City to use credits, cash to cut back greenhouse gases. When the city joined the Chicago Climate Exchange last year, it became legally bound to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 1 percent each year. [News Source]

Critics tag Patrick’s corporate role. Gubernatorial candidate Deval Patrick faces a test this week from a group targeting his role as chief legal counsel at Coca-Cola and Texaco during a period when the companies faced allegations of human rights abuses and environmental pollution. [News Source]

Bill capping emissions is worthy goal. For California's reconvening Legislature, no issue may be more important than passage of a bill that would make California a leader in the fight to control emissions of greenhouse gases. [News Source]

The war on global warming. California faces a future of water shortages, increased wildfires, prolonged heat waves, stressed farmland, lung-choking smog, and coastal flooding. [News Source]

High hopes for hydrogen. Progress is being made in the commercialization of hydrogen fuel cell technology which could help ameliorate today's problems of dwindling fossil fuel supplies and global warming. [News Source]

Infested forests show signs of global warming. The mountain pine beetle is spreading quickly because winters have been mild recently and there are no extended temperatures frigid enough to kill it off, experts say. [News Source]

In planning energy future, think local, small and clean. Overshadowed by the expanding debate over global warming, another environmental issue is heating up: the grim prospects that Appalachia and the other coal-rich areas of America face as energy companies plan a series of new coal-burning plants. [News Source]

When ‘bad science’ becomes good politics. President Bush, who used to claim that global warming talk was based on "bad science," has used the theory to justify changes in our nuclear energy policy. [News Source]

‘Individuals Must Beat Global Warming’ (Sky News via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News) Households could be given individual carbon audits to encourage families to do their bit to beat global warming. Prime Minister Tony Blair says the Government is investigating the proposal to boost carbon-reducing measures. [News Source]

Cheers to global warming? (Guardian Unlimited) Global warming may threaten the world with environmental disaster, but it could be a boon for German wine-makers. [News Source]

America: taking it to the limit? Look at the top-priority campaigns of the nation's big environmental groups and you'll find endangered animals, pollution and global warming. What's missing? Population. [News Source]