Nuclear power makes sense on all levels. If all goes well, a spot of ground on 3,150 acres near Augusta will within a decade be the epicenter of a third nuclear reactor, a key element in America’s drive for energy independence. [News Source]

Are Global Warming Solutions Possible? (Contacto) By PAUL SISCO Washington, D.C. VOA News Global warming -- you may accept or reject those who say it is a dangerous phenomenon. But if the planet is warming, and humanity is contributing to it, shouldn't someone be thinking about solutions? [News Source]

Feinstein Unveils Global Warming Legislation (KGO-TV Bay Area) Sen. Dianne Feinstein unveiled a package of legislation aimed at combating global warming, calling it the "greatest environmental challenge facing this planet." [News Source]

Mountain climate change trends could predict water resources (PhysOrg) New research into climate change in the Western Himalaya and the surrounding Karakoram and Hindu Kush mountains could explain why many glaciers there are growing and not melting. [News Source]

Insurers feeling the heat of climate-change losses (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) Global warming is making things increasingly uncomfortable for the insurance industry. [News Source]

After the deluge.

Katrina’s winds shredded through the Gulf South like a giant scythe, but it was the flood in New Orleans that jolted the national psyche, leaving the deepest memory.

Governor, lawmakers differ on greenhouse gas measure. With just days to go before the end of California's legislative session, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Democratic lawmakers remain divided over key details of legislation that would make California the first state in the country to cap greenhouse gas emissions. [News Source]

The global business of battling climate change. Many nations today are involved in the global business of generating, selling and buying "carbon" credits as one solution to the climate change problem, but the Philippines has been quite sluggish in this arena. [News Source]

Colo. joins effort to fight global warming (Rocky Mountain News) Colorado is joining a growing number of states and cities that have taken it upon themselves to fight global warming locally. [News Source]

Text of Sen. Feinstein’s speech on global warming (San Francisco Chronicle) This is the prepared text of Sen. Dianne Feinstein's speech on global warming, delivered Thursday evening to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to be here tonight to discuss global warming -- the greatest... [News Source]

Ban on CFCs credited for holding off ozone depletion. A team of NOAA scientists is confirming that a hole in the ozone layer, that was discovered twenty years ago, has stopped growing and that efforts to phase out CFCs have proven to be successful. [News Source]