Fossil fuel divestment:

• U.S. News & World Report: What Is Divestment?
• CBS News: Largest Presbyterian church body divesting from fossil fuel companies, citing climate concerns
• The Nation: Dear Harvard, It’s Time to Reject Fossil Fuel Money
• Governing: Maine Takes on Fossil Fuel Divestment. How Will It Happen?
• The Boston Globe: American Federation of Teachers calls for fossil fuel divestment
• The Guardian: Wellcome Trust sells stakes in large oil and mining companies
• Yahoo! Finance: ‘Impossible to track’ climate action of Canada’s $2T pension industry
• National Observer: When it comes to Canadian pensions, there’s a new climate leader in town 
• Toronto Star: Big pensions need to go beyond climate pledges, provide more transparency, report finds
• Common Dreams: Student Climate Campaigners Welcome ‘Momentous Victory’ at Cambridge

No such thing as safe fossil fuel project:

• Gizmodo: Biggest Gasoline Pipeline in the U.S. Reports Spill, a Year After Notorious Cyberattack
• PBS NewsHour: In Louisiana, orphan wells seen as an ‘accident waiting to happen’
• POLITICO: 29 oil companies produce 50% of U.S. emissions, report says
• Bloomberg: TC Energy Raises Gas Pipeline Cost 70% to Nearly $9 Billion

Federal (In)action: Biden Admin, SCOTUS, US Congress & Finance Regulators:

• The Washington Post: What’s in and what’s out of Manchin’s surprise climate deal
• Gizmodo: Did Joe Manchin Actually Do a Good Thing?
• The New York Times: Manchin, in Reversal, Agrees to Quick Action on Climate and Tax Plan
• The Nation: Republicans Shouldn’t Get a Pass on Climate
• The Verge: Joe Biden’s new plan: solar power for everyone, not just the rich
• NBC News: White House launches Heat.gov website as warmer temperatures hit U.S.
• Reuters: Barr gets Senate nod as Fed’s top Wall Street cop
• E&E News: Treasury Department to create climate research hub
• Inside Climate News: Biden Is Losing His Base on Climate Change, a New Pew Poll Finds. Six in 10 Democrats Don’t Feel He’s Doing Enough
• The New York Times: How the Government Is Failing Americans Uprooted by Natural Disaster
• The Washington Post: Climate emergencies in other countries have been ‘wholly symbolic,’ activists say
• Volts podcast: how Biden can address climate change through executive action

The Great Enablers: 

• AP: Banks far from hitting Paris climate targets, groups warn
• The Big Issue: Is your bank funding fossil fuels? Here’s how to find out
• USA Today: Profits over planet? Experts eye companies at crucial moment for climate change fight
• The Washington Post: To Fight Climate Change, Change Your Bank
• The Intercept: Bank of America memo, revealed: “We hope” conditions for American workers will get worse
• National Observer: Banks, Big Oil and boards: Untangling the relationship between fossil fuels and finance
• FT: Chief sustainability officers prosper as ESG risks mount
• Bloomberg: Fund Managers Face ‘Rapidly Closing’ Window to Fix CO2 Math
• Advisor’s Edge: Pensions need to up their climate-risk management game
• WSJ: More Investors Vote Against Corporate Directors Over Climate Change 
• Responsible Investor: Engagement associated with fall in emissions intensity but not absolute emissions

Russia’s fossil funded war in Ukraine:

• Financial Times: Ukraine accuses US and European banks over Russia links
• Reuters: ​​EU, Azerbaijan plan gas deal in pivot away from Russia
• CNBC: Yellen says price cap on Russian oil is ‘one of our most powerful tools’ to address inflation
• POLITICO: Canada will return key Nord Stream pipeline component
• OilPrice: Energy Security Trumps Climate As EU Agrees To Pipeline Expansion

Global climate talks & COP27:

• The Guardian: Cop27 summit must focus on how world will adapt to climate change, says UN envoy
• Grist: First climate agreement to center Indigenous voices gains international support
• Bloomberg: Egypt to Fight Against Backslide of Climate Goals at COP27
• The New Yorker: If Egypt Won’t Free Alaa Abd El-Fattah, It Had Better Brace for an Angry Climate Conference
• The Guardian: UN urged to move Cop27 from Egypt over ‘LGBTQ+ torture’
• Bloomberg: Tension Between Rich and Poorer Nations Eases at Berlin Climate Summit

Creative action:

• Axios: Six House staffers arrested while protesting in Chuck Schumer’s office
• The New York Times: Wake Up, Billionaires: The Occupiers Are Coming for the Hamptons
• Bloomberg: This Map Will Make You Optimistic About Fighting Climate Change
• Nanaimo Bulletin: Protesters in Nanaimo set up ‘oil derrick’ outside bank to decry fossil fuel investment

Woke capitalism, Greenwashing & Opposition:

• Reuters: West Virginia bars five financial firms for deemed fossil fuel ‘boycotts’ 
• HuffPost: The Gas Industry Is Pumping Money Into A Tiny Local Race To Crush A Climate Champion
• Yahoo! News: Sen. Steve Daines introduces bill to block Biden from adding ‘woke’ requirements to US retirement plans
• FTAdviser: ESG litigation is gaining momentum
• Financial Times: Shell takes to TikTok as oil groups try to boost credentials during energy crisis
• Responsible Investor: The kind of loophole that’s big enough to drive a truck through: legal view of anti-ESG legislation in the US
• Bloomberg: Corporate Backlash Over SEC Climate Plan Takes Shape
• CNBC: Sen. Tom Cotton targets ESG investing: BlackRock is a ‘climate cartel’
• Sludge: Chevron-Funded Super PAC Boosted Oil-Friendly Dem in California Congressional Primary
• WSJ: West Virginia vs. Political Banks
• The Narwhal: How a conservative U.S. network undermined Indigenous energy rights in Canada
• FT: Energy crisis prompts ESG rethink on oil and gas
• WSJ: Op-ed: Biden’s ESG Tax on Your Retirement Fund
• E&E News: Trump officials hold summit to plan Republican takeover
• Floodlight: Leaked: US power companies secretly spending millions to protect profits and fight clean energy
• Orlando Sentinel: DeSantis urges Florida not to invest pension funds in ‘woke’ companies

Global finance:

• Reuters: Big Oil set to open cash taps with another record quarter
• Bloomberg: Worst of Global Energy Crisis May Still Be Ahead, IEA Says
• Bloomberg: ECB’s First Climate Test Sees Up to $71 Billion Hit to Banks
• Reuters: Back to black? Germany’s coal power plan hits hurdles

Climate (in)justice & solutions:

• Bloomberg: Will Los Angeles Join a Ban on New Gas Stations?
• Reuters: Two-thirds of new renewable power cheaper than coal last year
• E&E News: Washington set to be 2nd East Coast city with gas ban
• Nature: How climate change could drive an increase in gender-based violence
• High Country News: In Alaska, coal is dwindling as green energy is on the rise
• The Boston Globe: State Legislature advances new climate bill after months of negotiations
• Energy News Network: In Maine, heat pumps are proving themselves even against extreme cold
• The Atlantic: A Plan to Lower Gas Prices—And (Maybe) Help the Climate

Accountability:

• AP: Climate disinformation leaves lasting mark as world heats
• ExxonKnews: Attorney who fought Big Tobacco says Big Oil should be next
• Atmos: How Reproductive Justice Is Climate Justice 
• The Tyee: Vancouver’s Big Oil Lawsuit, Explained
• The New Republic: A Tiny Pennsylvania Town of 700 People Declared War on the Fracking Industry in 2014. They’re Finally Getting Their Day in Court.

Op-eds:

• MarketWatch: Sell Exxon Mobil and other energy stocks before these headwinds hit prices once again
• The Guardian: Looking for someone to blame for the extreme heat? Try Wall Street 
• The Guardian: We’re occupying schools across the world to protest climate inaction
• Common Dreams: New Mexico’s Megafires Mark a Turning Point for the People, the Land, and the Forest Service
• Sydney Morning Herald: The case for a global fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty – from an island nation in peril
• FTAdviser: ESG litigation is gaining momentum
• ImpactAlpha: Why did shareholder resolutions on climate action and racial equity fall short? Big asset managers.
• Louisiana Illuminator: As peak hurricane season looms, banks bolster cozy relationship with fossil fuel industry
• The Hill: Supreme Court’s EPA Ruling does not doom the SEC’s climate disclosure rule
• Yintah Access: Gidimt’en Civil Suit
• Pensions & Investments: Committing to net-zero is like committing to run a sub-2-hour marathon
• The Guardian: Climate action is fighting back against big polluters. We don’t need to end Australia’s climate wars – we need to win them
• The Guardian: It is us we are waiting for! Africa needs to shape its own conservation and climate agenda
• Utility Dive: Lack of investment and innovation adds to worries of grid failure and outages
• The Princetonian: The fossil fuel faculty report is just another stalling tactic. We need divestment now.
• The Hill: ‘Fossil-flation’ fuels the climate crisis and costs Americans money: Electrification is the answer
• Dominion Post: Boycott will hurt us more than banks

Climate impacts:

• AP: Climate migration growing but not fully recognized by world
• HEATED: Why the Kylie Jenner private jet story matters
• NBC News: Heat wave scorches Pacific Northwest, echoing brutal 2021 stretch
• HuffPost: Unprecedented Heat And Stressed Grids Make Dangerous Power Outages Increasingly Likely
• WSJ: Paradise, the Wildfire-Ravaged California Town, Warns of Municipal Bond Default
• The Washington Post: Historic flooding in St. Louis kills at least 1, strands others
• Salon: How the worst heat wave in US history prophesies our climate change–ravaged future
• AP: New Hurricane Frank gains force over eastern Pacific
• Yale Climate Connections: Three-quarters of Montana farmers, ranchers anxious about climate change, survey finds
• USA Today: ‘Not much relief in sight’: Temperatures from powerful ‘heat dome’ lead to record-breaking highs
• The Washington Post: Dartmouth study links past U.S. greenhouse gas emissions to global economic damages
• The Weather Channel: Kentucky Flooding: Search And Rescue Efforts Continue As The Death Toll Rises
• Bloomberg: Europe Is Frying in Devastating Heat, Yet Is Burning More Coal
• Reuters: California’s Oak Fire spreads uncontained toward Yosemite
• POLITICO: Why flash floods are getting fiercer