AP sources: Obama lets stand rule limiting protection of polar bears against climate change

WASHINGTON - The Interior Department is letting stand a Bush administration regulation that limits protection of polar bears from global warming, three people familiar with the decision told The Associated Press.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will announce on Friday that he will not rescind the Bush rule, although Congress gave him authority to do so. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to pre-empt the secretary's announcement.

The Associated Press: Blair: US-China deal key to climate change [hoax] accord

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The key to a new global climate change agreement will be a deal between the United States and China, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Friday.
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After leaving office two years ago, Blair launched what he called his Breaking the Climate Deadlock Initiative, meant to bring together policy makers and businessmen in support of an agreement to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.

U.S. spring vegetable acreage declines

Due to supply gaps caused by earlier freeze damage, sweet corn prices exceeded 60 cents per pound in March, double the average for that month over the previous three years. With recovery in supplies expected in late April, prices should begin to ease.

Jesusita Wildfire Rages On; At Least 75 Homes Burned | NBC Los Angeles

"I'm from the East Coast and at this point I'd rather put up with this than the winter," said evacuee Jim Hatch, 40, an illustrator who returned home to pick up clothes Thursday and motored up Jesusita Road on a baby blue Piaggio scooter to see the fire.