The Wall Street Journal reports that the airline industry wishes to move toward cleaner fuels, better fuel efficiency in fleets, and more efficient air routes and air-traffic management.  The industry’s rush to go green is inspired by a desire to cut costs as oil prices rise higher.

For the first time since the Kyoto Protocol went into effect, a country has been suspended from carbon trading.  Greece is being punished for violating greenhouse gas reporting rules that underpin a fight against global warming, EU officials said on Tuesday.

President Bush’s new climate plan was dismissed last week as too little, too late by delegates at 17-country climate talks in Paris.  Though it represents the first firm U.S. carbon ceiling, aiming to halt the growth of emissions by 2025, most other developed nations intend to cut emissions to pre-1990 levels by that time.