Environmental Law

In Other News (June 12)

By Dennis Pfaff and Kevin Livingston, Editors

• Here's the "poop" on a new solar-and-biomass plant that can operate day and night in California's Central Valley and will use manure for part of its fuel mix, as related by the San Francisco Chronicle. 
• The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has chosen a pair of institutes in Alaska and New Jersey that foster collaboration between government agencies and noted universities to join in conducting research on climate change, greenhouse gases, and changes to Arctic ice coverage, according to a statement from NOAA. 
• A majority of researchers studying the Arctic foresee "an ice retreat at least as extraordinary as last year’s or even more dramatic," reports The New York Times environmental blog Dot Earth.
• An American company Algenol has jumped into the algae-to-ethanol business in a big way, signing an $850 million deal to grow the stuff in a way that would produce fuel without raising food costs, according to Reuters.
• The UN's climate chief wants some of the world's big countries to start getting serious about laying out what they are going to do to control global warming, as the clock ticks toward a goal for a new international agreement to be struck in Copenhagen next year, says this story from AFP.
• Mixing up the cause-and-effect relationship between cloud behavior and climate change could be producing an over-estimate of human impact on global warming, suggests a scientific study reported on by Science Daily.  

Full post as published by Climate Law Update on June 12, 2008 (boomark / email).