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.

Senate Democrats unveiled a slimmed down bill on Tuesday aimed at reforming offshore drilling, as doubts grew that Congress would be able to pass any substantial energy legislation this year.

Senate Democrats unveiled a slimmed down bill on Tuesday aimed at reforming offshore drilling as doubts grew that Congress would be able to pass any substantial energy legislation this year.

Hot weather, oil blowouts and a wiped-clean agenda in Congress gave all four U.S. Senate candidates the chance to showcase their climate and energy policies in the past week.

After being elected anew as president of the Philippine Senate, Senator Juan Ponce Enrile on Monday said the senators of the 15th Congress have yet to settle who will head some of the committees in the chamber.