** President Joe Biden wrapped up his time at the Group of 20 summit on Sunday trying to convince Americans and the wider world that he’s got things under control — and taking Russia, China and Saudi Arabia to task for not doing enough to deal with the existential threat of climate change.
** Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell blames President Joe Biden for rising energy costs and writes that his climate agenda will only raise prices higher.
** While the world’s leaders are in Scotland at their climate summit, they flew there on 400 jets. President Biden’s entourage, reported Fox News was 85 cars long.
** According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s “Short-Term Energy Outlook” report, there is expected to be 22% more U.S. coal-fired generation in 2021 than in 2020 — largely as a result of increased natural gas prices caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
** Louisiana officials consider a rule to require warning signs and fencing around oil tanks after an explosion killed a teenage girl in February.
** An Alabama judge orders miners to stop picketing outside Warrior Met Coal locations as part of a strike that started in April.
** Nevada regulators approve rules requiring natural gas utilities conduct annual leak detection surveys of all distribution pipelines.
** An Arizona city plans to buy an electric fire truck as part of its climate change-fighting strategy.
** A proposed tax credit hike for U.S. carbon capture and sequestration projects being mulled by Congress could trigger a big jump in use of the climate-fighting technology to clean up industry, but environmentalists worry the scheme will backfire by prolonging the life of dirty coal-fired power plants.
** North Dakota’s attorney general is among state officials supporting the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to hear a case that could limit the U.S. EPA’s authority to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
** Federal officials announce plans to lease nearly 200 square miles off the North Carolina coastline to develop an offshore wind project that could generate more than 1.5 GW of electricity.
World
** UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday pleaded for more aggressive steps to curb climate change, telling the COP26 conference that current plans fall short and “our addiction to fossil fuels is pushing humanity to the brink.”
** Equinor has made an oil discovery estimated to hold up to 62 million barrels of crude off the coast of Norway, the energy major said on Monday. The discovery, just north of the Tyrihans field and west of the Kristin development in the Norwegian Sea, was the state-controlled firm’s sixth find in domestic waters this year, it said.
** Construction equipment maker JCB has signed a deal to buy billions of pounds of green hydrogen, defined as hydrogen produced using renewable energy. The deal means JCB will take 10% of the green hydrogen made by the Australian firm Fortescue Future Industries (FFI).
** China may be forced to start buying crude at elevated prices to replenish its thinning crude stockpiles, adding more pressure to a nation that’s facing energy shortages and seeking to avert a diesel crisis.