Axios

The White House postponed a meeting Tuesday on the administration's approach to the Paris climate accord, blaming the schedules of staffers — Reince Priebus, Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway and Stephen Miller — traveling with President Trump. It did not provide a rain date.

Slated to attend the meeting, per various news outlets: Bannon and EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, who both favor abandoning the pact, as well as Jared Kushner, who supports remaining in the accord, and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who has said the U.S. should maintain a "seat at the table" in global climate talks.

Why it matters: The eventual decision on whether to remain in the 2015 international pact is one of the biggest unresolved climate policy questions at the White House.

A new video by Michael Bloomberg, "An Optimistic Conversation ... About Climate Change," takes a bold stance on the future of climate conferences.

The good news is we're going to make the [Paris Climate Conference] goals without the federal government.

What's next: Bloomberg today publishes a new book with environmentalist Carl Pope, "Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet," where the former New York mayor writes: "Washington will not have the last word on the fate of the Paris Agreement in the United States. Mayors will—together with business leaders and citizens from all over the globe."

Check it out: ClimateofHope.com is live.

Workers have stemmed the flow from a crude oil leak at Prudhoe Bay in Alaska reported by a BP subsidiary last Friday, according to a report from the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation. The details:

• The good news: The crude spray plume did not leave the pad, there are no reports yet the leak has affected the snow-covered tundra nearby, and EPA response personnel and ADEC personal are on the scene.
• The bad news: The well is "not officially secured" until it has a mechanical plug installed.
• The unknowns: The volume of the crude spray and the time and date of the spill.

A California utility launched a hybrid power system designed to help power California through the summer when demand spikes, per the AP. Southern California Edison and GE made the announcement Monday. They say the units went live in March.

Potential benefits: Officials say the system will lower costs for both operations and customers, and will be useful in areas that tend to rely on renewable energy systems that need backups.

How it works: The system operates on a 10 megawatt lithium-ion battery energy storage system and works somewhat like a hybrid car, switching as needed to the gas turbine.

The California trend: California has a strong pipeline of other projects that transfer batteries into electric power generating units, such as Tesla's operation in Southern California that absorbs electricity during the day and injects it back into the grid when needed.

Corporate America is uniting on climate change.

Consumer brands and industrial giants have been supporting government action on climate change for years. In a shift that is changing the debate, the biggest and most important U.S. energy companies are now dropping their resistance to a global climate deal.

Why it matters: Broader corporate backing of global action on climate change is helping push President Trump away from his campaign promise to pull out of the climate deal, which was struck by nearly 200 nations in Paris two years ago to slow the growth of global greenhouse gas emissions.