Last week I attended an international seminar put on by Baker and McKenzie attorneys. This firm has lawyers all over the globe.
There were some interesting take aways. The global recession has impacted every country. Many thought that a slow down in adopting new environmental laws, particularly on climate change, would then follow. That seems logical [...]
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Member states of Europe have been jump starting car sales by providing subsidies for the purchase of new fuel efficient cars, replacing older cars.
Of course, in Europe, fuel costs are higher than the US and Europe has also started carbon taxes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/business/global/01refunds.html
This idea has also been proposed in the US and Congress is working on the [...]
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Orplana, the sugar cane producers association in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state signed an agreement with the state’s environmental secretariat to speed up mechanized harvesting of sugar cane in an attempt to reduce air pollution for the burning associated with manual harvesting. Orplana represents over 12,000 sugar cane producers. In this state, 45 percent of cane [...]
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In the absence of federal legislation in both the United States and Canada, the states and provinces have been forming regional groupings and “agreeing” to impose local legislation by certain target dates. This has taken the form of a northeast initiative, midwest initiative and western initiative. If the United States takes federal action before the [...]
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Another issue to consider, is artificial snow good or bad for the environment?
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE2DF1431F937A25752C1A962958260
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/apr2008/gb20080421_199362.htm
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0CYP/is_/ai_77276469
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The U.S. Department of Energy sponsored a project to prove up new technologies for drastically reducing carbon emissions from coal fired generating plants. There was a lot of study and a lot of local competition from states, and then the DOE killed the project. You can find an interesting summary of the project on Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FutureGen
Part [...]
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