26 June: The German government will this year invest €400 million ($623.2 million) from sales of EU allowances in a programme aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions and protecting the climate, said Sigmar Gabriel, Germanys environment minister, last week.

Under the new, streamlined planning provisions, appointed technocrats will decide where 4,000 new onshore turbines and 3,000 offshore turbines, not to mention some new nuclear stations, will be built – not elected ministers, writes Charles Clover.

London, 26 June: The UK today proposed a ?100 billion ($200 billion) blueprint for meeting its EU target of sourcing 15% of energy from renewables by 2020.

WASHINGTON (June 23, 2008) – Today, the United States Supreme Court announced its decision to hear arguments regarding the U.S. Navy’s use of sonar in ongoing training exercises through 2009. The underlying lawsuit was brought by a coalition of conservation organizations led by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). The other groups are the International Fund for Animal Welfare, the League for Coastal Protection, Cetacean Society International, and Ocean Futures Society and its president and founder Jean-Michel Cousteau.

THE Federal Opposition is unlikely to support the Government’s emissions trading scheme, Brendan Nelson has said.

But the Environmental Protection Agency stopped short of committing to regulate the greenhouse gases that spur on global warming

Pumping carbon dioxide through hot rocks could simultaneously boost efficiency and mop up greenhouse gases

The plan amounts to a “post-industrial revolution”, says the European Commission, and aims to beat the bloc’s oil addiction and combat climate change

Europe’s largest fire incident in fifty years may have been caused by a fuel spill or leak, say experts, but the health and environmental effects should be limited

The prospect of cheap energy from tabletop nuclear reactions seems as far from reality as ever, with its biggest proponent now under scrutiny