Environmental Law

In Other News (April 29)

By Dennis Pfaff and Kevin Livingston, Editors

• The X Prize Foundation, which has previously handed out millions of dollars to stimulate developments in such fields as space travel, has announced it will distribute $100 million in awards for innovations in alternatives to fossil fuels, Business Week reports.
• The world's poorest and most vulnerable children are being hit hardest by climate change, according to a report prepared by UNICEF UK, writes the Telegraph.
• Sweden, which introduced a carbon tax in 1991, has made great strides in cutting emissions, putting it at the top of a European environmental group's list, according to the Guardian.
• Hurricane expert and global warming skeptic William Gray is on the outs with the Colorado university at which he is a professor emeritus, reports the Houston Chronicle.
• Connecticut's House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved a tough new mandate that requires the state to drastically cut the greenhouse gas emissions associated with global warming, according to the Hartford Courant. 
• Duke Energy Corp. chief executive Jim Rogers wants a national use tax on every kilowatt of electricity sold across the nation, writes the Charlotte Observer.
• Global warming may open enormous economic opportunities in the Arctic, writes author Barry Zellen, director of the Arctic security research project at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Contemporary Conflict, in a lengthy commentary in the Globe and Mail.
       

Full post as published by Climate Law Update on April 29, 2008 (boomark / email).