Environmental Law

In Other News (May 22)

By Dennis Pfaff and Kevin Livingston, Editors

• Climate change legislation such as the Lieberman-Warner bill could be helping to drive interest in companies such as Calpine Corp., a big energy supplier that doesn't burn coal -- and which just received an unsolicited $11 billion bid from NRG Energy, says the Wall Street Journal's Environmental Capital. See also Calpine's response to the bid.  
• Alaska intends to sue the federal government challenging the designation of the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, with the state concerned about the potential impact on development, reports Reuters.
• Congress enacted a $300 billion farm bill Thursday over President Bush's veto but an odd question cropped up about a clerical error that could keep at least part of the bill from going into effect, says CNN. 
• Huge storms on the planet Jupiter may or may not be the result of climate change on the giant planet, according to a report from Science Daily.
• As if some of the predictions of the impacts of global warming aren't depressing enough, there's now a thought that exports of Australian wine could face big problems because of climate change, or so reports the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 
• The debate over global warming, including whether or not humans are responsible, is a hot topic among television meteorologists, according to this report from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.   

Full post as published by Climate Law Update on May 22, 2008 (boomark / email).