‘The Obama administration will likely announce rejection of TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone XL pipeline later today or tomorrow, according to two people familiar with the matter.’

via Obama Administration Said to Reject Keystone Pipeline – Bloomberg.

‘As the deadline looms for President Obama’s Feb. 21 decision on whether to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline, the dogfight is focused on job numbers. Project proponents tout an enormous number of new jobs created by the pipeline, but a labor institute says those numbers are greatly inflated.’

via New ads reignite fight over Keystone XL jobs numbers – latimes.com.

‘WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Congressional Republicans, who are urging President Barack Obama to give a permit to the Canada-to-Texas Keystone XL oil pipeline project, are working on a plan to take the reins of approval from the president should the White House say no.’

via Republicans move to control Keystone approval – Yahoo! News.

‘Bulletin authors are scheduled to decide today whether to adjust the clock again, after moving it a little further from the end of humanity two years ago 6 minutes to midnight. “The dangers posed by climate change are growing, but there are pockets of progress. Most notably, at Copenhagen, the developing and industrialized countries agree to take responsibility for carbon emissions and to limit global temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius,” the website timeline noted of 2010.’

via ‘Doomsday’ Clock Due for an Adjustment? – Yahoo! News.

‘The 2011 “Climate B.S. of the Year Award” goes to the entire field of candidates currently stumping in New Hampshire for the Republican Party presidential nomination, the Pacific Institute announced Thursday.’

via 2011 climate bad science awards – latimes.com.

‘The Climate Desk, a collaborative journalism project of Mother Jones and several other publications, has produced a video searching in vain for a Republican presidential candidate willing to make any science-based statements on climate.’

via Still Searching for Republicans With Climate Concerns – NYTimes.com.

‘Reuters – The year 2011 was Britain’s second-warmest ever, the Met Office said on Friday, although temperatures in December have in fact been close to average.’

via This year was UK’s second-warmest ever | Reuters.