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Enviros Critique 'Solar Energy Zones'

Environmental groups say the Interior Department's effort to site solar-power projects on public lands should not harm wildlife and should be accompanies by similar efforts for other kinds of alternative energy.

Source: Greenwire, 07/10/2009

"Funding Rules to Aid Renewables Unveiled"

"The Treasury and the Energy Department today unveiled long-awaited new rules under which the government will pay up to 30 percent of the cost of renewable energy projects."

Source: NYTimes, 07/10/2009

"'Cash for Clunkers' Wins Over U.S. Drivers, Dealers"

Consumers are attracted to the "cash-for-clunkers" program that gives them several thousand dollars to trade in old gas guzzlers for more fuel-efficient cars.

Source: Reuters, 07/10/2009

"A Muscle Car to the Rescue for General Motors"

GM will emerge from bankruptcy, after a 50-billion taxpayer bailout, with the 22 mpg Camaro muscle car as its star performer.

Source: NYTimes, 07/10/2009

"Oil Prices Weaken as Recovery Hopes Falter"

"Oil prices briefly fell under $60 a barrel on Thursday after nearly two weeks of uninterrupted declines, as traders and investors acknowledged that a global economic recovery would take longer than hoped."

Source: NYTimes, 07/10/2009

Senate Climate Deadline Slips

"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has bumped back the deadline until Sept. 28 for the six committees working on a comprehensive climate change and energy bill."

Source: ClimateWire, 07/10/2009

"The Two-Degree Solution"

The two-degree pledge on climate change made by the G8 is nonbinding, hard to translate to a specific level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere ... and perhaps wishful thinking.

Source: Dot Earth, 07/10/2009

"More Scrutiny Urged for Bottled Water"

The Government Accountability Office, testifying before a Congressional committee, urged the Food and Drug Administration to stiffen oversight of bottled water and give consumers more information about what they are drinking.

Source: Wall St. Journal, 07/09/2009

"Energy Industry Sways Congress With Misleading Data"

""The two key arguments that the oil and gas industry is using to fight federal regulation of the natural gas drilling process called hydraulic fracturing -- that the costs would cripple their business and that state regulations are already strong -- are challenged by the same data and reports the industry is using to bolster its position."

Source: ProPublica, 07/09/2009

"Pickens Still Gung-Ho On Wind Farm Despite Delay"

T. Boone Pickens postponed a plan to create the world's largest wind farm in Texas. The billionaire had spent $60 million advertising his plan to combat what he calls the United States' addiction to foreign oil.

Source: NPR, 07/09/2009

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