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Elisabeth Rosenthal is a reporter and blogger on environmental issues for The New York Times. IN 2008, both the Democratic and Republican candidates for president, Barack Obama and John McCain, warned about man-made global warming and supported legislation to curb emissions. After he was elected, President Obama promised ''a new chapter in America's leadership on climate change,'' and arrived cavalry-like at the 2009 United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen to broker a global pact. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Alan Carlin, a 72-year-old analyst and economist, had labored in obscurity in a little-known office at the Environmental Protection Agency since the Nixon administration. In June, however, he became a sudden celebrity with the surfacing of a few e-mail messages that seemed to show that his contrarian views on global warming had been suppressed by his superiors because they were inconvenient to the Obama administration's climate change policy. Conservative commentators and Congressional Republicans said he had been muzzled because he did not toe the liberal line. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The League of Conservation Voters, starved for good news after eight years of the Bush administration's environmental policies, has hailed President-elect Barack Obama's choices for his top energy and environmental jobs as ''a Green Dream Team.'' Let's hope it is. There is no question what this team must do -- mount a strong offensive on climate change, fashion a more efficient energy system, seek out and invest in next-generation, transformative technologies. These are extraordinarily difficult tasks that will face resistance from industry and many in Congress. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Editorial. Comments on the global warming strategies and policies in California. Legislation passed by the California Legislature requiring manufacturers to start reducing carbon dioxide emissions; Regulatory and legislative review of other proposals; Problems with climate change and fuel economy.