In Other News (May 8)
- Businesses in the United Kingdom will not back the case for high levels of environmental taxation, such as those placed on emissions auctions, if the money goes towards meeting other public spending commitments, argues Independent business columnist Jeremy Warner.
- British great tits have proved themselves to be far more adaptable to climate change than their counterparts in the Netherlands. Or so reports London's ever-vigilant The Times.
- Think there's nothing funny about climate change? There are those who disagree, reports the Guardian.
- Environmental groups are urging Congress to keep in place a ban on purchases of fuel from Canadian tar sands deposits, writes the Globe and Mail (see environmental organizations' press statement here).
- Another day, another verbal beating administered by Congress upon the Environmental Protection Agency for its alleged failure to make decisions based on science rather than politics, as recounted by McClatchy Newspapers.
- Giant Danish wind power company Vestas says Europe should focus on land-based rather than offshore facilities, reports the Wall Street Journal's Environmental Capital.
- President Bush and Congress remain at odds over the latest version of a farm bill, according to the Des Moines Register.
