Shareholder season (AGM):

• Quartz: Are “say on climate” shareholder votes just more corporate greenwashing?
• The Guardian: Three arrested at Shell AGM as protesters chant ‘We will stop you’
• Mirage News: Total blockade: Climate activists stop TotalEnergies’ AGM, demanding it abandons fossil fuels
• ImpactAlpha: Engine No. 1 opts for accommodation over confrontation with Big Oil and big banks

Fossil fuel divestment:

• Financial Standard: Fossil fuel divestment bill passes California senate
• Corporate Knights: Canada’s public pension plans make murky climate change promises
• DeSmog: As California Considers Dropping Fossil Fuels from Major Pension Funds, New Report Calls Out ‘Misinformation’ on Costs

Fossil fuel project fights:

• The Guardian: Shut down fossil fuel production sites early to avoid climate chaos, says study
• National Observer: Canada’s biggest banks quietly prop up TMX
• Financial Times: Marsh revealed in oil pipeline project shunned by leading banks and insurers 
• Reuters: Deutsche Bank not financing controversial African oil pipeline, source says
• The Guardian: Climate chaos certain if oil and gas mega-projects go ahead, warns IEA chief 
• The Narwhal: RCMP planned raids amid talks with Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs about meeting
• Le Devoir: La nation wet’suwet’en dénonce les investissements de la RBC dans les énergies fossiles
• HuffPost: How A Major Tar Sands Pipeline Project Threatens Indigenous Land Rights
• POLITICO: Host of energy issues on Senate Energy, House Commerce calendars

Global finance:

• The New York Times: A feud over fossil fuel money
• Bloomberg: ESG Haters Think Climate Investors Are Controlling Everything. If Only
• Protocol: How Big Tech is financing Big Oil
• Reuters: Bank of England tells banks to take climate action now or face profit hit
• Financial Times: Vanguard refuses to end new fossil fuel investments
• Financial Times: German police raid DWS and Deutsche Bank over greenwashing allegations
• Financial Times: Environmental activists focus on debt and equity
• The Narwhal: Scotiabank’s exit from CAPP is a blow to Canada’s oil and gas lobby
• WSJ: Big Investors Reconsider Oil and Gas Upside as Supplies Remain Tight
• The New York Times: The World’s a Mess. So They’ve Stopped Saving for Tomorrow.

Russia/Ukraine war:

• E&E News: Does a crackdown on Russian gas help or hurt the climate?
• NPR: The U.S. pledged billions to fight climate change. Then came the Ukraine war

Climate (in)justice & solutions:

• Grist: What overturning Roe v. Wade means for pregnant people in pollution hotspots
• Texas Tribune: New Texas plan for federal Hurricane Harvey aid yields same old result: Funds diverted away from Gulf Coast
• Business Insider: Portland’s Pride Parade rejected JPMorgan’s offer to sponsor this year’s festival, citing concerns over the bank’s donations to politicians who support anti-LGBTQ causes
• POLITICO: Host of energy issues on Senate Energy, House Commerce calendars
• Capital and Main: Why Labor Leader Tefere Gebre Has Brought His Organizing Talents to Greenpeace
• POLITICO: Floods, then bias: Inside an unfair FEMA climate program

Climate impacts:

• New York Times: Interactive – Here Are the Wildfire Risks to Homes Across the Lower 48 States
• Democracy Now!: New Mexico Wildfire Grows by 50 Square Miles; 20 Homes Burn Down in California
• Atmos: In Hawaii, Water Is Life—And It’s in Danger
• Denver Post: Colorado Springs airport resumes inbound flights as wildfire burns in city
• CNN: Climate change doubled chance of South African floods that killed 435 people, analysis shows
• Financial Times: Climate graphic of the week: Record carbon dioxide levels alarm scientists
• The Guardian: Hundreds escape flood waters in Queensland as state lashed by severe thunderstorms
• NPR: In Alaska, warmer days can bring catastrophic flooding as frozen rivers break up
• Bloomberg: India Heat Wave: A Diary From New Delhi on a Day of Killer Weather 

Op-eds:

• The Guardian: Are culture wars really a distraction? 
• The Nation: The War on My Homeland Offers a Real Chance to Save the Planet
• CIEL: Pension Funds Must Vote To End Bank Financing of Fossil Fuel Expansion

Accountability:

• The Guardian: Shell consultant quits, accusing firm of ‘extreme harms’ to environment
• E&E News: New climate frontier: Gender-based lawsuits
• Inside Climate News: In the Philippines, a Landmark Finding Moves Fossil Fuel Companies’ Climate Liability into the Realm of Human Rights
• Reuters: Another climate change lawsuit against Big Oil heads back to state court
• The Boston Globe: ExxonMobil must face AG Healey’s climate lawsuit, Massachusetts supreme court rules
• Lever News: Biden Is Preparing To Crush A Historic Climate Change Lawsuit

Biden, US Congress & Finance Regulation:

• Reuters: Powell’s Fed getting more diverse, but big gaps remain
• The New Republic: Fed Is Neglecting Its Duty on Climate Change
• POLITICO: Supreme Court rejects red states’ plea to block Biden climate metric 
• The Atlantic: The Democrats Really Are That Dense About Climate Change
• HuffPost: The US Is Addicted To Gas Heating. A New Bill May Make Going Electric The Easy Choice.
• WV Gazette Mail: “We’re counting on Joe”: Miner advocates press Manchin to support restoring black lung excise tax in budget reconciliation package
• The Hill: Canceled lease sales raise new questions for offshore drilling

Opposition:

• CNBC: ‘That is not capitalism, that is abusing the market:’ Sen. Ted Cruz blasts BlackRock’s Larry Fink’s ‘woke’ ESG policies
• WSJ: Mike Pence Op-ed: Republicans Can Stop ESG Political Bias 
• The New York Times: How an Organized Republican Effort Punishes Companies for Climate Action
• Gizmodo: Disgraced EPA Grifter Scott Pruitt Wants to be a Senator
• Financial Times: HSBC suspends banker over climate change comments
• Reuters: BlackRock, JPMorgan, others tell Texas they don’t boycott energy companies
• AP News: GOP directs culture war fury toward green investing trend