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• Utility Xcel agrees to disclose its financial risks from climate change. • Suit against ExxonMobil for violence in Indonesia can proceed, judge says. • Habitat for endangered elephants and tigers in Sumatra to be expanded. • Some 40 percent of Australia is largely untouched by industrial civilization, study finds. • Indicted Alaska Sen. Ted […]

High oil prices in future could spur plastic mining from dump sites

Sustained high oil prices on into the future could prompt entrepreneurs and scavengers to seek oil and oil derivatives from plastic items long ago thrown away in landfills, according to waste experts. “By 2020 we might have 9 billion people on the planet … and we could be in a really resource-hungry world with the […]

GOP platform acknowledges human-caused climate change, leaves out ANWR drilling

The Republican platform for 2008, hammered out by the Republican National Committee ahead of the party’s convention next week, is mildly greener than in 2004, making it “the greenest platform we’ve ever had,” according to a member of the committee. The draft platform acknowledges humans’ role in climate change but still takes digs at the […]

Joe Biden and Bill Clinton say Obama’s the man to solve the energy crisis

In his convention speech on Wednesday night, Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden said an Obama administration will make “alternative energy a national priority … creating 5 million new jobs, and finally breaking us from the grip of foreign oil.” Biden accused John McCain of being wrong on everything “from Amtrak to veterans,” and said, […]