Bush visit may fuel automotive switch. This afternoon, in West Sacramento, the president plans to sing Earth Day praises for an automotive technology that promises to wean motorists off gasoline entirely while cleaning the environment. [News Source]

Internet fueling Earth Day message. Today's Earth Day is all grown up - less idealistic and not as well-funded, perhaps, but armed with better science and a growing sense of urgency. [News Source]

Brown rules out higher fuel tax to tackle climate change (Edinburgh Evening News) CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown today ruled out higher fuel taxes as he talked about a "moral need" to tackle climate change. [News Source]

Deep blue sea. Oil was the substance that defined the century just ended; ice will define the one just begun. [News Source]

Humanity’s creativity helps environment. Evangelical Christians are conflicted this Earth Day, especially about how they should best meet their Christian obligation to be a good steward of the environment. [News Source]

Breathe easier. The cause of global warming has come at a fortuitous moment for clean-air warriors looking for alarms to ring. [News Source]

Our ravaged Earth. This fall voters have a chance to stand up for stronger environmental protections by choosing elected officials at all levels who have the political courage to address urgent ecological problems. [News Source]

Chernobyl’s death toll. Supporters and opponents of nuclear power have been trading wildly different estimates for the number of people who are likely to die as a result of the radioactivity spread across Europe by the explosion. [News Source]

Bingo halls can permit smoking. You can add bingo halls to the growing list of businesses exempt from Louisville's smoking ordinance. [News Source]

Investigation of hole continues at Turkey Point. Investigators have made no progress in finding who made a small hole in a pipe at the Turkey Point nuclear plant, the head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Friday in Miami. [News Source]

Saving our Earth. They say the ozone layer is shrinking, the polar ice caps are melting and contaminants in our air, food and water are causing health problems ranging from allergies to cancer. What should a person to do? [News Source]