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Today's Greenwire Headlines

SPOTLIGHT

NATIONAL PARKS: NPS threatens takeover of 6 Calif. parks

TOP STORIES

RENEWABLE ENERGY: Traders in clean-energy certificates fear House bill will upset market

GREEN BUILDING: NYC hails new eco landmark, mulls sweeping code changes

ENDANGERED SPECIES: Report shows greater peril for threatened animals, plants

POLITICS

CLIMATE: Senate support for emissions bill might not extend to U.N. pact -- Kerry

CLIMATE: U.S. will agree on 2-degree goal at G-8 -- draft document

ENERGY POLICY & MARKETS

UTILITIES: Exelon presents 'best and final offer' for NRG

OIL AND GAS: BP-led group to be Iraq's first foreign producer in 30 years

MINING: Chinalco buys $1.5B in Rio Tinto stock

OIL AND GAS: Refiners wary of possible curbs on carcinogenic emissions

BUSINESS, FINANCE & TECHNOLOGY

RENEWABLE ENERGY: New DOE loan guarantees aid turbine maker, energy storage plant

RENEWABLE ENERGY: Plans circulating for massive wind farm off NYC

AUTOS: White House gives GM July 10 deadline to sell assets

AUTOS: Hitachi to boost battery production, supply GM

FEDERAL AGENCIES

AIR, WATER & CLIMATE

COAL: Planned Kan. power plant must reapply for permit -- EPA

WASTES & HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES

SUPERFUND: NYC officials push alternate plan for canal cleanup

NATURAL RESOURCES

NATIONAL PARKS: Planned British Columbia coal mine 'on hold' after U.N. appeal

WILDLIFE: E.U. battles bird poaching in Malta

INTERNATIONAL

CLIMATE: Canada aims to replicate standards set in House bill

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POLITICS: Bolstered by House win, Obama prods Senate to act on cap-and-trade bill (ClimateWire, 06/29/2009)

President Obama called this weekend for the Senate to get to work in passing comprehensive energy and global warming legislation now that they have a blueprint in Friday's House-passed measure. Using his weekly radio and Internet address as a bully pulpit, Obama emphasized the economic incentives and national security implications that he said would come if he were to sign into law a new U.S. energy and climate policy. But the four-and-a-half-minute speech also highlighted the difficult political challenges ahead, especially with more than a dozen Democrats and nearly all Republicans in the Senate still pushing back against such sweeping changes.

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