‘With political action on curbing greenhouse gases stalled, a bipartisan panel of scientists, former government officials and national security experts is recommending that the government begin researching a radical fix: directly manipulating the Earth’s climate to lower the temperature.’

via Group Urges Research Into Efforts to Halt Climate Change – NYTimes.com.

‘(Reuters) – The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to ease a new air pollution rule that would require power plants in 27 states to slash emissions, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.’

via EPA easing air quality rule for power plants: report | Reuters.

‘For six decades around the world, Koch Industries has blazed a path to riches — in part, by making illicit payments to win contracts, trading with a terrorist state, fixing prices, neglecting safety and ignoring environmental regulations. At the same time, Charles and David Koch have promoted a form of government that interferes less with company actions.’

via Koch Brothers Flout Law With Secret Iran Sales – Bloomberg.

‘(Reuters) – A new plan to curb global warming risks becoming a battleground between rich and poor nations and could struggle to get off the ground as negotiators battle over the fate of the ailing Kyoto climate pact.’

via Analysis: World divided on new plan to combat global warming | Reuters.

‘Scientists have figured out — with the precise numbers deduced only recently — that forests have been absorbing more than a quarter of the carbon dioxide that people are putting into the air by burning fossil fuels and other activities. It is an amount so large that trees are effectively absorbing the emissions from all the world’s cars and trucks.’

via With Deaths of Forests, a Loss of Crucial Climate Protectors – NYTimes.com.

‘TOKYO — Despite continued fears over radiation levels, Japan lifted evacuation advisories for an area spanning five towns and cities around a tsunami-ravaged nuclear power plant on Friday, the first such move since multiple fuel meltdowns at the site led to a substantial radiation leak and forced more than 100,000 surrounding residents to flee.’

via Japan Reopens Areas Near Fukushima Daiichi Plant – NYTimes.com.

‘The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in a report that the availability of renewable sources like the wind and sun was virtually unlimited, and could provide up to 77 percent of the world’s energy needs by mid-century, but governments needed to adopt policies to take advantage of them.’

via Renewable Sources Could Provide 77% of World’s Energy by 2050, Report Says – NYTimes.com.

‘WASHINGTON – Facing a Friday deadline, the Energy Department has approved two loan guarantees worth more than $1billion for solar energy projects in Nevada and Arizona.’

via Obama administration approves 2 more solar energy loan guarantees worth total of $1B | StarTribune.com.

‘(Reuters) – Winning State Department approval for the Keystone XL oil pipeline is not likely to be the last hurdle TransCanada Corp faces in its efforts to build the controversial project.’

via Analysis: Snags lurk for Keystone XL even after U.S. approval | Reuters.