Obama urged to intensify push for climate measure. President Obama is coming under renewed pressure internationally and in the United States to throw his weight behind climate-change legislation, which advocates fear has suffered in light of the president's sweeping domestic agenda. [News Source]

Graham joins Democrat John Kerry on climate change. U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina broke ranks with Republicans on Sunday, announcing that he is working with a Democratic colleague on climate change legislation. [News Source]

Connectedness of climate and healthcare. The health care debate is sucking up most of the energy in Washington. So it makes sense that the world is concerned the US might show up at global climate talks in December empty handed. [News Source]

S.C. has swelling carbon footprint. South Carolina is generating more hot air than ever. Fueled largely by gases from coal-fired power plants and vehicles, the state has increased its carbon dioxide emissions, the main contributor to global warming, by 45 percent since 1990. [News Source]

Battle over Alberta oilsands now being fought abroad. After years of campaigns in Canada, activists and green organizations are increasingly targeting hearts and minds in the United States, where most of Alberta's oil is sold, and Europe, where many large oilsands investors are based. [News Source]

Reinventing the humble brick to cut carbon emissions. The makers of a new “green brick” say that the chemical manufacturing process requires up to 90 per cent less energy and generates 90 per cent less CO2 than traditional bricks. [News Source]

California to charge fee for emissions. Next year California pollution regulators will charge companies for emitting greenhouse gases. [News Source]

Flood victims in Burkina Faso illustrate the effects of climate change. A world away from the heated negotiations for a critical deal on stopping climate change at the UN summit in Copenhagen, Burkina Faso inhabitants are suffering the direct consequences of global warming. [News Source]

Ocean Watch sails into Newport with a cargo of climate-change data. A four-man crew in a steel-hulled sailboat called Ocean Watch is conducting a 25,000-mile clockwise circumnavigation of the North and South American continents to draw attention to climate change and altering ocean conditions. [News Source]

Adding renewable power doesn’t have to hurt poor, some say. State Rep. Eddie Rodriguez is organizing a community energy forum to hash out concerns raised by the Catholic Diocese of Austin that an Austin Energy plan to increase the use of renewable sources could hurt the poor. [News Source]

Carbon capture coal tech must be ready by 2019: U.S. A technology to bury underground the greenhouse gas emissions produced from burning coal must be ready for global deployment by 2017-2019, U.S. energy secretary Steven Chu said on Monday. [News Source]