Environmental Law

In Other News (May 15)

By Dennis Pfaff and Kevin Livingston, Editors

• A climate-change bill heading to the U.S. Senate could easily generate $3 trillion in value in the country by 2050, sparking a "wonky" debate over its particulars, reports Fortune magazine in an article picked up by CNN Money.
• An energy management company has developed a green IT system for remotely tracking energy usage at manufacturing facilities with a high level of detail.
• Fluor is getting a big shot of green from a U.K. renewable energy project. On Wednesday, the U.S. construction and engineering company said it had signed a $1.8 billion contract with Perth, Scotland-based Scottish and Southern Energy  to design and build the world’s largest offshore wind farm project.

• One of America's most famous oilmen has made a dramatic $2 billion bet on wind power, an alternative energy he says has the power to replace dwindling oil reserves

Full post as published by Climate Law Update on May 15, 2008 (boomark / email).