Energy bill: Can senators reach agreement? Even as the sense of urgency to address the energy issue grows, momentum on the energy and climate bill is still stalled. The idea of a cap on carbon has become a central point of contention between Democrats and Republicans. [News Source]

A quick fix for climate change falls flat. A study by the Carnegie Institution and the Indian Institute of Science explored the idea of seeding clouds to make them whiter and more reflective. The good news: It works! The bad news: You'd better like monsoons. [News Source]

Spill emerges as campaign issue far from the gulf. The BP oil disaster has seeped into congressional campaigns in states far from the Gulf Coast, as voters and candidates from New Hampshire to the far West clash over the future of energy exploration and the relationship between government and the industries it regulates. [News Source]

Cleanup ships idled as storm rattles Gulf region. Oil-skimming ships in the Gulf of Mexico steamed to safe refuge because of rough seas from Hurricane Alex, which likely will last for days. Officials scrambled to reposition boom to protect the coast, and had to remove barges that had been blocking oil from reaching sensitive wetlands. [News Source]

Arnold Schwarzenegger wants $11-billion water bond off the November ballot. The governor is working with legislative leaders to postpone an $11.1-billion water bond proposal as its prospects appear increasingly dim. Polls suggest voters may not have the appetite for such borrowing at a time when the state budget is in continuing crisis. [News Source]

Energy bill: Can senators reach agreement? Even as the sense of urgency to address the energy issue grows, momentum on the energy and climate bill is still stalled. The idea of a cap on carbon has become a central point of contention between Democrats and Republicans. [News Source]

Is Tesla the future or the new Government Motors? A review of Tesla's turbulent past shows that a string of deals with the kind of old-guard auto companies its chief executive loves to diss – including Daimler AG and Toyota – and the deep pockets of the U.S. federal government have been crucial to keeping the electric car maker on the road in its moments of deepest crisis. [News Source]

A quick fix for climate change falls flat. A study by the Carnegie Institution and the Indian Institute of Science explored the idea of seeding clouds to make them whiter and more reflective. The good news: It works! The bad news: You'd better like monsoons. [News Source]

Loans needed for swamped homes: Expert. The government should provide special loans to people who lose their homes to rising sea levels caused by climate change, a leading economist says. [News Source]

IPCC expects big increase in sea-level forecasts. The world's peak climate-change scientific body will ''almost inevitably'' make a large increase in its predictions of world sea-level rises due to global warming when it releases its next landmark report in four years, according to the vice-chairman of the UN's IPCC. [News Source]

UK must take radical action to meet climate change targets, watchdog warns. Britain needs to build twice as many wind farms every year, put more than a million electric cars on the road and insulate every home in the country in order to meet ambitious legally-binding climate change targets, Government advisers have warned. [News Source]