TOP STORY

Cities Rush to Turn 'Green' with $3.2 Billion of Federal Green

"Officials in hundreds of cities across the country are scrambling to find ways to spend billions of federal dollars that could make their carbon footprint smaller. Driven by tight deadlines, they need projects that create jobs, promote efficiency and fight global warming. In the process, they are learning that the impending cloudburst of federal cash can be both a "godsend" and a headache." [ClimateWire - New York Times]

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Wyoming Vs. Wolves: State Sues Government Over Endangered Listing

"A pair of federal judges will decide which states in the Northern Rockies have enough gray wolves to allow public hunting, as the bitter debate over the region's wolves heads to courts in Wyoming and Montana.  Environmentalists filed a lawsuit in Missoula on Tuesday seeking to restore protections for more than 1,300 wolves in Montana and Idaho. The Obama administration in April upheld a Bush-era decision to take wolves off the endangered species list in those two states." [Associated Press - Huffington Post]

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• Court Battles Loom Over Gray Wolf In West [NPR]

U.N. Climate Talks Grudgingly Accept Treaty Draft

"Rich and poor countries criticized a first draft text of a new United Nations climate treaty Monday but grudgingly accepted it as the basis for six months of arduous negotiations." [Reuters - Planet Ark]

IN MEMORIAM

On the passing of Father Thomas Berry, noted ecological thinker [Grist]

FROM THE BLOGS

• Migrations of large mammals in serious declines, six have vanished entirely [MongaBay.com]