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Reclaim Finance has issued an open letter to Patrick Tiernan, the new CEO of Lloyd’s of London, calling for the insurance market to cease underwriting new fossil fuel infrastructure. The letter argues that climate change is already causing market fragility, citing insurer withdrawals in California and potential town abandonment in the UK. It claims that while Lloyd's announced restrictions on thermal coal and Arctic exploration in 2020, these have since been "watered down to guidelines" without enforcement. Reclaim Finance proposes four specific actions: requiring managing agents to stop underwriting fossil fuel expansion, making new agent establishment conditional on net zero alignment, requiring disclosure of underwriting policies for new fossil fuel projects, and implementing monitoring and sanctions for non-compliance in annual ESG reports.

California possesses vast untapped geothermal potential, particularly in superhot rock resources, which could significantly support the state's clean energy goals. However, the industry faces substantial barriers, including a lack of long-term strategic planning, complex and lengthy permitting processes, outdated regulations, and interconnection uncertainties. The report recommends the creation of a statewide strategic plan, streamlining environmental reviews, updating well regulations, and establishing a clean energy infrastructure financing fund to attract private capital and accelerate deployment.

The brief analyzes rate hikes by State Farm in California, noting that an approved 17% increase will raise average premiums by $737 by 2025, and a requested further 11% increase could raise them by $1,015 by 2026 compared to 2023. It highlights extreme increases in high-risk zip codes, such as Calabasas, and argues that the fossil fuel industry is responsible for the climate-fueled disasters driving these costs.

The report finds that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) would significantly increase U.S. household energy costs, lead to substantial job losses in manufacturing and clean energy, and increase greenhouse gas emissions and premature deaths. By repealing key tax credits and environmental standards, the bill is projected to shrink cumulative GDP by $1.1 trillion between 2025 and 2034 and reduce new electricity capacity by 330 GW by 2035. While the bill expands oil and gas leasing, the report argues that the resulting increase in production is offset by higher demand-driven prices for fossil fuels.

The Union of Concerned Scientists analysis finds that vehicle-grid integration (VGI) in California could save the electricity system between $1.8 billion and $11.7 billion annually by 2045. Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology offers significantly higher savings than managed charging (V1G) alone, primarily by reducing the need for grid infrastructure upgrades and gas generation.

The analysis finds that VGI, particularly bidirectional charging (V2G), can generate annual system savings between $1.8 billion and $11.7 billion by 2045. These savings primarily stem from reduced requirements for electricity delivery infrastructure and utility-scale storage. The report recommends that California mandate bidirectional charging capabilities in new EVs and update battery warranties to cover discharging to encourage widespread adoption.

Private equity firms control nearly 9% of Michigan's private sector workforce, with investments often linked to public pension funds like the State of Michigan Investment Board. The document details how this ownership model has contributed to bankruptcies in the automotive, retail, and hospitality sectors, as well as labor disputes and service reductions in healthcare and waste management. Specific examples include the bankruptcy of Joann and IAC Group, and child labor allegations at Hearthside Food Solutions.

The author contends that the overturning of EPA waivers for California's car and truck standards is a temporary setback that should motivate states to accelerate the transition to zero-emissions vehicles. The document proposes a strategy involving legal challenges by California, the development of new rules like Advanced Clean Cars III, the adoption of standards by Section 177 states, and the implementation of Indirect Source Rules and Dirty Cargo Fees to address pollution hotspots.

The document argues that while methane-reducing technologies for livestock are emerging, their widespread adoption requires a combination of technically sound solutions, tailored financial mechanisms, and strengthened advisory services. It emphasizes the need to move beyond methane intensity improvements to achieve absolute emissions reductions, particularly in developing countries. Key barriers identified include the lack of practical Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) systems and the necessity for economic viability for farmers. Proposed solutions include Advance Market Commitments and insetting programs to de-risk investment and distribute financial benefits across the supply chain.

The Private Equity Detention and Surveillance Tracker details the involvement of private equity firms in the US mass incarceration system, covering facility management, healthcare, food services, telecommunications, and surveillance tools. It highlights how profit motives lead to cost-cutting in critical services, high markups on basic necessities, and the deployment of controversial surveillance technologies.

The report examines the impact of clean industrial hubs in California and Texas on first-of-a-kind projects, noting that 50% of supported projects reached a final investment decision compared to a 20% global average. It argues that these hubs mobilize investment and reduce emissions by creating enabling ecosystems for innovative first movers across sectors such as hydrogen, sustainable aviation fuel, and low-emissions steel.

The Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs program is designed to demonstrate localized hydrogen production and end-use to create a synergistic national hydrogen economy. The author warns that planned funding cuts by the Trump administration would jeopardize an estimated 334,280 jobs and tens of billions of dollars in private sector investment. The document emphasizes that a network of hubs is necessary to create a viable market for hydrogen-fueled equipment and to maintain U.S. leadership in low-carbon hydrogen production and technology exports.

The document outlines the cyclical relationship between climate change and wildfires, highlighting how rising temperatures and droughts increase fire frequency while the resulting emissions accelerate global warming. It focuses on the US-Mexico border region—specifically Southern California, Arizona, and Northern Baja California—where smoke stagnation and limited healthcare access disproportionately affect migrants, outdoor workers, and marginalized urban populations in cities like Tijuana, Nogales, and El Paso. The guide suggests journalistic angles for investigating cross-border firefighting coordination between agencies like CAL FIRE and CONAFOR, the health impacts of smoke on vulnerable groups, and the effectiveness of local air quality monitoring tools.

The analysis reveals a significant increase in fire weather days across much of the contiguous U.S., with the western U.S. experiencing far more frequent fire weather than the east. While the western U.S. has seen strong increases, particularly in the Southwest during spring and summer, parts of the eastern U.S. have also seen impactful increases, especially in the Southeast and Northeast. The study emphasizes that while human activity causes 87% of wildfires, fire weather primes the landscape for these fires to ignite and spread.

Operation Overload is a high-volume Russian influence campaign that impersonates over 80 organisations, including media outlets and universities, to sow division in democratic nations. In early 2025, it targeted 10 countries—primarily Germany, France, and Ukraine—using AI-cloned voices and forged logos to spread narratives against Ukraine and destabilise domestic politics. While most content had limited organic reach, one video claiming USAID paid celebrities to visit Ukraine garnered over 4.2 million views. The operation relies on bot networks and commercial services to amplify its content and frequently tags research organisations to distract them with debunking requests.

The CEO of Mighty Earth reports on rewilding successes, including the planned restoration of grizzly bears to Washington state and a feasibility study for their return to California. The note also celebrates the creation of the 729,000-acre Patagonia Azul Provincial Park in Argentina and calls for Indonesia to shift its 'food and energy estates' project from intact forests to degraded lands to protect biodiversity and climate goals.

The report critiques the reliance on Levelized Cost of Electricity (LCOE) for power system planning, noting that while useful for tracking historical technology costs, it fails to account for system-wide needs, generation profiles, and integration costs. It highlights that clean firm technologies can reduce overall system costs despite higher LCOEs. The authors recommend moving toward comprehensive system-level analyses that model temporal and spatial constraints to optimize decarbonization pathways.

The report characterizes "advanced recycling" as a rebranding of chemical recycling, asserting that the plastics industry uses the term to greenwash its image and avoid regulations on virgin plastic production. It argues that chemical recycling is not a new technology, is economically unviable, cannot effectively process mixed post-consumer waste, and has a higher environmental footprint than mechanical recycling. The document further claims that the industry uses deceptive "mass balance" accounting to create a false appearance of circularity while primarily producing fuels rather than new plastics.

The document provides the technical framework for tracking climate finance in agrifood systems, introducing an expanded taxonomy and a keyword tagging system to capture investments in non-traditional sectors. It distinguishes between 'comparable' and 'adjusted' flows to separate actual investment growth from improvements in data collection. Key data sources include the Global Landscape of Climate Finance (GLCF) and specific agrifood datasets, with a notable increase in finance attributed to energy systems supporting agrifood between 2019/20 and 2021/22.

Battery electric heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs) are projected to become the most cost-effective freight transport option in most U.S. states by 2030. While current U.S. purchase prices are anomalously high compared to global trends, falling battery costs and operational savings are driving a clear TCO advantage over diesel and hydrogen fuel cell trucks. The report emphasizes that state-level policy leadership—including price transparency, resale value support, and infrastructure credits like California's LCFS—is critical to unlocking these economic benefits.