SPOTLIGHT

1. POLITICS:
House passes disaster funding, but future challenges loom

2. BUSINESS:
Clean energy group begins to define and measure industry's global economic clout

TODAY'S STORIES

3. RENEWABLE ENERGY:
N.J. to host first leg of Atlantic 'backbone' for offshore wind

4. TRANSPORTATION:
New rail line into Manhattan could improve Long Island's 'resiliency' -- study

5. SCIENCE:
Earth has warm year, but not as hot as the U.S.

6. RESEARCH:
Critical materials research needed to secure U.S. manufacturing, officials say

7. EMISSIONS:
Warming effects of black carbon twice as potent as previously thought

8. MARKETS:
Calif., Australia discuss linking emissions trading in the future

9. ENERGY EFFICIENCY:
Google increases lobbying and giving to promote clean energy use

10. NEGOTIATIONS:
U.N. diplomat says domestic climate change legislation should be rooted in self-interest

11. UTILITIES:
Ohio regulator tweets against 'green' energy

12. POLITICS:
Obama off the hook for inaction over climate, study says

13. EMISSIONS:
Michael Mann joins push to reduce Pa.'s carbon emissions

E&ETV's OnPoint

14. CLIMATE:
World Resources' Steer discusses impact of financial constraints on green investment