Environmental Law

In Other News (June 13)

By Dennis Pfaff and Kevin Livingston, Editors

• Representatives from 170 nations meeting in Germany have failed to come up with proposals on how to slow global warming, heightening the differences between wealthy and developing countries, Bloomberg reports. 
• Europe's biodiesel producers complaining about 'unfair' United States subsidies are seeking punitive duties on American imports of the fuel, according to The Guardian.
• Northern California utility Pacific Gas and Electric Company is investing big money to transform the electric grid to support plug-in hybrid vehicles, reports Reuters.  
• An artist who has taken on the subject of climate change finds his career 'red hot,' says this article from the Boston Globe.
• A leading climate change consultancy based in the United Kingdom is looking toward the next presidential administration and betting on a greener chief executive as the company plunges into the United States market, reports The Press Association.
• As Africa girds for climate change, it needs to find ways to adapt to the new environment, attendees at a Nairobi conference hear, according to allAfrica.com. 
• The United States and China must cooperate on battling global warming and work out long-term solutions that include alternative fuels and nuclear energy, says a high-ranking Bush administration official, as reported in a dispatch from China's Xinhua.
• This same official, James Connaughton, chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, says the United States hopes the world's big economies will agree to remove trade barriers on clean energy technologies such as solar panels and wind turbines next month, Reuters reports. 

Full post as published by Climate Law Update on June 13, 2008 (boomark / email).