Tina Gerhardt: Litmus Test: California Voters to Determine Fate of Climate Change Bill In 2006, Schwarzenegger committed California to a 25% cut in greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) by 2020 based on 1990 levels through the Global Warming Solutions... [News Source]

Global warming battle heats up with Prop. 23 Politicians, environmentalists and advocates are divided over Proposition 23, which would suspend the state's global warming law AB 32. [News Source]

Global warming battle heats up with Prop. 23 Politicians, environmentalists and advocates are divided over Proposition 23, which would suspend the state's global warming law AB 32. [News Source]

Need to move Indonesia’s capital growing urgent in face of climate change, experts say. Sea level rise, worsening flooding and land subsidence in and around Jakarta have prompted Indonesian officials to resurrect plans to move the country's capital - but local residents and experts say Jakarta itself will not survive unless it adapts to cope with climate change. [News Source]

Coal’s comeback. In an age obsessed with global warming and green energy, coal - a combustible rock that has generated heat for humanity for 5,000 years and still conjures up images of black lung disease and the England of Charles Dickens - is staging a defiant comeback. [News Source]

The tortoise and the solar plant: A Mojave story. Mercy Vaughn crouches over a young tortoise peeking out from its burrow near a creosote bush in California's Mojave Desert. The area is home to rare species, including the threatened desert tortoise. But a giant solar plant is under construction in the vast wilderness area. [News Source]

PGE offers to close coal plant earlier. Facing a Sierra Club lawsuit and heightened federal scrutiny of its Boardman coal-fired generating plant, Portland General Electric has drafted a much firmer proposal to close Oregon's only coal plant by Dec. 31, 2020, at least 20 years earlier than anticipated. [News Source]

Need to move Indonesia’s capital growing urgent in face of climate change, experts say. Sea level rise, worsening flooding and land subsidence in and around Jakarta have prompted Indonesian officials to resurrect plans to move the country's capital - but local residents and experts say Jakarta itself will not survive unless it adapts to cope with climate change. [News Source]

Ballot initiatives divide a usually united business front. Propositions that, among others, would suspend California's emissions law and make it more difficult for governments to impose new fees draw less-than-unanimous support. [News Source]

Prop. 23 is a money saver, Valero contends. The Texas oil company says its big Wilmington refinery would face prohibitive new costs, which it would have to pass on to consumers, if there's no relief from California's new emissions law. [News Source]

Eugene carbon emissions low, but will still grow. Compared with other Oregon cities and the rest of the nation, Eugene has relatively low per person carbon emissions. But according to a 2007 inventory of the city's greenhouse gas emissions, the 18,920 pounds of carbon emissions used annually per person is expected to grow. [News Source]