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NASA administrator Michael Griffin defends the space agency's programs, including plans for a permanent moon base and manned missions to Mars. He also says that while NASA studies climate change, the agency has no authorization to "take actions to affect climate change in either one way or another."

By Steven Mufson
The Washington Post
Tuesday 29 May 2007

Trading of permits grows as Congress considers caps.
Congress hasn't come up with a plan for limiting greenhouse-gas emissions, but U.S. companies are wagering billions of dollars that it will.

By Jad Mouawad of the NY Times
Some executives warn that current fuel shortages could become a long-term problem, leading to higher gas prices.

By CORNELIA DEAN of the NY Times
Ray Anderson wants his carpet tile company to become a sustainable operation that does no harm to the biosphere by 2020.

The headquarters of the federal environment agency in Dessau, Germany, occupies a low-slung building on the edge of an abandoned gasworks. Dessau, a center for munitions production during the war, was virtually obliterated by Allied bombs. Over the next 50 years, East German factories saturated the soil with chemical and industrial waste. Yet both the agency building and its location might be said to embody a new, ecologically sensitive Europe.

By ANDREW C. REVKIN and PATRICK HEALY
The plan would back investments to cut urban energy use and releases of heat-trapping gases linked to global warming.

By JIM RUTENBERG and EDMUND L. ANDREWS of the NY Times
President Bush said nothing would be put into effect until the regulatory process was completed, just weeks before the end of his term.

By HANNAH FAIRFIELD
Ten states have joined to create the first mandatory carbon cap-and-trade program in the United States.

Significant progress toward stabilizing and reducing global warming emissions can be achieved at a relatively low cost using known technologies.

By SIMON ROMERO of teh NY Times
The move by President Hugo Chávez is the centerpiece of recent actions aimed at consolidating his government’s control over the economy.

By EDMUND L. ANDREWS of the NY Times
The move would end a ban on drilling in environmentally sensitive areas along the coasts of Alaska and Virginia.