The United Kingdom approves its first new coal mine in 30 years, in Cumbria.

Starwood Energy’s former coal-fired power plant in New Jersey, the Logan Generating Station, is brought down in a controlled implosion. It will be replaced by a battery facility that will store energy from renewables (video).

The IEA says that renewable power sources are growing faster than expected, in part as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with the world adding as much new renewable power in the next five years as it has in the past 20. Renewables are expected to overtake coal by 2025. 

The G7 nations impose a price cap on Russian oil of $60 a barrel in order to limit Russia’s ability to finance its invasion of Ukraine. Russian oil exports immediately fall by nearly half.

The massive methane emissions that resulted when volcanic activity ignited ancient fossil fuel deposits 260 million years ago may have triggered the Late Permian Mass Extinction, which wiped out three-quarters of Earth’s terrestrial species. 

A study finds that California’s 37 carbon-offset projects save no more carbon than forests where companies did not buy credits to offset their carbon emissions.

Twins are born in Oregon from embryos that had been frozen for 30 years.

Nearly a quarter of US adults are reconsidering having children because of climate change. 

The UN expects China’s population of 1.4 billion to fall below 800 million by 2100.

China unveils a 26-story indoor pig farm capable of processing a million swine a year.

A “targeted” attack on a North Carolina power station leaves 40,000 people in Moore County without power. The attack may be linked to right-wing efforts to shut down a local drag show. 

The first-ever auction of wind-power-development rights for the Pacific Ocean waters off California attracts more than $700 million in bids. 

The US will spend $75 million to relocate three tribal communities threatened by rising seas: Newtok Village and Native Village of Napakiak in Alaska and Taholah Village in the Quinault Indian Nation in Washington State.

The Washington, DC, city council unanimously votes to make Metrobus rides free. 

The legislature in Tierra del Fuego votes unanimously to protect 1.2 million acres of Peninsula Mitre in what Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard calls “this park at the end of the world.” 

NASA’s lunar orbiter Orion photographs a crescent Earth rising above the moon’s surface.