Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Japan's Nissan Motor and France's Renault, on Wednesday warned that automakers "can't find the financing" for aggressive development of so-called green cars.

Will Barack Obama kick America’s addiction to oil and use renewables to protect what he calls a “planet in peril”? Will the next U.S. President commit his country to the battle against climate change?

In a wide-ranging speech, Schmidt, who has been mentioned as a candidate to become Obama's chief technology officer, argued on Tuesday that the United States should begin investing heavily in bringing wind and solar power into the mainstream.

But no one knows exactly how the technologies will behave in the water, whether animals will get hurt, or if costs will pencil out. The permitting process is expensive and cumbersome, and no set method exists for getting projects up and running.

The Conservatives, who walked away from the Kyoto protocol on climate change after taking power in 2006, have until now focused on cutting the intensity of emissions rather than imposing outright curbs.

For now, the port itself is the destination. Unwelcome by dealers and buyers, thousands of cars worth tens of millions of dollars are being warehoused on increasingly crowded port property.

This first round of development is intended to generate 700MW of clean electricity from wave and tidal sources by 2020.

Issued by the National Intelligence Council, the "Global Trends 2025" report includes warnings tied to climate change, the man behind the report said this week and in recent speeches.

Bees pollinate numerous crops and scientists have expressed alarm over their mysterious and rapid decline. Experts have warned that a drop in the bee population could harm agriculture.

"The most underappreciated issue is the combination of poor demand with major new refining capacity additions and the extent to which that will undermine light sweet crude prices," the bank said in the note outlining the downside risk to its 2009 oil forecast.

Deliveries of petroleum products, a measure of consumption, averaged 19.6 million barrels a day in the period, down from 20.7 million barrels a day a year earlier, according to a report from the industry-funded API.

Simmons changed from an industry expert to an A-list pundit by his book in 2005 “Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Oil Shock and the World Economy,” The book points out that Saudi Arabia’s oil supplies are much more limited than they claim.

Waxman won a 25-22 vote in the Democratic Steering and Policy panel, which is packed with allies of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., a rival of Dingell. The panel also is dominated by more liberal members who are ideologically in tune with Waxman.

Camarta said the reasons for the delay should be obvious.

Construction crews were scheduled to start digging up the sandy soil next spring to make way for an ethanol distillery plant in San Pierre. The plant promised to revive the town's economy, bring high-paying jobs to one of Indiana's poorest counties and double its tax rolls, a scenario that has played out repeatedly in struggling towns across the Midwest over the last three years.