• Ritter adresses CU during “Focus the Nation” events Gov. Ritter said that climate change and global warming are especially big issues for Colorado because our second and third largest forms of economic security are from agriculture and tourism from ski resorts. (tags: Colorado University+of+Colorado Ritter global+warming climate+change agriculture tourism ski+industry)
• Rocky Mountain News — Rocky Talk Live: ‘Warming emissions’ tax to pay for renewable projects? How does the notion of paying about $2.50 per month extra on your home heating bill to fund renewable energy projects strike you? That’s the proposition Clean Energy Progress plans to place on the November ballot. (tags: Colorado home+heating+bill emissions+tax carbon+tax renewables)
• PR Newswire: Carbon Offsets Build Wind Turbine for Schoolchildren Through progressive initiatives led by Wray, Colo.’s school district, this community is rallying together to fight budget cuts and population loss in a very unconventional manner — by building a 335 ft. wind turbine. (tags: Colorado Wray wind clean+energy)

• Living on Earth: Obama on Climate Change Living on Earth takes a hard look at Senator Barack Obama’s record and platform on global warming. Environmentalists generally give him high marks. But they also raise a few questions about the Illinois senator’s connections to the coal and nuclear industry. (tags: Obama global+warming coal nuclear)
• Bill Clinton, Climate and the Instanet - Dot Earth - Climate Change and Sustainability - New York Times Blog The context makes it clear that Mr. Clinton was not recommending a slowdown to limit warming, and instead was saying that an economic slowdown and emissions cuts in the United States and other industrialized countries would have no effect. (tags: Bill+Clinton global+warming carbon+emissions economics)
• A Second Hand Conjecture » Bill Clinton on Global Warming Bill got a lot of heat over a video released by ABC News and an accompanying news story: Former President Bill Clinton was in Denver, Colorado, stumping for his wife yesterday. (tags: global+warming Denver Colorado Bill+Clinton Clinton economy)
• Seacoastonline.com: Greenhouse Gas Initiative: Good for air, economy The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, an agreement by 10 Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states, to limit and then to reduce carbon dioxide pollution from fossil-based power plants by 10 percent from today’s levels, while good for the environment, is also good for the economy. (tags: RGGI Regional+Greenhouse+Gas+Initiative Northeastern+States Mid-Atlantic+States carbon+emissions New+Hampshire)
• London hosts world’s largest low emission zone | Environment | Reuters The world’s largest clean transport area comes into effect in London on Monday. Low emission zones are already in operation or planned in 70 towns and cities in eight European countries. But London’s will dwarf them. (tags: carbon+emissions London clean+transport England)
• Wind Farms Need Techs to Keep Running | AP | 02/02/2008 Considered a cheap source of renewable power, wind farms have taken off amid concerns over greenhouse gases produced by coal-fired electric plants and the increasing cost of natural gas and other petroleum products. (tags: alternative+energy wind greenhouse+gases coal natural+gas)

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