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Seven heat waves alone created $7.7 billion in health, safety and economic costs in California in the last decade,<\/strong> a report from the state\u2019s Department of Insurance found \u2014 and that is far from a complete accounting<\/a>. (Caelyn Pender, Mercury News)<\/p>\n

Newsom\u2019s administration chose not to require two of the state\u2019s largest oil drillers, which just merged, to set aside money to plug low-producing oil wells, which activists say should have been required under existing law. <\/strong>Capital & Main\u2019s Aaron Cant\u00fa reported on the issue before the merger was completed<\/a>. Politico covered the administration\u2019s final decision<\/a> (scroll down).<\/p>\n

Climate on the Ballot<\/strong> organization says: We\u2019ve already written about<\/a> how Project 2025 calls for repealing the Inflation Reduction Act, withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, shredding regulations that accelerate the clean energy transition, and increasing fossil fuel production \u2014 all of which will reverse progress the US has made to combat climate change. But Project 2025\u2019s attack on climate action is more extensive than that, and comes at a time when the US needs to cut emissions in order to slow the progress of climate change and make society-wide adaptations to respond to and prepare for worsening climate consequences. Project 2025 advocates for the deprioritization \u2014 and, in some cases, the elimination \u2014 of the study of climate science and contingency planning for climate impacts across agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency; the Commerce, Defense, and Energy departments; the Council on Environmental Quality; and the National Security Council.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A California poll finds 59% of respondents support a $10 billion state measure on November\u2019s ballot to fund climate change mitigation programs<\/a>. (Mercury News)<\/em><\/p>\n

ANCHORAGE, Alaska<\/em>\u2014 National and community-based environmental groups celebrated a legal victory<\/a> on Tuesday when a federal district court judge overturned an offshore oil and gas lease sale in Alaska\u2019s Cook Inlet because the federal government violated the law when holding the sale.<\/strong> The Center for Biological Diversity and Natural Resources Defense Council filed the lawsuit<\/a> together with Earthjustice, on behalf of Cook Inletkeeper, Kachemak Bay Conservation Society, and Alaska Community Action on Toxics.<\/p>\n

CLIMATE: <\/strong>Washington state allocates $52 million from its carbon cap-and-invest program to help relocate Indigenous communities<\/a>threatened by climate change and rising sea levels. (Associated Press)<\/em><\/p>\n

ELECTRIC VEHICLES:<\/strong> Starbucks and Mercedes-Benz team up to install fast electric vehicle chargers<\/a> at 100 locations along Interstate 5 on the West Coast. (Los Angeles Times)<\/em><\/p>\n

SOLAR: <\/strong>Developers bring the 690 MW Gemini Solar + Energy Storage project online<\/a> in southern Nevada, making it one of the nation\u2019s largest operational facilities of its kind. (Power)<\/em><\/p>\n

GRID: <\/strong>Distributed energy provider Sunrun says its virtual power plant composed of some 16,000 residential solar-plus-storage systems sent up to 51 MW to the California grid<\/a> during a July heat wave.<\/p>\n

AN OPPORTUNISM TO MATCH TRUMP’S:<\/strong> In the US, Donald Trump\u2019s newly selected running mate JD Vance has come under scrutiny for his climate scepticism<\/strong>. The Republican vice presidential candidate is \u201ca staunch supporter of the oil and gas industry and an opponent of renewable energy\u201d, according to the Independent<\/a>, but has reportedly only held such views in recent years, a shift that coincides with his bid for Trump support. He also has investments in \u201cgreen\u201d technologies, reported E&E News<\/a>, but the New York Times<\/a>emphasised his public anti-climate sentiments and his sponsorship of green legislation repeals as a senator for Ohio.<\/p>\n

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The Biden administration is wasting no time making use of a new conservation rule for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. It\u2019s asking for public comment on whether to add acreage to the \u201cspecial areas\u201d of the reserve, where oil and gas development is restricted. The reserve is a tract of federal land in the Western Arctic that\u2019s the size of Indiana. About half of it is in special areas, designated as valuable for migratory birds, caribou and marine mammals that use it, and for subsistence hunting. The Bureau of Land Management\u2019s announcement Friday of a 60-day comment<\/a> period is the first step toward toward possibly expanding the special areas or adding more restrictions.<\/p>\n

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