A recent article on ServerWatch looks at some green legislation that seems good on the surface but may not be so great underneath:

... the new European Union's Restriction of Hazardous Substances (ROHS) standard, which contains provisions outlawing lead in motherboards and a host of commercial and consumer electronic equipment. All very high sounding — lead is poisonous, protecting the individual, and so on. Yet the replacement of lead with pure tin directly is not without its own problems: It leads to much higher incidences of unreliability.

Full story here.

What do you think? Is the environmental gain significant enough to warrant the business risk?

In addition, here are some articles that recently ran on internetnews that may be of interest:

It's Not Easy Being Green (Tech): Even in the best economic times, green technologies face challenges. Can the chip industry help?

Samsung Pitches Green Memory for Datacenters: Solid state drives, denser memory sticks, and other technologies will help enterprises solve the datacenter crisis.