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]

One man’s trash is another’s new fuel. U.S. Rep. Bobby Bright, just days after voting against a large clean energy bill in Washington, met Monday with a researcher at Auburn Montgomery who is working to turn waste products into fuel. [News Source]

New generation biofuels seen in 2010 at earliest. The first biofuels produced using new generations of biomass raw materials could be available in commercial volumes from 2010 at the earliest, German junior Environment Michael Mueller said on Monday. [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]

Rising sea level to submerge Louisiana coastline by 2100, study warns. A vast swath of the coastal lands around New Orleans will be underwater by the dawn of the next century because the rate of sediment deposit in the Mississippi delta can not keep up with rising sea levels, according to a study published today. [News Source]

Researchers: Louisiana coast will continue to erode. Louisiana will lose as much as 5,212 square miles of coastline by 2100 because the Mississippi River can't feed enough sediment into marshes to prevent catastrophic land loss, Louisiana State University geologists concluded in a scientific paper published Monday. [News Source]

Study looks at climate change links to big wildfires. The increase in area burned by wildfires in the Western United States is a complex relationship between climate and fuels that varies among different ecosystems, according to a study conducted by U.S. Forest Service and university scientists. [News Source]

Thousands in Bangladesh still homeless from cyclone. More than 350,000 Bangladeshis are still living on embankments, roadsides, school buildings and shelters, without adequate water and sanitation and at greater risk of disease a month after cyclone Aila ravaged parts of the country, the international aid group Oxfam said on Monday. [News Source]

Wilson: Bill didn’t go far enough. U.S. Rep. Charles Wilson Jr. was among 44 Democrats who broke ranks and voted against the climate change bill narrowly passed by the Democratic-controlled House on Friday. [News Source]

Murkowski, Begich expect Senate to redo climate bill. Alaska’s two U.S. senators on Monday indicated the Senate will redo a bill, recently approved by the House of Representatives, that attempts to slash the country’s collective emission of greenhouse gases. [News Source]