Environmental Law

In The News (October 3)

By Dennis Pfaff and Kevin Livingston, Editors

• Automakers want European authorities to reconsider proposed limits on carbon dioxide  emissions from cars, citing the current financial crisis, which they say is going to make it hard to meet the standards at a time when sales are tanking, according to a Reuters dispatch.
• A new study from a group that includes energy-producing states warns that the U.S. faces "potentially crippling" brownouts and blackouts beginning next year, and identifies lawsuits by environmental groups opposing new transmission lines and power plants as a primary factor, according to North American Windpower. There's also a statement available from the organization, NextGen Energy Council.
• A growing carbon offset market is trying to woo the public and companies with new ways and standards to cut their contribution to climate change, while dispelling doubts that such schemes do any real good, says this story, again from Reuters.
• The World Bank Group has announced its funding for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects rose 87 percent in the past fiscal year, to nearly $2.7 billion, according to a statement from the institution.
• The American Le Mans Series' Green Challenge will be the first car race to use green racing protocols at the Petit Le Mans Race near Atlanta on Saturday, says a statement from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which developed the protocols along with the U.S. Department of Energy and SAE International.
    

Full post as published by Climate Law Update on October 03, 2008 (boomark / email).