California regulation forbids utilities from buying 'dirty' electricity
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has unanimously approved a regulation that will prohibit utilities from buying electricity produced by power plants whose emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) exceed the state's standards. The rule [CPUC...
Spain Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos argued for an expanded European constitution in his opening statement at the Friends of the EU Constitution summit [press release, in Spanish; additional declaration...
A coalition of businesses and environmental groups on Monday called for federal legislation to limit emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. In a letter to President Bush a day before his State of the Union Address [White...
Canadian cities petition EPA to reduce US air pollution from power plants
The Sierra Legal Defence Fund petitioned the US Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday on behalf of thirteen Canadian cities - including Toronto, Windsor and Halifax - to mandate the reduction of air pollution from 150 coal-fired...
Europe chief says EU constitution reforms should be pursued under new name
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has suggested in a speech delivered in the UK that a different name be used to enact the institutional reforms set out in the failed European Constitution , echoing...
Narrowing US War Crimes Law: Having Our Cake and Eating It Too?
JURIST Contributing Editor David Crane of Syracuse University College of Law, a former judge advocate who helped develop and teach the US Department of Defense Law of War Program for almost 20 years, says that US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales...
JURIST Guest Columnist Nancy Rapoport, dean of the University of Houston Law Center, says that although the convictions of Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling in the Enron corporate fraud trial offer several important lessons, it's not clear that all of...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist John Pace, former Secretary of the UN Commission on Human Rights, says that the creation of a new Human Rights Council to replace the Commission could be a major step forward for human rights protection, but...
Environmental brief ~ Federal judge rules in favor of fish over farmers
Leading Tuesday's environmental law news, Judge Saundra Armstrong of the US District Court for the Northern District of California has ruled that the US Bureau of Reclamation must leave more water in the Klamath River...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist and UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke says that as the British government's proposed Terrorism Bill proceeds through Parliament we should bear in mind that citizens of democracies expect not only the protection of individual rights, but...
