Enviros sue EPA over ocean acidification. An environmental group is suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, seeking to have Washington coastal waters listed as impaired because carbon dioxide is making the ocean more acidic. [News Source]

Barack Obama’s climate change bill is weakened, but still intact. Barack Obama's ambitious global warming and energy agenda has been weakened in a number of key areas. America will come nowhere close to European targets for cutting carbon emissions – a shortfall that could provoke a backlash in the international community. [News Source]

Asia-Pacific nations agree to protect reef network. Six Asia-Pacific countries agreed Friday on a wide-ranging plan to protect one of the world's largest networks of coral reefs, promising to reduce pollution, eliminate overfishing and improve the livelihoods of impoverished coastal communities. [News Source]

Climate change, water shortages conspire to create 21st century Dust Bowl. Dust storms accelerated by a warming climate have covered the Rocky Mountains with dirt whose heat-trapping properties have caused snowpacks to melt weeks earlier than normal, worrying officials in Colorado about drastic water shortages by late summer. [News Source]

Predicted impact from Antarctic ice melt lessened. Scientists have been worried about the West Antarctic Ice Sheet for decades. But new study finds that if it were to collapse, global sea level would rise drastically, though not as much as predicted 30 years ago. [News Source]

Well project tests storage of carbon dioxide. Drillers have bored nearly 4,000 feet below the green pastures of a Hancock County farm as part of a project that could hold a key to the future of coal in Kentucky, carbon capture and sequestration. [News Source]

Poorest need funds to combat climate change: Report. Poor countries already suffering from the impact of climate change urgently need up to $2 billion to help adjust and cope, a new report submitted to the United Nations said on Thursday. [News Source]

Bush team still haunts environmentals. Environmentalists who see this year as their best hope for a major global warming bill can’t seem to escape a familiar foe: former Bush administration officials they fought year after year on energy and climate issues. [News Source]

Key Dem backs Waxman climate bill. The first meeting between Democratic Reps. Ed Markey, Henry Waxman and Rick Boucher lasted five hours but Waxman and Markey eventually got what they wanted: an emphatic yes from Boucher, a coal country Virginian whose backing is critical for the ambitious global warming measure. [News Source]

Senate passes measure to boost development of solar energy plants. A high-profile bill that would expand goals for renewable energy by encouraging the development of solar energy plants to generate electricity was passed Tuesday by the Texas Senate. [News Source]

Global warming bill’s coal provisions unclear. Members of a key congressional committee are nearing completion of the latest bill to address global warming, but the legislation's impact on the coal industry remains unclear. [News Source]