It’s been surprising to see how many US baseball reporters say they’re visiting Toronto for the first time in their lives…and guess what, it’s nice up there

NYC has to change the narrative around Local Law 97 for co-ops, re: report commissioned by the city. "It will be important for everyone [...] to begin to view the regulations as a 25-year pathway to financially sustainable decarbonization, rather than overnight electrification."

18 red state Attorneys General call on the White House not to attend COP-30. "Like the Green New Deal, the COP policies harm our national security, energy independence, and economic interests, but on an international scale."

Actual shot (not AI!) of a French detective working the case of the French Crown Jewels that were stolen from the Louvre in a brazen daylight robbery. Somehow he looks like he’s smoking even without a cigarette in his hand, but surely everything you know about life is screaming

Some food banks are being “overwhelmed” by furloughed federal employees, re: CNN.

Here's a smart look at FERC's agenda under the Trump administration's sometimes conflicting policy playbook, from @shay_gree.

Matt Leopold, general counsel under Trump's first term, now a partner and co-chair of Holland & Knight's national environment team.

The EPA dismissed roughly 10 more employees who signed a public letter of dissent in June that criticized the agency’s leadership, a union official confirmed Sunday.

FEMA must consider renewables when rebuilding Puerto Rico's electrical grid, federal judge says.

The White House's environmental permitting streamlining office is staying open during the shutdown.

.@NydiaVelazquez on White House's decision to freeze $18B in NYC infrastructure funding: "The Trump administration’s use of DEI to justify this decision is nonsense. The White House is using infrastructure as a weapon to punish its political opponents."

The EPA would shrink by some 90% in case of a government shutdown, which could happen at midnight on Tuesday, according to a new agency plan.

The dismissal of a recent federal suit against FEMA undermines environmentalists’ goal of expanding renewable energy, even in seemingly easy situations like rebuilding storm-ravaged communities from scratch, attorneys say.

EPA has told staff not to participate in events hosted by the Environmental Law Institute in their professional capacity.

.@EPAoig says more than 120 EPA contractors and employees were found to be using "mouse jiggler" software on their work computers. No fraudulent conduct found, but the software is unauthorized and presents ethics and cybersecurity concerns, OIG says.

The Stibnite Mine, projected to be the US' biggest cache of antimony, has cleared federal permitting and is now ready for construction. (Antimony is used widely in defense; China, the world's number two supplier, cut off antimony exports last year.)

Speaking at the UN, U.S. President Donald Trump called renewable energy a "joke" and climate change "the greatest con job ever."

Career news: Today’s my first day at @BLaw covering all things policy and litigation related to energy and environment across the states! Thrilled to join this great team and to get to keep covering all things climate.

ICYMI, Katherine Scarlett is new head of the Council on Environmental Quality (one of the en banc confirmations from yesterday). A notably uncontroversial pick who even Sen. Whitehouse voted for in committee.

Dozens of Congressional Dems tell appeals court the EPA "gold bars" video is "patently irrelevant" to the climate grants case; instead, it "concerns efforts to award different grant money <after> the November 2024 election."