Environment
Monsanto May Have Antitrust Edge as Protecting Patents Trumps Competition Monsanto Co., facing antitrust
probes into its genetically modified seeds, may benefit from
previous court rulings in which intellectual property rights
trumped competition concerns, antitrust lawyers say.
Climate Exchange Shares Advance After Company Returns to Profit in 2009 Climate Exchange Plc, the owner of
emissions markets in London and Chicago, rose as much as 13
percent in the U.K. capital after saying it returned to profit
last year as carbon-trading volumes surged.
Batista Closes Gap on Slim, Gates as OSX Sale Bolsters `Richest Man' Dream Eike Batista’s plan to raise $5.6
billion in the biggest initial public offering this year moves
him one step closer to fulfilling his ambition of being the
world’s richest man.
Japan Cap-and-Trade Bill Wins Backing From Cabinet, Heads for Parliament Japan’s Cabinet has endorsed a
climate-protection draft law today that would cap industrial
emissions and thrust the second-biggest economy into the $125
billion market for trading carbon credits.
Chinese Wind Development Includes `Vanity' Projects, Vice Minister Says China is idling as much as 40
percent of its wind-turbine factories following a surge in
investment driven by the government’s renewable-energy goals,
the vice president of Shanghai Electric Group Corp. said.
Japan May Need to Spend $56 Billion to Upgrade Grid If Climate Law Passes Tokyo Electric Power Co. and nine
other regional utilities may need to spend 5.1 trillion yen
($56.3 billion) in 20 years to upgrade Japan’s power grid if a
draft climate-protection legislation is made law.
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