Palin: Cause of global warming ‘doesn’t matter’ (The Times of India) WASHINGTON: Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin said on Tuesday that global warming is "real," but stressed that it "kind of doesn't matter" whether or not humans are to blame for climate change. [News Source]

Palin: cause of global warming ‘doesn’t matter’ (SpaceDaily) WASHINGTON, Sept 30 (AFP) Oct 01, 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin said Tuesday that global warming is "real," but stressed that it "kind of doesn't matter" whether or not humans are to blame for climate change. [News Source]

An exhausting war on emissions. In 1991, Norway became one of the first countries in the world to impose a stiff tax on harmful greenhouse gas emissions. Since then, the country's emissions should have dropped. Instead, they have risen by 15%. [News Source]

Demand high for pollution credits. If the law of supply and demand holds true, then the nation's first auction of pollution rights to combat global warming was a success. [News Source]

Meat must be rationed to four portions a week, says report on climate change. People will have to be rationed to four modest portions of meat and one litre of milk a week if the world is to avoid run-away climate change, a major new report warns. [News Source]

Ocean “dead zones” spread, fish more at risk. The number of polluted "dead zones" in the world's oceans is rising fast and coastal fish stocks are more vulnerable to collapse than previously feared, scientists said on Monday. [News Source]

Pollution slowly killing world’s coral reefs. Coral reefs like Chitales, near the northern tip of a Caribbean reef chain stretching from Mexico to Honduras, are dying around the world as people and cities put more stress on the environment. [News Source]

A building ban near rivers? To protect salmon and orcas, federal fisheries managers are calling for a moratorium on development near rivers in the Puget Sound region. [News Source]

Mold has gotten a head start in Galveston. It can make your throat cough, eyes itch, head pound, or leave you alone. The menace is mold, and it's ravaging water-damaged homes and buildings all over Galveston in the island's latest battle wrought by Hurricane Ike. [News Source]

About 114,000 remain in the dark . At 9 p.m. Monday, 5 percent of CenterPoint Energy's 2.3 million customers were without electricity--17 days after Hurricane Ike knocked nearly everybody in the greater Houston area off the grid. [News Source]

Galveston council approves water, sewer rate hikes. Residents of this battered city will face a 19.78 percent water-rate increase and a 12.1 percent sewer-rate increase on top of the cost of repairing damage to their homes caused by Hurricane Ike. [News Source]