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Posted: 27 Mar 2017 16:01:00
CARB Newsclips for March 27, 2017. 

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CARB BUSINESS

The Air Resources Board (ARB or Board) will conduct a public
meeting at the time and place noted below to consider Truck Field
Enforcement Activities and New Screening Technology for High
Emitting Vehicles.

DATE:  	April 27, 2017
TIME:  	9:00 a.m.
LOCATION: California Environmental Protection Agency
          		Air Resources Board
         		 Byron Sher Auditorium, 2nd Floor
          		1001 I Street
          		Sacramento, California 95814

WEBCAST: http://www.cal-span.org/ 

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) invites you to
participate in a public workshop on the Fiscal Year (FY) 2017-18
Funding Plan for Low Carbon Transportation Investments, Air
Quality Improvement Program (AQIP), and the potential $25 million
Volkswagen settlement funds for zero-emission vehicle (ZEV)
aspects of vehicle replacement programs. The meeting will be held
at the following time and place:

Date:                     Thursday, April 6, 2017
Time:                     9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Place:                    Cal/EPA Headquarters Building
                              Coastal Hearing Room, Second Floor
                              1001 I Street
                              Sacramento, California 95814

A meeting notice for the workshop is posted at: 
https://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/aqip/meetings/meetings.htm    

ADVANCED CLEAN CARS

https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2017-03-24/california-sets-vehicle-pollution-rules-after-trump-brakes-us-plan

http://www.npr.org/2017/03/26/521590802/in-conflict-with-trump-agenda-california-sets-stricter-auto-emissions-standards

http://www.businessinsider.com/carb-california-rollback-trump-automakers-2017-3

http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1109575_electric-aston-martin-rapide-carb-reaffirms-emissions-standards-e15-battle-todays-car-news
 http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/California-Air-Regulators-Vote-Keep-Tough-Fuel-Standards-417088043.html

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/politics/California-Air-Regulators-Vote-Keep-Tough-Fuel-Standards-417088043.html
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/25/new-york-times-digital-california-upholds-emissions-standards.html

http://www.mymotherlode.com/news/local/290023/sticking-to-states-stricter-emission-standards.html

https://www.autoconnectedcar.com/2017/03/carb-votes-for-clean-air-vetoes-trump-epa-keeps-2022-2025-emissions-standards/
http://www.autoblog.com/2017/03/26/california-emissions-standards-carb-defies-trump/
 
http://publicradioeast.org/post/conflict-trump-agenda-california-sets-stricter-auto-emissions-standards

http://www.naturalgasintel.com/articles/109898-california-doubles-down-on-cleaner-transportation-socalgas-sees-ngv-gains
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2017/03/27/stories/1060052107 

CAP AND TRADE

A senior's struggle to root out elusive cap-and-trade charge.
Ontario residents shouldn’t have to work their way through a
“rat’s maze” to figure out the cap-and-trade charge on their
natural gas bills, Mississauga senior Muriel Chudiak says. Since
the fee kicked in on Jan. 1, Chudiak has been on a mission to get
the Ontario Energy Board and Ontario Liberal government to stop
“hiding” it in the delivery charge.
http://www.shorelinebeacon.com/2017/03/26/a-seniors-struggle-to-root-out-cap-and-trade-charge


AIR POLLUTION

California's Clean-Air Problem Is a Lot Bigger Than Just Trump.
No state is tougher on dirty air than California. How tough? So
tough that, if trends hold, it may fall short of its own goals.
As President Donald Trump moves to roll back decades worth of
regulation, the Golden State has positioned itself as America’s
bulwark of environmental protection. The reality behind that is
complex, and not only because the Trump…
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-27/california-s-clean-air-problem-is-a-lot-bigger-than-just-trump


L.A. officials push for new steps to address health risks from
homebuilding near freeways. In a new push to address health risks
from a surge in residential construction near freeways, Los
Angeles officials have requested a study of development
restrictions, design standards and other steps to protect
residents from traffic pollution.
Planning, transportation and other officials should…
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-freeway-pollution-study-20170324-story.html


New technology highlights potential toxic risks in Southern
California air. As the reports began landing on Wayne Nastri’s
desk last fall showing alarmingly high levels of cancer-causing
pollution had been unexpectedly detected in a working-class area
of southeast Los Angeles County, a stark concern arose: This may
not be an isolated problem. The reports were scooping up data
from a new generation of monitors deployed by Nastri’s agency…
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/air-747618-district-paramount.html


Residents say ‘zero emission technology’ not enough to reduce
pollution concerns. Efforts to improve the Inland region’s air
quality through the use of cleaner technology is encouraging,
explained Erlinda Murillo, who owns a small home about two blocks
away from the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railyard in San
Bernardino and several hundred feet from Omnitrans’ corporate
headquarters.
http://iecn.com/residents-say-zero-emission-technology-not-enough-reduce-pollution-concerns/


China Air Pollution: 'Green Necklace' Project Could Help
Beijing's Smog Problem. Chinese officials are taking a green
approach to solving the country’s air pollution problem, starting
with a new project in Beijing and the surrounding province of
Hebei to plant more trees and shrubs in surrounding wetlands.
Hebei’s government said green belts would be planted all around
Beijing, creating a “green necklace”…
http://www.ibtimes.com/china-air-pollution-green-necklace-project-could-help-beijings-smog-problem-2515640


New Pollution Detection Tech Highlights Toxic Risks in Southern
California Air. 
Scattered on telephones polls in Paramount neighborhoods, the
technology for the first time allowed regulators to track how
pollution from industrial plants was traveling across the
community. As the reports began landing on Wayne Nastri’s desk
last fall showing alarmingly high levels of cancer-causing
pollution had been…
http://www.govtech.com/fs/New-Pollution-Detection-Tech-Highlights-Toxic-Risks-in-Southern-California-Air.html


CLIMATE CHANGE

EPA chief: Trump to undo Obama plan to curb global warming.
President Donald Trump in the coming days will sign a new
executive order that unravels his predecessor's sweeping plan to
curb global warming, the head of the Environmental Protection
Agency said Sunday. EPA chief Scott Pruitt said the executive
order to be signed Tuesday will undo the Obama administration's
Clean Power Plan, an environmental regulation that restricts
greenhouse gas emissions…
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TRUMP_CLIMATE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT


OTHER RELATED STORIES
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-03-26/trump-said-to-issue-far-reaching-reversal-of-obama-climate-push

http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/article140878018.html 
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/26/trump-climate/99668578/
http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1109538_trump-administration-goal-undo-every-climate-change-effort

http://www.voanews.com/a/trump-to-roll-back-obama-era-environmental-rules/3783597.html
 http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060052111  

Threatened U.S. pullout might help, not hobble, global climate
pact. A 2015 global pact for fighting climate change will benefit
in some ways at least if U.S. President Donald Trump carries out
a threat to pull out, backers say, in a shift from gloom about
the fate of a deal that took two decades to negotiate. The Paris
Agreement requires consensus for all decisions, meaning the
withdrawal of a recalcitrant United States…
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-agreement-idUSKBN16Y1SP


One of the most troubling ideas about climate change just found
new evidence in its favor. Ever since 2012, scientists have been
debating a complex and frankly explosive idea about how a warming
planet will alter our weather — one that, if it’s correct, would
have profound implications across the Northern Hemisphere and
especially in its middle latitudes, where hundreds of millions of
people live.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/03/27/one-of-the-most-troubling-ideas-about-climate-change-just-found-new-evidence-in-its-favor/?utm_term=.4cc0c4f0b562

A building boom and climate change create an even hotter, drier
Phoenix. This sprawling metropolis morphed in a matter of decades
from a scorching desert outpost into one of the largest cities in
the nation. Today, Phoenix is a horizon of asphalt, air
conditioning and historic indifference to the pitfalls of putting
1.5 million people in a place that gets just 8 inches of rain a
year and where the temperature routinely exceeds 100 degrees.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-phoenix-climate-adapt-20170327-story.html


Long Beach students search for drought, climate change fixes.
About 300 students at a Long Beach high school are exploring ways
to make their community environmentally sustainable and preparing
to share what they learned at a youth summit later this month. On
their own, students ranging from freshmen to seniors at Cabrillo
High School approached teachers a while back about…
http://www.presstelegram.com/environment-and-nature/20170326/long-beach-students-search-for-drought-climate-change-fixes

Extreme weather events linked to climate change impact on the jet
stream. Unprecedented summer warmth and flooding, forest fires,
drought and torrential rain — extreme weather events are
occurring more and more often, but now an international team of
climate scientists has found a connection between many extreme
weather events and the impact climate change is having on the jet
stream.
https://yubanet.com/scitech/extreme-weather-events-linked-to-climate-change-impact-on-the-jet-stream/


PBS is the only network reporting on climate change. Trump wants
to cut it. During a record-breaking hot presidential election
year, American news networks failed to report on climate change.
Media Matters for America has published its annual review of
American evening newscast climate coverage for 2016, and the
results are stunning:
In 2016, evening newscasts and Sunday shows on ABC, CBS, and NBC…
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/mar/27/pbs-is-the-only-network-reporting-on-climate-change-trump-wants-to-cut-it

Brown, Inslee vow to fight Trump on climate rollback. Oregon Gov.
Kate Brown and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee say the West Coast is
allied to fight any attempt by President Donald Trump to undo
progress on climate change. Brown joined with Inslee at a news
conference Saturday in Seattle, where the governors said they’ll
be just as defiant on climate change and the environment as…
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2017/03/27/brown-inslee-vow-to-fight-trump-on-climate.html


100-year-old frost maps show how climate change has shifted the
growing season in America. Published in a 1936 Atlas of American
Agriculture, put together by the United States Department of
Agriculture, these 1916 maps of the average dates of first
killing frosts in fall and last killing frosts in spring were
initially intended to help farmers plan their planting schedules.
Now, the maps offer a rough gauge showing how much these dates
have shifted over a century.
http://www.businessinsider.com/100-year-old-frost-maps-show-how-climate-change-has-shifted-the-growing-season-in-america-2017-3


Climate change: ‘human fingerprint’ found on global extreme
weather. Global warming makes temperature patterns that cause
heatwaves, droughts and floods across Europe, North America and
Asia more likely, scientists find. The fingerprint of
human-caused climate change has been found on heatwaves, droughts
and floods across the world, according to scientists.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/27/climate-change-human-fingerprint-found-on-global-extreme-weather


Shrinking Arctic sea ice threatens the majestic Beluga whale. The
Arctic sea ice hosts algae, which sustain a food chain up to the
beluga whale. But the ice is decreasing – and in summers, it may
be gone entirely by 2050. The beluga whale is one of the most
extraordinary species of marine creature known to science. It is
a gregarious, pure white Arctic dweller that emits strange,
high-pitched twitters that…
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/26/shrinking-sea-ice-threatens-beluga-whale-robin-mckie


CARB approves California’s SLCP reduction strategy. The ARB’s
approval of a plan to curb harmful super pollutants brings
California closer to achieving its goal of reducing greenhouse
gas emissions by 40% by 2030. In another demonstration of its
leadership on climate issues in the United States, the California
Air Resources Board (CARB) today approved a plan to curb
short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs)…
http://hydrocarbons21.com/articles/7534/arb_approves_californiaandrsquo_s_slcp_reduction_strategy


Shifting political winds put geoengineering in a tight spot. The
rise of the Trump administration has forced researchers to swerve
in their pursuit of tools to tweak the planet's thermostat. Now
it's forcing some environmental groups to reluctantly court these
controversial approaches, as well. "It's the elephant in the room
for this meeting," said Ted Parson, a professor of environmental
law at UCLA, speaking at a forum for U.S. solar geoengineering…
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2017/03/27/stories/1060052109 

'Get your popcorn ready.' Panel sets up climate fight. The House
Science, Space and Technology Committee will hold a hearing this
week to challenge consensus climate science, which Chairman Lamar
Smith (R-Texas) has called politicized and exaggerated. It is set
to feature some of the field's most vocal critics and one of
climate science's most controversial defenders…
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2017/03/27/stories/1060052099 

DROUGHT

California Today: Talking to the ‘Water Czar’ About the Drought.
By every wet indication, California is about to lift the drought
state of emergency order imposed in January 2014. So we thought
this would be a good time to talk to Felicia Marcus, the
chairwoman of California’s Water Resources Control Board (you can
call her the Water Czar.) This interview has been edited and
condensed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/us/california-today-talking-to-the-water-czar-about-the-drought.html?em_pos=large&emc=edit_ca_20170327&nl=california-today&nlid=79449713&ref=headline&te=1&_r=0


DIESEL ACTIVITIES

Electric Trucks Start Arriving at Southern California Freight,
Rail Yards. The State of California, San Bernardino Council of
Governments, and partners at Daylight Transport and BYD Motors
have announced the arrival of the first of 27 zero-emission
electric yard and service trucks in three disadvantaged
communities in Southern California. BYD is providing the 27
vehicles, of which 23 will be battery-electric Class 8…
http://www.truckinginfo.com/channel/fuel-smarts/news/story/2017/03/first-of-27-electric-trucks-arrives-at-southern-california-freight-rail-yards.aspx


FUELS

Canada determined to diversify despite Keystone XL approval.
Canada's natural resource minister said Saturday his government
is happy the Keystone XL pipeline has finally been approved by
the White House, but he noted that obstacles remain and said
Canada remains determined to diversify its oil exports beyond the
United States.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CN_CANADA_PIPELINE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT


President Trump will issue a new executive order on Tuesday to
relax Obama-era regulations on fossil fuels. “It will bring back
manufacturing jobs across the country, coal jobs across the
country,” EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt told ABC’s “This Week”
on Sunday. “Across the energy sector, we have so much
opportunity.” The “Energy Independence Executive Order” is
designed to relax regulations on power plants…
http://nypost.com/2017/03/26/trump-to-sign-order-loosening-regulations-on-fossil-fuels/


New cars much less fuel efficient than manufacturers claim,
research finds. Australian Automobile Association finds fuel use
on average 25% higher than claimed on consumption label displayed
on new cars. New cars are using vastly more fuel on the road than
in laboratory tests, raising further questions about the veracity
of car manufacturers’ claims in the wake of the Volkswagen
emissions scandal.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/mar/27/new-cars-far-less-fuel-efficient-than-manufacturers-claim-research-finds


Oil and gas groups cheer valuation rule repeal. Oil and gas
groups celebrated the Interior Department's move last week to
strike down an Obama-era rule altering royalty calculations for
fossil fuels produced on federal land. In a legal filing
Thursday, Interior requested a stay on litigation related to the
Office of Natural Resources Revenue rule and indicated that it is
developing a rulemaking to repeal the regulation (Greenwire,
March 24).
http://www.eenews.net/energywire/2017/03/27/stories/1060052101 

VEHICLES

Even Germany’s Post Office Is Building an Electric Car. Why a
no-frills postal van spells disruption for the auto and oil
industries. This boxy, bare-bones van has no air conditioning or
radio, no passenger seat and a top speed of less than 50 miles an
hour. Yet the electric vehicle’s success has irked the likes of
Volkswagen AG. When Deutsche Post AG couldn’t find a
zero-emission delivery van that met its needs…
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-24/even-germany-s-post-office-is-building-an-electric-car


Tech Roundup: Why Regulation Benefits (Yes, Benefits) Electric
Cars. A common piece of wisdom in business circles is that
regulation is bad and stifles innovation. But that leaves us with
the curious case of electric cars, as Farhad Manjoo writes.
Electric cars are becoming less expensive and more reliable. The
typical range they can drive on a single charge is extending, and
charging stations are…
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/23/technology/tech-roundup-regulation-benefits-yes-benefits-electric-cars.html?_r=0


GM, Buick to launch plug-ins, electric cars in China. General
Motors Co. said Friday its Buick brand will soon launch its first
extended-range electric vehicle, the Velite 5, in China. The
Detroit automaker said it plans in the next two years to
introduce plug-in hybrid gasoline electric vehicles and pure
electric vehicles under the Buick brand in China.
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/general-motors/2017/03/24/gm-buick-launch-plug-ins-electric-cars-china/99578414/


Renault Zoe electric-car owners can double their range by
upgrading leased batteries. When the updated 2017 Renault Zoe was
unveiled last fall at the Paris auto show, it became one of the
few electric cars whose range effectively doubled over its model
life. Launched in 2012 with a 22-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion
battery, the five-door subcompact hatchback had an effective
range of 60 to 90 miles.
http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1109564_renault-zoe-electric-car-owners-can-double-their-range-by-upgrading-leased-batteries


State offering rebate on new electric vehicles. New program also
expands number of charging stations statewide. New Yorkers
looking to buy a new car now have a big reason to go electric.
The Rebate Electric Vehicle program (REV) will provide up to
$2,000 off the sticker price for state residents who buy an
electric car from participating dealerships.
http://legislativegazette.com/archives/4899 

VW RECALL

Environmental officials praise engineers to uncovered Volkswagen
emissions fraud. The California Environmental Protection Agency's
Air Resources Board, convening in Riverside, paused from hearings
Friday morning to honor engineers on staff who detected
Volkswagen's attempts to hide excess emissions from its diesel
vehicles through a "defeat device."
http://www.pe.com/articles/environmental-828243-air-protection.html


Could Trump's EPA reopen the VW settlement? States are preparing
for a multibillion-dollar influx from a Volkswagen settlement
despite new worries that U.S. EPA could rethink the deal. The
settlement, approved by a federal judge in October, requires
Volkswagen to invest $2 billion in electric vehicle charging and
provide $2.7 billion to states to cut nitrogen oxides (NOx)
pollution from old diesel engines.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2017/03/27/stories/1060052108 

GREEN ENERGY

California is shattering solar records. This bill could take
renewable energy to the next level. A month ago, California broke
its all-time solar record, with nearly 8,800 megawatts of solar
power flooding the state's main electric grid on a Friday
afternoon. The record stood until the following Wednesday, when
more than 9,000 megawatts of solar powered the Golden State…
http://www.desertsun.com/story/tech/science/energy/2017/03/27/california-shattering-solar-records-bill-could-take-renewable-energy-next-level/99536342/

Sierra Club report touts clean power as job generator. The Sierra
Club today responded to Trump administration plans to roll back
fossil fuel regulations by saying that the "clean energy"
industry employs more workers. A new report from the green group
found that solar, wind, energy efficiency and battery storage
employ 2.5 times more people than coal, oil and gas jobs…
http://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2017/03/27/stories/1060052137 

MISCELLANEOUS

L.A. County will consider tighter rules for carpool and toll
lanes. In an effort to improve sluggish speeds on the region’s
freeways, Los Angeles County transportation officials have agreed
to examine whether to impose tolls on more carpool lanes and a
higher passenger requirement for such lanes.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-carpool-lanes-20170324-story.html

Trump Executive Order Practices Are Dismantling Decades Of
Environmental. The executive order is a quick and effective tool
for President Donald Trump as he begins rewriting the 2015
regulation that “limits greenhouse-gas emissions from existing
electric utilities” and he orders “the Interior Department’s
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to lift a moratorium on federal
coal leasing.”
https://cleantechnica.com/2017/03/27/trump-executive-order-practices-dismantling-decades-environmental-protections/


OPINIONS

Back California Over Trump on Car Emissions. Thanks to a
peculiarity of U.S. law, California has special power to set car
pollution standards that affect the whole country. And the whole
country -- even the whole world -- has benefited as, over
decades, the state has pushed automakers to create ever-better
pollution-limiting technology and ever-more fuel-efficient cars.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-27/back-california-over-trump-on-car-emissions

Should Fuel Economy Standards Be Weakened? President Donald Trump
announced this month that his administration plans to review fuel
economy standards set by President Barack Obama's administration.
The Obama administration's regulations would set the average fuel
economy to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, but Trump's review
makes a rollback a possibility.
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/debate-club/articles/2017-03-27/is-weakening-fuel-economy-standards-a-good-idea

What You Can Do About Climate Change. What can you — just one
concerned person — do about global warming? It may feel like a
more urgent problem these days, with proposed cuts to the
Environmental Protection Agency and each year warmer than the
previous one. You could drive a few miles fewer a year. Reduce
your speed. Turn down your thermostat in winter. Replace your
incandescent light bulbs with LEDs. 
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/25/opinion/sunday/what-you-can-do-about-climate-change.html?_r=0


Keystone Pipeline and other Trump energy policies could help
swamp Mar-a-Lago. President Trump’s State Department early Friday
signed off on a permit to allow the Keystone XL Pipeline project
to cross the border from Canada, a permit the Obama
administration had rejected as contrary to the national interest.
But Trump is less concerned with the nation’s best interests than
he is in the interests…
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-trump-global-warming-mar-a-lago-20170324-story.html

'No sign of mountains': What it was like in L.A. before today's
clean-air rules. To the editor: In 1971, my 2-year-old son and I
moved to Los Angeles from Boston. As we descended into LAX, the
clouds were dirty, an ominous shade of brown. I wondered why the
San Fernando Valley was called a valley; there was no sign of
mountains when I drove to work through the canyons to Van Nuys.
(“Will Trump erect a roadblock to Southern California's
decades-long fight against smog?,” March 17)
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-clean-air-smog-los-angeles-20170324-story.html


Don't reopen Aliso Canyon until we know what caused the worst
methane leak in history. In the wake of the Aliso Canyon methane
leak — the largest such leak in U.S. history, which temporarily
displaced 8,000 families from their homes — what’s wrong with
using some common-sense caution before reopening the natural gas
storage facility?
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-aliso-canyon-close-20170323-story.html


How refineries' greed sank an environmental program that was
saving them millions. Just over a year ago, Southern California’s
refinery industry was riding high. With a last-minute blitz in
December 2015, the refineries had torpedoed a tough
anti-pollution plan that had been painstakingly developed by
regional environmental officials over the previous 37 months. The
industry plan that was approved instead continued a cap-and-trade
program…
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-refineries-reclaim-20170326-story.html


Community Voices: Water allotments still disrespect farmers.
Two-thirds of California’s total rainfall occurs in Northern
California and two-thirds of California’s population lives south
of the Delta. In California, we have two water projects that the
Central Valley and Southern California depend on for their
surface water deliveries: the Central Valley Project (a federal
project) and the State Water Project.
http://www.bakersfield.com/opinion/community-voices-water-allotments-still-disrespect-farmers/article_5b9e0af9-bf79-5916-b1f8-7f8ba7b36913.html


Paris climate change agreement is a 'bad deal', says pro-fossil
fuels EPA chief Scott Pruitt. Barack Obama had hoped ratification
of the historic international agreement would one day be viewed
as 'the moment that we finally decided to save our planet'. The
historic Paris Agreement on climate change – hailed by Barack
Obama as perhaps “the moment that we finally decided to save our
planet” – is “a bad deal”…
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/paris-agreement-scott-pruitt-climate-change-bad-deal-fossil-fuels-global-warming-a7651856.html


Commentary: running fast to stand still. Even by their tumultuous
standards, oil markets have had an exciting two years. Prices
collapsed to unimaginably low levels following a half-decade of
high and seemingly predictable prices, then recovered sharply.
Capex programs were cut, costs went into free-fall, and
efficiency ruled the day. The political environment was quite
volatile as well with major producers like…
http://www.iea.org/newsroom/news/2017/march/commentary-running-fast-to-stand-still-.html


Can Trump’s Proposal Save The Coal Industry? Climate change may
not be a significant factor in the decision-making processes of
the United States government, according to the White House. As
per a directive signed by President Donald Trump, decisions
concerning anything from appliance standards to pipeline
approvals will be made without considering climate change as
largely as has been done in the past.
http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Can-Trumps-Proposal-Save-The-Coal-Industry.html


Fuel Economy Rules: Someone is Listening. The recent announcement
that the Trump Administration was taking another look at
Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards was a welcome
reality check for what is a complex and multi-layered issue.
There was an immediate knee jerk reaction that this will send us
back to the days of muscle cars and wanton pollution when in
truth it may be one of the most positive…
http://www.biofuelsdigest.com/bdigest/2017/03/27/fuel-economy-rules-someone-is-listening/




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