Feb. 4 – A new survey shows that Americans hope that environmental investments will help rescue the nation’s economy.

The survey, by Allianz Global Investors, reports that 73% of those surveyed believe promoting green practices and technologies will have a positive impact. And 57% believe that the push to create green jobs will "help turn around the economy," Allianz said.

Emily Green
Chance of Rain - January 31, 2010
FEW among us will become the face of a catastrophe, but Pat Mulroy will.
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Federal Money Brings Green Jobs to Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS -- Evergreen Recycling is based in Las Vegas. The company collects and sorts trash from casinos and construction sites. They save everything they can, from drywall to carpet and metal.

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The Associated Press
Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010 | Las Vegas Sun

The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday dealt a big set back to Southern Nevada Water Authority's claims to thousands of acre-feet of rural water near the Nevada-Utah line, saying the state engineer waited too long to act on dozens of water rights applications filed two decades ago.
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TIANJIN, China — China vaulted past competitors in Denmark, Germany, Spain and the United States last year to become the world’s largest maker of wind turbines, and is poised to expand even further this year.

China has also leapfrogged the West in the last two years to emerge as the world’s largest manufacturer of solar panels. And the country is pushing equally hard to build nuclear reactors and the most efficient types of coal power plants.
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‘Screw Nevada’ bill supporters not ready for dump to be buried
Las Vegas Sun - Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010

Washington — After spending nearly 30 years developing Yucca Mountain as the nation’s nuclear waste storage site, Washington is discovering it may take more than one strategic blow to kill it.

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By TOM ZELLER Jr.

COPENHAGEN — A much-anticipated global meeting of nearly 200 nations — all seeking what has so far been elusive common ground on the issue of climate change — began here on Monday with an impassioned airing of what leaders here called the political and moral imperatives at hand.

“The clock has ticked down to zero,” said the United Nations’ climate chief, Yvo de Boer. “After two years of negotiation, the time has come to deliver.”

From now until Dec. 18, delegates will try to hammer out some of the most vexing details involved in the pursuit of a global climate accord.

By ANDREW C. REVKIN and JOHN M. BRODER

COPENHAGEN — With the swift bang of a gavel on Saturday morning, a prolonged fight between nations small and large over an international pact to limit climate risks that was forged the night before by the United States and four partners came to a somewhat murky end.

The chairman of the climate treaty talks declared that the parties would “take note” of the document, named the Copenhagen Accord, leaving open the question of whether this effort to curb greenhouse gases from the world’s major emitters would gain the full support of the 193 countries bound by the original, and largely failed, 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change.

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Federal Money Brings Green Jobs to Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS -- Evergreen Recycling is based in Las Vegas. The company collects and sorts trash from casinos and construction sites. They save everything they can, from drywall to carpet and metal.

Management at Evergreen says they were able to hire about 60 people last year with federal money and hope President Barack Obama will help them hire more this year.
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By SETH BORENSTEIN

With the world losing the battle against global warming so far, experts are warning that humans need to follow nature's example: Adapt or die.

That means elevating buildings, making taller and stronger dams and seawalls, rerouting water systems, restricting certain developments, changing farming practices and ultimately moving people, plants and animals out of harm's way.

Adapting to rising seas and higher temperatures is expected to be a big topic at the U.N. climate-change talks in Copenhagen next week, along with the projected cost — hundreds of billions of dollars, much of it going to countries that cannot afford it.