Harnessing the sun: Sarasota will soon be the solar power capital of Florida. Amid record-breaking gas prices, global energy worries and recent evidence that the earth is as hot as it's been in 2,000 years, Sarasota and Florida Power and Light plan to collaborate to build Florida's largest solar power plant. [News Source]

What’s in the air? The New Jersey Meadowlands Commission released preliminary results of a three-year air quality study of the Meadowlands district. [News Source]

Utilities consider cleaner coal technologies. A Colorado mountainside, the high plains of Wyoming or the Dakota prairie may become the next proving ground for a new technology to clean up coal-fired power plants. [News Source]

Green’s gray crusaders. Old guard environmentalists have lessons for the current generation. [News Source]

Going green at the office. A lot of corporations won't even acknowledge its existence, but global warming is having an impact on how they conduct their business. [News Source]

Global warming and the courts. Is the Environmental Protection Agency compelled to regulate greenhouse gases? [News Source]

How green is your governor? Maybe it's midsummer madness, but Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is posting every corner of California with his outdoors credentials. [News Source]

Absence of glaciers makes poignant point. It is impossible not to think about global warming, if only for a minute or two, when visiting Yosemite National Park this summer. [News Source]

Europe’s colder half. Blame it on global warming, but meteorologists say Central Europe's winters are getting colder. [News Source]

Biofuels feasible option for America. As America searches for ways to become less dependent on oil and gas imported from unstable and often hostile nations, we find the answer requires many solutions. Chief among them is the production of biofuels, a source of energy produced from converting crops, crop residue and woody materials into fuel. [News Source]

FORUM: Euro-bureaucrats run amok.

The European Parliament earlier this month approved plans for “immediate introduction” of a tax on jet fuel for flights within the 25 member states of the European Union.