Why it matters: It's the most significant climate case to reach the Supreme Court since 2007 and could impact the Biden administration's clean power plans, according to E&E News.
Hopes for a breakthrough with Chinese leaders are hanging by a thread just two days before the UN climate summit, but the story's not over yet.
Catch up fast: China, in a long-awaited new submission to the UN Thursday, declined to speed up its existing pledge to reach peak carbon emissions before 2030.
Thursday’s six-hour-plus House questioning of Big Oil executives about their history of lobbying and climate change disinformation tactics produced fireworks, but the real impact of the inquiry will take a long time to unspool.
Catch up fast: The House Committee on Oversight and Reform is conducting an investigation into how much the fossil fuel industry knew about the dangers its products pose to the climate, and the funding of groups to mount climate misinformation campaigns.
If you saw the news that oil prices pulled back this week, don’t get too excited for your pocketbook just yet.
Driving the news: U.S. crude may have receded a few bucks from its seven-year record high — but global energy demand still signals that there’s room for this year’s upward march to resume.
Chinese leaders are sticking with a prior target to bring the country's carbon emissions to a peak before 2030, according to documents filed with the United Nations Thursday under the Paris climate agreement.
Why it matters: The new documents come just days ahead of the UN climate summit (COP26) in Glasgow. China is by far the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter, and its emissions path is key to whether the temperature-limiting goals of the Paris agreement can remain within reach.
Royal Dutch Shell reported weaker-than-expected third-quarter earnings on Thursday, a day after a high-profile investor called for fundamentally restructuring the company.
By the numbers: Shell listed $4.13 billion in net profit, down from $5.5 billion in Q2. It reflects the "adverse impact of Hurricane Ida" on operations — a $400 million hit — and "lower contributions from trading and optimization partly offset by higher oil and gas prices," according to CNBC.
American Airlines is more aggressively leaning into sustainable aviation fuels and research into new propulsion technologies to reach its goal of net-zero emissions in 2050, the company tells Axios.
What’s new: The Fort Worth-based airline gave Axios a first look at new details on how it plans to get to net zero.
Don't expect a sedate House hearing Thursday on allegations that Big Oil has intentionally sown doubt about climate change.
What they're saying: "For far too long, Big Oil has escaped accountability for its central role in bringing our planet to the brink of a climate catastrophe. That ends today," Rep. Carolyn Maloney, chairwoman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, intends to say in her opening remarks shared with Axios.
As world leaders head for rainy Scotland this weekend for the global climate summit, many capitals already expect disappointing results.
So a gathering later in November — this time in hot and humid Singapore, sponsored by former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg — is already drawing attention as "what's next" for climate commitments.
Research by Lego found that children want the world's adult leaders to take climate change seriously. So Lego worked with kids to build an instruction set similar to the ones that accompany the Danish company's bricks, to be handed out at this week's COP26 summit.
Why it matters: The younger generation gets that they are going to have to deal with the consequences of the environment they inherit, but often find it tough to influence those in power.
India's top environmental official on Wednesday dismissed calls to set forth a net zero carbon emissions target, arguing such goals were not the solution to the climate crisis, Reuters reports.
India's environment secretary Rameshwar Prasad Gupta's comments come ahead of the Sunday start of COP26, a key United Nations summit aimed at rallying actions to stem emissions that are on pace to bring global warming well beyond the Paris Agreement goals.
