Obama pushes a better light bulb. President Barack Obama said Monday that light bulbs will have to meet tougher efficiency standards, a measure he says will slash energy bills and greenhouse gas emissions. [News Source]

EPA gives California emissions waiver. The EPA will announce today that it is granting California's request to impose tough restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks--reversing Bush's position and opening the way for the state to take the lead on global-warming policy. [News Source]

EPA gives California emissions waiver. The EPA will announce today that it is granting California's request to impose tough restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks--reversing Bush's position and opening the way for the state to take the lead on global-warming policy. [News Source]

Obama pushes a better light bulb. President Barack Obama said Monday that light bulbs will have to meet tougher efficiency standards, a measure he says will slash energy bills and greenhouse gas emissions. [News Source]

Push to develop solar on public lands. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced measures on Monday to hasten the development of solar energy on public lands in six western states. Salazar expects to have 13 commercial-scale projects with solar power arrays under construction by the end of 2010. [News Source]

Seagrass losses reveal global coastal crisis-study. Mounting loss of seagrass in the world's oceans, vital for the survival of endangered marine life, commercial fisheries and the fight against climate change, reveals a major crisis in coastal ecosystems, a report says. [News Source]

Mountain snow melts earlier, changing growth patterns, due to blowing dust. The warmth of spring has always begun mountain snowmelt, bringing life-giving water to greening plants. But now, the timing is being thrown off by desert dust stirred as global warming dries larger areas and human activity increases in those regions. [News Source]

Climate bill spurs less green power than hoped. The renewable energy mandate in the climate change bill approved by the U.S. House of Representatives last week does not go far enough for green power proponents, but the proposed national standard of 15 percent renewables by 2020 is likely as strong as it will get, experts say. [News Source]

Europeans ‘demand more’ from Americans. To some Europeans, the United States still appears to be taking baby steps in addressing climate change with a proposed target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 4 percent below 1990 levels by 2020, compared to the European Union's 30 percent reduction target. [News Source]

China unhappy with US climate bill. The United States set the bar too low and offered the world a poor example when it passed its climate change bill on Friday, according to a senior Chinese climate change official. [News Source]

And now, climate bill’s supporters try counting to 60 in Senate. The consensus on Capitol Hill is that no group will be more important to the success of the Senate global warming bill than moderate Democrats from the Midwest, Rust Belt and West who say the climate debate so far has not taken their interests into account. [News Source]