Senate Climate Bill's Boosters Try Smorgasbord Strategy in Bid for Votes - NYTimes.com

Senate Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said yesterday she did not think the primary vehicle going to the floor would be the Kerry-Lieberman bill as it was introduced last month. "We never said that," she said. "We said Harry [Reid] was going to write his own bill. Never that that would be the vehicle.

West Michigan fruit crop suffering after early freeze | MLive.com

Tubbs said his 350 acres of asparagus also were damaged severely. The farm lost about "four pickings" and "some of the better pickings" which equates to a 10 percent to 20 percent loss, he said.

"We'll never get those pickings back. We'll never recover that. We're way down from last year and last year wasn't a real good year because it was so cold," he said.

SCENARIOS-Fate of climate bill uncertain as Japan poll nears | Energy & Oil | Reuters

TOKYO June 10 (Reuters) - Japan's government could run out of time to enact a climate bill before upper-house elections expected next month, fuelling worries it might drop a plan to trade carbon emissions by setting obligatory caps on firms.

Climate change and the great scientific dance-off › Environment Blog (ABC Environment)

The tantalising element of conflict is one reason why climate change is the biggest science story ever. Of course, the other is that current scientific projections are that it will have a calamitous affect on us all.