Climate Energy debate heats up

Various: More than 100 coal fired power plants will be built over the next 20 years says NPR, and environmentalists are trying to make sure that CO2 emissions will not increase when these plants get built. The Serria Club has persuaded a town in Illionis (check spelling) to close two older coal fired power plants and get 25% of its electricity from wind power in order to stop suing the town over its plans to build a mid-size coal-fired power plant says NPR’s Christopher Joyce. Other power companies are looking at carbon “credit” offsets says New York Times reporter Steve Iohr , in which companies are charged a cost for the pollution they produce. As the democrats will be controlling Congress there may even be federal regulation says Elizabeth Shogren and Steve Inskeep at NPR. However, the rise in greenhouse gases will most likely result in open artic seas during the summer by 2040, decades earlier than most scientists had predicted says a new paper by Marika M. Holland, Cecilia M. Bitz and Bruno Tremblay in Geophysical Letters. The open Artic sea will have a major impact on the environment , not only in the Artic, but in Europe and North America as well says Andrew Revkin.