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The vote is a victory for a group of bipartisan Senate negotiators who worked with the White House to craft the agreement. The measure faces an uphill path in the House.

Democrats hope to pass a $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill to help fulfill President Biden's climate change plan. A key clean energy standard is undergoing changes to pass without Republican votes.

"Where [Gary] Maynard went, fires started. Not just once, but over and over again," the government said in a court memorandum.

NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports that some members of the Clinton Administration want to give special protection to Alaska Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. President-elect Bush and the oil industry want to drill in the refuge, saying it could hold up to 16 billion barrels of oil, enough for 30 years. Environmentalists are doubtful about the numbers, and say the refuge needs to be preserved as a national monument.

In the largest financial settlement ever under the Clean Air Act, the Midwestern utility Cinergy Corporation agrees to stake steps to reduce acid rain. Andrea Bernstein reports that the agreement settles a lawsuit filed by New York State and the Environmental Protection Agency, which blame Midwestern coal fired utilities for causing acid rain and harming public health.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports on the latest personnel announcements of President-elect George W. Bush, starting with Missouri Senator John Ashcroft for Attorney General. Ashcroft, a strong conservative, was defeated in his bid for re-election last month by the late Mel Carnahan. He's also a former two-term governor and state attorney general. New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman was chosen to head the Environmental Protection Agency.

Power shortages in the west are not just affecting California. The governors of Oregon and Washington are asking their residents to cut back on electricity use. The two states are also relaxing environmental standards that have hampered power production - and they're calling on California to do the same. Tom Banse reports from Olympia, Washington.

Butler Cain of Alabama Public Radio reports on the controversy over a landfill planned for Lowndes County, along the Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights Trail. A judge has ordered Alabama's Department of Environmental Management to stop approval of the landfill, but the company planning to build it says the order doesn't apply to them.

The late drug lord Pablo Escobar smuggled four hippos into his private zoo. In the 27 years since his death, the hippos have multiplied to at least 80.

A tanker ship carrying 500,000 barrels of oil has broken in two and sunk off the Atlantic coast of Spain. The Prestige ruptured last week, and has already spilled more than 70,000 barrels into the water. The beaches of Galicia in northwest Spain are already coated in oil. And now environmentalists are calling the sunken oil containers a "time bomb," just waiting to release millions of gallons more. Robert Siegel talks with Elizabeth Nash, a correspondent for the British paper The Independent, who is in Coruna, Spain.