November 12, 2008 AlterNet
	How Closing Manufacturing Plants Can Be Transformed into Community-Saving Business Ventures -- Something unusual is in the works that could change the future of this 140-acre manufacturing site and convert it into a model for green manufacturing.
September 09, 2008 USA Today Opinion Blog
	GM could do better -- General Motors again really misses the mark on what it needs to be doing to help fight climate change and revive a struggling industry.
August 27, 2008 Twin Cities Daily Planet
	Music to ripple through Twin Cities during RNC -- Those who plan to skip town during the Republican National Convention will miss a lot of great music. One of the locally-grown events taking place during the RNC is Ripple Effect, which will be held on the Capital Mall, within earshot of the Xcel Energy Center, on Sept. 2 from 12:30 to 7:00 p.m.
July 28, 2008 OneWorldUS
	Gas Prices Threaten Rural U.S. Town -- Rural America is known for long-time residents who rely on slow-rising gasoline prices to reach the supplies they need to sustain their lifestyles. But the rising cost of oil is now crippling many of these towns.
July 18, 2008 San Francisco Chronicle
	Richmond council OKs Chevron refinery plan -- A sharply divided Richmond City Council approved on Thursday Chevron's controversial plan for a major upgrade of its century-old refinery and accepted $61 million from the oil company for community programs.
July 10, 2008 The New York Times
	Emerging Nations Join G-8 on Climate Goal -- RUSUTSU, Japan — Calling climate change “one of the great global challenges of our time,” the world’s richest nations and emerging powers joined together Wednesday for the first time to commit themselves to pursue long-range cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions, but were split on how to achieve that goal.
July 09, 2008 East Bay Express
	Big Oil in Little Richmond -- On June 18, President Bush took to the Rose Garden to deliver a speech about energy in which he emphasized the pressing need to modernize US oil refineries.
June 27, 2008 New York Times
	Citing Need for Assessments, U.S. Freezes Solar Energy Projects -- Faced with a surge in the number of proposed solar power plants, the federal government has placed a moratorium on new solar projects on public land until it studies their environmental impact, which is expected to take about two years.
June 21, 2008 Detroit Free Press
	Expansion approved for Marathon refinery, but concerns expressed -- Michigan's only gasoline refinery, Marathon Oil in southwest Detroit, received final permission Friday to begin a $1.9-billion expansion of its plant.
June 20, 2008 San Francisco Chronicle
	Richmond Ruling Reversed for Chevron -- Richmond's planning commissioners on Thursday reversed a decision to limit the kind of crude oil that Chevron can process at its refinery in the city.
June 12, 2008 Wall Street Journal
	Refiners Face Obstacles to Processing Cheaper, Dirtier Crude Oil -- Several expansion projects in the U.S. are being slowed by worries that the processing of heavier crudes produces more air pollutants and greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change.
April 22, 2008 BBC News
	Leaders warn on biofuels and food -- Two Latin American leaders have issued warnings about the effects of biofuel production on food supplies.
April 16, 2008 The New York Times
	Bush proposes new climate change strategy -- WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush called for a halt Wednesday in the growth of greenhouse gases by 2025, acknowledging the need to head off serious climate change.
April 14, 2008 BBC News
	China 'now top carbon polluter' -- China has already overtaken the US as the world's "biggest polluter", a report to be published next month says.
April 14, 2008 BBC News
	Pneumonia 'linked' to pollution -- High levels of pollution may have contributed to the deaths of thousands of people in England from pneumonia in recent years, a study suggests.
April 06, 2008 The New York Times
	A Shift in the Debate Over Global Warming -- The charged and complex debate over how to slow down global warming has become a lot more complicated.
March 28, 2008 The New York Times
	California Trims Goal for Number of Emission-Free Vehicles -- SAN FRANCISCO — California regulators cut by 70 percent the number of emission-free vehicles that automobile manufacturers must sell in California in the three years beginning in 2012. At the same time, the regulators effectively required, for the first time, that tens of thousands of plug-in hybrid vehicles be sold in those years.
March 27, 2008 San Francisco Chronicle
	California air board should stand by zero-emission vehicle mandate -- The California Air Resources Board, the same agency that relentlessly pushed through the groundbreaking Pavley law to clean up tailpipe emissions, is now considering backing off - and allowing automakers to produce only 10 percent of the original zero emissions vehicles. This would mean that only 2,500 of the vehicles, not 25,000, make it onto California roads.
March 26, 2008 MySA.com
	Toyota gives $20 million for conservation -- Nick Magel, director of the Freedom from Oil campaign, called Wednesday's announcement “green washing.” “It's great that Toyota wants to save the birds,” Magel said. “But there aren't going to be any habitats left if they continue to create vehicles that destroy the environment.”
March 16, 2008 San Francisco Chronicle
	Protest against oil profits and war at Chevron's gate -- (03-15) 17:46 PST RICHMOND -- More than 300 people marched from downtown Point Richmond to the Chevron refinery Saturday to protest the company they say is profiting from the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
March 01, 2008 E, The Environmental Magazine
	CLEANER, GREENER U. -- Nina Rizzo, the California Freedom from Oil campus organizer for Global Exchange, is encouraged by the progress students are making, and the university system in California is a leader in environmental initiatives from LEED-certified buildings to bicycle lanes, but she has yet to see “radical action” that parallels the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. “The movement is potent, but we’re not there yet,” Rizzo says. “I don’t think people are angry enough yet.”
February 19, 2008 thestar.com
	The scary oil sands -- Canadians' concerns over Alberta oil-sands development centre largely around its impact on climate change.
February 13, 2008 BBC News
	Five-seat concept car runs on air -- An engineer has promised that within a year he will start selling a car that runs on compressed air, producing no emissions at all in town.
February 08, 2008 The New York Times
	Biofuels Deemed a Greenhouse Threat -- Almost all biofuels used today cause more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional fuels if the full emissions costs of producing these “green” fuels are taken into account, two studies being published Thursday have concluded.
February 04, 2008 BBC News
	EU 'should ban inefficient cars' -- The EU should ban the sale of cars that do under 35 miles to the gallon, the ex-chairman of oil giant Shell says.
January 30, 2008 Chevron Toxico Campaign
	City of Berkeley Votes to Boycott Chevron -- San Francisco – Berkeley City Council is to boycott Chevron products and services, citing the San Ramon-based oil major's controversial global environmental and human rights record.
January 19, 2008 The New York Times
	Back to Roots, G.M. and Toyota Trade Places Again -- Some environmental groups disagree. “Their reputation as a green car company is absolutely inaccurate if not blatantly false,” said Nick Magel, director of the Freedom From Oil campaign.
January 14, 2008 The New York Times
	Toyota Will Offer a Plug-In Hybrid by 2010 -- DETROIT — The Toyota Motor Corporation, which leads the world’s automakers in sales of hybrid-electric vehicles, announced Sunday night that it would build its first plug-in hybrid by 2010.
January 14, 2008 The Detroit News
	Mixed message: Trucks, SUVs vie with green machines for spotlight -- "They put on a lot of really great window dressing, touting these great concept cars and this great vision," said Nick Mage of Global Exchange, an environmental advocacy group. "But they're not giving any true commitments."
January 14, 2008 BBC News
	EU rethinks biofuels guidelines -- Europe's environment chief has admitted that the EU did not foresee the problems raised by its policy to get 10% of Europe's road fuels from plants.