As if all of the negative press the city of Toronto received during the garbage strike wasn’t bad enough, now there is another trash-related controversy going on. This time, it has nothing to do with dangerous chemicals seeping into our soil, but instead with many garbage workers admitting to throwing Toronto’s ‘Green Bin’ organic waste in with the trash. And if this is going on Toronto, who knows where else it’s happening?

Hot off the UN presses – we will all die from a natural gas called Co2! Global Warming fantasies that the earth is becoming one giant microwave heated up by man’s pernicious and insatiable industrial development is of course ridiculous. The only consensus that exists on climate change is that if you believe anything the UN or Al Gore says, you are probably a moron and should exile yourself to the nearest forest to tree hugging duty. Al Gore and the UN on almost any topic, have the credibility level of Hugo Chavez when he opines on his socialist-democracy experiment.

As some powerful corporate groups fight a U.S. climate bill, others are leading a counterattack

Even as the health-care fight rages, another fraught issue is back in the headlines: What to do about climate change. While the debate includes the familiar partisan split, this particular topic also pits conservative against conservative, business against business, and country against country.

Utility chiefs are juggling the conflicting goals of green energy and low rates—and self-interest reigns. Power companies used to have one simple task: providing inexpensive, reliable electricity to light up cities, power factories, and keep the economy humming. No longer. The once-stodgy utility industry is now in history's crosshairs. As the largest contributor to the emissions that cause climate change, it's being asked to spearhead a radical transformation to a cleaner, greener energy economy.