Sweeping Environmental Law Reforms Approved in France

Last week, the French parliament approved a major overhaul of the country's environmental standards. As reported in The Globe and Mail ("France Passes Sweeping Ecology Law," July 23), "The law stemmed from months of negotiations among environmental activists, farmers, industry officials and bureaucrats in 2007 to work out what President Nicholas Sarkozy called an environmental 'new deal' for France."

Les Verts, the French Green Party, opposed the measure arguing that it do not go far enough.

(Muchas gracias a Sergio Stone, Foreign, International and Comparative Law Librarian at the Stanford Law School for calling this to my attention.)