Wealthy nations must lead on climate change. The citizens and leaders of rich countries who aren't willing to ditch their SUVs and embrace other facets of a low-carbon lifestyle will sabotage attempts at reaching a global deal for tackling climate change, prominent British economist Lord Nicholas Stern is warning. [News Source]

Sen. Reid optimistic of progress on climate bill. The U.S. Congress will make enough progress on climate change legislation this year to boost prospects for success at December's Copenhagen summit on cutting greenhouse gases, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid predicted on Friday. [News Source]

China to focus on renewable energy. China is battling air pollution and high costs for imported energy with an aggressive focus on renewable energy. China's government says it will have 100 gigawatts of wind-power capacity by 2020 - enough to power more than 60 million homes. [News Source]

Coal plant ban may not curb climate change. Although the plants are the single biggest polluter in the United States, contributing to smog, acid rain, and global warming, a new analysis shows that banning them would increase the cost of natural gas while doing little to aggressively combat climate change. [News Source]

Seeking to save the planet, with a thesaurus. The term 'global warming' turns people off, fostering images of shaggy-haired liberals, economic sacrifice and complex scientific disputes, according to extensive polling and focus group sessions conducted by a nonprofit environmental marketing and messaging firm in Washington. [News Source]

EPA rapidly reversing Bush policies. "Green" reversals have grown commonplace at EPA, where Administrator Lisa Jackson has systematically upended the agency's pro-industry tendencies of the past eight years, replacing them with decisions that strongly favor environmentalists. [News Source]

Green report card. The Obama administration has hit the ground running on clean energy, climate change and other environmental matters. [News Source]

No Fish by 2048? The end of the line–Interview with journalist Charles Clover. Most of us know that there are problems with overfishing, but we don't think it will lead to a world without edible fish, or an ocean that will not be able to absorb carbon dioxide, worsening global warming. [News Source]

Energy Future Holdings ramps up efforts to get Congress to delay pay-to-pollute bill. When private equity titans Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and TPG bought Texas' largest utility in 2007, the new owners of one of the state's biggest polluters promised to support legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. [News Source]

Women, children feeling effects of climate change. The lives of women and children are particularly being affected by the growing problem of climate change, a United Nations official has warned. Changes in weather patterns have affected the physical growth and educational status of many children. [News Source]

St. Clair River study won’t end dispute. Climate change - specifically less rain and snow on lakes Michigan and Huron in the past decade - has done the most to make water levels between the upper lakes and Lake Erie uneven, triggering potentially catastrophic water loss. Dredging is not to blame, a new study concludes. [News Source]