Bjorn Lomborg: Climate change can wait. World health can’t (Guardian Unlimited) Bjorn Lomborg: With $50bn, we could make the planet a better place but money spent on global warming would be wasted. [News Source]

Power source. With fuel costs rocketing to the top of the worry list for CFOs , finance executives in the clean-fuel sector now find themselves at the center of the action. [News Source]

Dynegy focus on plants in Midwest. Dynegy will reduce air pollution at its Midwestern plants before it upgrades its Hudson River plants. [News Source]

A rail through the roof of the world. As China inaugurates a train link with Tibet, natives bemoan effects on the environment and what they see as Beijing's effort to exert control. [News Source]

Rising waters over time could affect Bayside view. Scientists are predicting the Bay's waters could rise by 3 to 4 feet in 100 years, flooding up to 4 miles of low-lying Baylands in a climate-change scenario not unlike the images of sinking cities in Al Gore's bracing documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth." [News Source]

Global warming is extending pollen season. They're miserable in Chicago, hurting in Atlanta and suffering in New York. That's because it's the allergy season, but what we used to call the "allergy season" is becoming the "allergy year." [News Source]

Warming may devastate fishing. In addition to making the world a hotter, wetter place, global warming might have devastating effects on an activity dear to many Floridians’ hearts: recreational fishing. [News Source]

In D.C, even weather’s political. When huge summer rainstorms strike other parts of the nation, people get wet, basements flood, roads are closed, end of story. But when that same kind of storm strikes the national capital, it has to have Deeper Significance. [News Source]

PG&E moves to boost supplier diversity, renewable energy. Pacific Gas and Electric Co. took steps this week to boost supplier diversity and renewable energy supplies. [News Source]

USDA works to improve bread baking with biotechnology. U.S. government scientists are trying to bake a better bread one that will provide the kind of reliable, consistent quality that commercial bakers yearn for and they are using biotechnology to do it. [News Source]

Michigan environment bears brunt of modern consumption. Michigan's environment is buckling under the weight of the state's 10 million residents. [News Source]