Todd Woody, New York Times

The United States Department of Energy offered a $1.37 billion loan guarantee on Monday to a California company planning to build a large-scale solar power plant in the Southern California desert.

 John Collins Rudolf, New York Times Green Inc. Blog

Government-owned land must play a greater role in limiting carbon emissions, both through carbon capture and storage and increased renewable energy generation, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on Thursday in a speech at the global climate change summit in Copenhagen.

Sacramento Bee

We have often been at odds with PG&E, the massive, privately owned utility that serves most of Northern California, including the Sacramento region. But on the issue of climate change, the company has been a leader, supporting AB 32, the state's landmark global warming legislation, and taking steps to reduce the utility's own carbon footprint.

Jim Tankersly,  Los Angeles Times

Reporting from Washington - The Senate's environment committee will take up an energy and climate-change bill today that calls for a 20% cut in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, according to a draft copy of the bill.

The measure, co-sponsored by Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), will serve as the starting point for what promises to be a long and complicated series of negotiations. The Senate may not produce a final bill until next year.