Oil Sands Suncor - Environmental Capital - WSJ

Mr. George argued oil sands aren’t as dirty as their critics would have it—he said the emissions are “not much different than heavy oil produced in California”—and he took aim at policies that would target the oil sands over other carbon-producing energy sources.

Speaking of the U.S., he said: “They produce a lot more CO2 by burning coal.”

EPA Releases Mandatory Carbon Emissions Reporting Plan

The mandatory carbon emissions reporting plan takes effect in 2010, with the first annual report
due in 2011 for the previous year. The requirements apply to facilities with refrigeration and air-conditioning systems, heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, and companies that manufacture industrial chemicals, fossil fuels, cars and engines. Harmful substances used in these industries, including chloroflurocarbons, hydrofluorocarbons, methyl bromide, hydroxyl, halons, nitric oxide, methyl chloroform, fluorine, chlorine, bromine and carbon tetrachloride, have been identified as contributors to climate change.

Bill Chameides: Are We Flying Blind?

Thanks to investments made in the 1990s, the U.S. climate observation system, a subset of the Earth-observing network, hit a high in 2005 and 2006 with about 12 operating satellites and 40 instruments. But that was then. Now a series of setbacks have chipped away at that accomplishment.

CNSNews.com - Offshore Oil Drilling Ban Will Be Restored ‘By Any Means Necessary,’ Democratic Congressman Says

The moratorium on offshore oil drilling “will be reinstated,” Inslee told CNSNews.com, but he did not specify whether he meant the executive branch moratorium or the one from the Interior Department.

“One way or the other, it will be reinstated,” said Inslee. “One way or the other, by any means necessary.

“We are off the Pacific coast, and there would be a civil war,” said Inslee. “There would be something like a secessionist movement if there was a serious attempt to [permanently] remove the moratorium.”

But Walden, whose state is also on the Pacific coast, told CNSNews.com that offshore oil drilling should contribute an important part of the country’s energy supply while greener technologies are being developed.