Environmental Law

In Other News (June 5)

By Dennis Pfaff and Kevin Livingston, Editors

• A giant in the wind energy industry has proposed to build hundreds of wind turbines in New York as part of its attempt to gain approval from state regulators in its lengthy battle to purchase a power company, reports The New York Times.
• Kiribati, a low-lying Pacific atoll nation, already may be doomed by climate change, according to the country's president, who contends communities have already been resettled and crops destroyed by seawater, says this report carried by news.com.au. 
• People in the African nation of Mali are turning to guns to settle their differences as "as runaway population growth, shrinking water resources and deteriorating pastoral and agricultural land are turning neighbours into enemies," writes Jan Egeland, the UN Secretary-General's special adviser on conflict, who is traveling the continent looking at what may be the worst effects of climate change in the world, in this dispatch carried by allAfrica.com.
• OK, maybe somebody understands what this means: The man known as the French "Spiderman" climbed The New York Times building to draw attention to global warming, reports Reuters. And then someone else tried the same stunt.
• Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende says he stressed the importance of making progress in the fight against climate change when he spoke with President Bush at the White House Thursday, according to AFP.
  

Full post as published by Climate Law Update on June 05, 2008 (boomark / email).