• San Francisco mayor signs nation’s toughest green-building law, proposes fines for unsorted trash.

• British energy companies told to reallocate funding from cutting emissions to helping the fuel poor.

• Green groups drop opposition to Texas coal plant.

• Most of new U.S. drilling wells are for natural gas.

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