Environmental Law

In Other News (May 27)

By Dennis Pfaff and Kevin Livingston, Editors

• The updated version of the Lieberman-Warner bill to curtail United States greenhouse gas emissions is scheduled to hit the floor of the Senate on June 2, although it is unlikely to become law this year, according to this look at the legislation from Reuters.
• Environment ministers from the world's leading industrial countries, the G8, have called for an agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050, but only indirectly mentioned a U.N. scientific finding that rich countries should make shorter-term cuts, reports the Scotsman of Edinburgh. 
• States surrounding the Great Lakes are building a legal wall around the vast freshwater bodies, a movement that there and elsewhere has taken on new urgency in light of droughts, evidence of climate change and other factors, according to the Chicago Tribune.
• More on the big shareholder fight over the direction of Exxon Mobil, much of it having to do with the company's policies regarding global warming, and involving members of the Rockefeller family, as reported by The New York Times.
• An environmental group urges Texas regulators to support a wind power development plan that would provide nearly 25,000 megawatts of electricity, according to the statement from the organization, the Environmental Defense Fund.
• A conservative group that's skeptical of global warming warnings is sponsoring "Carbon Belch Day" to encourage people to waste as much energy as possible, says this report from Information Week.

Full post as published by Climate Law Update on May 27, 2008 (boomark / email).