Welcome to Climate Point, your weekly guide to climate, energy and environment news from around the Golden State and the country. In Palm Springs, Calif., I’m Mark Olalde.

There's really only one place a conversation on the environment can begin this week: pipelines. There are numerous fights over the future of the pipelines that carry fossil fuels across the country, but three in particular captured national attention. And early this week, all three were dealt potentially crippling blows.

First, plans to build the Atlantic Coast Pipeline were on Sunday scrapped by the utilities behind it, USA Today reports. Then on Monday, a federal judge ruled that the Dakota Access pipeline — made famous when indigenous "water defenders" faced off against construction crews and police at Standing Rock — needs to be shut down in August because the Trump administration improperly rushed through the permitting process. The Washington Post reports on that pipeline, as well as the Keystone XL, which also suffered a court defeat this week.

And now, here's some other important reporting....

Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/10/climate-point-mining-amazon-arizona/5397958002/