The Senate committee on climate change will look into how state agencies spent the P10 billion supplemental budget Congress has earmarked for the rehabilitation of communities ravaged by typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng last year and Frank in 2008.

The House of Representatives has adjourned for a six-week summer recess, and the Senate's set to do the same later this week. But before that happens, Democrats have an ambitious to-do list -- including taking up an energy bill which was unveiled last week. The scaled-back proposal doesn't contain any provisions on climate change.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), acknowledging that he lacks the votes to pass a comprehensive energy and climate-change bill, has decided to pursue narrower legislation.

The U.S. Senate on Thursday dealt a potentially fatal blow to President Barack Obama's push to curb greenhouse gas emissions, postponing its bid to pass broad legislation to combat climate change.

The U.S. Senate on Thursday dealt a potentially fatal blow to President Barack Obama's push to curb greenhouse gas emissions, postponing its bid to pass broad legislation to combat climate change.