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newsclips -- CARB Newsclips for March 30, 2017.
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CARB Newsclips for March 30, 2017. This is a service of the California Air Resources Board’s Office of Communications. You may need to sign in or register with individual websites to view some of the following news articles. 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/ Air Resources Board staff have posted a white paper on the health benefits of physical activity and air pollution exposure while walking and bicycling for transportation. Download the White Paper: https://www.arb.ca.gov/research/vprp/physical_activity_and_health_final_161216.pdf For more information, including the White Paper and other resources, visit our Built Environment webpage: https://www.arb.ca.gov/research/vprp/vprp.htm A fact sheet summarizing this document can be found here: https://www.arb.ca.gov/html/fact_sheets/physical_activity_fact_sheet.pdf CAP AND TRADE Despite long odds, experts game carbon-pricing scenarios. What's the best way to build support for pricing carbon when the president calls climate change a hoax? One answer: Make sure it raises a lot of money. A group of experts from across the political spectrum met yesterday at the conservative Hoover Institution to put odds on passing a carbon tax in a political atmosphere of open climate skepticism under President Trump. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2017/03/30/stories/1060052338 AIR POLLUTION Study: Dirty air from global trade kills at home and abroad. A study that measures the human toll of air pollution from global manufacturing and trade shows how buying goods made far away can lead to premature deaths both there and close to home. More than 750,000 people die prematurely from dirty air every year that is generated by making goods in one location that will be sold elsewhere… http://www.denverpost.com/2017/03/30/dirty-air-global-trade-kills/ Here’s how air pollution kills 3,450,000 people a year. Coal is costly. Air Pollution kills. A study released yesterday in the journal Nature found that in 2007, air pollution lead to the premature deaths of 3.45 million people worldwide—a number equivalent to the population of the state of Connecticut. And to add insult to injury, air pollution doesn’t respect borders. http://www.popsci.com/air-pollution-death#page-2 Pollution scientists fear 'collateral damage' of climate purge. It's morning rush hour in January, and two Ph.D. students at Carnegie Mellon University are trundling into the Breathemobile, a van specially outfitted as a mobile laboratory, to study Pittsburgh's air pollution. For the next few hours, the pair will drive in 1-square-kilometer loops around parts of the city, using specialized equipment to collect data on gaseous pollutants… http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2017/03/30/stories/1060052336 CLIMATE CHANGE Apple, Wal-Mart Stick With Climate Pledges Despite Trump’s Pivot. Many of America’s biggest corporations including Apple Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. are sticking by their pledges to fight climate change even as President Donald Trump guts his predecessor’s environmental policies. Companies say their pledges, coordinated by the Obama administration, reflect their push to cut energy costs… https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-03-30/apple-wal-mart-stick-with-climate-pledges-despite-trump-s-pivot The White House’s claim that the carbon emissions rule ‘could cost up to $39 billion a year’. President Trump has started rolling back Obama-era environmental protections, including directing federal regulators to rewrite federal rules to reduce carbon emissions. The Clean Power Plan, a flagship environmental regulatory rule… https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/03/30/the-white-houses-claim-that-the-carbon-emissions-rule-could-cost-up-to-39-billion-a-year/?utm_term=.60d5f0dd3b5c China Poised to Take Lead on Climate After Trump’s Move to Undo Policies. For years, the Obama administration prodded, cajoled and beseeched China to make commitments to limit the use of fossil fuels to try to slow the global effects of climate change. President Obama and other American officials saw the pledges from both Beijing and Washington as crucial: China is the largest emitter of greenhouse gases, followed by the United States. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/world/asia/trump-climate-change-paris-china.html?ref=energy-environment&_r=0 Climate change on exhibit at two Chicago museums. t a museum on the South Side of Chicago, newly mounted photographs and video detail the disappearance, due to rising temperatures, of glaciers that are hundreds of years old. It's a breathtaking display of natural beauty, fading. At one on the North Side, a new exhibit demonstrates the effects of climate change on our homes and surroundings. http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-climate-change-exhibitions-ent-0330-20170329-story.html In Setback for Exxon, Texas Judge Kicks Climate Change Case to New York. The oil company loses its home court advantage before a sympathetic judge who has voiced skepticism over the climate fraud investigations by state attorneys general. A federal judge handling ExxonMobil's dispute with the attorneys general of New York and Massachusetts has transferred the case about climate change from his court in Texas to one in New York. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30032017/exxonmobil-climate-change-research-ny-attorney-general-investigation Climate change: China calls US 'selfish' after Trump seeks to bring back coal. State-run tabloid says Beijing cannot fill vacuum left by US and urges west to pressure Trump on global warming. Chinese state media has lambasted Donald Trump’s efforts to roll back many Obama-era environmental regulations, with a state-run tabloid saying that: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/30/climate-change-china-us-selfish-trump-coal 'Climate change is real': companies challenge Trump's reversal of policy. Mars Inc, Staples, The Gap and others speak out against Trump’s sweeping executive order that begins to dismantle Obama’s Clean Power Plan. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/29/climate-change-companies-challenge-trump-mars-staples-gap On balance, the world wants Trump to stay. The world is prepared to put up with quite a lot to keep the United States in the Paris climate deal. If White House officials who want the United States to remain part of the 2015 agreement prevail in what appears to be an ongoing tug of war within the administration, the trade-off is likely to be weaker emissions commitments… http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2017/03/30/stories/1060052328 DROUGHT South African government says El Nino drought likely in 2017. Drought conditions associated with an El Nino weather pattern are likely to reoccur in a few months’ time, the South African government said on Thursday."Recurrence of El Niño drought conditions likely ... The next summer season has increased the likelihood for the development of El Nino conditions which are often associated with drought… http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKBN1712DI-OZATP DIESEL ACTIVITIES Blue Bird Vision school bus receives EPA, CARB certifications. The Blue Bird Vision Gasoline bus recently received full certification from both the Environmental Protection Agency and California Air Resources Board, the company announced. The Blue Bird Vision Gasoline bus is certified to the federal standard of 0.20 nitrogen oxide emissions. http://fleetowner.com/running-green/blue-bird-vision-school-bus-receives-epa-carb-certifications FUELS Calif. Democrats propose $52B gas tax, fee repair package. California Democrats want to hike fuel taxes and car registration fees and charge zero-emissions vehicle owners $100 per year to fund $52.4 billion in transportation fixes. Gov. Jerry Brown (D) and Democratic leaders yesterday announced they'd reached an agreement to support a deal after two years of effort. http://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2017/03/30/stories/1060052343 VEHICLES Sacramento tries to fend off L.A. in race for $44 million from VW to boost electric cars. The money is practically within Sacramento’s grasp – a $44 million jackpot, funded by Volkswagen to help make amends for an air-pollution scandal, to promote the use of electric cars within the city. California’s other polluted communities aren’t just letting Sacramento walk away with the cash, however. http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/transportation/article141589699.html#storylink=cpy VW RECALL Volkswagen says U.S. approves sale of modified diesel vehicles. Volkswagen AG (VOWG_p.DE) said the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved its request to sell up to 67,000 diesel vehicles from the 2015 model year, including about 12,000 currently in dealer inventory with approved emissions modifications. The vehicles in inventory were held when the company issued a stop sale in September 2015… http://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-emissions-idUSKBN17102C Volkswagen agrees to pay $157M to settle 10 state's emission claims. Volkswagen, Audi, and Porsche Thursday agreed to pay $157 million to 10 states to settle lawsuits against them over emissions violations. New York will receive $32.5 million of the settlement, which was filed in U.S. District Court in California, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced. The car companies are said to have secretly … http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/volkswagen-pay-157m-settle-10-state-emission-claims-article-1.3013840 A.G. Schneiderman Announces Volkswagen To Pay New York $32.5 Million For Emissions Violations. Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced today that Volkswagen AG, Audi AG and Porsche AG, as well as their American subsidiaries, have agreed to pay over $157 million to ten states – including $32.5 million to New York – to settle the environmental lawsuits first filed last summer by New York and Massachusetts challenging the companies’… http://www.longisland.com/news/03-30-17/ag-schneiderman-announces-volkswagen-to-pay-new-york-325-million-for-emissions-violations.html GREEN ENERGY Northeast needs more land for wind, solar to flourish — study. Clean energy goals in more than a half-dozen Northeastern states may flounder unless regulators, elected officials and developers do more to mollify political opposition and build rural public support for wind and solar farms, a new analysis has found. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2017/03/30/stories/1060052340 MISCELLANEOUS EPA chief, rejecting agency’s own analysis, declines to ban pesticide despite health concerns. The new head of the Environmental Protection Agency refused Wednesday to ban a commonly used pesticide that the Obama administration had sought to outlaw based on mounting concerns about its risks to human health. The chemical compound chlorpyrifos, also known as Lorsban, has been used by farmers for more than a half-century to kill pests on crops. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/03/29/trump-epa-declines-to-ban-pesticide-that-obama-had-proposed-outlawing/?utm_term=.bbb8d5afa36f https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/us/politics/epa-insecticide-chlorpyrifos.html?_r=4 http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-pesticide-epa-201703230-story.html http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/03/29/epa-refuses-to-ban-controversial-pesticide-popular-in-california/ http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/environment/article141697754.html OPINIONS Magical thinking won’t reverse climate change. California Air Resources Board Chairwoman Mary Nichols asked an excellent question of automakers the other day. “What were you thinking when you threw yourselves upon the mercy of the Trump administration to try to solve your problems?” she asked representatives of foreign and domestic automakers. It’s a question we ask, too. http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/editorials/article141358968.html#storylink=cpy California will fight to keep our air clean. Mary Nichols, chairwoman of the California Air Resources Board, asked an excellent question of automakers the other day. “What were you thinking when you threw yourselves upon the mercy of the Trump administration to try to solve your problems?” she asked those representing foreign and domestic carmakers. http://www.mercedsunstar.com/opinion/editorials/article141581744.html#storylink=cpy Editorial: California must put brakes on VW’s EV plan. The California Air Resources Board needs to put the brakes on Volkswagen’s plan for spending the $800 million settlement of its diesel emissions scandal. CARB admitted earlier this year that the disgraced automaker will be allowed to use the settlement to make a profit. http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/03/29/editorial-california-must-put-brakes-on-vws-ev-plan/ Trump’s Pro-Coal Orders Are Doomed to Fail. Donald Trump signed an executive order at the Environmental Protection Agency to undo widely-supported Obama-era climate policies. The Trump Administration is also seeking a 31 percent cut to the EPA’s budget and to eliminate most climate research programs at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. http://time.com/4709796/trump-epa-climate-fossil-fuels/?xid=homepage Alan Stahler: Where did that drought come from? That was one hairy drought, not so long ago. Could it be pinned on our changing climate, or was it another example of the climate's usual twists and turns, its natural variability? I spoke recently with Richard Seager (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University). Seager is lead author of a paper, "Causes of the 2011-14 California Drought," published in the Journal of Climate. http://www.theunion.com/entertainment/alan-stahler-where-did-that-drought-come-from/ States to Trump: We’re Not Backing Down on Climate, Clean Air. Last week the California Air Resources Board unanimously voted to finalize new regulations to reduce oil and gas methane emissions. This is the first major environmental regulation that has been issued since the new Administration took office, and sends a clear message that states aren’t going to take the new administrations attacks on the environment lying down. http://www.theenergycollective.com/edfenergyex/2401399/states-trump-not-backing-climate-clean-air Trust No One. Without public notice, in the absence of any staff analysis, contrary to the direction of the South Coast Air Quality Management District, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) adopted a resolution that will drive up the cost of delivering goods to market and harm the competitiveness of California’s ports. On Thursday, March 23rd, following the closure of public comments, the CARB Board adopted a resolution that will require moving forward… http://www.foxandhoundsdaily.com/2017/03/trust-no-one/ BLOGS Air Resources Board Releases White Paper on Health Benefits of Activity. Ah, yes, the ideal way to get some of that healthy physical activity: clean air, a park, a safe bike path. Not coincidentally, the happy family in the image is white. Ah, yes, the ideal way to get some of that healthy physical activity: clean air, a park, a safe bike path. http://cal.streetsblog.org/2017/03/29/air-resources-board-releases-white-paper-on-health-benefits-of-activity/ Volkswagen approved to sell repaired 2015 diesels, but will anyone want them? Volkswagen has been prohibited from selling diesel vehicles in the U.S. since news of its emissions-test-cheating fiasco first broke in September 2015. According to company spokesperson Jeannine Ginivan, however, that's about to change. Well, sort of. Don't get too excited just yet, diesel fans. http://www.thecarconnection.com/news/1109643_volkswagen-approved-to-sell-repaired-2015-diesels-but-will-anyone-want-them NY reaps $32.5M in multi-state settlement with Volkswagen. New York will receive $32.5 million as part of a 10-state $157 million settlement with Volkswagen AG and others over use of “defeat device” software that helped vehicles pass emissions tests when they actually were spewing out more emissions than the tests showed. http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/273578/ny-reaps-32-5m-in-multi-state-settlement-with-volkswagen/ California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips.