The Obama administration’s new Clean Power Plan has been welcomed by renewable industries since its announcement on Monday, consolidating the changes in electricity generation, and the recent boom in solar and wind energy. [The Washington Post]

Russia has submitted a bid to the UN claiming vast territories of the Arctic, the country’s foreign ministry announced on Tuesday. [The Guardian]

A device commonly used to measure methane leaks from industrial sources may greatly underestimate those emissions, an inventor of the technology that the device relies on has claimed. [The NY Times]