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7/13/21

…drought dries up the west

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Drought Hits the Southwest, and New Mexico’s Canals Run Dry

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Drought Hits the Southwest, and New Mexico’s Canals Run Dry

By Simon Romero Photo: Ramsay de Give for NYT 7/13/21

Acequias, the fabled irrigation ditches that are a cornerstone of New Mexican culture, have endured centuries of challenges. Can they survive the Southwest’s megadrought?

ARTICLES: Drought Hits the Southwest, and New Mexico’s Canals Run Dry

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Drought Hits the Southwest, and New Mexico’s Canals Run Dry

By Simon Romero Photo: Ramsay de Give for NYT 7/13/21

Acequias, the fabled irrigation ditches that are a cornerstone of New Mexican culture, have endured centuries of challenges. Can they survive the Southwest’s megadrought?
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The Washington Post

Illegal cannabis growers are stealing water amid California’s drought, officials say

By Rachel Pannett    Photo: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images

California’s deepening drought is creating another big problem for authorities: water theft. Water thieves, many of them illegal marijuana growers, are tapping into fire hydrants…

Jul232021

Los Angeles Times

Thousands of Central Valley farmers may lose access to surface water amid worsening drought

By Julia Wick    Photo: Gary Coronado

As California endures an increasingly brutal second year of drought, state water regulators are considering an emergency order that would bar thousands of Central Valley…

Jul212021

latimes

Drone photos reveal the shocking truth of California’s parched landscape

By Brian Van Der Brug     Photo: Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times

As the West descends deeper into drought, climate and water experts are growing increasingly alarmed by California’s shriveling reservoirs. Photos of Lake Oroville, Folsom Lake, Trinity…

Jul192021

Vice

Extreme Drought Could Shut Down a Hydroelectric Power Plant In California

By Audrey Carleton

Officials are preparing for the likelihood that California’s record breaking drought will come for its renewable energy stores. The West Coast state, which has been weathering wildfires, 126-year…

Jul182021

The New York Times

Scorched, Parched and Now Uninsurable: Climate Change Hits Wine Country

By Christopher Flavelle    Photo: Mike Kai Chen

ST. HELENA, Calif. — Last September, a wildfire tore through one of Dario Sattui’s Napa Valley wineries, destroying millions of dollars in property and equipment,…

Jul162021

latimes

The current drought is worldwide. Here’s how different places are fighting it

By Celina Tebor    Photo: Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times

The world is facing unprecedented levels of drought. In the U.S., nearly half the mainland is currently afflicted, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association.…

Jul162021

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‘There Are No Winners Here’: Drought in the Klamath Basin Inflames a Decades-Old War Over Water and Fish

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers    Photo: Anne Marshall-Chalmers

TULELAKE, Calif.—Joey Gentry hesitates before she drives through the fields of alfalfa and wheat that line the roads in the Klamath Basin. “Because I’m good…

Jul162021

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Officials Pull ‘Emergency Lever’ as Lake Powell Plunges Toward Dangerous New Low

By Molly Taft    Photo: Susan Montoya Bryan (AP)

The latest megadrought alarm bell just went off in the West. The Bureau of Reclamation began emergency water releases from reservoirs upstream in the Colorado River this week in…

Jul152021

La Times

With drought worsening, should California have much tougher water restrictions?

By Ari Plachta    Photo: Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times

When Gov. Gavin Newsom asked Californians to voluntarily conserve water last week as he stood in front of the retreating shoreline at Lopez Lake in San Luis…

Jul152021

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Lake Mead’s new lows put a Western lifeline in peril

By Jaweed Kaleem and Thomas Curwen    Photo: Allen J. Schaben , Los Angeles Times

Eric Richins looked out from his pontoon boat to the shallows on the lake’s western edge. He squinted and paused as if he had come…

Jul132021

medium

6 Of The Most Unsustainable Cities, Analyzed

By Arthur Keith    Photo: Martin Adams on Unsplash

Drought begets drought, so the saying goes. Extreme heat dries out the soil, which dries out the atmosphere. As a result, there is not enough…

Jul92021

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How The West Went Dry

By Arthur Keith    Photo: Gemma Burgazzi

To a farmer or rancher, nothing could be sweeter than the sound of an approaching storm. Dogs are terrified of thunderstorms. Like fireworks around the…

Jul92021

The Guardian

‘We live in a desert. We have to act like it’: Las Vegas faces reality of drought

By Oliver Milman    Photo: David McNew/Getty Images

Investigator Perry Kaye jammed the brakes of his government-issued vehicle to survey the offense. “Uh oh this doesn’t look too good. Let’s take a peek,”…

Jun282021

The New York Times

It’s Some of America’s Richest Farmland. But What Is It Without Water?

By Somini Sengupta    Photo: Mike Kai Chen

In America’s fruit and nut basket, water is now the most precious crop of all. It explains why, amid a historic drought parching much of…

Jun262021

medium

The American West: Long on People, Short on Water

By Arthur Keith    Photo: Arthur Keith

Have you ever been in the midst of writing (or reading) a story where the context changes so fast you constantly have to revise or…

Jun222021

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A drought meets its match

By Louis Sahagún    Photo: Robert Gauthier Los Angeles Times

Mechanical engineer Brent Yamasaki set out amid the recent blistering heat wave to take stock of the giant dams, pumps and pipes that support Diamond…

Jun172021

The Guardian

What tree rings reveal about America’s megadrought

By Alvin Chang    Photo: Josh Edelson

Last year, wildfires burned through hundreds of thousands of acres of land in the American west. These fires, extraordinary in size and intensity, are a…

Jun152021

ewspaper.latimes.com

A problem Silicon Valley can’t solve: water

By Susanne Rust    Photo: Josh Edelson Associated Press

California is known for its history of natural disasters, and in the Silicon Valley, two potential calamities — drought and earthquake risk — are converging…

Jun152021

San Francisco Chronicle

Drought prompts state to cut off water to thousands of farms, water agencies

By Kurtis Alexander    Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Thousands of farms and water agencies that rely on flows from California’s vast delta watershed, including some in the Bay Area, are being told to…

Jun112021

The New York Times

How Severe Is the Western Drought? See For Yourself.

By Nadja Popovich

An intense drought is gripping the American West. Extreme conditions are more widespread than at any point in at least 20 years, according to the…

7/13/21

…wildfires blaze across western states

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Wildfires blaze across western states as heatwave shatters records

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Wildfires blaze across western states as heatwave shatters records

By Guardian staff and agency Photo: Noah Berger/AP 7/13/21

Warning of potential for ‘extreme growth’ of Oregon blaze as two die in Arizona fire reconnaissance plane crash. Firefighters are working in extreme heat to…

ARTICLES: Wildfires blaze across western states as heatwave shatters records

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Wildfires blaze across western states as heatwave shatters records

By Guardian staff and agency Photo: Noah Berger/AP 7/13/21

Warning of potential for ‘extreme growth’ of Oregon blaze as two die in Arizona fire reconnaissance plane crash. Firefighters are working in extreme heat to…
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The Washington Post

FIGHTING FIRE WITH FIRE

By Amanda Monthei, Dylan Moriarty and more

It’s a clear, sunny spring morning in Seeley Lake, Mont., and 34 firefighters are gathering on a road east of town, drip torches in hand.…

Jul282021

The Washington Post

Survivors of California’s deadliest wildfire haunted as new blaze nears_ ‘I can’t do it again’

By María Luisa Paúl and Frances Stead Sellers    Photo: Kyle Grillot

Stacey Hoffman has barely slept the past week, as the Dixie Fire edged closer to her new home in Chester, Calif. She spent nights by the window,…

Jul272021

technologyreview

The pandemic slashed the West Coast’s emissions. Wildfires already reversed it.

By James Temple    Photo: Mario tama/getty images

Wildfires raging across the US West Coast have filled the air with enough carbon dioxide to wipe out more than half of the region’s pandemic-driven…

Jul252021

The Washington Post

Officials urge residents to flee as Dixie Fire, California’s biggest blaze this year, continues to grow

By Paulina Firozi and María Luisa Paúl

A fire scorching parts of Northern California’s Butte County — the same county that in 2018 endured the deadliest wildfire in state history — has…

Jul232021

The Los Angeles Times

Dixie fire becomes largest in California while crews struggle to gain footing on Tamarack blaze

By Hayley Smith    Photo: Noah Berger / Associated Press

As the Dixie fire becomes California’s largest wildfire of the year, new questions are being raised about how officials have handled the Tamarack fire…

Jul222021

Los Angeles Times

How to protect yourself from wildfire smoke

By Hayley Smith    Photo: Eric Risberg

Wildfire season is already off to a record-breaking start, and experts are warning that smoke from the state’s biggest blazes may be as dangerous as…

Jul222021

Los Angeles Times

Dixie fire burns more than 100,000 acres while Tamarack fire crosses state lines

By Hayley Smith and Matthew Ormseth    Photo: Noah Berger / Associated Press

The Dixie fire burning in Butte and Plumas counties mushroomed to more than 100,000 acres Thursday, becoming the second California blaze this year to surpass…

Jul222021

treehugger

Western Wildfires Hurt East Coast Air Quality—It’s Time to Rally Together

By Sami Grover    Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

When I was watching the horrific videos of flooding in China, my sense of foreboding was heightened by the itching of my eyeballs. The air here…

Jul212021

The New York Times

See How Wildfire Smoke Spread Across America

By Nadja Popovich and Josh Katz    Photo: Global Systems Laboratory

Wildfire smoke from Canada and the Western United States stretched across the continent this week, covering skies in a thick haze and triggering health alerts…

Jul202021

The Washington Post

Extreme fire behavior has erupted in the West. Here’s what that means.

By Matthew Cappucci

Months remain until the peak of wildfire season in the western U.S., but hundreds of blazes have already torched more than a million acres, pouring…

Jul202021

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The Bootleg Fire in Oregon is so large, it’s creating its own weather

By Joe Sutton, Michael Guy and Hollie Silverman

As hot, dry weather conditions continue to fuel wildfires across much of the United States, the Bootleg Fire in Oregon has become so intense that it’s creating its own weather.…

Jul192021

The Washington Post

Dangerous conditions complicate wildfire fight in Western U.S.

By Washington Post Staff

Erratic winds and dry lightning added to the dangers for crews battling the nation’s largest wildfire on Monday in parched Oregon forests, just one of…

Jul172021

The Washington Post

As the Bootleg Fire burns, locals are faced with the realities of climate change — and remain skeptical

By Joshua Partlow    Photo: Mason Trinca

SPRAGUE RIVER, Ore. — Youth pastor Matt Wolff and his wife, Jennifer, followed God’s direction when they settled at the end of a rutted dirt…

Jul162021

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Heavy smoke expected to linger above western Montana



HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Smoke from wildfires across the U.S. West has wafted over large swaths of western Montana on Friday, leading to unhealthy air…

Jul132021

The Washington Post

Bootleg Fire rages in Oregon, burning 50 structures and threatening California’s power supply

By Paulina Firozi and Reis Thebault

A fast-growing wildfire blazing across southwest Oregon has burned through more than 153,500 acres, forced hundreds of evacuations and is imperiling a major power grid as…

Jul132021

The New York Times

Heat Wave Updates: West Gets Some Relief From Scorching Temperatures

By Giulia Heyward    Photo: Noah Berger/Associated Press

The scorching temperatures from the West’s third heat wave of the summer, which fueled quick-spreading wildfires and fears of power outages over the weekend, began…

Jul132021

reuters

Brutal heat wave persists in U.S. West as Oregon wildfire rages

By Sergio Olmos

PORTLAND, Ore. July 12 (Reuters) – The U.S. West endured a fourth day of scorching heat on Monday as temperatures again threatened to shatter records,…

Jul132021

Los Angeles Times

California fires are burning faster, hotter, more intensely — and getting harder to fight

By Hayley Smith and Alex Wigglesworth    Photo: Noah Berger / Associated Press

The fires have burned more than 140,000 acres, from soaring mountains along the California-Nevada border to forest north of Mt. Shasta and the gateway to…

Jul122021

The Hill

Western states at risk of unprecedented heat as wildfire season begins

By Zack Budryk    Photo: Getty Images

Forecasts indicate the Western U.S. is set for another week of above-average heat as the traditional wildfire season begins. The National Weather Service (NWS) on…

Jul122021

latimes

California hit by record-breaking fire destruction: ‘Climate change is real, it’s bad’

By Hayley Smith    Photo: Noah Berger / Associated Press

California is off to another record-breaking year of wildfires as the state enters its most dangerous months, with extreme heat and dry terrain creating the…

Jul122021

scientificamerican

Soaring Temperatures, Wildfire Threaten California’s Power Grid

By Anne C. Mulkern    Photo: Josh Edelson Getty Images

Extreme heat and a wildfire in Oregon pushed California to the brink of switching off power to thousands of people over the weekend as climate-related…

Jul12021

The Washington Post

Underpaid firefighters, overstretched budgets: The U.S. isn’t prepared for fires fueled by climate change

By Sarah Kaplan    Photo: Noah Berger

Biden announced more resources for tackling wildfire Wednesday, but experts say, ‘We need a new approach’

7/7/21

…HEAT and all its ramifications

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Climate Change Drove Western Heat Wave’s Extreme Records, Analysis Finds

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Climate Change Drove Western Heat Wave’s Extreme Records, Analysis Finds

By Henry Fountain Photo: Getty Images 7/7/21

A rapid analysis of last week’s record-breaking heat found that it would have been virtually impossible without the influence of human-caused climate change. The extraordinary…

ARTICLES: Climate Change Drove Western Heat Wave’s Extreme Records, Analysis Finds

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Climate Change Drove Western Heat Wave’s Extreme Records, Analysis Finds

By Henry Fountain Photo: Getty Images 7/7/21

A rapid analysis of last week’s record-breaking heat found that it would have been virtually impossible without the influence of human-caused climate change. The extraordinary…
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The Washington Post

Beyond human endurance

By Ruby Mellen and William Neff

When it comes to heat, the human body is remarkably resilient — it’s the humidity that makes it harder to cool down. And humidity, driven…

Jul272021

INDEPENDENT

‘Record-shattering’ heatwaves to become far more likely without urgent climate action, research warns

By Daisy Dunne

“Record-shattering” events similar to North America’s recent deadly heatwave could become far more likely in the coming years if little is done to tackle rapidly…

Jul262021

Carbon Brief

Climate change will drive rise in ‘record-shattering’ heat extremes

By Ayesha Tandon    Photo: ZUMA Press Inc

“Record-shattering” extremes – which break weather records by large margins – will become more likely as a result of climate change, a new study finds.…

Jul262021

AXIOS

Study: Get ready for many more record-shattering heatwaves

By Andrew Freedman    Photo: NASA Earth Observatory

The recent deadly heat wave in the Pacific Northwest, during which all-time temperature records were shattered by several degrees, is a prologue to what is…

Jul262021

The New York Times

The world can expect more record-shattering heat waves, research shows.

By Henry Fountain    Photo: Maranie Staab/Reuters

The ferocious heat wave that hit the Pacific Northwest in late June stunned some climate scientists because it was so much more extreme than anything…

Jul262021

The Guardian

‘Record-shattering’ heat becoming much more likely, says climate study

By Damian Carrington    Photo: US Forest Service/AFP/Getty Images

“Record-shattering” heatwaves, even worse than the one that recently hit north-west America, are set to become much more likely in future, according to research. The…

Jul242021

The Washington Post

Wet-bulb temperature is important, climate experts say. So what is it?

By Caroline Anders    Photo: John Locher/AP

A measurement long known to climate scientists has begun creeping into the public consciousness as extreme weather conditions force us to reflect on what conditions…

Jul222021

The New York Times

Good morning. Summers in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., are hotter than Atlanta summers were not so long ago.

By David Leonhardt    Photo: Lido Vizzutti

It’s almost as if the entire East Coast has shifted south. Summers in Portland, Maine, are now almost as hot as summers in Boston were…

Jul222021

bloomberg

How Cities Are Preparing for Higher Temperatures



It’s not just climate change, it’s the design choices we’ve made that are turning cities into inhospitable communities. From New York City to Paris, Bloomberg…

Jul222021

The Washington Post

In America’s least air-conditioned cities, brutal heat changes some people’s minds

By Marc Fisher and Carissa Wolf    Photo: Colin Mulvany/The Spokesman-Review/AP

In Boise, Idaho, where the temperature topped 97 for a stretch of 14 out of 15 days this month, Sarah O’Keefe refuses to give in. With…

Jul212021

eater

Climate Disaster Looks Like Thousands of Boiled-Alive Mussels on a Beach in Vancouver

By Terrence Doyle    Photo: Alyssa Gehman

Tens of thousands of dead mussels lay along the coastline in Vancouver, British Columbia, boiled alive by the extreme heat wave that swept across the Pacific Northwest…

Jul212021

The York Times

America in 2090: The Impact of Extreme Heat, in Maps

By Susan Joy Hassol and Kristie Ebi

Yes, it is getting hotter. And while you might be able to escape the intensifying tropical storms, flooding or droughts by moving elsewhere, refuge from…

Jul192021

The Washington Post

Biden administration, workers grapple with health threats posed by climate change and heat

By Eli Rosenberg and Abha Bhattarai    Photo: Max Whittaker

Surging temperatures across the West Coast this summer are exposing another way that the changing climate threatens the country’s future: the danger it poses to…

Jul192021

The Washington Post

Extreme heat bakes Northwest and northern Rockies amid high fire danger

By Matthew Cappucci    Photo: David Ryder/Reuters

For the fourth time in the past month and a half, a strong heat wave is roasting parts of the western U.S., as wildfires run…

Jul182021

latimes

Instead of braving the river, these endangered salmon take the highway

By Richard Read    Photo: Richard Read / Los Angeles Times

EAGLE, Idaho — The fish shimmied past her underwater office window inside the Lower Granite Dam, solo and in small groups, an endless parade of…

Jul172021

The Washington Post

As the Bootleg Fire burns, locals are faced with the realities of climate change — and remain skeptical

By Joshua Partlow    Photo: Mason Trinca

SPRAGUE RIVER, Ore. — Youth pastor Matt Wolff and his wife, Jennifer, followed God’s direction when they settled at the end of a rutted dirt…

Jul162021

newrepublic

Those Bathing Bears Aren’t Cute. They’re Climate Change Victims.

By Eleanor Cummins    Photo: Bgsmith/shutterstock

Climate has always been one of Lake Tahoe’s biggest selling points. Nevada is infamously inhospitable to everyone but Elvis impersonators, and California is always burning.…

Jul152021

The Washington Post

Yet another major heat wave is set to roast the western U.S. and Canada by the weekend

By Matthew Cappucci    Photo: WeatherBell

The heat wave is forecast to bring triple-digit temperatures to at least 16 million people, challenging and breaking records into Canada. It’s also targeting an…

Jul132021

TreeHugger

Pacific Northwest Heat Waves Impossible Without Human-Caused Climate Change

By Sami Grover    Photo: Chuchart Duangdaw/Getty Images

The recent heatwaves in Canada and the Pacific Northwest caused many seasoned climate watchers—including normally cautious climatologists—to essentially freak out. And with good reason. When heat records…

Jul82021

The Washington Post

Crushing heat wave in Pacific Northwest and Canada cooked shellfish alive by the millions

By Sammy Westfall and Amanda Coletta    Photo: Alyssa Gehman

Amid the crushing summer heat wave that has slammed the Pacific Northwest and parts of Canada, Alyssa Gehman, a marine ecologist who lives by the…

6/2/21

…what a bad month oil seems to be having

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The Washington Post

Why has Andy Karsner frightened the mighty ExxonMobil?

By Steven Mufson    Photo: Peter Newcomb/Bloomberg News

The oil giant spent millions of dollars to keep Karsner, a Republican who favors renewable energy, off the company’s board of directors. It failed. Clay…

Jun162021

Bloomberg Green

The Man Who Beat Shell: How an Unknown Lawyer Won Historic Suit

By Diederik Baazil and Hugo Miller    Photo: Peter Boer/Bloomberg

Royal Dutch Shell Plc hired a team of pricey lawyers for its defense against environmental activists in a Dutch court, and lost. A decade-old, $22…

Jun92021

The Wall Street Journal

Keystone XL Oil Project Abandoned by Developer

By Timothy Puko and Vipal Monga    Photo: Jason Franson

Canada’s TC Energy Corp. TRP +0.19% and the Albertan provincial government said Wednesday they would scuttle the Keystone XL oil pipeline project, bringing to an end a yearslong controversy over…

Jun72021

Treehugger

Big Oil’s Bad Week Was Good News for National Oil Companies

By Lloyd Alter    Photo: Reza/Getty Images

The International Energy Agency (IEA) recently issued a report, Net-Zero by 2050, that essentially says there should be no more approvals of oil, gas, or…

Jun22021

The Atlantic

Wall Street’s Skirmish With Exxon Is ‘Monumental’

By Robinson Meyer    Photo: Jim Young / Reuters

It can be difficult even to say who controls a company. Most large corporations are led by a chief executive officer, who is hired and…

Jun22021

BBC

Alaska: Biden to suspend Trump Arctic drilling leases

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US President Joe Biden’s administration will suspend oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge pending an environmental review.

Jun22021

PROPUBLICA

We Reported on How California Rarely Cracks Down on Oil Companies. Now Regulators Have Fined One Company $1.5 Million

By Janet Wilson    Photo: Jay Calderon/The Desert Sun

A south Los Angeles oil producer has been ordered by California’s top oil regulator to pay almost $1.5 million in fines for nearly 600 violations…

Jun22021

THE HILL

Third climate advocate wins seat on Exxon board

By Mychael Schnell    Photo: Greg Nash

A third climate advocate has secured a seat on the board of Exxon Mobil Corp. Alexander Karsner, a private equity investor from Engine No. 1,…

Jun12021

parekhpayal.medium.com

Building the climate movement in the “Shell” of the Dutch court decision

By Payal Parekh

The historic ruling by the Dutch court that Royal Dutch Shell must reduce its emissions by 45% by 2030 relative to 2019 is being celebrated…

Jun12021

The New York Times

Biden Suspends Drilling Leases in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

By Coral Davenport, Henry Fountain, and Lisa Friedman    Photo: Steven J. Kazlowski

The decision blocks, for now, oil and gas drilling in one of the largest tracts of undeveloped wilderness in the United States…

May302021

amny

The little engine that could, and the oil giant that couldn’t

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss and Jennifer Hiller    Photo: Brendan McDermid / Reuters

Last December, when a week-old hedge fund named Engine No. 1 challenged Exxon Mobil to change its ways, laughter echoed through Wall Street circles, from…

May292021

REUTERS

BlackRock goes against BP board in climate resolution vote

By Ron Bousso and Simon Jessop    Photo: Carlo Allegri / Reuters

The world’s biggest asset manager and top BP (BP.L) investor BlackRock (BLK.N) said on Friday it had backed a shareholder resolution calling for faster climate…

May272021

Rolling Stone

A Court Ruled Shell Is Liable for Its Contributions to Climate Change. What Happens Now?

By Antonia Juhasz    Photo: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg/Getty Images

In a ruling designed to have far-reaching effects on the world’s largest oil companies, a Dutch court has held Royal Dutch Shell liable for its…

May272021

The Washington Post

A bad day for Big Oil

By Steven Mufson    Photo: Logan Cyrus/AFP/Getty Images

ExxonMobil shareholders voted Wednesday to install at least two new independent directors to the company’s board, a resounding defeat for chief executive Darren Woods and…

May262021

Bloomberg Green

Shell Loses Climate Case That May Set Precedent for Big Oil

By Diederik Baazil, Hugo Miller, and Laura Hurst    Photo: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg

Royal Dutch Shell Plc was ordered by a Dutch court to slash its emissions harder and faster than planned, a ruling that could have far-reaching…

May182021

The Guardian

No new oil, gas or coal development if world is to reach net zero by 2050, says world energy body

By Fiona Harvey    Photo: Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images

Exploitation and development of new oil and gas fields must stop this year and no new coal-fired power stations can be built if the world…

5/31/21

…what a bad week oil seems to be having

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A bad week for oil

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All three events happened on Wednesday. ExxonMobil suffered a stunning defeat as an activist hedge fund successfully placed two climate-friendly directors on its board. Chevron’s…

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A bad week for oil

By Catherine Brahic 5/31/21

All three events happened on Wednesday. ExxonMobil suffered a stunning defeat as an activist hedge fund successfully placed two climate-friendly directors on its board. Chevron’s…
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The Guardian

‘Black Wednesday’ for big oil as courtrooms and boardrooms turn on industry

By Jillian Ambrose    Photo: Stockbyte/Getty Images

The world’s patience with the fossil fuel industry is wearing thin. This was the stark message delivered to major international oil companies this week in…

May272021

The Economist

ExxonMobil loses a proxy fight with green investors

    Photo: Eyevine

“The stone age did not end for lack of stone, and the oil age will end long before the world runs out of petroleum.” That…

May272021

climatecrocks.com

“A Turning Point for Big Oil” – Recapping a Historic Moment

By Brad Johnson

Yesterday seemed historic in hammering home the urgency of climate action to Big Oil Boardrooms…

May272021

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Shell, Exxon Decisions Highlight Rethink in Energy Investment

By Anna Hirtenstein    Photo: Alex Kuzoian

The development of climate change as a factor for investors to consider is shaking the investment world. The Dutch court ruled on Wednesday that Shell…

May262021

Inside Climate News

ExxonMobil Shareholders to Company: We Want a Different Approach to Climate Change

By Nicholas Kusnetz    Photo: Callaghan O'Hare/Getty Images

ExxonMobil has spent the last six months locked in a battle for its future, ever since a small investment firm launched a long-shot bid to…

May262021

Inside Climate News

Dutch Court Gives Shell Nine Years to Cut Its Carbon Emissions by 45 Percent from 2019 Levels

By Kristoffer Tigue, Dan Gearino    Photo: Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/Getty Images

The Hague District Court verdict is only legally binding in the Netherlands. But the ruling could influence dozens of similar cases around the world, including…

May262021

The New Yorker

The Climate Crisis

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In what may be the most cataclysmic day so far for the traditional fossil-fuel industry, a remarkable set of shareholder votes and court rulings have…

May262021

NPR

A Tiny Fund Has Scored A Historic Win Against ExxonMobil Over The Future Of Oil

By Camila Domonoske    Photo: Logan Cyrus

In a dramatic boardroom battle on Wednesday, a tiny hedge fund fought with the energy giant ExxonMobil over the future of the oil and gas…

May262021

HEATED

Breaking: A climate upheaval at Exxon

By Emily Atkin

At the annual shareholder meeting, an activist investor that owns only about 0.02% of the oil giant’s stock secured at least two seats on the…

May222021

The Washington Post

The fight for the soul – and the future – of ExxonMobil

By Steven Mufson    Photo: Brendan McDermid/Reuters

A group of insurgent investors backed by the three largest pension funds in America is trying to force ExxonMobil to take climate change much more…

Feb62021

The Economist

Shareholders are pushing ExxonMobil to go green

    Photo: Brett Ryder

Two american giants, spooked by a crisis that has roiled oil markets, fall into each other’s arms. The tie-up strings back together bits of Standard…

5/4/21

…nuclear energy and its role in reaching our climate goals

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The controversial future of nuclear power in the U.S.

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The controversial future of nuclear power in the U.S.

By Lois Parshley Photo: Georgia Power Company 5/4/21

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RESILIENCE

The Great Turning Point for Humankind: What if Nuclear Energy had not been Abandoned in the 1970s?

By Ugo Bardi

I remember having read Walt Disney’s book, “Our Friend, the Atom,” (1957) in the 1960s when I was, maybe, 10 years old. That book left…

May182021

www.latimes.com

California’s next climate challenge: Replacing its last nuclear power plant

By Sammy Roth    Photo: Mark Ralston / AFP via Getty Images

The twin reactors along California’s Central Coast were nearing completion, and tens of thousands of people had gathered to protest. It was 1979, just months…

May152021

OUR DAILY PLANET NEWSLETTER

Our Biggest Source of Clean Energy Is on the Line. We Have a Short Window to Save It.

By Josh Freed

We’ve reached a critical juncture in America’s nuclear energy future. Put differently, we’re in make-or-break territory for reaching net-zero by 2050. That’s because nuclear still…

May62021

Washington Examiner

Biden backs subsidies to keep nuclear plants alive, energy chief says

By Josh Siegel

The Biden administration is “eager” to work with Congress on subsidizing economically struggling nuclear plants to keep them from retiring, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said…

May62021

Insideclimate News

Inside Clean Energy: Indian Point Nuclear Plant Reaches a Contentious End

By Dan Gearino    Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images

At 11 p.m. on April 30, employees shut down the nuclear reactor at Indian Point Energy Center Unit 3, marking the end of a power…

May52021

REUTERS

U.S. eyes nuclear reactor tax credit to meet climate goals -sources

By Timothy Gardner & Jarrett Renshaw    Photo: Mike Segar/Reuters

The White House has signaled privately to lawmakers and stakeholders in recent weeks that it supports taxpayer subsidies to keep nuclear facilities from closing and…

May42021

RICHMOND.COM

NRC backs Dominion Energy’s application to extend Surry’s two nuclear reactor units by 20 years

By Andrew Cain    Photo: Dominion Energy

The staff of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has backed Dominion Energy’s application to extend operations at its Surry Power Station by 20 years, into the…

Apr302021

EIA

New York’s Indian Point nuclear power plant closes after 59 years of operation

By Slade Johnson    Photo: U.S. Energy Information Administration

The Indian Point Energy Center (Indian Point) permanently stopped generating electricity on April 30, 2021, when it retired its last operating nuclear reactor, Unit 3,…

Apr122021

WNN

Nuclear power can help raise climate ambitions

By World Nuclear News

Policymakers who ignore nuclear energy are not serious about meeting climate goals, delegates said at an Atlantic Council webinar last week. The first in the…

Apr82021

Advancednuclearenergy.org

Advanced Nuclear Energy

By Jackie Toth & Jackie Kempfer

Advanced nuclear could play a critical role in getting the domestic and global electricity sector to net-zero emissions by 2050, decarbonizing industrial processes, and producing…

Mar232021

NEI

Maria Korsnick’s Remarks at the State of the Nuclear Energy Industry Event

By Maria Korsnick

NEI President and Chief Executive Officer Maria Korsnick delivered the following remarks on the critical role nuclear energy will play in meeting the Biden administration’s…

Jan12021

Energy.Gov

5 Nuclear Energy Storylines to Watch in 2021

By Office of Nucelar Energy    Photo: Georgia Power

Despite all the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. nuclear energy industry pulled out some big wins in 2020, and this year could be…

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