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]

Trees in trouble. Trees across Florida are dying left and right this summer. Sprawling canopies of huge oaks turn brown almost overnight. Cypress trees redden and lose leaves months early. [News Source]

‘Eating green’ good for you and the planet. Two interactive online calculators let consumers gauge the health, environmental and animal-welfare impact of their diet. [News Source]

Irish government party puts energy high on agenda. Ireland's main government party has pushed energy towards the top of its agenda ahead of a general election next year as the country looks to reduce its dependence on increasingly expensive fuel imports. [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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]