Tories get ready to tackle toxic chemicals. Officials in the federal environment and health departments are to reveal which among 23,000 chemical compounds used for years in Canada pose the biggest toxic danger to people or ecosystems. [News Source]

Science tempers fears on climate change. The world's top climate scientists have cut their worst-case forecast for global warming over the next 100 years. [News Source]

Big companies go green to ensure business. For companies like General Electric, environmentalism is not about fighting global warming or hopping on a trend: It's about the bottom line. [News Source]

Winning from the sideline. Former Vice-President Al Gore's re-emergence this year is due mostly to his success with the hit documentary An Inconvenient Truth, laying out a convincing argument on the crisis of global warming. [News Source]

Too vital for guesses. Al Gore is a kind of nerdy superman. He pushed the development of the internet, won the popular vote in the 2000 US presidential election without being elected and has made a movie about himself giving a slide show about saving the planet from climate change. [News Source]

Air conditioning boom threatens Kyoto protocol. The units may keep people cool, but they also churn out carbon dioxide which could wreck European attempts to meet emissions targets. [News Source]

African dust, El Niño roll back number of hurricanes. The quiet 2006 Atlantic hurricane season may be due to unusual amounts of dust blowing off the African continent and the emergence of "El-Niño-like" conditions in the Pacific Ocean. [News Source]

Emissions trading deal set for China. A major World Bank agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in China went into effect last week as participants placed $1.02 billion into the bank's Umbrella Carbon Facility to finance the deal. [News Source]

Earth to Aspen: take the lead on curbing global warming. About 100 valley residents attended two meetings last week to offer Aspen feedback on what to do regarding global warming. [News Source]

Aspen joins in Supreme Court case vs. EPA. The Aspen Skiing Co. Thursday joined a major U.S. Supreme Court case against the Environmental Protection Agency to recognize greenhouse gas emissions as pollutants. [News Source]

Marchers’ message on global warming: Do something now. Marchers continued on a journey Friday that started a day earlier in Ripton and is to end Monday in Burlington to bring attention to global warming. [News Source]