Kerry: 'Not Critical' for EPA to Regulate Emissions Ahead of Summit - WSJ.com

Sen. Kerry said he thought it would be "great" if the EPA regulated power companies' greenhouse-gas emissions before the Copenhagen talks. But he said it was "not critical" to have taken such a step before Copenhagen and cited Mr. Obama's directive to the EPA and the decision by certain states, cities and businesses in recent years to enact their own voluntary emissions reduction programs as evidence that the U.S. is "moving forward" to significantly curb its emissions.

"People have to get beyond the Bush mentality and realize it's a very different ballgame" under Mr. Obama, Sen. Kerry said. Unlike Mr. Bush -- who resisted committing the U.S. to economy-wide curbs on greenhouse gas emissions -- Mr. Obama has called for legislation to cut U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions 80% from 1990 levels by 2050.

Nuclear fusion-fission hybrid could contribute to carbon-free energy future | Science Codex

AUSTIN, Texas--Physicists at The University of Texas at Austin have designed a new system that, when fully developed, would use fusion to eliminate most of the transuranic waste produced by nuclear power plants.

CBS Reporter Calls Environmentalists ‘Long-Suffering’ | NewsBusters.org

Reporting on the orders President Obama issued yesterday to overturn Bush Administration decisions regarding automotive admissions, Chief White House Correspondent Chip Reid said, “On Capitol Hill critics said the action could set the struggling American automobile industry back even further, but the change in course delighted the president’s audience, long suffering environmental activists.”

Had it been a Republican president undoing the draconian environmental policies of a Democrat president, would Reid have talked of “long suffering manufacturers?” “Hard pressed entrepreneurs?” “Much put-upon businesses?”

Obama’s “Bold” Action on Climate Change — MasterResource

At the end of the show, I made the point that a couple of the callers seem to be under the impression that I favored a carbon tax. Not so. I said, look, if we have to reduce greenhouse gas emission then a carbon tax makes a lot more sense than an automotive fuel-efficiency standard … but I am not there yet. Ms. Cuttino said, in a rather annoyed voice, that it is impossible to argue with someone who doesn’t believe in climate science or global warming. But when did I say that? I don’t believe that ”climate science” is a figment of the imagination or that the world isn’t warming. I simply believe that the costs of doing something about that warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions are greater than the benefits—an entirely different matter.