Biofuel firm misses payment on debt | StarTribune.com

In another sign of difficulties in the state's ethanol industry, the owner of the idled Fairmont, Minn., ethanol plant has missed a payment on $170 million in debt.

Beijing Finds that Dropping Coal Is Hard to Do: Scientific American

According to a recent report from the environmental group Greenpeace, the Chinese government will construct 16 coal power plants, mostly in the western part of the country, in the next three years. By 2015, the country plans to increase its coal production by 2.2 billion tons a year.

EU Energy Commissioner Warns Against New Climate Targets | The Global Warming Policy Foundation

Financial Times Deutschland: The EU Energy Commissioner opposes a tightening of the EU’s climate targets. Instead, energy policy should focus more closely on the needs of European industry. In Berlin, Günther Oettinger made jokes about the green “do-gooders” in his own party.

Britain Faces Risk Of Blackouts, Warns Ofgem | The Global Warming Policy Foundation

Britain faces an increasing risk of power blackouts and higher electricity bills in the next four years, power regulator Ofgem has warned in a report.

An “unprecedented combination” of the eurozone crisis, tough EU environmental laws and the closure of ageing coal and oil-fired power stations, has increased “the risk to consumers’ energy supplies”, Ofgem said in its annual Electricity Capacity Assessment on Friday.

Defeat the Flat Earth Five - YouTube

The League of Conservation Voters has launched a campaign -- the Flat Earth Five -- to defeat five climate change deniers in the House of Representatives: Rep. Dan Benishek (MI-01), Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle (NY-24), Rep. Dan Lungren (CA-07), Rep. Francisco Canseco (TX-23), and Rep. Joe Walsh (IL-08).

Unseasonably cold temperatures to move into Oklahoma; frost advisory, freeze watch issued