IN TODAY'S REPORT: Whatever happened to "DRILL, BABY, DRILL!"???; Cities help homeowners go solar & make cash; PLUS: Sarah Palin's new war on wildlife! All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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Info/links on stuff we talked about on today's episode, plus MORE green news, all follows below...

• As Oil and Gas Prices Plunge, Drilling Frenzy Ends
• OIL AND GAS: Industry has 'little obligation' to produce on leases --- Interior IG
• Obama proposes tax on oil, gas from Gulf
• A risk big oil companies can afford to share
IN HIS 2010 budget, President Obama wants $31.5 billion from oil companies over the next 10 years with new taxes and by closing tax loopholes. This is a mere $3.15 billion a year...

Obama's proposal, if anything, is relatively modest. ExxonMobil alone set a new annual record for profits last year, at $45 billion. Chevron made a record $24 billion. Royal Dutch Shell made $26 billion. BP made $21 billion. ConocoPhillips, despite major write-downs in asset values, still turned a profit of $16 billion. That alone is $132 billion in profits last year, as a desperate America goes nearly $800 billion deeper into the red with the stimulus package.

• Harnessing the Sun, With Help From Cities
• The Rooftop Revolution: A little-known policy is turning sleepy central Florida into a green energy hub. Could it do the same for America at large?
• Words of Caution on a Renewable Energy Financing Idea
• State’s predator kills are out of control
• Alaska's predator control program now allows hunters to use bear paw snares

More green news not covered in today's episode:

• Water scarcity 'now bigger threat than financial crisis': By 2030, more than half the world's population will live in high-risk areas
• Children's bath products tainted with probable carcinogens
• Shell goes cold on wind, solar, hydrogen energy
• From AC to DC: Going green with supergrids
• Could the Volt Jump-Start GM?
• £50bn of European investment needed to kick-start Saharan solar plan
• Low-level waste emerges as hurdle for new nuclear reactors
• New York will bear brunt of uneven sea level rise