SLC Mayor Urges Others To Reduce Global Warming (KUTV2 Salt Lake City) Mayors from 32 U.S cities were urged Sunday to take leadership roles in reducing global warming. [News Source]

Mayors gather in Alaska to discuss their cities’ response to global warming (WBZ.com) ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) Mayors from 32 U.S cities were urged Saturday to be leaders in slowing global warming by taking steps in their communities. ``We need to find the leadership in this country,'' said Mayor Rocky Anderson of Salt Lake City at a conference on climate change. [News Source]

32 mayors discuss global warming (AP via Yahoo! News) Mayors from 32 U.S cities were urged Saturday to be leaders in slowing global warming by taking steps in their communities. [News Source]

Swiss Push Polluter Tax in Fight vs Climate Change (Planet Ark) ZURICH - Switzerland on Friday pushed for an international tax on greenhouse gases to help poor countries cope with droughts, floods and storms caused by global warming. [News Source]

The future is ours to lose; this is a gas tax to save it. There is no better time to raise the national gas tax of 18.4 cents per gallon than now, if done correctly. I have a plan. [News Source]

Ethanol is a gimmick, not an answer to high gas prices. The latest Capitol Hill darling is ethanol, which supporters claim will reduce dependence on foreign oil -- because the fuel is derived from corn -- and also combat global warming. [News Source]

Count hidden costs of coal. Duke Energy's plans to build two new coal-fired power plants would add to problems, including public health, global warming, air and water pollution. [News Source]

Support clean water efforts. Critics charge that Proposition 84 gives too little funding to clean water efforts, minimal money for coastal protection, and disproportionally supports urban global warming projects, but its strengths still outweight its weaknesses. [News Source]

Let’s turn down the heat. The Climate Change Advisory Group reported last week that Arizona's emissions of greenhouse gases, which trap the earth's heat, increased 56 percent between 1990 and 2005. [News Source]

Australia told to reform water systems. Australia is the driest continent, but chronic water problems in its cities and rural areas are the result of poor management rather than water scarcity, a new report said. [News Source]

Blunder as one air clean-up bid sabotaged by another. One set of efforts to clean up city air has been sabotaged by another, meaning that millions of pounds has been spent on making almost no progress in removing a common pollutant, a Yorkshire-led team of investigators has discovered. [News Source]