Proposed ethanol refinery sparks inter city tension.

An ethanol refinery proposed here along the border of Portsmouth has sparked inter city tension as officials scramble to learn more about the project and its impact on both communities.

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U.S. carbon emissions fell 1.3% in 2006. U.S. carbon dioxide emissions dropped slightly last year even as the economy grew, according to an initial estimate released yesterday by the Energy Information Administration. [News Source]

Kids learn to eat local. Eating local spinach is good for you, a group of third-graders at Oak Grove School said Wednesday. It can also help stop global warming and might do something toward saving the world's coral reefs. [News Source]

House panel on global warming to meet on N.H. mountaintop. Representative Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts, chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, announced yesterday that he will hold a panel meeting atop Cannon Mountain in Franconia Notch on June 4. [News Source]

Bagging rights. In recent years, the impact of global warming -- a ton of plastic is made with 3.85 barrels of oil -- and the indestructibility of plastic -- a bag can last an estimated 500 years in a landfill -- has given rise to more interest in a third option. [News Source]

House panel on global warming to meet on N.H. mountaintop. Representative Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts, chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, announced yesterday that he will hold a panel meeting atop Cannon Mountain in Franconia Notch on June 4. He said the hearing will focus on global warming's impact on New England. [News Source]

Report says cities, towns can fight climate change better than feds. Canadians eager to push the government for action on the environment and climate change should stop wasting their time on federal and provincial politicians - who are delivering little more than "green rhetoric" - and focus on local leaders who have the power to get things done. [News Source]

Air pollution grows in tandem with China’s economy. According to the World Bank, 16 of the world's 20 most polluted cities are in China. The industrial revolution transforming the world's most populous country is also destroying its environment. [News Source]

State pressures EPA on emissions law.

California political leaders challenged the Environmental Protection Agency to “get out of the way” and stop blocking the state’s request to put into effect the nation’s first law requiring cuts in greenhouse gases from cars and trucks.

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NY yellow taxicabs ‘to go green.’ New York's yellow taxis will go hybrid in five years, in an effort to cut air pollution and tackle climate change. [News Source]

Asthma in Rockland focus of program. Asthma was the focus of discussion yesterday during the Rockland County Conservation Association's annual meeting. [News Source]