Environmental Law

In Other News (May 28)

By Dennis Pfaff and Kevin Livingston, Editors

• Global warming poses a serious threat to the Great Lakes and Congress needs to pay for restoring the huge bodies of fresh water now, says a new report cited by the Detroit Free Press.
• The "circus" that is the Exxon Mobil shareholders meeting includes consideration of shareholder proposals, including one that would set limits on greenhouse gases, as reported by the Wall Street Journal's Environmental Capital.  
• A coalition of environmental groups urges officials to take action to reverse the potential impacts of global warming and sea level rise on Florida, reports the Daytona Beach News-Journal. 
• Global warming has already occurred -- 635 million years ago, according to a scientific study of an abrupt release of methane from ice sheets that existed at the time, says an article in Science Daily.
• Top officials of Canada's western provinces head into several days of meetings divided over the appropriate approach to climate change, debating such topics as cap-and-trade versus carbon capture and storage, reports the Calgary Herald. 
• China is getting serious about climate change, with experts there understanding that global warming will affect their country much more severely than North America, argue two University of California-San Diego professors in a commentary published in the San Francisco Chronicle. 
• Researchers contend that a recently announced goal of the large industrial nations to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050 might not go far enough, says the United Kingdom's Telegraph.  
  
    

Full post as published by Climate Law Update on May 28, 2008 (boomark / email).