Climate Bill Proving Vain Pursuit as Lobbies Roil U.S. Congress
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) — When Senate Environment Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer, Republican Senator John Warner, the nation’s largest environmental groups and General Electric Co. join forces to push a U.S. cap on global-warming emissions, it should be an unbeatable team. Not in the 110th Congress. The alliance is running into resistance from an unlikely collection of environmental activists, big oil and coal companies, labor unions and Congress’s sole socialist.

Technology Won’t Stop Global Warming, Economists Say
Greenhouse gas emissions in the United States may grow faster in the next 50 years than they have in the past 50, and higher energy prices will curb the problem better than technology, two economists say.

Proposal: Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Air
Emerging technologies could pull carbon dioxide straight from the air to potentially attack global warming directly… “The technology to do this is going through major advances, moving toward detailed designs,” said environmental engineer Frank Zeman at Columbia University. “It’s becoming more and more efficient—we’ve cut the electricity requirements by well over half.”

New Carbon Standard Brings Integrity and Transparency to Carbon Offsets
LONDON, Nov. 20, 2007 — The Climate Group, the International Emissions Trading Association and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development launched a new global carbon offset standard at the London Stock Exchange to increase participation and confidence in the global voluntary carbon market.

Kyoto backers can exceed 2012 climate goals: U.N.
But it cautioned that emissions had risen since 2000 in many nations — especially in former Soviet bloc countries where economies were picking up after the collapse of smokestack industries in the early 1990s.

Most Green Marketing Claims Aren’t True, Says New Report
READING, Penn., Nov. 19, 2007 — The overwhelming majority of environmental marketing claims in North America are inaccurate, inappropriate, or unsubstantiated, according to a comprehensive survey released today.

Vinod Khosla: Moving Green from Crisis to Opportunity
Khosla, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems (and thus Silicon Valley as we know it today), is a venture capitalist heavily involved in green technologies ranging from energy-efficient IT projects to biofuels research. He spoke with GreenBiz Radio about what it will take to keep the green momentum moving.

World’s hottest chili to repel elephants
GAUHATI, India – Wildlife experts in northeastern India are experimenting with a new weapon to prevent marauding elephants from destroying homes and crops and trampling people in villages close to their habitat — super-hot chilies.

Wrecked Black Sea ships start to leak sulphur
KIEV (Reuters) – Sulphur from two ships that sank in a storm near the Black Sea last week is leaking into waters already polluted by an oil spill from another vessel, UkraIne‘s Environment Ministry said on Monday.