European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has told the European Parliament that the EU won’t consider the US president’s suggestion that the Paris climate deal could be renegotiated, made after Trump decided to withdraw the US from the agreement. “The European Union will not renegotiate the Paris agreement…The 29 articles of the agreement must be implemented and not renegotiated”, Juncker said. The European Parliament voted 534 to 88 in favour of binding national targets for slashing greenhouse gas emissions in sectors including transport, agriculture and waste management, in order to achieve the bloc’s overall goal of emissions at least 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030, Reuters writes. The BBC also has the story.

Wind and solar produced 10 percent of the electricity generated in the United States for the first time in March, according to the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) monthly power report, making it their best month ever in terms of percentage of overall electricity production. Annually, wind and solar made up 7 percent of electric generation in 2016, the EIA said. Reuters and Ars Technica also carry the story.

US carbon emissions from the country’s power generators declined between 2005 and 2015 as companies have shifted toward gas and renewables, according to a report released yesterday by consulting firm M.J. Bradley & Associates. Meanwhile, they note, US GDP has grown steadily over the same period. The report looks at the 100 largest energy generators in the U.S. and compares generation data gathered from the U.S. Energy Information Administration with data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The tropics are emptying out as climate change pushes marine species towards cooler waters, and the fishing industry expands around the globe, a leading fisheries expert has warned. Dr Daniel Pauly, principal investigator at the Sea Around Us research organisation, has called for the creation of more marine reserves, saying they are the only realistic form of mitigation to the current crisis. “In temperate areas you will have the fish coming from a warmer area, and another one leaving. You’ll have a lot of transformation but they will actually – at least in terms of fishery – adapt. In the tropics you don’t have the replacement, you have only fish leaving.”, Pauly said.

Scientists have been forced to abandon an expedition to research the impacts of climate change on Hudson Bay, Canada, after warming temperatures created dangerous ice conditions. Dense ice – up to 8 metres (25ft) thick – had filled the waters off the northern coast of Newfoundland, trapping fishing boats and ferries. “In the high Arctic, climate change is causing the ice to get thinner and there to be less of it. What that does is that it increases the mobility of ice”, said David Barber, the expedition’s chief scientist. The Mail Online also has the story.

The Amazon basin could suffer significant and irreversible damage if a dam building project goes ahead, finds a new study published in Nature. 428 hydroelectric dams are planned, with 140 already built or under construction, but scientists warn that this could “affect the dynamics of the complex river system and put thousands of unique species at risk”. “The world is going to lose the most diverse wetland on the planet”, said Prof Edgargo Latrubesse, the study’s lead author.

Scotland’s sewers contain enough heat to warm a city the size of Glasgow for more than four months a year, according to research by a renewable energy group. Capturing warmth contained in discarded water could prevent more than 10,000 tonnes of harmful CO2 entering the atmosphere every year, the new figures claim. 921 million litres of wastewater and sewage – enough to fill 360 Olympic swimming pools – are flushed down toilets and plugholes in Scotland every day. Some of the pipes in Britain’s 624,000-kilometer (388,000 miles) sanitation network can get as warm as 21C, Bloomberg reports. BusinessGreen also has the story.

The Trump administration is to suspend compliance dates on a rule limiting methane emissions from gas and oil companies working on public lands as soon as Thursday, according to a leaked document. The move is part of an effort by Trump to roll back the environmental regulations of former President Barack Obama, Reuters reports. Think Progress also covers the story.

“There is a way to preserve the core [Paris] agreement and still allow the president to declare that he’s secured a better deal”, argues Elliot Diringer, who is is executive vice-president of the US-based Center for Climate and Energy Solutions. “Coming back with a reduced target could be enticing precisely because it would allow [Trump] to claim another win”, Diringer notes. He says that it is “better, on the whole, for the United States to be in than out”, since staying in would “encourage US action by forcing a national conversation every five years around climate goals and measures”, and moreover iIf the United States walks away, other countries will remain, but they’re likely to be less ambitious in meeting their initial targets, and in the next ones they’re due to set in 2020″.

Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris accord “damages a landmark international agreement” says Chris Flood, in a feature looking at the fallout from the move, but it has also “unexpectedly galvanised the worldwide drive towards a more environmentally sustainable future, according to leading asset managers”.

Bloomberg columnist Noah Smith is critical of efforts in the US to try to sustain a “dying” coal industry. He says that “despite the publicity and emotion of the battles over climate change, coal isn’t on the wane because of environmental regulation. It’s dying because it’s an inferior technology whose time has come and gone”. He continues: “Trying to prop up this sunset industry might save a few jobs in West Virginia, but many more Americans in other industries and other parts of the country will be hurt.”

Nord Stream 2 will transport gas from Russia to Europe, endangering habitats, fuelling climate change and funding Putin’s regime for decades, says Evgenia Chirikova. NordStream has claimed that the project is not dangerous for the climate because gas is not as bad as coal – but “how can you shout about the transition to renewable, environmentally safe energy and at the same time make plans to increase gas flows into Europe?”, she asks.

Summer wildfires in the US cause more air pollution than previously thought, a new study suggests. For the first time, researchers directly measured smoke plumes from major wildfires using aircraft, recording over 80 gases and five components of “particulate matter” – tiny particles of soot and dust. They found that emissions of particulate matter were three times as high as estimates used by the US Environmental Protection Agency. As global warming is likely to increase the size and number of wildfires, the ensuing pollution stands to grow along with them. Stepping up professionally-controlled burnings may help cut these emissions, the study suggests.

The energy demand to cool US buildings in a warming world could cause an increase in air pollution, a new study says. The researchers quantify changes in power plant emissions due to increased use of building air conditioning in the Eastern US for the middle of this century. They find a 7% rise in summer electricity demand and a 32% rise in peak demand, which results in increases in nitrogen oxides and sulphur dioxide emissions of 16% and 18%, respectively. Both of these pollutants have direct impacts on public health, the researchers say, and contribute to the formation of secondary pollutants such as ozone and fine particulate matter.