Energy Firms Come to Terms with Climate Change (NRDC Worldview) While the political debate over global warming continues, top executives at many of the nation's largest energy companies have accepted the scientific consensus about climate change and see federal regulation to cut greenhouse gas emissions as inevitable. [News Source]

City in suit on climate change (Baltimore Sun) High court to hear arguments on EPA's authority to regulate greenhouse gases Baltimore has joined Massachusetts and 11 other states in a landmark global warming lawsuit scheduled to be heard this week by the Supreme Court over whether the Environmental Protection Agency must regulate greenhouse gases as air pollution. [News Source]

Pivotal Global Warming Case Confronts High Court (Law.com) The Supreme Court hears arguments this week in a case that could determine whether the Bush administration must change course in how it deals with the threat of global warming. [News Source]