Senate panel OKs bill to increase green power

Senate panel OKs bill to increase green power
Thu May 3, 2007 1:23AM EDT

WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate may vote later this month on an energy bill that would by 2020 require that 15 percent of U.S. electricity be produced by renewable sources such as wind and solar.

The same bill would require 10 percent of federal power purchases to be produced by "green" methods by 2010.

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Arctic ice cap melting 30 years ahead of forecast

Arctic ice cap melting 30 years ahead of forecast
Tue May 1, 2007 3:11PM EDT
By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Arctic ice cap is melting much faster than expected and is now about 30 years ahead of predictions made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a U.S. ice expert said on Tuesday.

This means the ocean at the top of the world could be free or nearly free of summer ice by 2020, three decades sooner than the global panel's gloomiest forecast of 2050.

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