** European countries worried their plans to cut greenhouse gases will put their own companies at risk are weighing imposing trade tariffs on goods from countries — like the U.S. — that lack robust climate change policies according to POLITICO. The European Union imposes a price of 25 euros (nearly $28) per metric ton of carbon dioxide emitted by industries like oil refineries and steelmakers.
** The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe in South Dakota is in the process of installing solar panels at 11 different sites with help from federal grant funding.
** Two birding groups file a federal lawsuit in hopes of blocking a planned offshore wind project in Lake Erie.
** BLM officials say yesterday’s Alaska oil and gas lease sale was its most successful in 13 years.
** Alaska’s revenue could decrease in the wake of BP’s departure from the North Slope.