hive climate initiative launched
2022 monsoon rains kill over 1,000 in Afghanistan and Pakistan // New Black-focused initiative launches // TALANX is latest insurer refusing to back EACOP // Climate change will make dangerous heat indices far more common — Study
Hot News | August 25, 2022
Tribes hurt worst by wildfire smoke
Native communities hit hard by wildfire smoke // Mississippi flooding forces evacuations // California set to ban new ICE car sales by 2035
Hot News | August 24, 2022
IRA could prevent $1.9 T of climate damage
IRA could save US $1.9 trillion in avoided climate impacts // Still-incomplete MVP gets FERC extension // European drought worst since execution of Thomas Cromwell
Hot News | August 23, 2022
Texas flood, Chinese heat & drought
Heavy rains, flooding hammer drought-stricken Southwest // IRA language undermines key element of SCOTUS WV v. EPA case // China heatwave, drought raise alarms, invite desperate measures
Hot News | August 22, 2022
Louisiana withholds NOLA flood funds over abortion
Extreme drought threatens millions in Ethiopia // Louisiana withholds NOLA flood funds over abortion // Judge strikes down leasing pause, again
Hot News | August 18, 2022
Fracking ⬆️ kids’ leukemia risk
Fracking proximity linked to increased childhood leukemia // Alaska fire season notable for tundra burns // Homeowners priced out of flood insurance as flood risks rise // Court tosses ban on Biden leasing pause
Hot News | August 17, 2022
Biden signs biggest climate investment in U.S. history
Biden signs Inflation Reduction Act into law // EJ advocates feel shortchanged, again, by IRA compromises // Boston hopes to electrify buildings // FERC requests more info on Brownsville LNG EJ impacts // Atlantic hurricane season (unofficially) starting earlier — study
Hot News | August 16, 2022
The ‘Extreme Heat Belt’ is coming
‘Extreme heat belt’ will broast Texas to Illinois by mid-century // Gulf offshore oil and gas operations produce 16x avg. Permian Methane pollution // Drought reveals long-submerged settlements in Europe
Hot News | August 15, 2022
“That ain’t nothing”
House passes IRA, bill goes to Biden // Vanuatu raises bar for climate action // Read it and weep — drought reveals European ‘hunger stones’ as US night heat breaks records
Hot News | August 12, 2022
House To Pass IRA Today
House expected to pass Inflation Reduction Act today // Climate Bill signed into law in Massachusetts as California unveils water scarcity strategy // The Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the world // Rural Pakistan struggling to recover from deadly flash flooding
Hot News | August 11, 2022
UNDP’s Oily Friends and UNFCCC’s Human Rights Abusing Hosts
UN COP27 subjects LGBTQIA+ climate activists to Egyptian human rights abuses // UNDP sells out to oil companies // Mamma Mia! The show won’t go on
Hot News | August 10, 2022
Flooding kills at least 9 in Seoul
Heavy rainfall kills at least 9 in Seoul // Oil storage facility causes worst fire in Cuba’s history // Sweltering nighttime temps may increase global mortality
Hot News | August 9, 2022
No speculation whatsoever
‘New normal’ drought grips Europe // Climate worsens infectious diseases, scares researcher // Biden visits flood-ravaged Kentucky
Hot News | August 8, 2022
📣 The Aye’s Have It! Climate Bill Passes Senate 📣
Climate bill passes Senate, heads to House // China cuts off climate talks as part of response to Pelosi’s Taiwan trip // Record rainfall strands at least 1,000 in Death Valley National Park
Hot News | August 5, 2022
Sinema’s 👍 clears the way for climate bill
Sinema OKs Climate Deal, Passage Expected Next Week // World’s Top Coal Firm Rakes in Cash as Energy Bills Soar // Coordinated State GOP Anti-Climate Campaign Costs Consumers
Hot News | August 4, 2022
🔥 Death toll rises to 4 in California blaze
Four Dead, Calif. Town Obliterated by McKinney Fire // Spain Bans AC, Rations Ice as Europe Swelters Amid Russian-Caused Energy Crisis // San Diego Joins Ranks of Cities to Electrify With Ambitious Gas Phaseout Plan // Atlanta Black, Indigenous Activists Resist ‘Cop City’ Plans at Historic Park
Hot News | August 3, 2022
Paying the pipeline piper
The Inflation Reduction Act is not without significant concessions // Coastal flooding on the rise as sea levels climb, finds NOAA // Studies find Inflation Reduction Act would benefit households, communities
Hot News | August 2, 2022
Climate endgame needs to be explored, researchers warn
An international team of experts argue the world needs to start exploring the impacts of a “climate endgame” // Amazon’s climate pollution jumps in 2021, fueled by pandemic shopping // Illinois congressman asks why feds have done little to regulate gas stoves
Hot News | August 1, 2022
CA wildfire and KY flooding turn deadly
California’s Largest 2022 Wildfire Blazes Uncontained // Death Toll Rises in Kentucky // OECD Confirms Rich Nations Failed to Deliver on $100B
Hot News | July 29, 2022
Climate change made UK heatwave 10x more likely
Flash Flooding Kills At Least 8 People In Eastern Kentucky // Senate Budget Deal Would Be The Biggest Climate Change Action Ever, But Doesn’t Come Without Concessions // Climate Change Made Britain’s Heatwave At Least 10x Times More Likely
Hot News | July 28, 2022
Manchin is back IN. What the deal means for climate & more.
Manchin reverses course, sings a new tune on climate reconciliation package // Leaked documents show Florida’s largest utility funded far-right news website to smear political opponents // Shell posts record profits as gas prices continue to surge // Biden announces plan to connect lower-income homes with solar energy
Hot News | July 27, 2022
Mass cattle deaths from Kansas heat force emergency disposal
St. Louis rainfall smashes records, flooding kills person, puppies // Heat dangers exacerbated by common medications // 2,000+ cattle killed by Kansas heat overwhelmed disposal procedures
Hot News | July 26, 2022
6 House staff demand climate action, arrested in Schumer’s office
House staff arrested in Schumer office sit in // Paradise, Gardiner struggle under economic toll of climate change // Colorado localities measure air pollution, undermine rosy fracking industry claims
Hot News | July 25, 2022
🇺🇸 failing climate disaster victims
Low-income Texans hit especially hard by heat blanketing US // Government failing disaster victims // Oak Fire quickly becomes California’s biggest fire of 2022 // Deadly weather whiplash in Pakistan, Iran
Hot News | July 22, 2022
Latino communities disproportionately hurt by extreme heat
Extreme heat bakes US, disproportionately affecting Latinos // TV meteorologists including climate in weather forecasts // Oil & gas industry making a very large amount of money
Hot News | July 21, 2022
A 🤯🤯🤯 amount of ice melted on Greenland last weekend
HUD finds Chicago violated civil rights of Latino, Black residents // A ‘not normal’ amount of Greenland’s Ice melted last weekend // Biden describes climate ’emergency’ as ‘clear and present danger’ // After harsh criticism USPS increases EV order for next-gen vehicles
Hot News | July 20, 2022
Extreme heat, and fires, but no EMERGENCY … yet
Texas, Plains to see extreme heat, fires // Biden to tout executive climate action, will not declare emergency — yet // Clean energy workers push employers to clarify provisions for abortion care // Deadly Europoean heatwave drags on
Hot News | July 19, 2022
Climate change is ‘hitting us full in the face’ as deadly heat blankets Europe
Deadly heat fuels wildfires, breaks records across Europe // SCOTUS will target regs mentioning climate, lawyers warn // Manchin directed taxpayer funds to preserve area around mountain retreat
Hot News | July 18, 2022
Biden pledges “strong executive action” on climate
‘Beast Mode’ Biden vows ‘strong executive action’ on climate // Europe suffers through extreme heat // Orphaned wells threaten health, environment across Louisiana
Hot News | July 15, 2022
Area coal millionaire shoots down climate legislation
Joe Manchin shoots down climate legislation // DC Council passes building electrification bill // Report warns of global copper shortage
Hot News | July 14, 2022
Heat ➕ air pollution 🟰 compounded death risk
Heat and air pollution compound death risk // Alaska renewable electricity on the rise // Most new G20 renewables cheaper than cheapest coal — IRENA
Hot News | July 13, 2022
US pollution cost other countries $2 trillion
US climate pollution cost other nations nearly $2 trillion — study // Climate protests halt Tour de France // Extreme heat across Northern Hemisphere
Hot News | July 12, 2022
⚡🚲 demand crashes Denver website
Wind energy transmission bottleneck undermines municipal benefits // It’s very hot // Denver residents try to put the fun between their legs, en masse, at 8:00 am on a Monday
Hot News | July 11, 2022
Yosemite 🌲🔥 + Biden signals support for Alaska oil drilling
Yosemite wildfire threatens sequoias // Biden signals support for major Alaska oil project // ‘Routine’ Nord Stream maintenance anything but this year
Hot News | July 1, 2022
Was there a big Supreme Court case yesterday?
Supreme Court deals blow to planet // Reactions to WV v. EPA agree it’s a BFD // Ketanji Brown Jackson first Black woman to sit on US Supreme Court
Hot News | June 30, 2022
Migrant deaths highlight systemic failures
Migrants killed by heat in tractor trailer illustrate systemic failures // Climate change means more mice, farther North // Scientists evaluating link between climate change and derechos
Hot News | June 29, 2022
Trans people in Bangladesh face compounding harms after flooding
Trans people in Bangladesh even more vulnerable after flooding // Methane pollution increases globally, in US fracking regions // BP, WRI carbon offset scheme paid rural Mexican farmers extremely low prices for carbon offsets
Hot News | June 28, 2022
46 killed by extreme heat, trapped in semi trailer
At least 46 likely migrants found dead from extreme heat in tractor trailer // Gas stoves leak hazardous air pollutants into homes // Court’s abortion ruling could threaten environmental litigation
Hot News | June 27, 2022
Enviro law on chopping block after SCOTUS overturns Roe
SCOTUS denies human rights, overturns precedent, puts environmental law on chopping block // BART train derailed due to extreme heat // Ukrainian coal miners risk methane explosions, Russian bombs
Hot News | June 24, 2022
“Even if you don’t feel it yet: We are in a … crisis“
Waterborne illnesses rise in Bangladesh as floodwaters fall // White House, 11 states announce wind-boosting partnership; DOE meets with oil execs // Germany moves to ‘alarm stage’ of emergency plan, TBD whether chaos will ensue // Basically everywhere is really hot
Hot News | June 23, 2022
Fla. 🏚️ insurance market ‘not survivable’
One family, three generations of cancer in Wilmington, California’s, sacrifice zone // Florida residents left in lurch, state ‘not a survivable market’ for insurance companies // Leaking pipelines chronic across the US // Big Oil failing to invest ‘unprecedented windfall’ in clean energy — IEA
Hot News | June 22, 2022
Unhoused people extra-vulnerable to extreme heat
Unhoused people especially vulnerable to heat // White House releases unified regulatory agenda // Millions stranded by South Asian flooding
Hot News | June 21, 2022
🔥 🌊 across the U.S. as Europe turns back to coal
Reporting on climate change can change people’s minds, briefly // Heat wave to bring temps above 100°F for 20% of people in US // War derails European plans to stop using coal
Hot News | June 17, 2022
Slow recovery from Ida & innovative way for EPA to reduce GHGs
Southeast Louisiana far from recovery since Hurricane Ida // EPA could phase out GHGs under TSCA // Study finds group of polar bears are adapting to climate change
Hot News | June 16, 2022
Air pollution, 👶🍼, Oil towns without 🚰, and more!
Murdered remains of reporter, Indigenous activist believed recovered in Brazil // Air pollution shortens global life expectancy more than smoking // Children especially vulnerable to fossil fuel pollution, US could save millions of lives with climate action // Flooding shuts down baby formula production // Texas oil town left without water in searing heat
Hot News | June 15, 2022
🌬️💨 ➕☀️☀️ “Bailing out” Texas 🔌 grid
‘Rocking’ Renewables Bailing Out Texas Grid // Gender at forefront of climate impacts and organizing // Blown up LNG terminal to be shut down much longer
Hot News | June 14, 2022
Tundra 🔥 and Yellowstone 🌧️
Yup’ik people defend homes from climate-fueled fires in Yukon Delta // DOE proposes new furnace efficiency standards // House Dems mad at Mad Men over Big Oil’s disinformation // ‘Unprecedented’ rain closes Yellowstone, collapses roads and bridges.
Hot News | June 13, 2022
🌡️🔥 Extreme heat all over U.S.
Extreme heat bakes southwestern US, will move east // Governments ignore disabled people, leave them especially vulnerable to climate change // Proposed US LNG export terminals would cause more climate pollution than 20 coal-fired power plants
Hot News | June 10, 2022
TIL: RECs Are Bogus
Explosion at Texas methane gas terminal rattles residents and sends Europe closer to energy crisis // Researchers call foul on companies reporting cleaner electricity use // ‘Evolving’ disinformation tactics are slowing climate action
Hot News | June 9, 2022
US Gas Export Facility Explodes, Amid Record-Breaking Prices, Limited Supply, And Extreme Heat
US gas export facility explodes, amid record-breaking prices, limited supply, and extreme heat // St. Louis’ most vulnerable communities monitor air quality in real time // Humans to become smaller to adapt to climate change
Hot News | June 8, 2022
‘Potential enviro nuclear bomb’ in Utah while wind powers economic growth
Wind farms grow local economies, improve housing value // Salt Lake City facing risk of arsenic poisoning as Salt Lake dries out // DOE Secretary Granholm on more oil, more solar, more justice
Hot News | June 7, 2022
Journalist, activist in Amazon got threats before disappearance
Journalist, Indigenous Activist Missing in Amazon After Threats // High Heat to Challenge Battered Texas Power Grid // EPA Reaches Deal for Overdue Cancer Alley Monitoring
Hot News | June 6, 2022
Biden pauses solar tariffs for 2 years
Tropical Storm Alex forms after killing 9 in Mexico, 3 in Cuba, and flooding Miami // Biden puts solar tariff threat on hold for 2 years, boosts domestic production // Fossil fuel pollution pushes atmospheric CO2 to highest levels since hominids began walking upright
Hot News | June 3, 2022
‘Southwest Louisiana has been made a sacrificial lamb’
Beset by LNG and hurricanes, SW Louisiana residents live in ‘sacrificial’ zone // Federal environmental justice screening tool skirts race // EPA proposes reinstating state, tribal CWA review authorities
Hot News | June 2, 2022
House GOP to release “climate” plan
House GOP to announce “climate” plan increasing fossil fuel use // Buick to go electric, BNEF says ICE cars in ‘permanent decline’ // Agatha, with death toll now 9, could spawn Alex
Hot News | June 1, 2022
Care workers on the front lines of climate response
Underpaid ‘heroes’ fill care breach widened by climate crisis // HHS announces new environmental justice office // ‘Green’ Apple’s trade memberships look much more red — report
Hot News | May 28, 2022
Brazil hit with deadly flooding, Mexico by 1st Hurricane of ’22
Floods, landslides kill at least 91 in Brazil // G7 pledges moves away from fossil fuels, with caveats // Impact of (early) heatwaves inequitably felt // Hurricane Agatha pummels southern Mexico
Hot News | May 27, 2022
East African drought on course for catastrophic famine
Intervention needed to alleviate suffering caused by East African drought already killing babies // SCOTUS tosses block on admins use of ‘social cost’ calculations // GOP officials using elected office to punish firms that don’t fall in line
Hot News | May 26, 2022
‘Green Nobel’ honors activists who defeated powerful actors
New LNG export terminal to go ahead // Bay Area NO2 pollution worst in poor, non-white communities // ‘Green Nobel’ winners organized to win victories for communities
Hot News | May 25, 2022
NOAA forecasts busy, dangerous hurricane season
NOAA forecasts busier-than-average Atlantic hurricane season for the 7th year in a row // More than 17 million people in the US live within oil & gas ‘health threat radius’ // ‘Exxon knew’ lawsuit will move forward in Mass.
Hot News | May 24, 2022
🇮🇳/🇵🇰 heatwave 30x more likely because of climate change
South Asia heatwave 30x more likely because of climate change // New bill would help heat pumps replace furnaces by making them cheaper than AC units // Action needed on short(er)-term pollutants to limit warming
Hot News | May 23, 2022
Climate change is stealing your sleep
Climate change literally keeping people up at night // HSBC banker, unconcerned if Miami is 19 feet underwater, says climate warnings are ‘shrill’ // Heatwaves, drought threaten health, grid around the Northern Hemisphere
Hot News | May 20, 2022
Drought reveals 💀 in Minnesota River
Feds demand Texas fix racist flood funding // Drought reveals 8,000 year-old Native skull // DOE sets first-ever mobile home energy requirements
Hot News | May 19, 2022
“A dismal litany of humanity’s failure”
South Asian heatwave likely made 100 times more likely by climate change // Tesla booted from ESG list // WMO report ‘a dismal litany of humanity’s failure to tackle climate disruption’ // Climate change great for winter ticks, very bad for moose calves
Hot News | May 18, 2022
9 million people killed by pollution every year
Pollution caused 1 in 6 deaths from 2015-’19 // Europe aims to cut Russian fossil fuel dependence // Drought threatens hydropower generation in Western US
Hot News | May 17, 2022
50,000 Americans sacrificed every year for fossil fuels
Texas plans to send Harvey funds to white counties Harvey didn’t hit // NM fire breaks record as risks rise across US // Texas grid survives May heat // Fossil fuels cooking climate and putting 53,000 Americans in early grave every year
Hot News | May 16, 2022
Domestic terrorist kills 10 in Buffalo
Domestic terrorist inspired by GOP-pushed conspiracy kills 10 In Buffalo, NY // Deutsche Bank won’t back EACOP — report // Extreme heat drops birds from sky in South Asia // LNG exports driving up gas prices
Hot News | May 13, 2022
Climate Change doubled odds for deadly S. Africa floods
Climate change doubled likelihood of deadly South African floods // California commission rejects Poseidon desalination plant // Fires already incinerating southwestern US
Hot News | May 12, 2022
“Our children had names”
DOI report scratches the surface of Indigenous children killed at US ‘boarding schools’ // 91% of Great Barrier Reef bleached for 4th time in 7 years // Fossil fuel firms planning 195 carbon bombs
Hot News | May 11, 2022
Child labor, oil profiteering, and more uplifting news
Saving the books, cooking the planet // Climate driving Bangladeshi children to drop out of school // Gasoline hits new (unadjusted) record
Hot News | May 10, 2022
Fossil fuels ➕ abortion bans ➡️ vicious, racist cycles of harm
Abortion bans, fossil fuels compound threats for pregnant people // Basically a coin flip whether Earth hits 1.5°C in next five years — WMO // South Asian heatwave ends school year early, overwhelms glacial dams
Hot News | May 9, 2022
Climate change threatens blackouts across US
Climate change threatens blackouts nationwide // Doulas fill post-disaster gaps in system failing parents // Town powered by solar energy offers bright spot for Puerto Rico during blackout
Hot News | May 6, 2022
EJ at the DOJ
Biden administration announces new EJ office, CEQ hire // Utility executives, shareholders got payouts as customers’ electricity was shut off during pandemic — report // Extreme heat threatens Indian mango farmers // Unions, Ørsted announces offshore wind agreement
Hot News | May 5, 2022
EU to ban Russian oil by end of year
Oil & gas money paved way for anti-choice SCOTUS // EU to ban Russian oil by year’s end // Mountain Valley Pipeline even more delayed, even further over budget
Hot News | May 4, 2022
Anti-choice SCOTUS draft has big implications for climate, enviro policy
Conservative justices’ willingness to kneecap established precedent threatens major climate and environmental policies // Feds to hold water in Lake Powell to preserve hydroelectric generation // NM wildfires continue to burn, Gov. requests federal assistance
Hot News | May 3, 2022
“Testing the limits of human survivability”
SCOTUS to overturn Roe, eliminate federal right to abortion // ‘Unprecedented’ South Asian heatwave ‘testing the limits of human survivability’ // Ad agencies increasingly vulnerable to climate denial litigation
Hot News | May 2, 2022
Heat, wildfires, droughts, child brides, and big profits for Big Oil
Heat and wildfires fueled by climate change 8,500 miles apart // Drought drives desperate increase in child marriages in Ethiopia // Puerto Rico power provider sued over April blackout // Big Oil posts big profits, big payouts for shareholders
Hot News | April 29, 2022
“Zoonotic Spillover” is Biologist for: ‘We’re going to get more animal diseases’
Climate change to increase ‘zoonotic spillover’ — Yes, that’s very bad // Exxon subpoenaed over alleged role in deceiving public about plastics // Heat, drought threaten blackouts in India, California
Hot News | April 28, 2022
10 soccer fields of old-growth trees per minute
World losing far too much tropical old growth forest // Texas voter suppression protects fossil fuels out-performed by renewables // Biden administration approves more LNG exports as consumers pay high prices and LNG firms rake in profits
Hot News | April 27, 2022
Russia blackmails Poland and Bulgaria, cutting off gas
Russia cuts off gas to Poland, Bulgaria // Permafrost melting in what is now Alaska // SoCal water authorities announced unprecedented water emergency measures
Hot News | April 26, 2022
“A spiral of self-destruction”
Sweltering heat blankets India // Increasing human-driven disasters risk a ‘spiral of self-destruction’ // Rich, white people first to get leaky gas pipes replaced in Mass. // Donziger (finally) free
Hot News | April 25, 2022
“Dangerously Early” 🔥 “Not Typical” 🔥 “Pretty much on steroids”
In western US, wildfires burn as blizzard dumps snow // Twitter bans climate disinformation in ads // record-setting 2021 European weather preconditioned by climate change
Hot News | April 22, 2022
Like a “sunburn on the tissue of the lungs”
Denial rampant online as Earth Day brings corporate greenwashing // The state of our air is … not great // Minnesota woman builds on relationships, promotes renewable energy
Hot News | April 21, 2022
Malaria, Methane from marginal wells, and Multiple concurrent crises
‘Marginal wells’ the source of major methane pollution // South Africa flood devastation shows compounding climate, social crises // Geoengineering could have major malaria implications
Hot News | April 20, 2022
TX utility CEO got 💰💰💰 during 🥶🥶🥶
White House reinstates NEPA rules // Black girl magic on bikes // Texas utility CEO got a 3x raise while customers shivered in the dark
Hot News | April 19, 2022
Ripples from Russia’s war will set off a climate-damaging wave 🌊
Russia’s war has ripple effects from record methane gas prices // Meteorologists seek to reach deaf Americans with ASL Forecasts // Kentucky’s coal collapse leaves regulators toothless to enforce law on ‘zombie’ mines
Hot News | April 18, 2022
Biden restarts 🛢️🔥 leasing, ⬆️ royalties
Biden to raise drilling royalties, issue new leases // New study traces climate denial and disinformation to industry efforts to advocate for inaction // Lake Charles still recovering from 2020 hurricanes
Hot News | April 15, 2022
“Just straight up murder”
Patrick Lyoya ‘executed’ by cop // Renewable energy setting records // Texas oil and gas regulators say leaking oil well is no big deal
Hot News | April 14, 2022
Death tolls rise in South Africa, Philippines
Death toll climbs above 300 in wake of South Africa storm // Megi destroys whole communities in central Philippines // Global climate pledges, if fulfilled, will limit warming to 2°C — study
Hot News | April 13, 2022
Extreme rain, flooding kill dozens in South Africa
Dozens dead in South Africa amid severe rainfall, flooding // Climate change made 2020 hurricane season wetter from the standpoint of water // Energy use only improves well-being to a point — study
Hot News | April 12, 2022
African cyclones made worse by climate change
Life and struggle after Eta and Iota // Allianz is latest reinsurer to refuse EACOP coverage // Southeast African tropical cyclones made worse by climate change
Hot News | April 11, 2022
Air pollution in tropics, Arctic increases
End of one era, dawn of new errors of Arctic, tropical pollution // EPA investigating racism in Louisiana permitting decisions // Calls for cutting methane growing louder
Hot News | April 8, 2022
👩🏾⚖️⚖️ Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmed to SCOTUS
Global methane emissions break record for 2nd year running // Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will be first Black woman to serve on Supreme Court // Puerto Rico hit by massive power outage
Hot News | April 7, 2022
Oil CEOs defend profits, stock buybacks amid high ⛽ prices
Big Oil defends shareholder benefits, high gasoline prices // Pinterest sets bar for social media misinformation standards // Legislation introduced to revitalize clean energy with Defense Production Act // Fossil fuel booster stands by ethnocentric college writings he says are unfair to report on
Hot News | April 6, 2022
Top Funders Won’t Commit $ To Climate Justice 💵😮
Hunger crisis in Africa due to climate change and exacerbated by Russia/Ukraine conflict // Top funders are slow to take climate justice pledge // Caribbean alliance created to promote climate justice agenda
Hot News | April 5, 2022
“A file of shame”
IPCC report: Fossil fuels must end to prevent ‘unlivable world’ // Climate change threatening premier French wine // Climate change pushing Valley Fever far beyond the gallerias of Southern California
Hot News | April 4, 2022
Biden admin rolls out new CAFE standards
Biden admin rolls out stronger gas mileage requirements // Indigenous lands and people crucial, and ignored, in climate fight // California snowpack levels worryingly low
Hot News | April 1, 2022
Biden announces massive SPR release
Life on razor’s edge of a heated planet // Biden pumps unprecedented SPR oil into market to drive down prices // Seabed mining: very important, very far under the … sonar
Hot News | March 31, 2022
Ticks, mosquitoes, WAP … and more!
Administration makes concrete moves on efficiency, likely move on battery minerals extraction // Climate change is great for mosquitoes and ticks carrying disease // Renewables growing as fossil fuels keep growing and getting loans
Hot News | March 30, 2022
Compounding Climate Impacts
Climate change impacts compound each other to make lots of things worse // Sunlight is the best disinfectant? Commerce Dept. investigating if Chinese panels circumvent forced labor tariffs // Campaign launches to clean up Bitcoin
Hot News | March 29, 2022
Racist 🐷 💩 pollution in North Carolina, “Biogas” distraction
“Biogas” a distraction from racist hog waste scourge in North Carolina // Financial, moral momentum builds against East African Crude Oil Pipeline // Renewable energy derailed by misinformation
Hot News | March 28, 2022
“It’s not ever going to be there again.”
East Antarctica ice shelf collapse amid heatwave a harbinger of things to come // CARB strengthens harbor craft air pollution limits // Permian methane pollution far higher than estimates — study
Hot News | March 25, 2022
US and EU agree on more LNG
US & EU task force looks to increase US gas supplies to Europe // Air pollution got worse for Native American communities over last 20 years // FERC backs off climate, EJ considerations for gas projects // Personal wealth now biggest predictor of climate pollution
Hot News | March 24, 2022
🛢️&🔥 💰💰💰 not trickling down to workers
Southern Louisiana, still recovering from hurricanes, hit by tornadoes // Oil & gas profits not trickling down to workers // UN announces 5 year plan for early extreme weather warning system
Hot News | March 23, 2021
Years after Michael, FL residents have tarp roofs and mold
Move over, Marvel // Florida Panhandle residents breathing mold 3 years after Hurricane Michael // Oil pipelines violations documented in new reports
Hot News | March 22, 2021
SEC proposes financial disclosure rule
SEC proposes first ever climate disclosure rule // Rich, white communities force themselves to head of line for resilience funding with congressional earmarks // Rich countries must stop all oil and gas extraction in 12 years — report
Hot News | March 21, 2021
Polar heatwaves bookend concurrent impacts across globe
Heatwaves at poles; droughts, floods, hurricanes everywhere in between // Oil & gas leasing to resume after social cost calculations reinstated // IEA asks individual people to dive less, work from home to lessen global energy crunch
Hot News | March 18, 2021
US megadrought to continue
Western megadrought expected to continue — NOAA // Indigenous leader tortured, murdered in Nicaragua // Indiana airport parking lot solar panels provide shade, rain cover, and electricity
Hot News | March 17, 2021
US to send more methane gas to Europe
DOE greenlights expanded LNG exports despite climate, affordability concerns // Lake Powell drops to historic low // Farm insurance program burdened by climate impacts, stifles adaptation
Hot News | March 16, 2021
Pollen season to get worse from climate change
Fed nominee Raskin withdraws after fight over her climate stance // Climate change will worsen pollen season, new study finds // Fed court denies Exxon’s attempt to halt climate change investigations // Enviro law firm sues Shell board of directors for failing to prepare for energy transition
Hot News | March 15, 2021
Floods put NFIP, people underwater
NFIP, still underwater, paid out $2.2 billion in 2022; Manchin opposes Raskin for Fed post ; FERC repeatedly warned about climate impacts of gas last Friday
Hot News | March 14, 2021
🛢️&🔥 execs making 💰💰💰 off Ukraine invasion
Oil execs making a killing off Russian war on Ukraine // EPA intro’s ‘Good Neighbor’ and ‘Double Disaster’ regs // Car-centric status quo furthered by infrastructure law
Hot News | March 11, 2021
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🔥: Census undercounting has major EJ implications
Racist census undercount of historically excluded groups a ‘five-alarm fire’ // Heat pump exports examined to undermine Putin // Climate deniers face denial on OKCupid
Hot News | March 10, 2021
Redlining is (still) in the air
Redlining’s racism is polluting the air // Increased, under-appreciated flood risks threaten rise in mortgage defaults // State vehicle pollution waiver has major national implications
Hot News | March 9, 2021
Hurricanes kill long after landfall
Hurricanes keep killing long after landfall // HUD investigation finds Texas post-Harvey flood mitigation funding was racist, illegal // Inconsistent snow hampers winter fire management
Hot News | March 8, 2021
Biden to ban Russian oil imports; EPA announces 🚚 💨 rules
Biden to ban Russian oil imports // Biden administration announces plans to reduce truck pollution // EU plans to reduce energy dependence on Russia // Florida wildfires fueled by dry forests killed by Hurricane Michael
Hot News | March 7, 2021
Climate change bad for 🤰🏒 🐕 🛷
Climate impacts pond hockey, Iditarod, pregnant people // Climate, energy elements of Russian invasion absent from broadcast news; shale producers support profitable sanctions // Effects of Peruvian oil spill hit ancestral fishing communities hardest
Hot News | March 4, 2021
☀️ Energy to transform abandoned coal mines
‘Still keeping the lights on’ — solar projects come to abandoned coal mines in SW Virginia // Possible gas explosions rocks Maryland apartment complex // Choice of climate action or gas and oil confronts Biden as industry fights over building codes
Hot News | March 3, 2021
Agreement reached to agree on plastic pollution
UN body agrees to craft legally binding plastics treaty // Patriarchy and climate change form vicious cycle of harm // Massive floods submerge eastern Australia
Hot News | March 2, 2021
SOTU, Exxon, False attacks and more!
Biden discusses climate action in SOTU // GOP attacks on Biden over energy, Russia not based on facts // Exxon announces Russia exit, Nord Stream 2 fires workforce // (Another) atmospheric river Deluges PNW
Hot News | March 1, 2021
Oil majors flee Russia
Second Russian invasion of Ukraine in 8 years too much for oil majors to bear // Nigerian floating community’s experience illustrates IPCC report
Hot News | February 28, 2021
An atlas of human suffering
IPCC report details dire need for adaptation to escalating climate impacts // Russian invasion has Big Oil reprising ‘Drill Baby Drill’ // Ketanji Brown Jackson, first Black woman and public defender nominated to SCOTUS
Hot News | February 25, 2021
Oil & Gas Prices Surge Worldwide
Russian forces advance on Ukraine capital, Biden announces sanctions // Renewables offer a solution // Key SCOTUS oral argument on Monday
Hot News | February 24, 2021
Russia invades Ukraine
Russia invades Ukraine // International group of scientists warn of a ‘global wildfire crisis’ // USPS finalizes plan to stick with gas-powered trucks // Global methane emissions are 70% higher than governments claim
Hot News | February 23, 2021
❄️ Antarctic sightseeing is accelerating ice and snow melt ❄️
Germany blocks Russian Nord Stream 2 methane gas pipeline // Tourist-driven black carbon pollution speeds Antarctic melting // SCOTUS denies DAPL developer appeal
Hot News | February 22, 2021
❌🛢️ Feds stop O&G leasing
Biden administration suspends new federal oil and gas leasing // Winter Olympics fail to equitably represent the world // US, Egypt launch joint working group ahead of UN climate summit
Hot News | February 18, 2021
Pro & home 👨🍳👩🍳 choosing induction over 🔥
Induction cooking better than gas, home and professional chefs say // FERC will consider climate, EJ impacts of new gas infrastructure // GOP, gas industry working to preempt municipal climate action
Hot News | February 17, 2021
100+ dead in Brazil mudslide
Mudslides kill 100+ after “an extraordinary amount of water’ poured north of Rio de Janeiro // Wildfires burning more overnight, increasingly threatening SoCal // Airport Fire burns uncontrolled, fueled by dry brush // Students up university divestment ante, file legal complaints
Hot News | February 16, 2021
🌊🌊🌊 ⬆️⬆️⬆️
Sea levels rising at fastest rate since before foundation of Sparta // British Columbia flooding made more likely by climate change // Fossil state lawmakers seek to punish firms for planning for climate change
Hot News | February 15, 2021
Someone please give the American West some water
American West drought worst since Charlemagne // Officials investigating Louisiana methane plume // Super Bowl ads increasingly include climate, EVs
Hot News | February 14, 2021
Carceral injustices magnified by climate change
Incarcerated people subjected to worst of climate change // Koalas now endangered, threatened by climate change, Judge tosses Biden’s interim social cost of carbon, methane, NO2
Hot News | February 11, 2021
🔥 and 🌡️ in Southern California
Public perceptions of “_____ Gas” vary // White House announces new cash for EV charging network along highways // Fires burn in hot, dry Southern California, in February
Hot News | February 10, 2021
Solar panels coming to Calif. canals
California solar canals pilot announced // Unhoused people killed by cold in Texas // EPA undercounts climate impact of methane pollution — study
Hot News | February 9, 2021
The Super Bowl … So hot right now
Milder weather allowed Texas grid to pass ‘easy test’ last weekend // US Army announces military’s first climate strategy // Cue the ‘hot ticket’ puns
Hot News | February 8, 2021
Evicted and homeless 5 months after Ida
NJ residents left homeless after Ida housing support revoked // EPA science advisors call for stronger PM2.5 limits // America cities antagonize bikers of color
Hot News | February 7, 2021
“As if we had just been bombed”
Tropical Cyclone Batsirai pummels Madagascar // Just because it is in your head doesn’t mean it isn’t real // Biden extends Trump solar tariffs with 2 caveats
Hot News | February 4, 2021
MVP loses (again) in court
Fed. appeals court throws out (another) MVP permit, citing failure to consider climate // Texas gas wells freeze, electrical grid stable (so far) as storm knocks out power across US // Big Oil board members refuse to testify before Congress on disinformation // Super methane polluters are low hanging fruit for combatting near term warming
Hot News | February 3, 2021
Administration slams USPS fleet plans
Biden admin warns USPS against proceeding with gas-powered fleet // Greenpeace, investment firms united in opposition to calling gas, nuclear ‘green’ // Grid operator can’t keep up with growth of solar projects
Hot News | February 2, 2021
Texas (grid) about to be messed with
Predicted winter storm causes concern over Texas readiness one year after catastrophic blackouts // EVs cheaper to own than gas-powered counterparts — report // Louisiana task force approves 2050 net-zero plan
Hot News | February 1, 2021
Racism and oil & gas harms
HBCUs targeted with bomb threats // Black communities at disproportionately increasing flood risk // Oil and gas investments could lead to $500B in stranded assets – report // white House announces first round of orphaned wells cleanup funding // EPA to bring back co-benefits calculations // Burst pipeline dumps crude oil in Ecuadorian Amazon
Hot News | January 31, 2021
Underground coal 🔥pose increasing threat
Storm Ana kills scores in Southern Africa // Coal mine fires get renewed attention // Wicket bomb cyclone hammahs new England, thousands without powah
Hot News | January 28, 2021
❌🛢️💸 Judge halts massive oil sale in Gulf of Mexico
Judge halts massive Gulf of Mexico oil auction over climate impact // Studies find fossil fuels are a major global killer // Climate change to ruin your cup of joe
Hot News | January 27, 2021
Addressing Environmental Injustices
EPA announces concrete plans to address environmental injustices // LA to phase out oil and gas wells // Gas stoves leak planet-warming methane, harm health // Tech giants, local governments back EPA in SCOTUS climate case
Hot News | January 26, 2021
Big Oil arguments met skeptically by appeals court
Judges wary of Big Oil arguments in Baltimore case // Enbridge tracked Indigenous ‘threats’ to its pipelines // Gas pipeline’s future in doubt after permits tossed, again
Hot News | January 25, 2021
Smog isn’t the only cloud hanging over Winter Olympics
Air pollution, lack of snow, hang over Winter Olympics // Advocates call for environmental justices beyond truck electrification // Bangladesh left in lurch by volatile LNG markets
Hot News | January 24, 2021
Biden approved more public lands drilling than Trump in first year
Biden issues more public lands drilling permits than Trump in first year // Biden administration makes moves on building efficiency // Biden criticized for judicial nominee connected to Chevron attacks on Donziger
Hot News | January 21, 2021
oops
Shell carbon capture plant produces more pollution than it captures // GOP, Manchin, Sinema stymie voting rights // House Oversight calls Big Oil board members to testify
Hot News | January 20, 2021
🌋🌊🛢️😱
Tonga tsunami augurs danger for continued climate impacts // Scientists, former employees call on Edelman to cut ties with fossil fuels // Rich Californians losing homeowners insurance over wildfire risk
Hot News | January 19, 2021
Exxon joins net-zero ‘beauty match’
Exxon joins net-zero ‘beauty match’ // ‘Social vulnerable’ schools disproportionately set back by climate-fueled disasters // Interagency orphaned well cleanup group given home at BLM
Hot News | January 18, 2021
Voting rights intertwined with environmental protection
LCV demands action on voting rights, filibuster to win its endorsement // climate change harms kids ‘from preconception … into adolescence’ studies show // record heat in Southern Hemisphere threatens crops, penguins
Hot News | January 14, 2021
The indomitable march upward (2021 global heat records)
2021 6th-hottest year since Industrial Revolution, says everyone // DOE launches Clean Energy Corps, seeks wide range of applicants // Largely unregulated gas pipelines may be biggest source of methane pollution // SCOTUS suggests workplace air pollution safeguards on chopping block
Hot News | January 13, 2021
Another Permian Ponzi scheme
Multiple Permian Basin fraud lawsuits underway // 2017 floods set off crisis for women and girls in northeast India // Florida senate committee advances anti-solar bill
Hot News | January 12, 2021
2021 Extreme weather death toll higher than NOAA’s report
Biden administration to allow drilling in half of Alaska reserve // It’s getting hot in here, also cold over there, and sometimes both in the same places // 2021 extreme weather killed far more in US than NOAA accounting shows
Hot News | January 11, 2021
A year of expensive and deadly destruction
2021 climate, weather disasters killed hundreds, cost US $145 billion, world $280 billion // Bronx apartment fire shows need for better building efficiency // World’s oceans hotter than ever recorded, absorbing 7 A-bombs of heat every second
Hot News | January 10, 2021
Permian Ponzi Scheme 🛩️🚁🏖️
2021 greenhouse pollution rose, US far off reductions targets // SEC alleges Permian Ponzi scheme // Wildfire smoke exposure prompts reproductive health concerns
Hot News | January 7, 2021
Marshall 🔥 impacts: 🐶🐈🎻 🚰🏡
Marshall Fire impacts continue // Particulate pollution killed 1.8+ million city dwellers in 2019 // 6 states’ leadership could cut truck pollution nationwide
Hot News | January 6, 2021
Climate-fueled disasters hit near 40% of U.S. population in 2021
Extreme weather hit home for 40% of US population in 2021 // ‘Seems … real KKKordinated’ — 7 HBCUs receive simultaneous bomb threats // Pipeline dumps 300,000 gallons of diesel near Mississippi River // US became world’s #1 LNG exporter in December
Hot News | January 5, 2022
Manchin says agreement possible on ‘the climate thing’
Manchin says agreement on BBBA climate provisions possible, but continues to push fossils // World’s largest floating solar array comes online // Disaster relief and preparedness bureaucracy processes heighten systemic inequities
Hot News | January 4, 2022
Welcome back! Look Up yet?
Climate-fueled firestorm incinerates Boulder // 2021’s worst 10 disasters caused $170+ billion insured losses // Climate satire ‘Don’t Look Up’ tops Netflix
Hot News | December 23, 2021
White Christmases may be a thing of the past
Keep dreaming // London Underground heating buildings above ground // Congressional Hispanic Caucus calls for tighter methane rules
Hot News | December 22, 2021
United Mine Workers of America Ask Manchin to Support BBB
Coal workers implore Joe Manchin to support Build Back Better // Build Back Better Act crucial for US climate goals // Two new solar projects get the green light
Hot News | December 21, 2021
Economic Outlook Drops After Manchin Pulls Support for BBB
EPA announces strongest-ever vehicle emissions standards // Economic growth predictions fall after Manchin pulls support for Build Back Better // Largest US power company lobbies against rooftop solar
Hot News | December 20, 2021
Millionaire coal baron Joe Manchin says he cannot support Build Back Better
Coal millionaire Joe Manchin shoots down Build Back Better // Typhoon & floods kill hundreds, displace thousands // Climate chaos causes financial instability
Hot News | December 17, 2021
‘Obviously Extraordinary, Unprecedented’ ⛈️🌪️💨🔥 rips across US
Google failing to enforce climate disinfo policy // ‘Obviously extraordinary, unprecedented’ storm rips across central US // Category 5 typhoon batters Philippines
Hot News | December 16, 2021
🍎 🗽 🏢 ➡️ 🔌 ⚡ 💯
NYC lawmakers vote to electrify new buildings // Indonesian women use mangroves for masks, hand sanitizer // Extreme weather fueled by climate change threatens fossil fuels that cause climate change
Hot News | December 15, 2021
After Ida, Entergy customers with no house or power still get bills
No power, no house, but they’ve got utility bills // Arctic report card says we are failing the Arctic // Permian oil and gas operations (still) leaking methane
Hot News | December 14, 2021
Antarctic ‘doomsday’ glacier in increasing peril
Scientists warn Antarctica’s ‘doomsday glacier’ being held back by a cracked windshield, basically // Tornado deaths highlight workers’ vulnerability // Philippine women use solar, organizing to build resilience
Hot News | December 13, 2021
Massive oil & gas lease sale was voluntary, Biden admin. admits
Tornadoes devastate Kentucky, several other states // Biden administration admits ‘largest-ever’ gulf oil & gas lease sale was voluntary // Open storm drains pose hidden danger
Hot News | December 10, 2021
LNG exports rise, undermine climate goals
LNG Exports increasing, undercutting climate goals // Last coal plant of Scotland demolished // Amazon warehouses harm marginalized communities
Hot News | December 9, 2021
NYC to vote on 🔌⚡🏢
NYC set to vote on new building electrification // Ocean carbon removal has promise, needs rules and research // Flood insurance rise with risk levels // Biden orders government to reach net-zero by 2050
Hot News | December 8, 2021
Climate culpability and impacts wildly unequal
Vicious cycle of unequal wealth, climate harm to worsen // inaction on climate change contributing to youth mental health crisis // Signals of climate change across U.S. // Automakers building EVs and parts in right-to-work states
Hot News | December 7, 2021
2021 🔥🔥🔥 produced record CO2
2021 wildfires broke CO2 emissions record // Oil and gas industry raking in record profits // Utilities to build fast-charging network across highway system
Hot News | December 6, 2021
Mountain Valley Pipeline opponents notch (another) win
VA Air Board denies key permit to pipeline over EJ concerns // Taxpayers pay failed insurers’ Ida costs, thousands still displaced // Weird, wild weather across U.S.
Hot News | December 3, 2021
🔥in Montana. In December.
Business Roundtable wants Dems to pay for BBBA with new debt // Families of Color pay more fore energy, get less benefit but more pollution // Fire destroys century-old grain elevators in Central Montana, in December.
Hot News | December 2, 2021
Causes of Madagascar famine are complex
Climate change not driving Madagascar famine, scientists say // Climate change threatens Christmas Cheer // Jordan Cove cancelled, would have been first West Coast LNG export terminal
Hot News | December 1, 2021
Sea level rise threatens toxic waste sites in Cal. communities of color
Sea level rise threatens California toxic waste sites, especially in communities of color // Sumas Lake exists, again, in flooded British Columbia // Texas farmers embrace renewables // Texas grid still vulnerable, PUC threatens renewables
Hot News | November 30, 2021
Study reveals PR firms’ outsized impact on climate politics
PR firms played outsized role in blocking climate action, study finds // Climate change exacerbating housing crisis in UK // Billy Barr sets the standard for Rocky Mountain snow data
Hot News | November 29, 2021
White House announcements and climate impacts
3 white men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery // Biden admin makes pre-Thanksgiving moves // Atmospheric rivers keep flooding Pacific Northwest // Iranian government violently suppresses drought-fueled unrest
Hot News | November 24, 2021
Cal. water utilities refuse to help customers during Holiday season
Calif. water utilities refusing ‘free money;’ would rather shutoff families’ water // 2020/21 was tumultuous year of record loss for Greenland ice sheet // Journalists held and charged for overing Canadian pipeline protests
Hot News | November 23, 2021
Boston: 👋🛢️💰
Wu divests Boston funds from fossil fuels // Climate change altering (problematic) status quo of American West // Gerrymandering carries climate implications (corrected version)
Hot News | November 22, 2021
House passes BBBA
Rittenhouse acquittal ‘saddening, infuriating, and utterly unsurprising’ // House sends Build Back Better Act to Senate // Heavy rains in southern India kill 33, dozens missing
Hot News | November 19, 2021
What Americans think Americans think is wrong
Every demo of Americans cares more about environmental issues than people think, except for white people // Thousands stranded by British Columbia floods // HQ move made BLM whiter, less effective
Hot News | November 18, 2021
🟩 groups (and 💰) still very ⬜
Climate crisis threatens holiday pies // Green movement still very white // Number of hot summer ays that fuel wildfire spread will rise // Tribes get funding for EV charging network
Hot News | November 17, 2021
🔥in ⛰️ as 🌳(+armadillos) move higher (and North)
Deadly wildfires burn in eastern Rockies // Phillips confirmed to FERC // Gulf lease sales to proceed under court order // Trees and armadillos are on the move
Hot News | November 16, 2021
PNW deluged by ‘epic’ rain
Biden signs trillion dollar bipartisan infrastructure package // Deluge submerges parts of PNW, British Columbia // Biden administration proposes 20-year Chaco Canyon drilling ban
Hot News | November 15, 2021
COP26 is over. The work is not.
COP26 ends // Last-minute demands water-down coal provision // World’s most-premature surviving baby reflects trend worsened by climate change
Hot News | November 12, 2021
BOGA countries never ever getting back together with oil & gas extraction
Rains, flooding kill at least 15 in southern India // BOGA nations commit to ending fossil fuel extraction // Extreme heat exposure increasing worldwide with disparate impacts
Hot News | November 11, 2021
Surprise! US-China agreement
Surprise Sino-American agreement important because it happened // Vulnerable nations dissatisfied by COP26 draft // Women on front lines of climate crisis in southwest Bangladesh // U.S. oil companies fund Fulbright positions to ‘launder their image’
Hot News | November 10, 2021
COP26 agreement drafts released
Drafts of COP26 agreement released // Some automakers commit to ending ICE vehicle sales by 2040 // House delegation touts American reengagement at COP26
Hot News | November 9, 2021
Obama (& fossil fuel lobbyists) at COP
Fossil fuels well-represented at COP26, unlike civil society // Obama addresses COP26 // Winter is coming, and LNG exports are pushing home heating prices higher
Hot News | November 8, 2021
Protests and accounting problems at COP
Lies, damn lies, and emissions reporting data // Youth who will live to see full impacts of climate change demand action commensurate with crisis // House passes infrastructure bill
Hot News | November 5, 2021
Coal and L&D at COP26
US doesn’t sign pact to quit coal // COP’s big accountability question: Who pays for the damage? // High traffic deaths this year reflect environmental injustices, lopsided funding
Hot News | November 4, 2021
Getting down to business at COP
Negotiators get down to business next to the rooms where it happens // Indigenous people demand promised action // Activists end two-week hunger strike with vow to fight on
Hot News | November 3, 2021
Logistical barriers hurt negotiators at COP26
Logistical nightmares scar COP26 inclusion, hamper negotiations // G20 responsible for half of world’s particulate pollution deaths // Cancerous air pollution hotspots // Migrant laborers chase disasters, try to survive // Fossil fuel financiers announce new climate finance group
Hot News | November 2, 2021
Making methane moves: COP day 2
Methane moves at COP // Incarcerated juveniles fight wildfires fueled by climate change // Manchin keynoted coal confab in late September
Hot News | November 1, 2021
And so it begins — COP26
Biden, other world leaders arrive in Glasgow after G20 fails to ‘consign coal to history’ // COP access inequities continue to raise concerns // Ida, with Texas law, cut off access to abortion care // US Gov to account for climate pollution in lease sales
Hot News | October 29, 2021
Did anything really happen yesterday?
Dispossession, forced relocation of Indigenous people left tribes exposed to ravages of climate crisis, study confirms // Congress to subpoena Big Oil // China tweaks NDC // All carrots, no sticks. Also, no paid leave.
Hot News | October 28, 2021
Big Oil’s big day before Congress
Oil industry leaders look to Big Tobacco for clues to avoid perjury before Congress // Big Oil blankets morning newsletters ahead of deception hearing // Climate investments in pared down Build Back Better Act near original $600 billion // Hunger strikers outside White House confront Manchin
Hot News | October 26, 2021
Shameful and way off track
‘Shameful’ — wealthy countries say they hope to keep climate finance promise, three years late // ‘Way off track’ — atmospheric GHG levels rose at above average rate even during pandemic slowdown // Hertz to buy 100,000 Teslas
Hot News | October 25, 2021
Bomb cyclone brings mudslide risk to charred NorCal
Net-zero proclamations from the Persian Gulf // House hearing to press Big Oil on climate disinformation // Atmospheric river dumps precipitation on California, risking landslides in wildfire burn scars
Hot News | October 22, 2021
Climate change is … risky
Watchdog formed after Great Recession warns climate crisis endangers financial stability // More than dramatic sunsets: smoke from wildfires harms more people in the East than out West // Intelligence community warns climate crisis poses growing threat to national security // No women or people of color were nominated for the AGU fellows program. You won’t believe what happened next!
Hot News | October 21, 2021
The defining narrative of human health
The climate crisis is a health crisis and ‘lowering greenhouse gas emissions is a prescription’ // Fossil fuel extraction plans far beyond Paris goals — UN report // They TOTALly knew
Hot News | October 20, 2021
Nearly all Manchin 💰from (out of state) 🛢️& 🔥
Manchin cashes in on coal as West Virginians struggle to pay their bills // Ida basement deaths disproportionately hit Asian community // Puerto Rico suffers without reliable power // Study of studies finds 99.9% scientific consensus on human-caused climate change as impacts ravage the globe
Hot News | October 19, 2021
Flooding puts cities and towns (financially) underwater
Climate-fueled flooding threatens municipal finances // Orphan wells and satellite — all about methane // California records driest year since 1924
Hot News | October 18, 2021
Manchin wants to gut CEPP as his constituents flood
Manchin seeks to gut key climate provision from infrastructure bill as West Virginia hit by worsening flooding // Indigenous-Led activists call on Biden to halt fossil projects // Shalanda Baker confirmation held up by GOP senator
Hot News | October 15, 2021
Indigenous-led coalition demands more from Biden
Protesters arrested in DC want more action from Biden // Biden bringing most of the cabinet to COP // Lauren MacDonald confronts Shell CEO, does not throw away shot
Hot News | October 14, 2021
Lots of progress isn’t enough progress
IEA says lots of progress being made, a whole lot more progress needed // Feds plan major offshore wind lease sales // Private equity buying up ‘dregs’ of Big Oil // Big Oil says it will testify before Congress without subpoenas
Hot News | October 13, 2021
Lobbying 💰➕🌀⚰️➕🔥flooding ➕ 🛢️volatility
Supposedly pro-climate companies ‘missing the moment’ to support action — report // Coffins — still — strewn across Southeast Louisiana town // Storms flood Greek island after fires burned forests // Fossil fuel price, supply volatility cause tension ahead of COP26
Hot News | October 12, 2021
Indigenous action amid COP26 buildup
Indigenous groups call for action // Domestic legislating carries COP26 implications for Biden // Methane joins the fray as 30+ countries join pact
Hot News | October 8, 2021
Hot bisexuals call out Kyrsten Sinema on climate bill
‘Representation isn’t colorful wigs and great eyeliner’ — Hot bis call out Sinema // Google and YouTube take steps to shut of climate denial monetization // Torrential rain, flash floods kill four in Alabama // Biden to restore national monuments
Hot News | October 7, 2021
Mayors and duck hunters team up to stop flooding
Climate’s back in NEPA // Mississippi River mayors, duck hunters unite to prevent flooding // Greek island hurries to stave off compound climate disaster
Hot News | October 6, 2021
In Russia, climate heat melts your pipeline foundations
Vicious climate cycle spins as Russia burns // IMF details global fossil fuel subsidies, Euro campaign mounts to ban ads // Energy Transfer faces criminal charges for pipeline violations ‘all across’ Pennsylvania
Hot News | October 5, 2021
Nobel 🏅awarded for foundations of climate modeling
Nobel Prize awarded for work that laid foundation of climate modeling // Urban heat exposure has tripled // Corporates shrink from climate action
Hot News | October 4, 2021
Three tribes, one climate crisis
Climate crisis compounds injustice for tribes // Facebook ‘profit over safety’ whistleblower comes forward // Oil spill of SoCal coast ‘infiltrates’ wetland, kills wildlife
Hot News | October 1, 2021
Corporate duplicity against climate action
Major corporations lie about supporting climate action // API & Koch spend big to stymie Biden climate, social agenda // Utilities raked in bailouts, cut off customers’ power, gave CEOs bonuses during pandemic
Hot News | September 30, 2021
70,000 Kids still out of school due to Ida
Ida’s impact on Louisiana education continues // 23 species now extinct, more threatened by climate change // NC civil rights groups call PS on Smithfield-Dominion proposal
Hot News | September 29, 2021
Insurers Worried About Climate Change and Native Americans Ask Biden to Honor Promise
Insurance companies worried about climate change // Native American tribes ask President Biden to keep his promise and protect Bears Ears National Monument // Air quality monitoring helping Sacramento tackle longstanding inequities
Hot News | September 28, 2021
Dangerous wildfire smoke, Ford makes major electric vehicle investment, and more
Wildfire smoke rising nationwide, causing health problems // Ford’s big electric vehicle announcement // ‘You can’t put a price tag on human suffering’
Hot News | September 27, 2021
The kids are back, they’re mad, and with good reason
Fridays for Future is back // Today’s children will suffer older generations’ climate pollution, inaction // Climate change is making mosquitoes worse
Hot News | September 24, 2021
CYA L8R HFCs 👋💨
EPA Finalizes rule to curb potent climate change pollutant // British PM urges world leaders to act with urgency on climate change // 1 in 3 chance Lake Powell won’t generate hydropower in 2023 due to megadrought
Hot News | September 23, 2021
Shell plays hide the 🎱 with Permian sale
Shell’s Permian Sell-Off Unlikely To Reduce Climate Pollution // WHO Halves Acceptable PM2.5 Standard // Gas Crisis Endangers EU Green Deal Carbon Market // Better Late (Night) Than Never?
Hot News | September 22, 2021
Big UN speeches from Xi and Biden
US, China make climate announcements at UNGA // Xi announced ending of Chinese coal support abroad // Biden pledges to boost global climate funding // All the Hurricane Ida injustice
Hot News | September 21, 2021
Biden calls for 🌡️☠️ rules ahead of UNGA
Biden calls for worker heat protections // Shell sells Permian assets, will give most to shareholders // Biden to focus on climate in UNGA speech
Hot News | September 20, 2021
Ida damage drags on as clock ticks for int’l action
Damage from Hurricane Ida as outages drag on // Lack of ambition, follow-through hangs over UNGA // Biden, EU announce Global Methane Pledge
Hot News | September 17, 2021
Climate Change Goes to Med School👨⚕️💊
Emory University Medical School adds climate change to curriculum // The haves and the have nots of climate migration, real estate edition // House Oversight broadens inquiry into Big Oil deception
Hot News | September 16, 2021
The Little Country That Could: The Gambia and LA County Votes To End Drilling
The little country that could: The Gambia // LA County votes to end drilling // Historic Black Louisiana town forgotten after being devastated by Hurricane Ida
Hot News | September 15, 2021
No Relief In Sight for Battered Gulf Coast and Greenpeace Makes Black History
Nicholas pours drenching rain on already battered Gulf Coast // This week in Black history: Greenpeace names first Black person as executive director // Rooftop solar systems survived Hurricane Ida, big energy companies not so much
Hot News | September 14, 2021
Was it all bullshit?
‘That’s a load of crap’ — enviros fed up with Big Business doublespeak on reconciliation package // Climate change could force 200 million+ to flee home // Nicholas dumps rain on beleaguered Gulf Coast
Hot News | September 13, 2021
HUD 🏠 sales scrutinized; Harvard divests 💰
‘A large domino to fall’ — Harvard to shed fossil fuels investments // HUD sells flood-prone homes with minimal disclosure // Typhoon Chanthu disrupts port operations after rapidly intensifying // Indigenous resistance blocked 400 coal plants’ worth of climate pollution
Hot News | September 10, 2021
It’s Hotter Than Ever
The summer of 2021 was the hottest summer on record // FERC to get new commissioner // Raimondo calls on big business to support climate investments // Jet fuel may be going green
Hot News | September 9, 2021
New research on ☀️🔌, carbon removal, and 🛢️
Solar could provide nearly half of all U.S. electricity by 2050 // World’s biggest direct air capture plant opens // Oil & gas better stay put
Hot News | September 8, 2021
Christian leaders to fight climate change
Christian leaders call for climate action // Dixie Fire to set records while fight against Caldor Fire continues // President Biden calls flooding from Ida a warning of climate change
Hot News | September 7, 2021
Lights still out in NOLA as dangers grow
Power outages drag on amid dangerous heat after Ida // 30% hit by extreme weather this summer, so far // Hundreds of medical journals call for climate action in joint editorial
Hot News | September 3, 2021
Ida, EJ, & the polar vortex
Ida’s disparate devastation continues to be revealed // People of color hurt worst by climate change, EPA report confirms // New study links climate change to polar vortex destabilization
Hot News | September 2, 2021
Ida rips through the east, Caldor burns the West, WMO says it’s all happening more frequently
Caldor Fire burns toward Nevada // Extreme weather gets more frequent and costly, while air pollution costs more lives than car crashes // Ida impacts continue
Hot News | September 1, 2021
❄️🔫 protecting Lake Tahoe
Tahoe hangs on as firefighters blame climate change for Caldor Fire’s overwhelming spread // Heat threatens Louisiana residents without power following Ida, Entergy failures // Judge tosses red state lawsuit over social costs of carbon pollution
Hot News | August 31, 2021
Lights out in NOLA as Caldor Fire threatens Tahoe
Caldor Fire threatens ‘urban conflagration’ of South Lake Tahoe // Biden administration creates ‘small’ climate health equity office // Ida, gas plant failure plunge NOLA into darkness as cops focus on ‘looting’
Hot News | August 30, 2021
Ida [violent verb] Louisiana
Hurricane Ida slams Louisiana // Ida intensified rapidly, supercharged by warm ocean temps // ‘Our bank account is empty — we can’t afford to leave’
Hot News | August 27, 2021
Like something you’d see in a zombie movie
CO2 pipeline explosion turned Mississippi town into ‘a zombie movie’ // Ida likely to hit Gulf Coast as major hurricane // Climate impacts driving homeowner interest in solar panels with battery backup
Hot News | August 26, 2021
Madagascar on brink of climate change famine
Madagascar nears ‘unprecedented’ climate change famine // 7,000 preterm births caused by wildfire smoke not as bad as today’s // DOI announces leasing resumption, report warns of tribal consultation failures
Hot News | August 25, 2021
Minnesota 🚂🌳🔥 ➡️ 🚫🏕️
Fires burn through Minnesota like a ‘freight train’ // Week of contrasting extremes illustrates American climate change // Renewables post strong growth in Q2, but policy still needed to reach 2035 goals
Hot News | August 24, 2021
🔥 and ⛈️🌊
Still-growing Caldor Fire ‘knocking on the door’ of Tahoe Basin // Disability amplifies, amplified by other EJ inequities // Climate change made deadly European floods up to 9 times more likely
Hot News | August 23, 2021
I thought I was going to drown with my baby
Tennessee floods kill 22 // Grace intensifies rapidly before hitting Mexican coast // Henri dumps rain on Northeast // One billion children at ‘extremely high risk’ of climate harms
Hot News | August 20, 2021
Big win for EJ in St. James Parish
St. James Paris activists win ‘important victory for environmental justice’ // Extreme heat killed 356,000 in 2019, will only get more deadly with climate change // Unpermitted flaring rampant in ‘lawless’ Texas oil fields // Pressure mounts on Biden over Line 3 tar sands pipeline
Hot News | August 19, 2021
California Burning
Climate-fueled fires rage across NorCal // Federal judge tosses NPR-A drilling permits over climate omission // Chuck Sams nominated to head National Parks Service, would be first Native NPS director
Hot News | August 18, 2021
Caldor 🔥 explodes
Caldor Fire explodes, incinerates most of Grizzly Flats, Calif. // (Vaccine) inequities threaten COP26 inclusivity claim // Biden administration appeals oil & gas lease ruling, will continue leasing
Hot News | August 17, 2021
Western drought hits (another) unprecedented milestone
Feds announce unprecedented Colorado River usage cuts // Grace and Fred hit Haiti and Florida // Insurance industry struggles to price in climate, extreme weather risks
Hot News | August 16, 2021
Earth’s hottest month is July ‘21. It has everything 🔥🥵🌊🌀
July was Earth’s hottest month on record // COVID killed more people exposed to wildfire pollution // Big Oil underreporting methane emissions // Grace targets Haiti in earthquake aftermath
Hot News | August 13, 2021
Blue hydrogen not really green
Blue hydrogen not really green at all // Extreme heat killing farmworkers, compounding compound inequities // Turkey, scorched by fires, now inundated by floods
Hot News | August 12, 2021
June PNW heatwave death toll triple official count
Deaths from June PNW heatwave likely triple official tally, lower 48 about to bake // Wildfires in Algeria, Siberia kill, choke with smoke // Solar could keep Texas light on during heatwave
Hot News | August 11, 2021
The Senate was busy
Senate passes infrastructure bill, budget resolution, progressives take stand for climate action // Line 3 drilling lubricant spills greater than previously known // Chevron refineries pump black smoke into California skies
Hot News | August 10, 2021
CH4 is the new CO2
IPCC report highlights need for methane cuts // Activists halt Mountain Valley Pipeline construction // Wildfires and heatwaves compound climate crisis in Greece
Hot News | August 9, 2021
UNEQUIVOCAL
IPCC confirms human causation of climate change, warns of narrowing window for action // Dixie Fire grows to second-largest in California history // Exxon suspended from carbon tax group it helped found
Hot News | August 6, 2021
Ocean currents could stop as the world burns
Climate change making ocean currents run AMOC // The world is burning // California drought is very bad, two more unprecedented events show
Hot News | August 5, 2021
Dixie Fire burns California Gold Rush town to the ground
Dixie Fire destroys Greenville, California // Biden administration set to accelerate car pollution cuts // Court orders FERC to reconsider LNG terminals’ EJ impacts // Global flood zone population growing // NOAA increases hurricane forecast
Hot News | August 4, 2021
ANWR review and EPA science board (re)launched
DOI launches official review of ANWR lease sales // EPA announces new, more diverse Science Advisory Board // Climate change threatens North Korean food, global security
Hot News | August 3, 2021
Bipartisan bill omits climate & clean energy
Bipartisan infrastructure deal omits key climate policies, Markey says more to come // Geothermal sector offers greener pasture for oil and gas workers // Chinese flooding (official) death toll increased
Hot News | August 2, 2021
“Welcome to climate change”
‘It’s Biblical’ — climate-fueled destruction circles the globe // SoCal desalination plant harmful and unecessary, opponents argue // House Dems introduce ‘Fercalicious’ eminent domain legislation
Hot News | July 30, 2021
Friday Cheer: Read About the Mortality Cost of Carbon
Union advocates protest outside BlackRock // Greenland suffers rapid ice melt // Flooding devastates Afghanistan
Hot News | July 29, 2021
Infrastructure? Weak; SEC? Piqued; PNW Fossils? Freaked
‘People are winning’ — oil hub first in US to ban fossils // Floods devastate Rohingya Camps // Infrastructure deal advances in Senate // SEC chief suggests mandatory climate disclosure rule
Hot News | July 28, 2021
⚡💯 + 🚗📋 + 👷👷♀️
New tailpipe emissions standards expected // Oregon moves toward 100% clean electricity // The potential of the Civilian Climate Corps
Hot News | July 27, 2021
New coal wastewater rule, lawyer Steven Donziger found guilty, & more
Lake Powell water levels fall to lowest on record // Lawyer Steven Donziger found guilty by system set against him // EPA moves to undo Trump’s coal wastewater rollback
Hot News | July 26, 2021
Heat threatens Olympics, G20 meeting comes to a close, and more
G20 meeting leaves much to be desired // Hitting climate target will create millions of energy jobs // Hot start to Olympics raises health concerns
Hot News | July 23, 2021
Heat + drought are coming for your 🎅🎄
Push to fund BIPOC-led groups gains momentum // No Christmas in July // Climate scientists’ heatwave warning 20 years ago was tragically prescient
Hot News | July 22, 2021
Get ready for ‘Hot FERC Summer’
Western wildfires cause dangerous air pollution on East Coast // ‘Hot FERC Summer’ aims to raise profile of under-appreciated body // ‘We don’t have water!’ — Drought exacerbates unrest in Iran
Hot News | July 21, 2021
Deadly flooding in China after torrential rain
Deadly flooding in Zhengzhou, China after a year’s worth of rain in 3 days // Voting rights and environmental protection are inextricable // Extreme heat threatens to ‘compromise the very essence of’ Islam
Hot News | July 20, 2021
🌡️🔥 ➕ 🛥️🛥️ ➕ ☀️💨🔋🔌 🚙👨🔧👩🔧
Heat sets records, stage for conflagrations in West // Top retailers’ shipping pollution revealed // Renewable energy, battery jobs fared better than energy sector overall in 2020
Hot News | July 19, 2021
Flooding & heat & fires & 🐦😢
80+ fires rage across West, Bootleg passes 300k acres // June heatwave sent people to ER, birds fleeing their nests // Heavy rains trigger deadly landslides in Mumbai // Climate change changes Olympics prep, endangers athletes // Europe confronts climate destruction, need for more action
Hot News | July 16, 2021
Flooding leaves wake death and destruction across Europe
Torrential rain, deadly floods wreak devastation in western Europe // Work injuries caused by heat inequitably suffered, more frequent than official stats // Driven by erratic winds, Bootleg Fire grows
Hot News | July 15, 2021
Underpaid 👨🚒 and ☠️🐟
Nearly all the chinook salmon in the Sacramento River will die // DOE to propose first efficiency standards for manufactured housing since ‘The Sign’ // High risks and low wages — federal firefighters feeling the strain
Hot News | July 14, 2021
Dems agree on infrastructure blueprint as climate change hammers U.S.
Continental US bookended by fires, heavy rain // Senate Dems strike $3.5 trillion infrastructure blueprint // Tribe, Utility forge new model for transmission line ownership // Embattled pipeline developer says it will offset some of pipeline’s climate pollution
Hot News | July 13, 2021
‘Climate change is real and its fingerprints are all over this stuff’
Climate-fueled heat, police tactics endanger unhoused people // ‘Sometimes the good guys win’ — Byhalia Connection cancelled // Heat and fires strain California grid
Hot News | July 12, 2021
So, did anything happen while we were gone?
EPA approved Exxon’s ‘forever chemical’ PFAS for fracking in 2011 // PNW heatwave like ‘one of those post-apocalyptic movies’ // Deadly western wildfires create their own lightning as officials arrest non-evacuants
Hot News | July 2, 2021
A new infrastructure bill, melting sea ice, and more
‘Last ice area’ melting faster than expected // House passes new infrastructure package // Colorado governor signs energy transition bill
Hot News | July 1, 2021
Exxon exposed, heat wave death toll rises, and more
We’re shocked, shocked. Well, not that shocked. // Biden meets with Western governors to talk wildfires // As heat deaths rise, inequities become clear
Hot News | June 30, 2021
SCOTUS fiddles as the PNW fries
SCOTUS Gives Pipeline Eminent Domain Go-Ahead // PNW Heatwave Brings Deaths, Rolling Blackouts // Report Illuminates Chamber Of Commerce’s Decades Of Delay And Denial
Hot News | June 29, 2021
Helter Swelter
Melting Cables, Buckled Roads As Northwest Heatwave Peaks // Climate Lawsuits Leave Out Science And Leave Money On The Table // Old Systems Slow Interior’s Tracking Of Oil And Gas Leasing
Hot News | June 28, 2021
Surfside condo collapse could be a preview of Florida’s climate future
Speculation On Climate Links To Surfside Condo Collapse // Heat Dome Shatters Records In Pacific Northwest // Indigenous Food Systems, Under Climate Threat, Offer Guide To Sustainability
Hot News | June 25, 2021
The PNW is about to get baked
Biden, senators reach infrastructure deal but more needed on climate for passage // Dangerous heatwave threatens Pacific Northwest // Biden administration sides with Line 3 in court
Hot News | June 24, 2021
Climate change could make Old Faithful less faithful
Army Corps to review one Enbridge pipeline as arrests continue over another // Wildfire destruction threatens drinking water supplies // Climate change threatens Yellowstone National Park snow and geysers
Hot News | June 23, 2021
‘Ostrich-like’: Court slaps down FERC pipeline approval
Court throws out FERC’s ‘ostrich-like’ pipeline approval // Research shows climate change makes Southwest less humid // Legal experts propose international ‘ecocide’ definition
Hot News | June 22, 2021
St. Croix oil rain refinery shuts down indefinitely
St. Croix refinery shuts down ‘indefinitely’ // Boston’s redlined past visible in concrete today // Wildfires, heat, rugged terrain strain firefighters
Hot News | June 21, 2021
Heat. Drought. Fires. Storms.
Arizona to use enslaved incarcerated people to fight its wildfires // Heat dangers exacerbated by injustice
// Deadly Claudette restrengthens, targets Outer Banks // Marathon took billions in bailouts, laid off workers //
Drought likely to shut down major California hydro plant // UN warns drought could be ‘the next pandemic’ // Heat,
broken thermal plants stress grid, wind performs ‘as expected’
Hot News | June 17, 2021
‘This is about as good as it’s going to get’
Temps soar, grids strain in West // Indigenous groups in Brazil worry Covid will exacerbate wildfire smoke harms // EU considering tighter biomass carbon accounting
Hot News | June 16, 2021
Drought reveals 1960’s plane crash
Cancer Alley activist recognized for fight ‘to breathe clean air and drink clean water’ // California drought reveals 1960’s plane crash // Federal judge pauses Biden pause on oil & gas leasing
Hot News | June 15, 2021
Extreme heat (& broken gas plants) threaten Texas grid
Broken Texas gas, coal plants cause electricity shortfall amid massive heatwave // Virginians seek to leverage environmental justice ruling to block MVP // Court rulings relevant to your interests
Hot News | June 14, 2021
‘I’m not really a catastrophist … but …’
G7 reaches agreements on goals, but not details // Antarctic glacier acceleration raises alarms // Biden to undo weakened Tongass protections
Hot News | June 11, 2021
Infrastructure (talks) falling apart more than normal
In tug-of-war over infrastructure, rope begins to fray // UN: Climate change and biodiversity crises actually one big crisis // Hoover Dam reservoir hits record lows amid extreme drought in the West
Hot News | June 10, 2021
❌ Keystone XL + 🌕🌎🤔 + Investor ✉️ to G7 Leaders
Goodbye and good riddance to Keystone XL // Rep. Gohmert’s literal climate moonshot // Investors send open letter to G7 leaders
Hot News | June 9, 2021
Climate forcing Central American migration
Climate change forcing Central Americans to flee home // White House-GOP infrastructure negotiations break down // Ride hailing and EVs mirror Los Angeles Inequalities
Hot News | June 8, 2021
‘An act of violence on tribal land’
Line 3 protest brings hundreds of protesters, heavy police response // Brazilian land rights activist assassinated: ‘The more you intersect, the more identities you have, the more easy of a target you become’ // Atmospheric CO2 now 50% higher than pre-industrial levels
Hot News | June 7, 2021
123 Leaks
Women hurt more by climate causes, impacts // Tiny number of Permian methane super emitters release disproportionate pollution // A million years of mud shows climate change will make monsoons worse
Hot News | June 4, 2021
‘Not much has made me cry’ — 10% of world’s sequoias burned in Castle Fire
Big three money managers indirectly finance oil extraction from the Amazon — report // ‘Like a ton of bricks’: NPS draft report finds 1 in 10 of the planet’s monarch sequoias burned last year // Private equity firm invested in troubled refinery, lost millions
Hot News | June 3, 2021
Small producers, big methane emissions
Small oil & gas producers have outsized methane emissions // Lakes are losing oxygen // Activists take third seat on Exxon board
Hot News | June 2, 2021
Biden suspends ANWR oil leases
Biden suspends ANWR leases // Drought fuels conflict in Klamath Basin // ‘Daunting and complex’ process a barrier to disaster relief
Hot News | June 1, 2021
Arrests expected in campaign to stop Line 3 oil pipeline
1,000 arrests expected if Gov. Walz doesn’t stop Line 3 tar sands pipeline // 37% of global heat deaths caused by climate change // Growth (and dearth) of Spanish-language disaster warnings reveal need for non-English communications
Hot News | May 28, 2021
The February Texas freeze killed 700 people
Actual Texas freeze death toll quadruple official count // Racism within academic community isolates scientists, causes suboptimal outcomes // New York City electrification bill introduced
Hot News | May 27, 2021
Big Oil hammered by shareholders and courts
A day of superlatives for climate advocates and Big Oil — Little Engine No.1 that could hands Exxon stunning defeat // Dutch court gives Shell a shellacking // Chevron shareholder defeat management, demand scope 3 emissions cuts
Hot News | May 26, 2021
BlackRock to oppose Exxon in key vote today
BlackRock to support activist shareholder’s nominees to Exxon board // Studies, again, find disproportionate climate, pollution harms // Plans for floating wind turbines off California coast take crucial step forward
Hot News | May 25, 2021
‘Dumb luck’ needed to avoid horrific 🔥 season
Climate-fueled drought douses American West in ‘gasoline’ ahead of fire season // Biden doubles FEMA pre-disaster mitigation spending // Boston children exposed to pollution in utero more likely to develop asthma, study finds
Hot News | May 24, 2021
The pope gets an 🔌 🚙
Ana is first named storm of 2021 Atlantic Hurricane Season // Fisker to build electric popemobile // Judge allows DAPL to keep pumping
Hot News | May 21, 2021
NOAA: 2021 hurricane season slightly less bad than 2020
NOAA predicts coming hurricane season will be more active than post-1990 norm // Texas officials knew gas was the problem, blamed renewables for blackouts anyway // Biden orders agencies to identify, mitigate climate risks
Hot News | May 20, 2021
ZOMBIE 🔥🔥🔥! (But seriously, it’s bad)
Climate change makes zombie fires more common, fueling climate change // Lake Charles flooding ‘Just insult to injury’ // Michael Kuperberg reinstated to head up NCA
Hot News | May 19, 2021
‘It’s already here’: Climate change caused 13% of Sandy 💰 damage
Climate change flooded 36,000 homes, 71,000 people in Superstorm Sandy // Colonial Pipeline shutdown reflects climate threats // Hurricane season raises NC fears of pig poo-llution
Hot News | May 18, 2021
IEA calls for immediate stop to Oil and Gas exploration, coal plant construction
IEA says oil & gas exploration, coal plant construction must stop. Now. // Tauktae slams western India with winds equal to major hurricane // Plaintiffs dodge a bullet in SCOTUS ruling for Big Oil
Hot News | May 17, 2021
EPA shuts down St. Croix refinery that rains oil
‘We can’t breathe … in a place that’s supposed. tobe America’s paradise’ // ‘Horrific’ gas explosion rocks Baltimore County neighborhood // Cyclone Tauktae batters western India ahead of landfall
Hot News | May 14, 2021
Colonial Pipeline shut off ⛽ to save 💰💰💰
Pipeline Co. shut down their own pipeline, paid 75 Bitcoin ransom for unhelpful tool // ExxonMobil worked to shift climate blame to individual consumers, study finds // Climate change expected to cause hard 2021 for West
Hot News | May 13, 2021
Line 5 pipeline keeps flowing, violating shutdown order
Line 5 pipeline continues operation, violating Michigan order // ‘An 8th-grader could have hacked’ the Koch-owned Colonial Pipeline, auditor says // The sky’s limit — CO2 pollution is shrinking the stratosphere
Hot News | May 12, 2021
Gas stations run dry as pipeline chaos grows
Gas stations dry as pipeline shutdown drives panic, chaos // IEA says ‘unprecedented’ renewables boom will continue but needs to be faster // Proximity to fracking increases heart attack risks, study shows
Hot News | May 11, 2021
Pipeline shutdown shows risks of old energy infrastructure
Colonial Pipeline shutdown shows vulnerability of old infrastructure // Cal. Gov. expands drought declaration to 41 counties, expects drought area to grow // Navajo Nation methane pollution rate doubled national average // Vineyard Wind approval expected
Hot News | May 10, 2021
California takes action on ‘Diesel death zones’
Chicago EJ advocates notch win after US EPA warns of civil rights violations // New safeguards target California ‘diesel death zones’ // Colonial Pipeline shut own by ransomware attack
Hot News | May 7, 2021
UN report: Big methane cuts needed, possible
UN says big methane cuts are needed and possible // China’s current emissions overtake OECD nations // Administration releases ‘America The Beautiful’ conservation plan
Hot News | May 6, 2021
Gas and wood now more deadly than coal
Gas and biomass now deadlier than coal // One of California’s 2020 wildfires is still burning // Sea level rise could be extremely, unpredictably bad if global warming is not limited, studies show
Hot News | May 5, 2021
Rich nations failing COVID vaccine test for climate action
Vaccine inequities mirror climate injustice // Recent pledges very slightly improve climate outlook // New NOAA ‘normals’ are hotter, also not normal
Hot News | May 4, 2021
Heatwaves, power outages create compounding dangers
Extreme heat, power failures, put city residents at risk // Biden administration lets DAPL oil keep flowing without permit // EPA to cut HFC production, use
Hot News | May 3, 2021
Alaska gambling diversion now part of climate record
Racist teacher triggered by climate change discussion launches into racist rant at Black students // Old Alaska Railroad gambling diversion now part of climate record // Wealthy Texans seek to insulate themselves from grid failures that disproportionately harmed people of color
Hot News | April 30, 2021
German high court: Climate procrastination hurts youth
German high court rules delaying climate action unconstitutionally harms youth // North Carolina rejects MVP permit, again // EV sales growing, but need support to grow even faster, IEA says
Hot News | April 29, 2021
“America is segregated and so is pollution”
Biden highlights climate action and JOBS! in first joint session speech // Senate votes to reinstate methane rules with CRA // People of color breathe more polluted air, new research confirms
Hot News | April 28, 2021
Methane, Methane, Lawsuit, Grid!
Methane pollution can be cut 30% with extant tech, UN report shows ‘no chance’ of meeting climate targets without it // Senate to vote on methane CRA // Maryland county sues Big Oil // Agencies announce grid expansion programs as report highlights need for far more
Hot News | April 27, 2021
Biden on board with 80% CES by 2030
80% CES by 2030, supported by Biden, achievable with extant tech at no new cost // EPA to restore California car pollution safeguards authority // DOJ launches investigation of Louisville Police Dept.
Hot News | April 26, 2021
Summit wraps with jobs focus
Biden focuses on jobs in day 2 of summit // Inslee to sign cap-and-trade bill // California governor moves to end fracking, oil extraction as state faces drought, fire risks
Hot News | April 23, 2021
Drought, Commitments, & Tech Glitches
White House hosts historic climate summit // NYC sues oil companies, API for misleading consumers on climate // Trump admin delayed $20 billion in Puerto Rico hurricane aid, obstructed investigation, IG says // Mexico City residents carry water by donkey amidst drought
Hot News | April 22, 2021
White House releases 2030 NDC
People of color breathing dirtiest air, ALA report says // U.S. pledges to cut emissions in half by 2030 // Biden to restore California vehicle emissions authority
Hot News | April 21, 2021
George Floyd’s murderer convicted, far more still needed
George Floyd’s murderer convicted on all counts // Biden to announce 50% NDC — Reports // Biden administration could address legal void faced by climate ‘refugees’
Hot News | April 20, 2021
Mine Workers support energy transition, conditionally
UMWA announces conditional support for transition for fossil fuels // Hope for caffeine in a warming climate // Nearly all old pipelines still just left on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico, GAO says
Hot News | April 19, 2021
Appallachia could see big jobs gains from orphaned well cleanup
Fixing orphaned wells could be jobs boon for Central Appalachia, report says // Haaland revokes Trump-era DOI orders, creates Climate Task Force // Gas is the new coal, presents stranded asset risks
Hot News | April 16, 2021
Satellites will pinpoint methane ‘super-emitters’
Satellites planned to monitor methane super-emitters // Advocates hope EPA staff will see superfund injustices firsthand at border // Climate-fueled drought threatens high-gluten wheat
Hot News | April 15, 2021
🔌🚙❗ ➕ 🍷🍇❄️😭
EVs 100% of new car sales by 2035 possible — report // Brenda Mallory confirmed to head CEQ // Climate threatens French wine crop
Hot News | April 14, 2021
Fires, Rivers, and Flooding
NFIP, still underwater, paid out $1.2 billion in 2020 // Nepalese wildfires burn out of control as pollution hinders learning // Dam(s), climate change threaten American rivers
Hot News | April 13, 2021
🍻 is (part of) the answer
Big business coalition calls for at least 50% GHG cuts // Climate forces impossible decisions on Native communities // Beer could help scientists understands how crops adapt to climate change, scientists insist
Hot News | April 12, 2021
Battery companies settle IP dispute at 11th hour
SKI, LG agree on EV IP // Biden administration allows DAPL to operate without proper authorization // Seroja devastates western Australia town
Hot News | April 11, 2021
Open for more doom and gloom ⛈️
World a huge mess, intel report says // Florida robs (poor) Peter to pay Paul // Biden administration to decide DAPL’s near-term fate
Hot News | April 8, 2021
Global methane spike ‘very scary indeed’
Spiking atmospheric methane levels ‘very scary indeed’ // ERCOT blackout report fuzzy on details // JPMorgan sought aid for oil & gas industry, FOIA’d emails show
Hot News | April 7, 2021
Industrial waste infrastructure intertwined with climate
Toxic waste infrastructure vulnerable to climate change // PG&E faces criminal charges, this time for 2019 Kinkade fire // Policy needed to ensure equity in EV infrastructure — report
Hot News | April 6, 2021
CO2 hits new 420 ppm high
Atmospheric CO2 reaches new high at over 420 ppm // Tropical Cyclone Seroja kills more than 150 in Indonesia, East Timor // Amazon’s prime example of labor law violations
Hot News | April 5, 2021
Florida Men and Women threatened by 20-ft. 🌊 of industrial wastewater
Flash flooding kills 41 in eastern Indonesia // Florida officials scramble to contain wastewater, avert drinking water disaster // Wildfires burn across Midwest
Hot News | April 2, 2021
Billions in tax breaks, thousands of layoffs for fossil fuel companies
Fossil fuel companies scored billions in tax breaks, laid off thousands of workers // Get ready for a dry, conflagrated year // Climate hurting agricultural production, driving migration
Hot News | April 1, 2021
Nothing really happened yesterday
Biden climate and jobs plan historic in size and scope, not ambitious enough some argue // EPA dismisses Trump-appointed science board members // Deforestation accelerated in 2020 — report
Hot News | March 31, 2021
Biden ‘Build Back Better’ details released
Biden to unveil American Jobs Plan // Survey of economists shows climate crisis demands ‘immediate and drastic action’ to avoid $30 trillion in annual climate costs // Renewables ‘the complete package of blessings’ at state and local levels
Hot News | March 30, 2021
POTUS pitches climate stimulus as floods, wildfires devastate U.S.
Biden announces major offshore wind expansion in ‘Build Back Better’ buildup // Flooding kills 7 in Tennessee with more rain expected // Wildfires burn in Black Hills as worry grows over upcoming fire ‘season’ // Explosion at Indonesian oil refinery
Hot News | March 26, 2021
Carbon taxes, geoengineering, EVs, and more!
API carbon Tax announcement met with ‘Baptists and bootleggers’ derision // Los Angeles could hit 100% clean energy by 2035 — NREL study // Equitable transportation coalitions issue reports, calls for action // Studying geoengineering ‘not as dumb as doing nothing,’ scientists say // Canadian Supreme Court upholds carbon tax
Hot News | March 25, 2021
Senate to reinstate methane regs
Senate Dems to nullify Trump methane rollbacks with CRA // Soil’s carbon sink doesn’t grow with atmospheric CO2, study says // Kansas GOP split over anti-wind bill
Hot News | March 24, 2021
CANCELLED: Annova LNG export project
Annova LNG export project cancelled // Lending to fossil fuel companies increased after Paris Agreement // County refuses to sell land to Byhalia pipeline
Hot News | March 23, 2021
🐍 and 🕷️ and 👫 flee Australia floodwaters
Australia inundated by bloods, swarming spiders // Polluter sponsorships are ‘sports-washing,’ report says // Proposed coal mines could produce huge methane pollution increase — report
Hot News | March 22, 2021
🌎 💧 📅 (World Water Day)
Climate change fuels drought across US, makes everything worse // Solar panels over California canals could be win-win-win // Louisiana threatened by groundwater crisis
Hot News | March 19, 2021
1 billion people live in a city with climate goals
Urban climate efforts grew in 2020 with American cities at cutting edge // Climate change info restored to EPA website // For first time, FERC accounts for climate change in pipeline decision
Hot News | March 18, 2021
🔥 and 🌀 (wildfire pollution and new hurricane names)
COVID pollution drop no match for western wildfires // The omega of Greek hurricane names // Vast majority of IDPs displaced by climate-triggered disasters, IFRC says
Hot News | March 17, 2021
Electric semis already cheaper per-mile than diesel
E-Semis cheaper per mile than diesels at today’s prices — report // AFL-CIO head calls for action on slavery in Chinese solar production // Enviros launch campaign to fund climate action with infrastructure bill
Hot News | March 16, 2021
Redlined neighborhoods face higher flood risk
Redlined homes face higher flood risk // Climate change cause mental health crisis // Experts warn corporate climate modeling lacks transparency
Hot News | March 15, 2021
Colorado, Wyoming hit by record ❄️❄️❄️❄️
Record snowfall hits Colorado, Wyoming // BIPOC-led pipeline opposition mounts // Racism, water crises continue in Jackson, Miss.
Hot News | March 12, 2021
Indigenous People Left Out Of UN Biodiversity Talks
Despite protecting nature, Indigenous people will be left out of UN biodiversity talks // French insurance company bids adieu to German coal // Environmentalists sue over Kern County plan to fast-track drilling
Hot News | March 11, 2021
Regan confirmed for EPA chief
Senate confirms Michael Regan for EPA chief // Following Trump’s lead, Biden backs pipeline in Supreme Court case // TV climate coverage cut in half in 2020
Hot News | March 10, 2021
Line 3 project brings sexual violence to Minnesota town
Assaults on the rise at Line 3 pipeline man camp // Climate kids shift legal gears // Texas mess dumped 3.3 million pounds of extra pollution
Hot News | March 9, 2021
Tropical warming a deadly threat to billions
Tropics, home to 40% of global population, ‘unihabitable’ by 2050 // Offshore wind project soon to be Martha’s Vineyard’s newest neighbor // Musk’s next gambit: a Texas-sized battery
Hot News | March 8, 2021
China’s Five-Year Plan, the Gas Ban War, and more
China’s five-year plan // The fight over gas bans // Navajo nation left without power
Hot News | March 5, 2021
Same neighborhoods hurt by heat & COVID, because racism
Racism, climate change, and COVID-19 cause compounding harm // A $16 billion ‘oops’ // Building code process change alarms climate advocates
Hot News | March 4, 2021
Major utilities announce ⚡🚙🔌 network
Utilities plan to collaborate on EV charging network // ‘Outraged’ Katie Porter focuses on oil and gas leasing // ERCOT CEO fired — unlike gas in Texas power plants last month
Hot News | March 3, 2021
Hunger strike against environmental racism in Chicago
Chicago hunger strikers fight metal recycling facility // Texas taxpayers on the hook for orphaned well costs // Biden DOJ holds course on Juliana, solar tariffs litigation
Hot News | March 2, 2021
Fracking chemicals are in children
Sky-high levels of fracking chemicals in children’s bodies // Citi, Exxon make climate moves // Gas utilities meddle in Texas cities’ electrification, decarbonization efforts
Hot News | March 1, 2021
Interim social cost of carbon released 🎉🤓🍻
Biden administration sets interim greenhouse pollution cost estimates // Global carbon reductions targets ‘very, very far from where we need to be’ // ‘We don’t need a cheerleader. We need water.’
Hot News | February 26, 2021
Atlantic current weakest since the Norman Conquest
Atlantic Ocean circulation weakest in a millennium // Fracking banned in Delaware River Basin // Clean energy transition could center on Republican districts
Hot News | February 25, 2021
Rep. Haaland set to be first Native American DOI Secretary
Rep. Debra Haaland set to be first Native American to lead Interior // Deregulation made Texas electricity more expensive // New USPS fleet not all electric — yet // Get on the e-bus
Hot News | February 24, 2021
Annapolis sues oil & gas cos. for climate deception, damage
Annapolis sues oil and gas companies over climate change // PERC to probe climate impacts, potential market violations // ERCOT chair, 4 other members resign
Hot News | February 23, 2021
Gas Industry pushes bills, PR at state-level
Gas industry lobbies in statehouses against local electrification // Racism, inequity glaring in Texas grid failure impact // Flood insurance woefully inadequate for current, future risks
Hot News | February 22, 2021
US rejoins Paris as climate & energy crises continue
America is back in Paris with work to do // Hurricanes tipped off ‘vicious cycle’ of homelessness in Louisiana // Texas power restored, full costs of failure growing but still unknown
Hot News | February 19, 2021
A Big End To A Very Long Week
Renewable energy ‘had a pretty amazing’ 2020 // America Is All In Paris (again) // Bankrupt Mont. coal mining company dumps labor pensions after giving bonuses to management // Missouri city slammed by skyrocketing gas prices
Hot News | February 18, 2021
Texas Blackouts Impacts Spread
Death toll, food and water impacts of Texas blackouts mount // Philly refinery’s toxic, racist legacy continues in cleanup // Blackouts show Texas’ failure to plan for extreme weather
Hot News | February 17, 2021
Texas blackouts heighten inequities
‘Communities of color … keep getting dunked on — every single time’ // Texas power companies paying customers to leave // Indian Gov’t. using ‘toolkit conspiracy’ arrest of Disha Ravi to intimidate activists
Hot News | February 16, 2021
Texas ❄️ knocks out 🔌 for millions
Extreme winter weather // Winter storm wreaks havoc on grid, energy markets // FERC to increase environmental justice consideration
Hot News | February 12, 2021
Fracking Prosperity Was A Myth
Fracking never produced local prosperity—report // Hondurans trapped in destructive, climate-fueled cycle // Trump’s institutional damage to EPA could hamper Biden agenda
Hot News | February 11, 2021
ITC gives auto companies grace period in battery ruling
ITC bans SKI batteries from US for 10 years, includes grace period // Equinor regrets US shale investments, sells assets // Great Lakes ice vocanoes getting rarer
Hot News | February 10, 2021
Advocates up pressure on Biden over DAPL
Biden facing increasing pressure to shut down DAPL // Texas politicians attack Biden energy moves despite (lack of) Texas impacts // Chevron spills oil into San Francisco Bay
Hot News | February 9, 2021
8.7 million killed annually by fossil fuels
Fossil fuels kill double previous estimate—Harvard study // Climate change makes pollen allergy season longer, worse // Corp. lobby doesn’t want rules
Hot News | February 8, 2021
Deadly glacier burst ‘a climate change event’
Himalayan glacier disaster // Native Americans celebrate Keystone XL cancellation // Biden orders report on climate-driven migration
Hot News | February 5, 2021
Initiative challenges philanthropy over EJ funding
Donors of Color Network launch // Judge blocks Montana coal mine expansion // New study could establish liability for climate polluters
Hot News | February 4, 2021
Waiting to address climate change would cost U.S. $3.5 trillion
Delaying climate action could cost billions // BOEM restarts Vineyard Wind permitting // SCOTUS to hear PennEast Pipeline eminent domain case
Hot News | February 3, 2021
Cities underestimate carbon pollution by nearly 20%
U.S. cities underestimate carbon pollution // Wooroloo fire rages outside Perth, Australia // US could reach net-zero by 2050 with benefits > costs
Hot News | February 2, 2021
COVID + pollution + racism plague Chicago’s Little Village
COVID compounds environmental injustice in Chicago // Oil & gas industry begins pushback against Biden // EPA ‘secret science’ rule scrapped
Hot News | February 1, 2021
DOI revokes drilling permits
CEOs of Exxon, Chevron discussed merger // DOI revokes 70 improperly-issued drilling permits // Black farmers central in Biden race, climate efforts