Gingrich spreads blame on global warming (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) Newt Gingrich on global warming: A plague on both your parties. [News Source]

A green crossroads for the Supreme Court. While the presumptive nominees for each party have similar environmental ideas, their nominees for the Supreme Court could decide environmental politics long after they are gone. [News Source]

EPA ties health problems to global warming; White House tried to bury analysis. Government scientists detailed a rising death toll from heat waves, wildfires, disease and smog caused by global warming in an analysis the White House buried so it could avoid regulating greenhouse gases. [News Source]

Children, coal don’t mix, China study shows. Children born after the closure of a coal-burning plant in China had 60 percent fewer developmental problems, a study released Monday suggests, giving ammunition to those who argue the country should embrace cleaner sources of energy. [News Source]

World’s forests threatened by food, fuel demands: report. The world's forests will be gobbled up by an escalating demand for fuel and food unless steps are taken to hand the people who live in them greater rights, two reports said. [News Source]

Setting precedent, Exelon plans a huge cut in its emissions. Exelon, the electric company based in Chicago, will promise to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 by an amount larger than its total emissions in 2008. [News Source]

State gets greener; activists ask more. Connecticut lawmakers in recent years have committed more funding for protecting open space, ordered the cleanup of the dirtiest power plants and most recently joined the battle against climate change. [News Source]

Out of sight, out of clime: burying carbon in a vault of sea and rock. The best place to store all that carbon dioxide from power plants might turn out to be volcanic formations off the U.S. west coast [News Source]

Warnings of a global land grab. The relentless demand for raw materials will lead to the destruction of the world’s forests, a new study warns. The rush for fuel, food and wood will result in a global land grab that will leave millions of forest people impoverished and homeless. [News Source]

CSIRO paints a grim picture of Murray in new report. The Murray River could be robbed of more than two-thirds of the flows at its mouth by 2030 due to climate change and extraction. [News Source]

EPA says greenhouse emissions endanger health. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Monday that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health, a critical finding that has languished in bureaucratic limbo since last December. [News Source]