Government-backed corn ethanol lurches on, paving a road to nowhere | Grist

Rather than treat the ethanol industry's proposal with the scorn it deserves, Congress seems set to embrace it. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) has essentially packaged up the Growth Energy idea and made it into a bill called the Securing America's Future with Energy and Sustainable Technologies Act. Her colleague Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) on Wednesday appeared at an ethanol plant in Glenville, Minn., owned by Poet, the nation's largest biofuel company.

Sounding very much like one of the politicians he once satirized, Franken gushed support for Klobuchar's industry-written bill

Pain at the Pump? Try a Charge on Carbon Emissions - NYTimes.com

The best way to drive energy innovation would be an emissions charge of $5 per ton of greenhouse gases beginning in 2012, rising to $100 per ton by 2032.

April Snowfall Near Whitefish Sets New Record - News Story - NBCMontana NBC Montana

WHITEFISH, Mont. -- Park rangers report all time record snowfall in Stillwater State Forest, at a site 18 miles north of Whitefish.

Foresters completed their April snow course surveys for the area on Tuesday. They say snow measurement tubes inserted into the snow in Striker Basin show the average depth to be 131.4”, which is 18” above the previous all time record of 103”, set in March of 1997.

Winter-weary Calgarians dig out again | Calgary | News | Calgary Sun

“It’s not global warming, it’s not the ice age cometh, it’s Calgary climate,” he said.