Indian premier supports climate change panel (AP via Yahoo! Finance) India's prime minister defended a beleaguered United Nations-affiliated climate change body Friday, saying India has full confidence in the panel despite numerous errors in its report on global warming. [News Source]

India’s roaring economy is hitched to a galloping addiction to coal. While environmental groups in developed nations talk of a coming world based on solar, wind and other forms of renewable energy, India's 8 percent economic growth rate is powered by coal. Its consumption is projected to increase by at least 400 percent by the year 2030. [News Source]

Planned California power plant would be nation’s first with GHG emissions limits. Calpine Corp. is poised to build the first U.S. power plant with federal limits on greenhouse gas emissions in California after clearing a final regulatory hurdle today. [News Source]

Obama’s nuclear power policy: A study in contradictions? Obama wants to triple public financing for new nuclear power plants, even as he nixes funds for storing commercial radioactive waste. Critics say the policy is not "coherent" and carries new security risks. [News Source]

Portland promotes urban cycling, but costs will be high. The 2030 Portland Bicycle Plan, envisioning a future when 25 percent of trips are made by bike, is expected to coast to approval today. It would be the nation's most ambitious urban cycling project. City planners hope it will dramatically cut carbon emissions and promote a more active lifestyle. [News Source]

Feds deny petition to make pika 1st animal in lower 48 states protected due to climate change. Climate change might be wiping out some populations of the American pika, a relative of the rabbit, but not enough to warrant legal protection for the tiny mountain-dwelling animal, according to a decision released Thursday. [News Source]

GOP lawmakers seek to suspend California climate law. Republican lawmakers in California are circulating a ballot initiative, backed by business interests, that would suspend California's landmark law to cut greenhouse gas emissions – a signature policy of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's tenure. [News Source]

Butterflies losing habitats due to climate. A study of beleaguered butterflies in California provides some of the best clues yet as to how other animals may react to climate change, scientists say. [News Source]

Ideas for a compromise U.S. climate bill. Three U.S. senators are trying to broker a deal on a domestic energy and environment bill requiring reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, which are blamed for global warming. [News Source]

Administration presses on for a ‘cap’ on carbon emissions. The Obama administration's top climate adviser strongly defended a cap on emissions a day after the president suggested Congress might move an energy bill without such a cap in place. [News Source]

Scant Arctic ice could mean summer ‘double whammy.’ Arctic ice cover is important to the rest of the world because the Arctic is the globe's biggest weather-maker, sometimes dubbed Earth's air-conditioner for its ability to cool down the planet. [News Source]