Insurers Told to Do More to Tackle Climate Change (Planet Ark) LONDON - Insurers, whose finances could be stretched to breaking point by climate change, stand accused of doing too little to research global warming or devise products to mitigate its potentially catastrophic effects. [News Source]

Biofuels can capture sun’s energy, reduce need for oil. Energy from the sun gives us good reason to hope that we can survive the problems of fossil fuel depletion and pollution. [News Source]

Worst power option is nuclear energy. Investing in nuclear energy is a terrible idea. Nuclear energy is not environmentally friendly, no matter how "clean" it is advertised to be. [News Source]

Inconvenient truth that can’t be ignored. Climate change requires determined government action and a change in the way we live that goes well beyond the next electoral cycle. [News Source]

Commitment to conserving. Conserving fuel, curtailing energy consumption and cutting costs are reasons enough to consider ideas outlined by the PIRG's “Rising to the Challenge: Six Steps to Cut Global Warming Pollution in the United States.” [News Source]

Scant reason found in new transit tome. Over the past 20 years, this country has learned a very tough lesson: We were wrong to think huge super-highways will solve our transportation woes. [News Source]

California leads. Critics of California's historic new plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions are right on one count: The federal government, not individual states, should be leading the fight to slow global warming. [News Source]

California’s inconvenient truth. California lawmakers should have been forthright last week. They ordered a 25 percent cut in carbon emissions for the state by 2020. But they weren't upfront on the cost to consumers. [News Source]

Shades of green. California legislators and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger are justly proud of their completion of legislation (AB32) to reduce this state's greenhouse-gas emissions by 25 percent. [News Source]

School buses have better air quality. Halifax, Nova Scotia Regional School Board's 265 buses are now equipped with engine pre-heaters to reduce idling outside the schools. [News Source]

PSC sets extra cost for ‘green energy’. The Georgia Public Service Commission on Tuesday unanimously approved a new, lower price for the so-called green energy Georgia Power expects to begin selling later this fall. [News Source]