Environmental Capital - WSJ.com : Mais Non: Europe Dials Back Climate Goals Amid Job Worries

Today’s brutal jobs report doesn’t bode well for the Obama administration’s plans to push through some sort of climate-change bill—just ask Europe.
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For the next U.S. administration, the reading should be clear. When jobs are disappearing at a near-record clip, convincing Congress and U.S. businesses that expensive regulation is the economic—and not just environmental—answer will be an impressive trick indeed.

States Wrestle With Diversifying Energy Portfolios - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

State renewable energy targets, which my colleague Matthew Wald and I wrote about today, have an extraordinary number of variations – and sometimes loopholes.

Take the example of California, which is working toward an out-of-reach target of 20 percent renewables by 2010. A caveat: only three utilities are required to meet it.

Granted, the three utilities — Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric — are the the three biggest in the state. But critics complain that California’s dozens of municipal utilities, including some big ones like Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, which serves nearly as many customers as San Diego Gas & Electric, are excluded.