Why ‘clunkers’ program won’t take some of the most polluting cars. The classic car lobby pushed to exclude vehicles made before 1984, protecting the market for parts. Consumer and environmental groups, too busy fighting for fuel efficiency, went along with it. [News Source]

Cap-and-trade’s unlikely critics: its creators. Legislation using cap-and-trade to limit greenhouse gases is working its way through Congress and could become the law of the land. But Thomas Crocker and other pioneers of the concept are doubtful about its chances of success. [News Source]

Airlines will be first U.S. industry to confront cap and trade. Sometime this month, the European Union will release a list of airlines it will regulate under its existing cap-and-trade system for carbon dioxide. And several airlines on that list will have a decidedly New World feel: Delta, United and American. [News Source]

Acid in the oceans: a growing threat to sea life. When we burn fossil fuels, we are not just putting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. A lot of it goes into the sea. There, carbon dioxide turns into carbonic acid. And that turns ocean water corrosive, particularly to shellfish and corals. [News Source]

Will ‘energy crops’ become the next kudzu? U.S. policies are subsidizing new energy crops that are likely to spread off the farm and wreak economic and ecological havoc, a federal advisory board cautioned yesterday. [News Source]

Environmental movies have a green problem: money. Three years after "An Inconvenient Truth" won over moviegoers and Oscar voters, many new works are suffering the same fate plaguing other intellectually engaging films: moviegoers would rather hug Transformers than trees. [News Source]

Farmers demand a fair deal. Oxfordshire farmers have backed calls for a “radical rethink” of the way the country produces and consumes food to guarantee the nation’s food supply but say the Government must do more to help them. [News Source]

Is Northwestern India’s breadbasket running out of water? The fields of barley, rice and wheat that feed much of India are running out of water because the region is using more groundwater than is being replenished by rainfall. [News Source]

Why ‘clunkers’ program won’t take some of the most polluting cars. The classic car lobby pushed to exclude vehicles made before 1984, protecting the market for parts. Consumer and environmental groups, too busy fighting for fuel efficiency, went along with it. [News Source]

Cap-and-trade’s unlikely critics: its creators. Legislation using cap-and-trade to limit greenhouse gases is working its way through Congress and could become the law of the land. But Thomas Crocker and other pioneers of the concept are doubtful about its chances of success. [News Source]

Airlines will be first U.S. industry to confront cap and trade. Sometime this month, the European Union will release a list of airlines it will regulate under its existing cap-and-trade system for carbon dioxide. And several airlines on that list will have a decidedly New World feel: Delta, United and American. [News Source]