Environmental Law

In The News (September 26)

By Dennis Pfaff and Kevin Livingston, Editors

• Alternative energy technologies will create millions of new jobs in the next two decades, including 11 million alone in biofuels, says a new United Nations report, according to the Boston Globe's The Green Blog. Here's an summary of the report, and the full study.
• More than 10 percent of the domestically-produced energy used in the United States in the first half of 2008 came from renewable sources, only a little less than what was generated from nuclear, according to Renewable Energy World, citing a federal report. 
• Cities shouldn't feel so guilty about contributing to global warming, suggests a new study that finds cities -- often blamed for producing most of the world's greenhouse gas emissions actually generate just two-fifths or less, from Reuters.
• Rhode Island has picked Deepwater Wind to develop an offshore wind farm expected to cost more than $1 billion and provide about 15 percent of the state's electricity, according to the state's governor, Reuters reports.
• The largest single-roof solar power installation in North America will begin operation in early October at Toyota's North America Parts Center California, in Ontario, California, according to Clean Edge News.
• Here's more on that new report showing a faster-than-predicted build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, plus information on other studies making some additional unpleasant predictions about the planet's warming trend, from the Washington Post. The U.K.'s Telegraph also has its take on the story.
• Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd visited the United States this week, at least partly to generate support for that country's proposal for an Australia-based international program to ramp up research and development of clean-coal technology, from the Wall Street Journal's Environmental Capital.

Full post as published by Climate Law Update on September 26, 2008 (boomark / email).