Minnesota must increase renewable energy options. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency reports that during 2004 the air quality index in the metro area rose seven times to a level that was unhealthy for sensitive groups. To improve air quality, Minnesotans must begin implementing more renewable energy sources. [News Source]

In the balance. Unfortunately, there's one small problem with the claim that environmentalists and lawmakers, at long last, have come together on the once-divisive issue of global warming: They're still yelling at each other. [News Source]

Get balance right with Cape Wind. Renewable energy will reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and combat global warming, which, if unchecked, will lead to rising sea levels, and may one day wash away coastal habitat and popular beaches. [News Source]

All we can do is wait and hope it’s not too late . Meteorology is an inexact science - it's not as easy as it seems to simply blame global warming for what's been happening with the weather. [News Source]

We’d better act now for our own good. We know now that collective human practices can and definitely do influence weather phenomena. [News Source]

California can lead nation by tackling global warming. California has pioneered a long string of initiatives to reduce pollution and auto emissions and to promote energy conservation and efficiency. Now California is poised to the lead again, this time on the most serious threat to the environment: global warming. [News Source]

State steps up on combatting global warming. If Washington won't, then Sacramento will. This state has set its own course many times over: on car tailpipe emissions, a ban on coastal drilling and abortion law. Now: greenhouse-gas controls. [News Source]

Corzine puts state finances first. Governor Corzine used his first major environmental speech Saturday to plead for support for his hard-times budget, telling activists he needed to get the state's fiscal house in order before tackling issues of pollution and open space. [News Source]

Environmentalists enjoy tax incentives. This year, U.S. tax laws offer some juicy incentives to reduce energy consumption, drive high-mileage hybrid vehicles and buy power-stingy appliances. [News Source]

Signs of a comeback for nuclear power. Two decades after Chernobyl, despite lingering concerns about what to do with the deadly waste nuclear reactors generate, there are signs that the U.S. nuclear industry's winter might be closer to a spring thaw. [News Source]

Warming Sound has lobsters in a pinch. Rising water temperatures could be to blame for the steep decline in lobsters and other cold-water species once found in abundance in Long Island Sound. [News Source]