Environmental Law

In Other News (June 9)

By Dennis Pfaff and Kevin Livingston, Editors

• Companies that burn coal would like to cut carbon emissions, they just don't want to be the first to do it, according to this analysis by The New York Times. 
• Hard times for coal, brought on by concerns over global warming, are chronicled by the Chicago Tribune.
• A lake in Cambodia that is essential to the country's food supply provides a prime case for studying local effects of climate change, reports the Christian Science Monitor. 
• A major nuclear equipment supplier is raising significant questions about the U.S. Energy Department's safety plan for handling containers of radioactive waste before they are buried at the proposed Yucca Mountain dump, according to the Los Angeles Times.
• San Diego Gas & Electric Company announces it has signed two power-purchase agreements for the output from the soon-to-be constructed Glacier Wind Energy facilities in Montana, according to this statement from the San Diego company.
• Japan's prime minister announces his country will aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by between 60 percent and 80 by 2050, reports the BBC.
• See what people in Timbuktu think of climate change, in this report from the United Nations Integrated Regional Information Networks, carried by allAfrica.com. 
  
  

Full post as published by Climate Law Update on June 09, 2008 (boomark / email).