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Climate Will Change Everything: Worldchanging - Added:January 5, 2009; 1 link; Discuss; In summary, there is so much about the climate we don't know. Interesting mention and discussion of the "sleeping giants" near the end.

Take control of heating costs -- chicagotribune.com: chicago.testprod.tila.trb - Added:January 5, 2009; 1 link; Discuss

3 friends on the road, urging America to jump on green bandwagon: San Francisco Chronicle - Added:January 4, 2009; 1 link; Discuss

2008: the year global warming was "disproved"? :: CEJournal: CEJournal - Added:January 3, 2009; 1 link; Discuss; Climate change skeptics are claiming that temperatures dropped so much in 2008 that it cancelled out much of the net rise in the 20th century. This story provides the data proving that this is utter nonsense.

Happy New Year: Maybe less perchlorate, but more logging :: CEJournal: CEJournal - Added:January 3, 2009; 1 link; Discuss; On New Year's Eve, the Bush administration quietly announced that it would double the rate of logging on more than 2.6 million acres of public forests in southwestern Oregon. Meanwhile, the EPA's inspector general ruled that the administration's efforts to block regulation of perchlorate, a contaminant of drinking water, were wrong.

The open notebook project: the future of the global warming story :: CEJournal: CEJournal - Added:January 3, 2009; 1 link; Discuss; The first installment of postings in an "open notebook" project about the future of the climate change story, at CEJournal, the online publication of the Center for Environmental Journalism

TVA's Tenn. coal ash spill: Arsenic Levels 35 to 300 Times EPA Standard for Drinking Water: The Huffington Post - Added:January 3, 2009; 1 link; Discuss; "I've never seen levels this high," said Dr. Shea Tuberty, Assistant Professor of Biology at the Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Lab at Appalachian State University.
Just-released independent water sampling data from the Tennessee coal ash disaster has shown alarmingly high levels of arsenic and seven other heavy metals, including cadmium, chromium, lead, mercury and thallium.

In Obama's Team, Two Camps on Climate - NYTimes.com: The New York Times - Added:January 3, 2009; 1 link; Discuss; Helpful rundown on current issues, key players in US climate policy debate.

Kingston Fossil Plant : Natural Hazards: earthobservatory.nasa.gov - Added:January 2, 2009; 2 links; Discuss

Judge Evaluates Oil Case That Could Cost Chevron Billions: Finding Dulcinea - Added:January 2, 2009; 1 link; Discuss; An Ecuadorean judge is preparing to decide in what could become the largest environmental pollution case in world history.