11 Questions for Obama’s Science Team - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

President-elect Barack Obama pledges to put a lot of emphasis not only on reinvigorating science, but on making decisions that are grounded in science. As promised, I’m going to seek answers from his environmental and science team to the questions that received the most reader recommendations. Here are the top 10 (actually, 11 because of a multiple tie)...

Climate and Insurance web site

The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) has created this website as a resource for industry professionals to learn more about climate change and its possible implications for the property/casualty industry.

Bush may be giving Obama breathing room to fight global warming

Yet energy lobbyists predict the challenges will fail. They say the Bush administration's actions give Obama time and political cover to take a more deliberative approach to emissions regulation and avoid overly broad, overly swift rules that could slow construction projects for schools and businesses, not just power plants.

"I'm quite confident that the Obama administration will have no interest in coming in and immediately reversing" the decisions, said Jeffrey Holmstead, a former EPA clean air administrator who now represents energy industry clients at the lobbying firm Bracewell & Giuliani in Washington.