The Power of Rupert Murdoch and the Australian’s Editor-in-Chief | The Monthly

But there were two voices Mitchell was determined to silence when they piped up on [climate change] last year: that of his former, Walkley Award–winning rural reporter Asa Wahlquist and journalism lecturer Julie Posetti.

Wahlquist, who had recently left the Australian after 13 years following a diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome, was speaking at an academic conference in December when she described the job of writing on climate change for the Australian as “absolutely excruciating” and “torture”. Posetti tweeted Wahlquist’s comments but incorrectly reported Wahlquist as saying “in the lead-up to the election the Ed in Chief was increasingly telling me what to write.”

Mitchell fired off a furious email to Wahlquist: “Asa, I have NEVER spoken to you about climate change in my life and have never stood over you about ANY of your stories. Indeed, I have not spoken to you in at least eight years. And I have never stood over people writing stories in 19 years as an editor. If I do not have an apology in writing from you today you will see me in court. I promise, Chris.”

‘Solar home rule’ could power the D.C. economy | Grist

the ILSR found that the District of Columbia could generate 19 percent of its electricity from rooftop solar PV systems

Green Vote Cools Toward Obama Risking a Replay of Gore-Nader - Bloomberg

Obama faces voters more concerned with the lagging economy than melting glaciers or rising oceans, according to opinion surveys.

Calif. cap-and-trade proposal criticized as inadequate, harmful to industry - Cogeneration & On-Site Power Production

The California Air Resources Board said it must produce a final regulation on cap and trade for greenhouse gases by Oct. 28, but many stakeholders are objecting to the proposal as unfair, bad for jobs, and filled with mistaken assumptions, unworkable features and requirements that will be impossible to meet.