Environmental Law

In The News (October 16)

By Dennis Pfaff and Kevin Livingston, Editors

• Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell has signed into law an energy conservation bill that proponents say will save consumers $500 million over the next decade by encouraging utilities to buy cheaper energy sources and mandating reductions in energy use, reports the Morning Call. 
• Despite industry lobbying to scale back the European Union's climate change program, a top British official says his country will adopt a more severe target to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, according to this Reuters dispatch.
• It's a grim litany: temperature increases, a near-record loss of summer sea ice, and a melting of surface ice in Greenland, all pointing to warming in the Arctic, according to a statement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration describing the agency's annual Arctic review.
• Who are those people who rail against the conventional wisdom that global warming is happening and that humans are responsible? See them and read their views here, courtesy of the U.K.'s Independent. 
• The federal government has issued an updated edition of its online repository of information about electricity power plant emissions; the Emissions & Generation Resource Integrated Database details facilities' output of nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide and mercury, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 
• Falling oil prices could reduce the demand for renewable energy, or so suggests the Wall Street Journal's Environmental Capital. 

Full post as published by Climate Law Update on October 16, 2008 (boomark / email).