** Scientific American magazine announced Monday that it would stop using the term “climate change” in articles about man-made global warming and substitute “climate emergency” instead.
** The International Monetary Fund says the fiscal breakeven oil price of the major Middle Eastern oil producers has been dropped to around $65 a barrel because of higher oil prices and an expected rebound in the global economy.
** Canada’s TC Energy on Monday requested information from around 100 renewable development companies to identify wind energy investment opportunities that would generate 620 megawatts of electricity for its U.S. pipeline business.
** In a filing to Colorado regulators, Xcel Energy says it will cost ratepayers $1.4 billion to close its remaining coal plants, a figure that will likely be challenged in proceedings.
** A research firm projects oil and gas drilling in the Permian Basin will increase by more than 70 rigs by early 2022, the possible beginning of a new multi-year growth cycle.
** A California physician says it’s vital the state institutes 2,500-foot setbacks for oil wells, citing the adverse impacts of toxic pollution on the health of marginalized communities.
** Researchers say vibrations from a planned wind farm in southern Illinois are likely to interfere with a burrowing frog species’ ability to detect and eat prey underground.
** A Missouri bill to require all diesel to be blended with soybean oil is pitting farmers and agriculture groups against truckers and retailers.
** Liz Klein, whose nomination as Interior’s deputy secretary was blocked by Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Senate Energy Chair Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), is now serving as senior counselor to Secretary Deb Haaland, Interior said Monday.