Environmental Law

In Other News (June 11)

By Dennis Pfaff and Kevin Livingston, Editors

• In one more indication that China has big hopes for wind power, here's word that the country plans to triple its wind capacity within 2 years, as reported by Inter Press Service in a dispatch carried by Power Engineering International.
• Meanwhile, the shares of American Superconductor Corp. shot up about 20 percent after it was announced the company had struck a deal to sell about $450 million in electronic equipment used in wind turbines to a Chinese company, according to the Boston Herald.
• Congress might be dithering when it comes to incentives for renewable energy like solar, but San Francisco's supervisors aren't waiting, and they approved a new $3 million rebate program for residents and businesses that install solar power systems, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
• This doesn't sound good: Scientists think that climate change could help release trillions of pounds of carbon from the Siberian permafrost, according to Science Daily.
• This doesn't sound good, either: An Australian expert warns that the planet could be tracking towards irreversible climate change as warming takes place much quicker than previously thought, reports Australia's The Age.

Full post as published by Climate Law Update on June 11, 2008 (boomark / email).