Climate change at a nuclear crossroads (Bangkok Post - Thailand’s English news) As the December climate change meetings in Copenhagen loom ever closer we are being barraged by warnings that urgent action must be taken to mitigate global warming and therefore governments must formalise their energy policies to do so in the very near future. While this viewpoint may be entirely correct, there is an obvious danger that too much hurrying might lead to bad choices. A case in ... [News Source]

Sen. Udall sees nukes as part of energy solution. U.S. Sen. Mark Udall of Colorado, long identified with renewable energy and environmental causes, is a sponsor of a bill aimed at exploring whether nuclear power can play a bigger role in meeting the country's energy demands and combatting climate change. [News Source]

EU can’t agree on how much climate aid to give. European Union leaders failed to agree Friday on how much to give poorer nations to counter the effects of a warming climate — squandering the last chance that global greenhouse gas talks in December will produce real results. [News Source]

PM hails EU climate fund ‘breakthrough.’ After hours of wrangling at the EU summit in Brussels this week, Europe's leaders gave broad backing to Gordon Brown's calls for developed nations to put a price on tackling global warming. [News Source]

EU sets $163bn for carbon cost. European leaders set a baseline goal for a world climate summit of E100 billion ($163bn) a year by 2020 to help developing countries fight global warming, a draft text revealed Friday night. [News Source]

EU agrees on climate change package. EU leaders agreed to contribute generously towards the estimated €22 billion to €50bn a year developing countries will need to deal with climate change. [News Source]

EU strikes climate funding deal. The EU has agreed a conditional deal on how to help other nations fight global warming, ahead of a key climate summit, but set no figure on what it would pay. [News Source]

E.U. reaches funding deal on climate change. European Union leaders on Friday offered to contribute money to a global fund to help developing countries tackle global warming hoping kick-start stalled talks on a new agreement on climate change. [News Source]

EU agrees final stance for Copenhagen climate talks. European Union leaders agreed an offer to put on the table at global climate talks in Copenhagen in December after healing a rift over how to split the bill. [News Source]

Carbon capture and storage facility commissioned today at Mountaineer Power Plant. American Electric Power and Alstom commissioned a carbon capture and storage project—said to be the world's first project to integrate combustion of fuel and the capture, compression and sequestration of carbon dioxide. [News Source]

French firm pushes carbon capture solution at US coal plant. Eyeing lucrative markets in China, India and beyond, French firm Alstom on Friday unveiled the world's largest carbon capture facility at a coal plant -- a technology backers hope will fuel a new multi-billion dollar industry and keep the coal industry alive. [News Source]