Canada reduces climate change funding: PM (AFP via Yahoo! News) Prime Minister Stephen Harper confirmed that Canada has reduced funding for some programs designed to fight global warming but denied a newspaper report that more cuts were planned. [News Source]

Korea poised to emerge as nuclear energy powerhouse. Korea is fast becoming a new nuclear powerhouse, re-exporting nuclear technologies to advanced countries such as the United States and France. [News Source]

Armenia has serious prospects to become a desert. According to the global meteorological station forecasts the global temperature will increase by 1.7 and 5.8 degrees. [News Source]

Ocean Alliance celebrates successful mission. The Odyssey’s return brings data that will help create the first comprehensive study of worldwide persistent organic pollutants. [News Source]

California Clean Energy Fund announce $1 million grant to build nations first energy efficiency center. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today joined with the California Clean Energy Fund to award a $1 million grant to UC Davis to create the nation's first university-based Center on Energy Efficiency. [News Source]

Weyerhaeuser “built green” houses not so, groups claim. Weyerhaeuser's credentials as a "green" homebuilder are being challenged by a Canadian tribe and an environmental group, which has tracked the wood used to build homes to disputed logging zones in Canada's northern forests. [News Source]

Teacher’s lesson is no waste of energy. A Shenendehowa instructor lives energy efficiency every day in and out of her classroom. [News Source]

State targets renewable energy sources. Twenty percent of the electricity consumed in New Jersey by 2020 must come from renewable sources, such as wind and sun, up from 1 percent today, according to new regulations. [News Source]

Board of Public Utilities sets 20% green power goal by 2020. The state Board of Public Utilities on Wednesday adopted rules that will force energy suppliers to change the makeup of New Jersey's power, and work toward the goal of 20 percent renewable energy by 2020. [News Source]

Cowlitz PUD says it may buy power from Kalama plant. Cowlitz PUD commissioners Tuesday signaled support for a coal-fed plant at the Port of Kalama by agreeing to maybe buy electricity from it, if the plant is built. [News Source]

Don’t let the customers drive. Trying to jump into the latest trend of engaging consumers interactively, GM opened itself up to parody advertisements by anti-SUV activists. [News Source]