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Linda Wertheimer talks with Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Climate Global Change, about President Bush's reversal on tightening carbon dioxide emissions from power plants to prevent global warming. The president sent a letter yesterday to four Republican senators stating that he had decided not to seek reductions in carbon dioxide emissions. This is a reversal of a previous campaign pledge. The decision is a blow to environmentalists and a win for coal and oil industries. Claussen's organizations membership includes 33 major companies.

The captain of the Japanese fishing trawler that sank after a collision with a U.S. submarine took the stand today in the Navy's court of inquiry into the accident. What followed were the most moving and emotional hours yet in the dramatic proceeding. NPR's Andy Bowers reports from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Allison Aubrey reports that Coca-Cola made a very public announcement today that it is changing the way its flagship product is marketed in the nation's schools. The Atlanta-based company says it will urge its bottlers to end the practice of negotiating "exclusive" contracts with school districts. The company also promised to give school kids more choice by stocking vending machines with healthier options. Many parent groups have criticized the exclusive contract arrangement.

W.G. Snuffy Walden's new CD is called music by.... It's a collection of themes and incidental music that he's written for television. Walden's music has appeared on Felicity, Rosanne, Once and Again and Thirtysomething. His latest score is the theme to NBC's The West Wing. Noah Adams talks with Walden about how he writes music for TV and the concept behind the West Wing theme.

NPR's Vicky O'Hara reports on the Bush administration's warning to Russia not to resume selling weapons to Iran. Secretary of State Colin Powell met yesterday with Sergay Ivanov, Secretary of Russia's Security Council. He said Russia is only selling 'defensive' weapons -- those may be considered 'destabilizing' by the U.S.

NPR's Rob Gifford reports that the U.S. Commander in Chief of Pacific Forces is visiting China. The communist country is warning the U.S. not to develop its planned national missile defense program, or to sell arms to Taiwan.

As part of NPR's ongoing series on how to get AIDS drugs to the developing world, NPR's Michael Sullivan reports on the AIDS situation in India. India has the world's largest number of people infected with the AIDS virus -- more than 4 million are infected by the most conservative estimates. But in a population of nearly 1 billion, AIDS takes a back seat to other pressing health concerns. Indeed, there is little discussion in India about how to get AIDS treatments to those who need them, unlike the current debates now going on in Africa. And in India, even basic prevention efforts face major cultural hurdles.

As an agnostic singing in a choral society each week, Stacy Horn is often puzzled by the words and their meaning, but loves the music. She says she respects people who believe in the words behind the music -- despite no connection to them. Horn is the author of Waiting for My Cats to Die: Morbid Memoir.

Noah Adams speaks with Thomas Mann, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution about another provision in the debate -- paycheck protection. Currently unions can use money raised from dues for political action. This provision would require unions to gain the permission of union members to use any portion of their dues for politics. Mann explains that while some want this provision to extend to corporations --that would be extremely difficult. He also explains how this requirement could extend to any organization, the Sierra Club or the Christian Coalition for example, that use dues for political activity.

As the debate over campaign finance reform begins, we spend some time examining some of the key provisions of the debate. NPR's Peter Overby reports that the McCain-Feingold bill takes aim at two categories of political money -- soft money and issue ads. Soft money is the unregulated money that citizens and groups can raise for their party. Issue ads are communications with votes that do everything but tell people who to vote for or against. Reformers say banning soft money is essential because of the amount of money has gone from zero to $250 million for each party in the past 20 years. Reformers oppose any restrictions on soft money saying it would be an infringement on free speech.