U.S. Senators seen ditching cap and trade in new bill. Three U.S. senators are seeking to radically overhaul stalled climate legislation by proposing to dump broad cap-and-trade provisions and take a sector by sector approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions, a White House official and leading U.S. newspaper reported. [News Source]

I’m not backing down on ETS: Rudd. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd remains committed to introducing an emissions trading scheme, saying it is the best way of taking action on climate change. [News Source]

Indigenous plan of action for climate change summit. To “defeat the resistance of the contaminating countries” was the objective of indigenous leaders from 13 Latin American countries who prepared a plan of action recently for the upcoming Climate Change Summit in Mexico. [News Source]

University ‘tried to mislead MPs on climate change e-mails.’ The university at the centre of the climate change row over stolen e-mails has been accused of making a misleading statement to Parliament. [News Source]

Green rift for Conservatives. It is absurdly premature to talk about the race to replace Stephen Harper, but rare fractures in Conservative group-think have appeared recently, this time on the environment - and the rift opens intriguing possibilities. [News Source]

Warming panel, under attack, seeks outside review. Scientists say the problems are minor and have nothing to do with the major conclusions about man-made global warming and how it will harm people and ecosystems. But researchers acknowledge that they have been too slow to respond to a drip-drip-drip of criticisms in the past three months. [News Source]

We can’t wish away climate change. It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it. [News Source]

British firms face onslaught from tar sands campaigners. British companies spearheading the drive to exploit Canadian tar sands will come under renewed assault from a group of shareholders and environmentalists who plan to turn forthcoming annual meetings into a referendum on the controversial operations. [News Source]

Environmentalists question coal’s place in Obama policy. President Barack Obama, a longtime believer in "clean coal," is launching an ambitious and expensive plan to help the energy industry lock climate-changing gases from coal-fired power plants deep underground. [News Source]

Warm winters distress reindeer herders. Warm winters in recent years have forced herders here in the far northern Kola Peninsula to delay for months the rounding up of their reindeer from the vast tundra -- at great economic cost. [News Source]

Warming climate threatens Prairie Pothole Region. A new report shows predictions for a warming climate could be devastating to duck production in the Prairie Pothole Region. [News Source]