Environmental Law

In The News (September 4)

By Dennis Pfaff and Kevin Livingston, Editors

• Here's a breakdown of the energy policies offered by the presidential candidates: Democrat Barack Obama is a big supporter of renewable energy, while Republican John McCain would rein in the role of government on energy policy, as reported by C/Net's Green Tech from an analysis by researchers at New Energy Finance.
• And then there's this take on the "drill, baby, drill" message from the Republicans, from the Wall Street Journal's Environmental Capital.
• Regarding politics north of the border, in Canada, a carbon tax is expected to be one of the main issues in a national election that could be upcoming shortly, and the out-of-power Liberals are fine-tuning their plan, Reuters reports.
• Nissan tries to re-introduce diesel cars to Japan, showing off a "clean" version that would meet that country's tough emissions standards, according to Reuters. 
• Just another reminder of the possible implications of global warming, as the storms line up over the Atlantic and Caribbean -- scientists say this could be a hint of things to come, reports, again, Reuters.
• The first mandatory cap-and-trade program targeting carbon dioxide emissions in the United States -- put on by the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative -- could be oversupplied when it starts, depressing prices, according to a consultant interviewed by Carbon Finance. 
• Offshore wind energy is poised to become a big deal in the United States, with prompting from the federal government, discovers the Wall Street Journal. Of course, readers of Climate Law Update won't be surprised.
• New York regulators have approved a deal that will allow the construction of hundreds of new wind turbines -- potentially doubling doubling the amount of wind power capacity within a few years, reports The New York Times. 
• And, on a think-locally scale, here's this take on small wind generation, also from The New York Times. 
   

Full post as published by Climate Law Update on September 04, 2008 (boomark / email).