Inhofe bashes Rockefeller’s claim that GOP abandoned block-EPA effort - The Hill's E2-Wire

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) – the Senate’s leading climate skeptic – didn’t take kindly to Sen. Jay Rockefeller’s (D-W.Va.) claim that Republicans are to blame for inaction on the West Virginia Democrat’s effort to halt looming EPA greenhouse gas rules.

“Now, as we have all along, Republicans look forward to working in bipartisan fashion to end EPA's job-killing regulations and restore balance and certainty to the regulatory process,” said Inhofe, the top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, in a statement Friday.

Cap-And-Trade Tosses An Anchor To Drowning California Economy - Investors.com

CARB's new cap-and-trade rules will place yet another load on California's teetering economy. Yet with AB 32 the law of the land, CARB has little choice, other than encouraging an ambitious program to build modern nuclear power plants to reduce California's carbon footprint.

A likelier course will be the repeal of AB 32 before the end of the decade as Californians come to realize that the Golden State's go-it-alone approach to reducing transportation-fuel carbon intensity isn't immune to the laws of economics or physics.

Elderly Woman Freezes To Death In Cambria County Home - News Story - WJAC Johnstown

Geistown Borough, Pa. -- Geistown Borough police and the Cambria County Coroner's Office found Ethel States, 82, dead in her home on Wednesday. An autopsy revealed she died of hypothermia.

Cold Weather Can be Deadly

(HealthNewsDigest.com) - Greenwood Village, Colo., December 17, 2010 – As the first day of winter approaches, the professional medics at American Medical Response (AMR) would like to remind everyone that plunging temperatures can pose a threat to life and limb. This is especially true for the elderly, small children, the chronically ill, substance-abusers and individuals who stay out in the cold for long periods.