Eurocrats could sink the Severn Barrage. An ambitious scheme to build a £650m Severn Barrage between South Wales and Somerset is almost certain to break European law, a Welsh Euro-MP warned last night. [News Source]

Costello enters nuclear energy debate. Treasurer Peter Costello says Australia must do more to fight global warming, saying nuclear power may be the best way to go. [News Source]

Satellites launched to study clouds. NASA yesterday launched two long-awaited satellites designed to provide the first three-dimensional views of Earth's clouds and help predict how cloud cover contributes to global warming. [News Source]

Norseen: Pondering the bones of lost eras. Will the pollution we have caused create an environment in which present life forms cannot survive? Have we tampered with the balance of nature too much? [News Source]

A green salute. As Al Gore's pivotal soon-to-be-released documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, makes clear, George W. Bush's darkest legacy in the long run may be his unmitigated assault on the environment and his campaign to cover up the immediate threat of global warming. [News Source]

BushCo’s Earth Day visit to Napa reveals the president’s true nature. This much we know: Bush is, it has been widely noted, the worst environmental president in modern American history. He has done more to eliminate protections and pollute the air, sell off national forests, whore the waterways, drill for oil and eviscerate pollution regulation than any previous president. [News Source]

Xcel deal turns Denver green. The deal Denver unveiled this week with Xcel Energy goes beyond the usual public utilities franchise agreement and could propel Denver's energy use toward a cleaner, more efficient future. [News Source]

Tucson region. Pima County's air quality gets high marks from the American Lung Association, including an "A" ranking for fine-particle pollution from power plants, cars, diesel trucks, heavy equipment and industry. [News Source]

Dominion’s emissions raise outcry. Shareholders and demonstrators will ask Dominion Resources Inc. at today's shareholders meeting to make its power plants cleaner and consider the risks of ignoring environmental concerns. [News Source]

Farm plan puts wind up locals. Opponents of the project could not really call themselves green: without the wind farm, Denmark would continue to rely on burning coal and doing its share of global warming. [News Source]

20th century, the wettest in Pakistan for 1000 years. A report in the latest issue of the journal 'Nature' quotes scientists of the Swiss Research Institute WSL, the Potsdam Geo Research Centre, the Jülich Research Centre and the University of Bonn as saying that the 20th century was the wettest century in the past millennium in northern Pakistan. [News Source]