Marathon opens Kentucky’s first biodiesel facility. Marathon Oil Corp. has completed its second biodiesel storage and distribution project and the first one in Kentucky. [News Source]

Marathon opens Kentucky’s first biodiesel facility. Marathon Oil Corp. has completed its second biodiesel storage and distribution project and the first one in Kentucky. [News Source]

Global warming: it affects the world, but Illinois? Midwest weather is already changing, according to a report by the Union of Concerned Scientists and The Ecological Society of America. [News Source]

Disastrous warming avoidable, say experts. It might be hot and getting hotter, but leading climate change scientist James E. Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute, said earlier this week the world may yet be spared the most disastrous effects of global warming. [News Source]

Searching for balance. Chances are good that the U.N. report, as well as other reports that have come out in the past, will encourage Congress to try to pass laws that regulate carbon emissions. [News Source]

Trading scheme gets nod but no target, tax. An international emissions trading scheme with no target for reducing greenhouse pollution has been recommended by the taskforce appointed by the Prime Minister, John Howard. [News Source]

Water to be pumped into lakes to preserve ecological balance. The wetlands and lakes are slowly drying out due to global warming, warned the Turkish General Directorate of State of Hydraulic Works. [News Source]

Super savers: meters to manage the future. Today's centralized grid, which has electricity fanning out from a few large generators across transmission lines to end users, is mostly dumb. Making it smart has huge energy-saving possibilities. [News Source]

Bill on clean air hits roadblock at Legislature (KTVK Phoenix) PHOENIX (AP) -- Democratic Governor Janet Napolitano and Republican lawmakers on Wednesday teamed up to push for legislation to combat air pollution. [News Source]

EPA Fines North Bend Plant For Air Pollution Violation (WLWT.com) The EPA is fining a company that makes nitric acid $750,000 for illegal emissions of smog-causing pollutants. [News Source]

Napolitano, legislators launch push for clean air (KTVK Phoenix) Governor Napolitano and key state lawmakers today launched a push for legislation to combat air pollution. Provisions of a bill introduced in the state Senate with Napolitano's backing include prohibiting agricultural tilling or use of non-vacuum leafblowers or outdoor fires on high-pollution days. [News Source]