Northeast States Hold Second Carbon Auction - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Evan Ard of Evolution Markets, a carbon brokerage, predicted that prices at this auction would be lower than the already-low prices at the September auction.

LCG Consulting - EnergyOnline / RGGI CO2 Auction Price Barely Exceeds $3/ton

LCG, September 30, 2008--The ten, northeast states participating in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) yesterday announced that the auction of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions allowances held on September 25, 2008 were sold at a clearing price of $3.07 per allowance. All of the 12,565,387 allowances offered for sale were sold.

Calif. citrus farmers brace for more cold weather - San Jose Mercury News

FRESNO, Calif.—Citrus growers are scrambling to keep their groves warm to protect fragile trees from more unseasonably cold weather.

Many farmers with California Citrus Mutual are preparing to run wind machines Wednesday night to keep icicles from forming on the fruit. Some also may send up helicopters to push warmer air down toward their orchards.

A deep freeze in January 2007 caused some $1.3 billion in crop losses. President George W. Bush later issued a disaster declaration for California counties hurt by the five nights of freezing temperatures.