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Crews worked Saturday to clean up fuel leaked into San Francisco Bay and care for a dozen birds one day after an oil tanker spilled hundreds of gallons into the water.

AP - Crews worked Saturday to clean up fuel leaked into San Francisco Bay and care for a dozen birds one day after an oil tanker spilled hundreds of gallons into the water.

Thousands of dead fish and clumps of oil have been found drifting near Indonesia’s coastline more than two months after an underwater well began leaking in the Timor Sea.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lenders are leery of putting money into cellulosic ethanol and other new-generation biofuels due to the recession and an industry shakeout, Agriculture Department and biofuel leaders said on Thursday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - All seven Republicans on the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee plan to boycott next week’s work session on a climate-change bill, an aide said on Saturday, in a move aimed at thwarting Democratic efforts to advance the controversial legislation quickly.

Reuters - All seven Republicans on the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee plan to boycott next week’s work session on a climate-change bill, an aide said on Saturday, in a move aimed at thwarting Democratic efforts to advance the controversial legislation quickly.

OSLO (Reuters) - Major nations still want a new U.N. deal in Copenhagen in December and a few months’ delay to give bogged-down negotiators more time would not help, Danish Climate and Energy Minister Connie Hedegaard said on Saturday.

AFP - Eyeing lucrative markets in China, India and beyond, French firm Alstom on Friday unveiled the world’s largest carbon capture facility at a coal plant — a technology backers hope will fuel a new multi-billion dollar industry and keep the coal industry alive.

AFP - Al Gore is confident that US President Barack Obama will attend key UN climate change talks in Copenhagen, the former US vice president and Nobel peace laureate said in a German magazine interview.

AP - German Chancellor Angela Merkel will urge the U.S. Congress to support an international pact to combat climate change in her address to the House and Senate next week.