A US federal appeals court has ruled in favor of a group of environmentalists that had been seeking protection for the endangered North Atlantic right whale - a significant victory for the group in their long-running fight against whale-ship collisions.
Senator John McCain has said that each state should be able to determine their own fuel efficiency standards, a policy that is popular with states but strongly opposed by the domestic auto industry, who beleive it will kill jobs.
Senator Barack Obama now calls climate change 'one of the greatest moral challenges of our generation', and proposes cutting carbon emissions 80% by 2050, even though as an Illinois state senator he usually supported bills sought by coal interests.
The Environmental Protection Agency has said that Climate change will pose "substantial" threats to human health and has issued warnings about heat waves, hurricanes and pathogens despite recently declining to regulate the same pollutants blamed for warming.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced her support for the "Drill Responsibly in Leased Lands Act," which would deny oil companies any new land leases unless they can prove that they're already diligently exploring and drilling in existing holdings.
Alaska's Denali National Park has begun testing a hybrid bus that promises to run cleaner, cheaper, and quieter than the park's usual school buses, which pollute the air and spoil the tranquillity with their noisy and dirty diesel engines.
Texas state officials have given preliminary approval to what would be the nation's largest wind-power project - a plan to build billions of dollars worth of new transmission lines in order to bring wind energy from gusty West Texas to urban areas in other parts of the state.
A government-funded report has said that viable fuel-cell vehicles are still 15 years away from reality, even if automakers can overcome the substantial technical hurdles and can get massive government subsidies.
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