A CAP-ital Idea: Business Opportunities For Covered Sources In A Cap-And-Trade System.
Big business is actively encouraging U.S. government involvement in the realm of climate change. Why? Two reasons. One, CEOs recognize that global warming is a real problem that will affect their bottom lines. In May 2008, the U.S. Climate Change Science Program released its assessment of the...

DC Circuit Invalidates EPA's CAIR Program.
On July 11, 2008, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals issued an opinion in State of North Carolina v. Environmental Protection Agency, No. 05-1244, slip op. (2008). The court's opinion vacated the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) and the associated Federal Implementation Plan, finding...

Climate Change - Global Warming.
Previously published in The 2008/2009 Lexpert CCCA/ACCJE Corporate Counsel Directory and Yearbook In the past year, climate change has become among the most publicized issues in Canada and one of the main sources of political debate. Its global significance was reaffirmed in the Fourth Assessment Report of...

Weekly climate change update - November 4, 2008.
Article by Kyle W. Danish, Shelley N. Fidler, Andrea Hudson Campbell and Kevin M. Gallagher To receive the Weekly Update via email, visit our Sign Up/Subscribe page http://www.vnf.com/news-signup.html Commentary Phased and confused? The European Union member governments are currently stalemated on approval of an ambitious...

China Energy Recovery Announces to Initiate its Sarbanes-Oxley Act Section 404 Compliance Efforts.
SHANGHAI, China, Dec. 9 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- China Energy Recovery, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: CGYV) ("CER"), a leader in the waste heat energy recovery sector of the alternative energy industry, announced today that the company has initiated its efforts to comply with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 ("SOX...

Carbon cap and trade could backfire on the environment.
Byline: TEAM SPRINGFIELD By Bob Linahan For The Register-Guard Climate change, including its root causes and possible solutions, is an issue that is being hotly debated right now at universities, in the media and in the Legislature. To date, the Springfield Utility Board intentionally has...

Environment Canada Unveils Draft Offset System For Greenhouse Gases.
Matti Lemmens, Student-at-Law helped with the preparation of this article This Climate Change Bulletin is part of a series that is prepared periodically by BLG's Climate Change Group to alert our clients to emerging issues and initiatives that are relevant to their businesses and strategic interests. Future...

Analyzing carbon emissions trading: a potential cost efficient mechanism to reduce carbon emissions.
I. INTRODUCTION II. CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE NEED FOR INTERNATIONAL ACTION III. THE STRUCTURE, FRAMEWORK, AND ADOPTION OF EMISSIONS TRADING A. The Policy Behind the Flexible Mechanisms B. Carbon Emissions Trading 1. Policy Behind Emissions Trading 2. The Structure of the Kyoto Protocol GHG Emissions Trading Scheme 3. Requirements...

Global Warming: Canada's Changing Regulatory Climate.
Reprinted with permission from the 2008 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory In the past year, climate change has become among the most publicized issues in Canada and one of the main sources of debate in Canadian politics. Its global significance was reaffirmed in the Fourth Assessment Report of...

Ontario And Quebec Announce Plans To Create Interprovincial Cap And Trade System.
At a joint cabinet meeting held in Quebec City in early June, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and Quebec Premier Jean Charest signed a Memorandum of Understanding with respect to a provincial and territorial cap and trade initiative. The accord sets out the two provinces' plans to create an interprovincial...