Posted on May 21, 2008 by Dennis Pfaff
- The House voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to override President Bush’s veto of the $307 billion farm bill, which contains provisions relating to alternative fuels, reports The New York Times.
- The House Wednesday passed a measure extending tax credits for wind, solar and other alternative energy sources on a 263-160 vote, says this statement from the House Ways and Means Committee.
- Crops such as reeds and grasses that have been promoted as an alternative source of biofuels may become invasive species, some warn, according to The New york Times.
- A U.S. Senate committee chaired by California's Sen. Barbara Boxer has approved a bill that would order the federal government to approve the state's landmark limits on greenhouse emissions from cars, reports MarketWatch.
- Finding an alternative to petroleum is increasingly a matter of national security for the Pentagon, which is experimenting with synthetic fuels -- although they may actually be dirtier than those based on petroleum, according to the Wall Street Journal's Environmental Capital.
- Alpine skiing and snowboarding may be under greater threat from climate change than scientists have previously thought, suggests new research cited by the UK's Telegraph..
