Lincoln City crimps its carbon. Mayor Lori Hollingsworth knows that this coastal community is a tiny player in the complex drama of global climate change. Its desire to change illustrates the challenges small towns face absent strong national leadership or regulations. [News Source]

Going after clean-coal technology. While the clean-coal concept—to scrub coal clean before burning, then capture and store harmful gases deep underground—may seem promising, a coalition of environment and climate groups argue in a new media campaign that the technology simply doesn't exist. [News Source]

A treaty to slow deforestation. Cutting and burning trees releases more greenhouse gases than all the vehicles driving around the world, so protecting the world’s tropical forests was high on the agenda at the UN climate talks in Poland. [News Source]

‘Cow Tax’ uproar underscores greenhouse-gas divide. In recent weeks, farmers and livestock ranchers have flooded the EPA with letters warning of catastrophic consequences if a so-called "cow tax" was imposed for their contribution to global warming. [News Source]

Schumer: Farmers could get plowed under by ‘cow tax’. In the wake of a recent article that said the United States Environmental Protection Agency is considering a proposal that would impose a tax on “livestock emissions,” U.S. Senator Charles Schumer Tuesday called on the EPA to quash the potential “cow tax.” [News Source]

Dispute on carbon tax mars climate talks. The final post-midnight session exposed a deep rift between developing countries most vulnerable to global warming and the industrial nations that are being asked to channel money and technology for the defense against climate catastrophes. [News Source]

A mix of rules and markets, held together by trade-offs. The climate change package details how European industries, energy generators, governments, and transport sectors are to effect a "triple 20" deal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020 compared with 1990 levels. [News Source]

Manchester says no to congestion charging. Voters in Manchester have overwhelmingly rejected plans for a congestion charge after a city-wide referendum in which more than a million people voted. [News Source]

EU backs emissions proposal after concessions to industry. European Union leaders on Friday backed landmark proposals to cut the bloc's greenhouse-gas emissions by 20% in coming years, but gave substantial concessions to industry and to coal-burning countries in Eastern Europe. [News Source]

Climate summit finale saddest moment. The climate summit ended with the collapse of a key deal to pay developing countries to cope with global warming. The senior-most member of the Indian government delegation said: ‘This is one of the saddest moments I have witnessed’ during his attendance in 12 such summits. [News Source]

Interim climate pact approved. The effort to come up with a global warming treaty to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol inched forward Saturday morning as delegates to United Nations-sponsored talks here agreed on a narrowly framed interim document that leaves all the difficult negotiating until next year. [News Source]