Curtailing carbon. Approved by the City Council last month, “A Community Climate and Energy Action Plan for Eugene” was inspired by the belief that people need to slow human-caused global warming and prepare for a future with hotter temperatures, rising energy prices and other consequences of climate change. [News Source]

Does simply mining coal cause climate change? The attempt by environmental groups to delay the sale of federal coal reserves to two Powder River Basin coal mines on the grounds that mining the coal will impact climate change was denied Thursday. [News Source]

U.S. nuclear renaissance faces obstacles. Three decades after the Three Mile Island accident seemed to doom the nuclear power industry, the idea of a nuclear renaissance has been gaining public acceptance as a way to generate energy without greenhouse gas emissions and meet the nation's electricity demands. [News Source]

KAU commissioned to prepare report on climate change in the Arab world. The Jeddah-based King Abdulaziz University, through its Center of Excellence for Climate Change Research, has been commissioned by the World Bank to lead a scientific team to prepare a scientific report about climate change in the Arab world. [News Source]

BTCO leads the way in ‘green office’ development. For the British Trade and Culture Office in Taiwan, tackling climate change is not just an issue on which it has worked over the past few years, it is something that touches on the everyday life of its staff. [News Source]

Local reaction to mileage targets is mixed. New federal regulations proposed this week aim to cut fuel consumption and emissions on new generations of semi-trucks, school buses, and other large trucks, but local reactions to the proposal is mixed. [News Source]

New hope rises for renewable energy. The demise of "cap-and-trade," as the climate-change bill was called, was a disappointment to supporters, but the prospects are brighter for a more moderate step, requiring that a greater portion of America's electricity come from renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power. [News Source]

Bagging biomass. A few years ago, biomass was viewed as a plentiful and renewable energy source that could help the state get away from its reliance on fossil fuel. But now, with three large wood-burning plants planned for Western Massachusetts, a more stringent set of biomass regulations being drafted could curtail their construction. [News Source]

Rural systems struggling on ‘high blood pressure’ lines. Solar-panel owners in parts of country NSW are finding their systems do not work because the grid cannot handle the energy they produce. In some cases owners are being asked to pay for improvements themselves. [News Source]

Coal not a better bet than LNG. The idea that coal should be considered as one of Jamaica's primary alernative fuels to oil, even within the context of "advances in clean coal technology," is not without its challenges, experts say. [News Source]

Gov’t urged to redraw medium-term plan. Environment and sustainable agriculture advocates Sunday called on President Benigno S. Aquino III to make a clean break from the previous administration’s Medium-Term Philippine Development Plan (MTPDP) and include sustainable agriculture, climate change, and new and renewable energy programs. [News Source]