UN incineration plans rejected by world's rubbish-dump workers | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Pickers say waste-to-energy incineration plants increase emissions and take away their only means of survival
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The waste-pickers who scour the world's rubbish dumps and daily recycle thousands of tonnes of metal, paper and plastics are up in arms against the UN, which they claim is forcing them out of work and increasing climate change emissions.
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"Waste-pickers, who are some of the poorest people on earth, recover recyclable materials. They are invisible entrepreneurs on the frontline of climate change, earning a living from recovery and recycling, reducing demand for natural resources," says Neil Tangri, director of Gaia, an alliance of 500 anti-incinerator groups in 80 countries.

Oil-State Rebellion - Robert Costa on National Review Online

As the oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak continues to evaporate in the Gulf of Mexico, the Democrats’ chances of using it to grease the passage of a new energy bill are evaporating, too.

Last week, House and Senate Democratic leaders rolled out what Politico called their “big spill bills.” The legislation, of course, was stuffed with nearly $15 billion in green goodies: new chokeholds on offshore drilling, cash-for-caulkers, and retrofitting for natural-gas trucks. “That kind of bill, folks, ought to pass, 100 to nothing,” said Sen. John Kerry (D., Mass.).
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“Originally this was going to be a cap-and-trade bill to match up with Waxman-Markey in the House,” Sen. James Inhofe (R., Okla.), the ranking member of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, tells National Review Online. “But they only have 34 votes — they’re not even close. With this oil spill, they thought that they could turn things around and use it as an excuse to pass something with energy provisions thrown in, masquerading it as an innocuous bill.”

Fish species warms up to cooler temperatures

In a finding that fuels hope for nature's ability to cope with episodes of rapid climate change, the researchers documented how some of the fish -- collected in B.C. in both freshwater lakes and ocean habitats -- were able to survive in water 2.5 C colder than their grandparents' natural habitat.

California asks Holder to investigate climate change rollback donor - Politics AP - MiamiHerald.com

State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg and Assembly Speaker John Perez have asked U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to open an investigation into a tiny Missouri nonprofit organization that has pumped nearly $500,000 into a voter initiative to suspend the state's landmark climate change law.  [Is anyone investigating the mysterious sources of Al Gore's $300 million global warming hoax promotion fund?]