Canada faces lawsuit over failure to meet Kyoto commitment. Environmentalists threatened Tuesday to sue Canada to force cuts to greenhouse-gas emissions agreed under the Kyoto Protocol, despite officials' claims the target cannot be achieved. [News Source]

Plane speaking. Ken Livingstone, mayor of London, is these days possessed of one great idea. Climate change, and how to avert it, consumes him. [News Source]

Ottawa to seek review of Kyoto treaty. Canada wants to go back to the drawing board on plans for dealing with global warming when countries that have signed the Kyoto Protocol open new talks in Africa next week. [News Source]

Economical Mobile Filtration Unit Cleans Up Fumes (PollutionOnline) A new mobile "Farr Cart™" fume and dust collector from Farr Air Pollution Control provides economical yet powerful filtration in welding workshops and industrial settings. The unit will extract moderate concentrations of smoke and light dust generated by intermittent processes such as welding and grinding, delivering 99+ percent efficiency on welding fume [News Source]

Proposition outcome to shape state’s future energy usage. A ballot measure to fund alternative energy development through a tax on oil companies has stoked a heated debate on California’s energy future. [News Source]

Climate change: global warning. Sir Nicholas Stern, the UK's chief government economist, said climate change could shrink the global economy by as much as 20% a year - some £200billion a year in the UK. [News Source]

Brown to back more emissions trading. Gordon Brown on Monday threw his weight behind a massive expansion of carbon trading to tackle global warming. [News Source]

Damning truth about Brown and green taxes. Gordon Brown's claim to be leading the global battle against climate change were undermined last night by the disclosure that so-called green taxes have actually slumped while he has been Chancellor. [News Source]

Air Quality Advocates Move to Protect Air District’s Rule to Reduce Pollution Caused by New Development Projects (Environmental Defense) (Fresno, CA - October 31, 2006) - Three organizations representing residents of the San Joaquin Valley will take legal action today to support regulators' efforts to protect public health in one of the most polluted air basins in the country by reducing air pollution caused by new development projects. [News Source]

Supreme Court set to hear power plant case (MSNBC) WASHINGTON - When the Bush administration lost an important air pollution case before an appeals court last year, it did an interesting about-face and sided with the electric power company that won. [News Source]

U.K. report: Warming will damage economy. Raising the stakes in the global warming dispute with the United States and China, Britain issued a sweeping report Monday warning that the Earth faces a calamity on the scale of the world wars and the Great Depression unless urgent action is taken. [News Source]