Green brewery. The beer’s not green, but the way it’s made is. A Colorado-based brewery is using alternative sources of energy, not to save money – it costs them more – but to save the planet. [News Source]

Candidates agree: State energy may be due for change. Republican Jim Barnett thinks hydrogen could be a major player in Kansas' energy future. Democratic Gov. Kathleen Sebelius says the state should try incentives for contractors to build more energy-efficient housing. Both agree that the status quo in Kansas must change. [News Source]

UOP students, staff campaign for local environmentalism. A growing group of activist students hope to bring environmentalism back to the University of the Pacific campus in a two-week campaign that starts this weekend. [News Source]

Green law to target energy industry. The Conservative government plans to get tough with the oil and gas industry along with other large greenhouse-gas emitters when it unveils its long-awaited green plan next month. [News Source]

Montana gets hotter, study says. This year's hot temperatures are part of a broader trend of rising temperatures in Montana, according to a study released this week. [News Source]

Tories to regulate industries for CO2. The oil and gas sectors, along with other greenhouse-gas-emitting industries, are to be regulated by the Conservative government under its widely anticipated plan to fight air pollution and climate change, Environment Minister Rona Ambrose said yesterday. [News Source]

Tories poised to crack down on emissions. The Conservative government plans to get tough with the oil and gas industry along with other large greenhouse gas emitters when it unveils its long-awaited green plan in October, Environment Minister Rona Ambrose said yesterday. [News Source]

Canadian minister promises tough law to curb air pollution. Canada's Environment Minister Rona Ambrose on Friday promised new legislation to be unveiled next month that would force deep cuts in air pollution and greenhouse gases that cause global warming, but not hurt industry. [News Source]

Ambrose promises to regulate oil and gas sector. In response to a scathing report that gave the federal government a failing grade on the environment, federal Environment Minister Rona Ambrose vowed Friday to take on Canada's biggest polluter: the oil industry based in her province of Alberta. [News Source]

No quick fix for ailing Willamette. The Willamette River in Oregon,often too warm for salmon, too polluted for swimming and laced with so much mercury its fish carry warnings - isn't going to get better very soon. [News Source]

State to trace contaminants from streams to veins. A biomonitoring program in California to test human exposure to pesticides in food and chemicals at home is set to start in 2010. [News Source]