The Chamber of Commerce vs. climate science. A lawsuit filed by the US Chamber of Commerce against the EPA could be the first wave of a big-business assault on greenhouse gas regulations. [News Source]

Scientists taking steps to defend work on climate. Tentatively and grudgingly, climate scientists are beginning to engage their critics, admit mistakes, open up their data and reshape the way they conduct their work. [News Source]

The Chamber of Commerce vs. climate science. A lawsuit filed by the US Chamber of Commerce against the EPA could be the first wave of a big-business assault on greenhouse gas regulations. [News Source]

Scientists taking steps to defend work on climate. Tentatively and grudgingly, climate scientists are beginning to engage their critics, admit mistakes, open up their data and reshape the way they conduct their work. [News Source]

Cap-and-trade drop draws support. Democrats pushing a climate change bill have been desperately looking for a few more Lindsey Grahams on the Republican side of the aisle. All they had to do was drop the toxic “cap and trade” aspect of the legislation, and Republican doors started opening. [News Source]

India moves on U.S. nuclear deal with new law. India's parliament will debate over the next month a new law to limit nuclear firms' liability in the case of industrial accidents, a move crucial for U.S. firms to tap into India's estimated $150 billion nuclear market. [News Source]

Company pursues coal mines northeast of Billings. The push to mine Montana coal continued to pick up steam Monday, as a company with Texas roots said it was pursuing mines northeast of Billings that could tap into an estimated 1.2 billion ton underground seam of the low-cost fuel. [News Source]

Utah legislature: Senate committee wants Utah out of climate initiative. Climate scientists should stay out of the political arena, Rep. Mike Noel told a Senate committee Tuesday as he pushed for a resolution urging the state to pull out of an anti-greenhouse-gas initiative. [News Source]

Christine Todd Whitman says clean air, not climate, should be focus of energy talks. Advocates of capping carbon emissions are more likely to succeed politically by arguing for energy independence and clean air instead of sounding dire warnings about climate change, said a former administrator of the EPA. [News Source]

Utilities willing to go first — but not alone — on emission limits. The heads of several prominent utilities say they would not necessarily object to the power sector being the first industry subject to carbon emission limits under proposed climate change legislation. [News Source]

Senator Graham calls cap-and-trade plan dead. Senator Lindsey Graham said on Tuesday a proposed economy-wide cap-and-trade system for reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases was dead and would be replaced in a new bill. [News Source]