Chrysler blasts Big Oil. Taking an unusually public swipe at another industry, Chrysler's chief spokesman slammed major oil companies Monday, accusing them of greed and indifference to the environment. [News Source]

Coal plants’ renaissance pits energy vs. pollution. Proposed power plants in Kansas and Missouri have become targets of environmentalists who are fighting to halt a new wave of coal-fired units. [News Source]

Fired up. TXU's plan to build two new coal plants and repower three others is breathtakingly risky and could harm Texas' health, economy and climate. [News Source]

Ski resorts, water supply at risk. The third annual State of the Rockies Report Card focused on land conservation, resource management, biodiversity, climate change, environmental justice and nurturing youth. [News Source]

Australia named as extinction ‘hotspot’. The southwest of Australia has been named as one of 25 hospots for future species extinction because of global warming. [News Source]

Global warming threatens extinctions. Global warming will become a top cause of extinction from the tropical Andes to South Africa with thousands of species of plants and animals likely to be wiped out in coming decades, a study said on Tuesday. [News Source]

Aging work force poses nuclear-power challenge. Plans around the globe to increase reliance on nuclear power face a potential stumbling block: a coming lack of know-how in running and regulating new plants. [News Source]

Gov. backs greenhouse gas strategy. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will announce today his support for a strategy to combat global warming that has drawn criticism from Republicans and business leaders, aides said Monday. [News Source]

Diversity of species faces ‘catastrophe’ from climate change. Tens of thousands of animals and plants could become extinct within the coming decades as a direct result of global warming. [News Source]

Hurricane cycle won’t wane anytime soon. For South Florida, the 1970s and '80s were the time that hurricanes forgot: The storms came along once a decade or so, inspired a momentary craving for plywood and left far less damage than originally feared. [News Source]

Experts see peril in reduced monitoring of nation’s streams and rivers. Budget cuts are threatening the national system of stream and river monitors that provide flood warnings. River flooding kills about 125 people each year and costs billions in property damage. [News Source]