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McCain Backs States' Rules on Emissions (The Detroit News)

Republican presidential candidate John McCain said on Friday he supports state efforts to limit auto emissions, a stance strongly at odds with US carmakers -- and one his campaign tried to refine later in the day.

Ontario Joins U.S. Carbon Initiative (Reuters)

Ontario has become the fourth Canadian province to join the Western Climate Initiative, the U.S.-based cap-and-trade scheme that includes California and six other Western states.

Olympic Traffic Crackdown Begins in Beijing (AP)

Beijing started its most drastic pollution-control plan today, restricting car use and limiting factory emissions in a last-minute push to clear smog-choked skies for the August Olympics.

UK Embraces Electric Car Revolution (The Independent)

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said he wants all new cars sold in Britain to be electric or hybrid by 2020, and is even considering the bold electric car scheme by Project Better Place, which already has been taken up by Israel and Denmark.

Carbon-Free Computing in the UK (Computerworld UK)

The UK government has launched a plan to shrink the carbon footprint of its IT sector in a bid to become the first in the world to make all of its computers carbon neutral in four years.

GT Solar Hopes Sun Will Come Out Next Week (Reuters)

GT Solar International's initial public offering, expected to be the largest ever by a U.S. solar company, is facing a surprisingly cloudy outlook.

Appalachian Residents Have Found the Antidote to Coal (New America Media)

Faced with a proposal to stripmine over 6,600 acres in the Coal River Valley -- including one of the last great mountains in that range -- a group of local residents has come up with a counter proposal for a new wind farm.

Pickens Would OK Gore as 'Energy Czar' (UPI)

Fabled Texas oil billionaire turned wind power developer T. Boone Pickens has said if Barack Obama is elected president, "I think I would be for Al Gore for energy czar."