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Posted on June 23, 2008 by Dennis Pfaff
- This is expected to be a big week in California's efforts to combat climate change, with air regulators and the public getting their first full look at proposals to implement the state's landmark anti-global warming law; proposals on the table include a cap-and-trade program for emissions, incentives for local planners to change development patterns and encouraging such simple measures as installing energy-efficient lightbulbs, according to this preview from the San Francisco Chronicle.
- Sen. Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, has a number of advisers who are also big boosters of the ethanol industry, reports The New York Times.
- Meanwhile, are the efforts of President Bush and other Republicans like Sen. John McCain to boost new drilling intended to keep oil prices down to put a damper on alternative energy? Thomas Friedman, columnist for The New York Times, sees some connections.
- Plans for a coal-fired power plant in a coal-rich region of Virginia have ignited a huge controversy, according to this story in The Virginian-Pilot.
- Sustainability in Arizona is a movement that comes from the people, not governments, according to the Arizona Republic, which has launched a new series on the subject. The first installment contains this intriguing fact: If every house in America kept the curtains closed, the energy saved from the additional insulation would be as much as the entire energy use of Japan.
- Big retailers are embracing the gospel of energy efficiency, including Home Depot, which is opening its greenest store yet in Texas, reports the Wall Street Journal's blog, Environmental Capital.
- The world's major cities might be big polluters but they also have the solutions to most of their problems at their fingertips, a new report says, according to Reuters.
- A new website from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is devoted to educating the public about Earth's changing climate, with such features as a continuously updated snapshot of our planet's health, a statement from the facility says.
