Shareholder season (AGM):

• The New York Times: How shareholders are pushing big banks for climate action
• Vox: The long-shot campaign to get big banks out of fossil fuels
• Proactive Investors: HSBC faces AGM pension protest and calls to defeat climate vote
• Bloomberg: Wall Street Climate Semantics Skew Fossil-Fuel Financing Votes
• Pensions & Investments: BlackRock won’t back climate shareholder proposals it considers too prescriptive
• CNBC: Big Oil braces for shareholder revolt over climate plans in proxy voting season

Fossil fuel divestment:

• NPR: Texas stumbles in its effort to punish green financial firms
• Maine Public: UMaine System will divest from all direct fossil fuel investments by the end of May

Russia/Ukraine war:

• Time: The Food Crisis Can’t Handle Ukraine War and Climate Change
• The Washington Post: Senate Democrats call for boosting clean energy in response to war in Ukraine 
• Reuters: Fuel shortages create long lines, more headaches for Ukrainian civilians
• The New York Times: G7 Nations Pledge to Ban or Phase Out the Import of Russian Oil
• POLITICO: With time shrinking, ISTEA conference expected to begin

Climate impacts:

• CNBC: ‘It’s a 50-50 call’: The Earth is close to crossing a key temperature threshold within 5 years
• AP News: Heat wave scorches India’s wheat crop, snags export plans
• Yahoo! News: Climate change is why New Mexico’s wildfire season started early this year
• The Guardian: Ethiopian drought leading to ‘dramatic’ increase in child marriage, Unicef warns
• KARE11: Powerful May storms close schools, leave damage in their wake
• Newsweek: Cities Brace for Apocalyptic Flooding As New Age of Super Storms Dawns
• HuffPost: 91% Of Surveyed Corals Bleached Along Great Barrier Reef, Australia Says

Fossil fuel project fights:

• Roanoke.com: Another delay and cost increase announced for Mountain Valley Pipeline
• CBC News: Coastal GasLink fined a second time this year for repeated environmental violations
• The Narwhal: RCMP changed its story about arresting journalists in Wet’suwet’en raid
• POLITICO: Trudeau Cabinet approves C$10B loan guarantee for TMX

Global finance:

• Reuters: Bank of Spain sees moderate immediate risk to banks from climate policies
• Mother Jones: How Private Equity Looted America
• Grist: Indigenous women call for financial institutions to stop investing in extraction
• Ars Technica: Why our continued use of fossil fuels is creating a financial time bomb
• The New York Times: Oil Giants Sell Dirty Wells to Buyers With Looser Climate Goals, Study Finds
• Reuters: Global regulators call for external checks on bank climate data

Op-eds:

• Fresno Bee: Citizens are pushing climate change ideas due to inaction by leaders
• The New York Times: Climate Change Despair Has a ‘Life-Affirming’ Remedy
• DeSmog: Twitter’s New Ad Policy Ignores a Subtler Form of Climate Disinformation
• The New York Times: We’ve Opened the Door Too Wide for Oil and Gas Companies
• Common Dreams: Here’s How to Spot Wall Street’s Increasingly Infuriating Greenwashing
• Mercury News: Loosening Big Oil’s grip on our wallets and the planet

Accountability:

• Time: This is How We Quit Big Oil
• Toronto Star: Scotiabank no longer a member of oil and gas lobby group CAPP 
• NPR: Understanding The Link Between Racial Justice And The Fight Against Climate Change
• Reuters: Canada banks face ‘greenwashing’ claims as oil & gas firms obtain sustainable financing
• Reuters: Religious leaders urge banks to stop financing drivers of climate change
• AdWeek: Work for Fossil Fuel Clients Exposes Agencies to Increasing Legal Risks, New Report Says
• Gizmodo: Fed-Up Puerto Rican Businesses Sue Power Company After Yet Another Blackout

Biden, US Congress & Finance Agencies:

• The New York Times: Biden Administration Cancels Drilling Sales in Alaska and Gulf of Mexico
• Washington Post: Economist Lisa Cook to become first Black woman on Fed board
• The Atlantic: The Democrats Really Are That Dense About Climate Change
• BuzzFeed News: Trump Showed How Easy It Is To Break The EPA. It’s Much Harder To Fix It.
• Bloomberg: Heat Pumps Are the Ultimate Climate Techno-Fix, But Not a Silver Bullet