The Senate has unanimously approved on third and final reading a bill that would establish a fund that would be used to address the problems of the Philippines regarding climate change.

After years of waiting, the climate change legislation has been defeated in the Senate.

Democratic Senate hopeful Gov. Joe Manchin takes up a rifle in a TV ad to show voters in his coal-mining state how much he opposes his own party's climate change legislation.

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.