A number of bloggers shared wrap ups of environmental news in 2008 and offered predictions for 2009:

• Grist lists the top green stories of 2008 from bpa getting a bad rep to the offshore drilling ban getting lifted.
• Joe Romm counts down the top ten global warming stories of last year.
• Treehugger summarizes the year of green cars.
• Wired Science offers a top ten list of green-tech breakthroughs in 2008.
• Huffington Post shares green energy predictions for 2009.
• Check out Treehugger's eco matrix of what's hot and what's not as we enter a new year.

In other news:

• Joe Romm, DeSmogBlog, Huffington Post and It's Getting Hot In Here cover the toxic coal ash spill in Tennessee. Erin Brockovich plans to visit the site; she also writes about the spill on her blog. Read about the spill on Greenlight, NRDC's citizen journalism blog, and here on Switchboard.
• The LA Times reports on the dispute between oil and water interests in the West as companies move to extract oil shale from the Rockies.
• The EPA declares oil-shale waste "non-hazardous."
• USDA "access to pasture" code for organic milk generates controversy.
• More than 100 million American's breathe sooty air.
• EcoGeek writes that $1 billion per year gets wasted by PS3s and Xboxes. See NRDC's Lowering the Cost of Play report for further details.
• Joe Romm writes about stimulating the economy with green buildings.
• Fast Company points out that peak oil could worsen global warming if we switch to dirty fuels.
• Planet Green reminds readers what to do about e-waste after the holidays.
• The Wall Street Journal writes about the limits of carbon neutrality (more on Huffington Post).
• This Treehugger slideshow highlights seven overpackaging sins.
• NYC to install super efficient LED streetlamps.
• Bush administration approves gas drilling plan for Montana.
• Warm ocean currents may be the cause of 2,500 Patagonian penguins washing up dead and alive on Brazil's northern coast.
• British engineers make carbon dioxide eating cement.
• Toyota is developing a solar-powered car.
• Triple Pundit highlights the need for a new, aggressive clean energy policy.
• New research shows that Australia's Great Barrier Reef is growing at its slowest rate in 400 years.

Think I missed anything really great? Feel free to share it in the Comments section. Happy New Year!