Environmental Law

In Other News (June 4)

By Dennis Pfaff and Kevin Livingston, Editors

• Republican lawmakers were trying to scuttle the Lieberman-Warner climate change bill, warning of a huge new bureaucracy and other ills, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. Meanwhile, environmentalists chastised the GOP for forcing Senate clerks to read aloud the entire lengthy measure
• Federal energy officials have applied for a license to build a long-planned radioactive waste dump in Nevada that would serve the nation's nuclear power reactors, but leaders from the state vow renewed efforts to block it, according to this story from the Los Angeles Times. 
• The United States will inform the Group of Eight rich nations in July that it cannot meet big cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, its chief climate negotiator tells Reuters.
• Issues surrounding biofuels have emerged as the most contentious at a world food conference in Rome, reports The New York Times.
• Business should be thinking about the response to climate change not as a threat but as an opportunity, says Rajendra Pachauri, who chairs the influential Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, according to the New Zealand Herald.   
  
   

Full post as published by Climate Law Update on June 04, 2008 (boomark / email).