Governor to EPA: Wyo can't regulate greenhouse gas (AP)

AP - The governor of the state with the most greenhouse gas emissions per person is telling the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that state law forbids regulation of greenhouse gases.

Governor to EPA: Wyo can't regulate greenhouse gas (AP)

AP - The governor of the state with the most greenhouse gas emissions per person is telling the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that state law forbids regulation of greenhouse gases.

Appeals court ruling threatens used software sales (AP)

AP - A federal appeals court has sided with the computer software industry in its effort to squelch sales of second-hand programs covered by widely used licensing agreements.

TransCanada seeks US crude for oil sands pipeline (AP)

AP - A Canadian company is inviting U.S. oil producers to bid on rights to use a proposed pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, easing worries that domestic crude could get left out of the project.

Giant drill at Chile mine greeted with cheers (AFP)

AFP - Scores of flatbed trucks began unloading a huge oil drilling machine Friday to dig a third rescue tunnel to 33 trapped miners, as one drill was nearly one-third of the way down and another lay idle for repairs.

Remains of the Day: Hint: it's not short for 'dolphin' (Macworld.com)

Macworld.com - Itâs Friday, so weâll stay short and sweet. Despite what Microsoft may think, rumors of the iPhoneâs demise are greatly exaggerated. Also, the iPod nano is one swank timepiece, and antivirus software is importantâthough not for the reasons you might expect. Kick off the weekend with the remainders for Friday, September 10, 2010.

EPA orders Enbridge to stop Ill. pipeline spill (AP)

AP - The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday ordered Enbridge Energy Partners to stop the flow of oil from its leaking pipeline outside of Chicago by noon Monday.

EPA orders Enbridge to stop Ill. pipeline spill (AP)

AP - The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday ordered Enbridge Energy Partners to stop the flow of oil from its leaking pipeline outside of Chicago by noon Monday.

New On the Menu: Genetically Modified Salmon? (HealthDay)

HealthDay - FRIDAY, Sept. 10 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration may soon approve genetically modified salmon for humans to eat, a prospect that is raising concern among some consumer advocates who consider the fish a threat to both health and the environment.

PARTING SHOTS: Living soldier awarded Medal of Honor (The Upshot)

The Upshot - Here is our roster of stories that managed to evade full-on blog treatment today: â¢ Salvatore Giunta, a 22-year-old paratrooper, has become the first living soldier since Vietnam to be awarded the Medal of Honor. He rescued three fellow soldiers by running into a Taliban ambush. (Washington Post) â¢ The Justice Department will not seek [...]

Schwarzenegger, Palin trade Twitter jabs (AP)

AP - Flying over Alaska on his way to Asia, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger couldn't help but take a lighthearted jab at the state's former governor.

New York AG candidates back natgas drilling moratorium (Reuters)

Reuters - All of the candidates running to be the next New York state attorney general support some form of moratorium on natural gas drilling and put the burden on industry to prove such drilling can be done without endangering drinking water.

Judge allows subpoenas for Internet users (AP)

AP - A federal judge on Friday allowed the holder of a movie copyright to subpoena the names of people accused of illegally downloading and distributing a film over the Internet.

3rd drill to the rescue for Chile's trapped miners (AP)

AP - Chile is sparing no expense to rescue its 33 trapped miners, mounting three separate drilling efforts to carve escape tunnels through nearly a half-mile of solid rock and collapsed mine shafts. The latest — an oil-well drill so big it takes 40 trucks to carry it — began arriving Friday.

Enbridge stops major leak on Canada-U.S. oil pipeline (Reuters)

Reuters - Enbridge Inc said on Friday it has stopped an oil spill from its 6A pipeline, which delivers up to a third of Canada's crude oil exports to the United States, but gave no estimate on when the key export line may resume operations.

Enbridge stops major leak on Canada-U.S. oil pipeline (Reuters)

Reuters - Enbridge Inc said on Friday it has stopped an oil spill from its 6A pipeline, which delivers up to a third of Canada's crude oil exports to the United States, but gave no estimate on when the key export line may resume operations.

Market gains as economic outlook brightens (Reuters)

Reuters - The Dow and S&P 500 closed the week with their seventh gain in eight sessions in a turnaround period for stocks that has seen investors' worst fears about the economy start to dissipate.

Apple to end free case offer for iPhone 4 on Sept. 30 (Ben Patterson)

Ben Patterson - Claiming that the iPhone 4’s infamous "death grip" problem is "even smaller than we originally thought," Apple announced Friday that it would end its offer of free cases for all iPhone 4 owners by the end of the month.

Android Goes from Underdog to Top Dog: Watch Out Apple (PC World)

PC World - Here's more evidence of Android's meteoritic rise to the top. According to market researcher Gartner, Google's fledgling open-source mobile operating system, barely a blip on the wireless radar a year ago, will grab the No. 2 spot in global market share by the end of 2010. Even more stunning is Gartner's prediction that Android will rival Symbian as the world's top mobile OS by 2014.

New Study Illustrates Crippling Affects of Proposed Oil and Gas Tax Hikes (PR Newswire)

PR Newswire - LSU professor projects thousands of lost jobs, hundreds of billions in lost economic activity from proposed punitive tax hikes on U.S. energy companies

Apple to end free iPhone case program September 30 (Reuters)

Reuters - Apple Inc said on Friday it will end its free iPhone case giveaway at the end of September, saying the antenna problem was smaller than the company originally thought.

Hiring Microsoft's Elop Won't Erase Nokia's U.S. Woes (PC World)

PC World - Hiring an American CEO isn't all Nokia has to do if it wants to succeed in the U.S., mobile industry analysts said on Friday.

Four dead in California gas blast inferno (AFP)

AFP - California firefighters searched grimly through smoldering ruins Friday after a huge gas pipeline blast triggered an inferno killing four people, amid fears the death toll could rise.

US widens probe of HP bribery allegations (AP)

AP - U.S. investigators have widened their probe of alleged kickbacks paid to Russian authorities by employees of a Hewlett-Packard Co. subsidiary in Germany.

Judge approves Sun Country bankruptcy plan (AP)

AP - Sun Country Airlines said a bankruptcy judge approved its reorganization plan on Friday, putting it another step closer to emerging from Chapter 11 protection.

Will DVD kiosks begin slow fade in 2012? (Ben Patterson)

Ben Patterson - DVD rental kiosks from Redbox and Blockbuster seem to be popping up on every corner these days, but home-video market analysts are predicting that demand for the ultra-convenient kiosks could soon start cooling off as video streaming and video-on-demand gain in popularity.

Oil prices rise as IEA lifts demand forecast (AFP)

AFP - Oil prices rose Friday after the forecast for global oil demand for this year was raised and following the closure of a key pipeline carrying crude to the United States.

GetGlue Smashes Onto the iPad (Mashable)

Mashable - Social sharing and recommendation service GetGlue has just released its iPad app.

U.S. resumes funding controversial stem cell research (Reuters)

Reuters - The U.S. government said it was resuming work on controversial human embryonic stem cell research on Friday after an appeals court ruled in its favor.

FTSE cites "human rights" concerns at DuPont and UPS (Reuters)

Reuters - Major U.S. corporations DuPont Co and United Parcel Service Inc were among eight companies removed from a social investment index series because of concerns about human rights, climate change and similar matters, the UK index provider FTSE Group said.

Oil price surges after Midwest pipeline shuts down (AP)

AP - Oil prices surged Friday after a pipeline that delivered oil to Midwest refineries was shut down, raising questions about how long the supply may be disrupted.

Security firms issue warning over email worm (AFP)

AFP - Computer security firms issued warnings on Friday over a computer virus that arrives by email offering downloads of "free sex movies" or documents.

Appeals court backs Chevron in Nigeria dispute (AP)

AP - A federal appeals court in San Francisco has upheld a jury verdict clearing the Chevron Corp. of alleged human rights abuses during a violent 1998 protest on a company oil platform in Nigeria.

WikiMobile Encyclopedia lets you bring Wikipedia on the road (Appolicious)

Appolicious - How much do two million Wikipedia articles weigh? About as much as your Android phone. WikiMobile Encyclopedia delivers the content of Wikipedia to your phone in an Android app. It works, but it's not the only game in town for accessing Wikipedia material over a cell phone.

Linux Wi-Fi Gets Easier with New Broadcom Driver (PC World)

PC World - Wireless chip maker Broadcom on Thursday announced good news for Linux users in the form of a fully open wireless driver that's compatible with the operating system.

Solar panels on the White House? Not on Obama's watch. (The Christian Science Monitor)

The Christian Science Monitor - President Obama is the biggest booster of renewable energy since President Jimmy Carter. But on Friday he declined â or White House officials declined for him â to follow Mr. Carter's footstep and put solar power on his home rooftop.

Two killed in Iran gas pipeline blast: reports (AFP)

AFP - Two people were killed and 16 others injured by an explosion at a gas pipeline near Iran's northeastern city of Mashhad on Friday, local media reported.

Feds: Drilling moratorium depends on industry (AP)

AP - A key U.S. government official said Friday the moratorium on deepwater oil drilling likely won't be extended past Nov. 30, but whether it is cut short will be entirely up to the industry.

Feds: Drilling moratorium depends on industry (AP)

AP - A key U.S. government official said Friday the moratorium on deepwater oil drilling likely won't be extended past Nov. 30, but whether it is cut short will be entirely up to the industry.

NIH to resume funding stem cell research for now (AP)

AP - The government said Friday it's back in the business of funding embryonic stem cell research — at least for now — after an appeals court temporarily lifted a judge's ban.

Nokia dumps CEO, turns to Microsoft exec (AP)

AP - Nokia Corp. is replacing CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo with Microsoft executive Stephen Elop as the world's top maker of mobile phones aims to regain lost ground in the fiercely competitive smart phone market.

Oil rises to $76 on U.S. supply outage (Reuters)

Reuters - U.S. crude rose more than 2 percent to $76 a barrel on Friday following the shutdown of a major pipeline supplying Canadian oil to the United States, but a leading forecaster said world demand would remain tepid.

Industry: No need for EPA to regulate gas drilling (AP)

AP - The oil and natural gas industry is willing to cooperate with a federal study of natural gas drilling, but opposes regulation of a practice known as hydraulic fracturing.

Industry: No need for EPA to regulate gas drilling (AP)

AP - The oil and natural gas industry is willing to cooperate with a federal study of natural gas drilling, but opposes regulation of a practice known as hydraulic fracturing.

Planes put out giant oil fire on Caribbean island (Reuters)

Reuters - A huge blaze that ignited when lightning hit a 200,000-barrel naphtha tank on the tiny Caribbean island of Bonaire was put out on Friday after Venezuelan planes doused it with chemical foam.

BP evicted from ethical index, delays Q3 results (Reuters)

Reuters - BP is to be evicted from the FTSE4Good ethical investment index due to its Gulf of Mexico oil spill, index compiler FTSE said on Friday, as BP said it would delay its third-quarter results due to the challenges of accounting for spill costs.

Combat climate change with less gassy diet for cows: study (AFP)

AFP - Climate change can be curbed by changing the diet of livestock, whose feed crops, farting, belching and manure contribute a fifth of the planet's greenhouse gas emissions, a new study said Friday.

Non-radioactive leak shuts down NY nuclear reactor (AP)

AP - One of the reactors at New York's Indian Point nuclear power plant has been shut down because of a leak of non-radioactive water.

US court lifts ban on state-funded stem cell studies (AFP)

AFP - A US appeals court suspended Thursday a ban on state-funding for embryonic stem cell research pending a full appeal of the case, in a major boost to President Barack Obama's administration.

UN climate chief urges flexibility in talks (AP)

AP - The United Nations' climate chief on Friday urged countries to be flexible in order to make progress at weeklong climate talks in China next month, the last formal negotiations on climate change ahead of a major year-end meeting in Cancun, Mexico.