Moment of truth for energy bill - POLITICO.com

In the White House and the office of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, it’s moment-of-truth time. People on every side of the energy debate say that Reid must unveil a concrete plan backed by a full-court press from the president this week, or the entire effort will fall apart in the run-up to the midterm elections.

Lobbyists heat up over climate law - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee

The Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 is beginning to look like a stimulus package for the lobbying trade.
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Ralph Moran, BP's West Coast director for climate change issues, said the company's effort has focused on a key component of AB 32, the cap-and-trade market for carbon emission allowances. Such a market would assign emission allowances to refiners, utilities and other companies, and put a ceiling on the volume of carbon companies emit.

China's summer grain output down 0.3% year on year

Agriculture Minister Han Changfu warned last month that the severe drought in the southwest of the country and extreme cold in the north of the country earlier in the year had undermined the country's summer grain harvest.

HowStuffWorks "The Global Warming Controversy"

Most scientists will tell you that global warming is real and that it is likely to do some kind of harm, but the extent of the problem and the danger posed by its effects are wide open for debate.