Environmental Law

In Other News (May 21)

By Dennis Pfaff and Kevin Livingston, Editors

• The House voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to override President Bush’s veto of the $307 billion farm bill, which contains provisions relating to alternative fuels, reports The New York Times.
• The House Wednesday passed a measure extending tax credits for wind, solar and other alternative energy sources on a 263-260 vote, says this statement from the House Ways and Means Committee.
• Crops such as reeds and grasses that have been promoted as an alternative source of biofuels may become invasive species, some warn, according to The New york Times. 
• A U.S. Senate committee chaired by California's Sen. Barbara Boxer has approved a bill that would order the federal government to approve the state's landmark limits on greenhouse emissions from cars, reports MarketWatch.  
• Finding an alternative to petroleum is increasingly a matter of national security for the Pentagon, which is experimenting with synthetic fuels -- although they may actually be dirtier than those based on petroleum, according to the Wall Street Journal's Environmental Capital.  
• Alpine skiing and snowboarding may be under greater threat from climate change than scientists have previously thought, suggests new research cited by the UK's Telegraph..  

Full post as published by Climate Law Update on May 21, 2008 (boomark / email).