Soviet legacy seen worsening climate change impact. A legacy of environmental neglect by the Soviet Union makes countries from Poland to Central Asia more vulnerable to climate change than previously expected, the World Bank said on Tuesday. [News Source]

Feeling the heat. The US and China have begun to outstrip Europe in renewable energy, both generation and manufacturing. Last year, the US overtook Germany to become the country producing the most wind energy, and China added more wind capacity than any country but the US. [News Source]

Will e-trucks deliver your snail mail? That familiar stop-and-go growl of a US Postal Service van schleping down the street, gulping a gallon every nine miles as it delivers the nation’s mail, may soon be a sound of the past. [News Source]

Carbon storage faces costly hurdles. The CEO of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP said on Tuesday that the pipeline giant will not enter the market to sock away heat-trapping greenhouse gases in underground reservoirs unless the U.S. government settles who is legally liable if the gas leaks out. [News Source]

Norway to assess climate impact on markets. The Norwegian government said on Wednesday it would assess the impact of climate change on financial markets and urged global investors to join forces. [News Source]

UK must take ‘moral lead’ on climate aid, say MPs. Britain must urgently help poor countries adapt to severe storms, floods, and droughts from climate change, or the gains made by years of development aid could be wiped out, according to a group of MPs examining Britain's assistance to developing countries. [News Source]

Report warns of environment wars. Climate change could spark “environmental wars” in the Middle East over already scarce water supplies and dissuade Israel from any pullout from occupied Arab land, a report by the International Institute for Sustainable Development warned Monday. [News Source]

E.U. says climate policy will boost growth. The European Commission on Tuesday issued a study showing that its climate strategy--including its fiercely contested cap-and-trade system--would boost growth and generate hundreds of thousands of new jobs by the end of the next decade. [News Source]

Low-key governor becomes leading GOP voice on climate. Indiana's two-term governor, Mitch Daniels, has delivered an energy message that has drawn praise from conservatives and raised the rumored presidential candidate's profile in what is likely to be a crowded Republican field in 2012. [News Source]

Obama to stake political prestige on passing US climate bill. Congressional leaders working against a six-month deadline to pass a sweeping package of environmental legislation before global climate change talks begin in Copenhagen in December. [News Source]

Pelosi upbeat on US-China climate cooperation. US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday expressed high hopes of cooperation between the United State and China, the two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases, ahead of key climate change talks. [News Source]