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CARB BUSINESS

Thursday, June 15, 2017 at 10:00 a.m., PDT (WEBCAST) Sierra
Hearing Room, 2nd Floor, CalEPA Building
1001 I Street, Sacramento, California

The 2010 emission standards for heavy-duty engines have
established a limit for oxides of nitrogen (NOX) emissions of
0.20 g/bhp-hr, a 90% reduction from the previous emission
standards. However, it is projected that even when the entire
on-road fleet of heavy-duty vehicles operating in California is
compliant with the 2010 NOX emission standards, the upcoming
National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) requirements for
ambient particulate matter and ozone will not be achieved in
California without further significant reduction in NOX emissions
from the heavy-duty vehicles.
https://www.arb.ca.gov/research/seminars/sharp/sharp.htm    

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The California Air Resources Board in collaboration with the
South Coast Air Quality Management District and the Los Angeles
Department of Water and Power, is holding a free professional wet
cleaning demonstration workshop.   

The free workshop will be held on Sunday, June 11, 2017 from
2:00PM - 4:00PM in
Los Angeles.  Doors open at 1:45 PM.

Venue: London Cleaners, 1073 Gayley Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90024. 

Space is limited.  Register early at
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-professional-wet-cleaning-demonstration-workshop-for-dry-cleaners-tickets-33498967313
 or by searching for "wet cleaning workshop" on Eventbrite at:
http://www.eventbrite.com         

For more details about the workshop, please visit ARB's Non-Toxic
Dry Cleaning Incentive Program (AB998) website at:
http://www.arb.ca.gov/toxics/dryclean/ab998.htm 

AIR POLLUTION

'Lack of progress' prompts study of Portland air pollution
authority. Growing impatient for Oregon legislators to clean up
Portland's toxic air, Multnomah County and city leaders want to
do it themselves. The county and city said Wednesday that they
will spend $120,000 to study creating a metropolitan air
pollution authority. Such an agency would take power away from
the state Department of Environmental Quality…
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2017/06/lack_of_progress_prompts_study.html


Deportation fears among LA residents near shuttered Exide plant
could impact health study. Nearly 20,000 residents near the
shuttered Exide Technologies battery recycling plant could be
visited Saturday as part of what Los Angeles County officials
called a massive, unprecedented effort to gather health
information from those who have lived for years near the
chemical-spewing facility.
http://www.dailynews.com/health/20170607/deportation-fears-among-la-residents-near-shuttered-exide-plant-could-impact-health-study


EPA isn't ensuring refiners meet benzene standards — IG. When
U.S. EPA regulators set limits on benzene content in gasoline in
2007, they predicted the new rule would eventually cut emissions
of the toxic chemical by 20,000 tons per year. A decade later,
however, the agency needs to do more to make sure refiners and
importers are meeting those standards, EPA Inspector General
Arthur Elkins said in a report released this morning.
https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2017/06/08/stories/1060055766 

CLIMATE CHANGE

California businesses join, pay for Gov. Brown’s China trip. Gov.
Jerry Brown has company on his trip to China to further his
climate change agenda: About 30 California business leaders are
along for the ride to support Brown’s policies and build their
own business deals. The business delegation is led by the Bay
Area Council business advocacy organization and includes
executives at transportation…
https://www.apnews.com/146d04e81b2e472e9af6fffdf204998f/California-businesses-join,-pay-for-Gov.-Brown's-China-trip


Canada’s Strategy on Climate Change: Work With American States.
The timing was coincidental, but the meeting had a new urgency.
One day after President Trump withdrew the United States from the
Paris climate accord — saying he was elected to serve Pittsburgh,
not Paris…
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/world/canada/canadas-strategy-on-climate-change-work-with-american-states.html?_r=0


New York Senate Democrats urge GOP to fight climate change. State
Senate Democrats are calling on the chamber's Republican majority
to meet New York's progressive stance in combatting climate
change. Democratic Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins, of Westchester,
on Wednesday sent a letter to Republican majority leader John
Flanagan, urging him to advance bills to address climate change…
http://wnyt.com/politics/new-york-senate-democrats-urge-gop-to-fight-climate-change/4507779/


Global warming unabated: Carbon dioxide tallied 2nd-largest rise
on record last year. As President Trump announced the U.S.
withdrawal from the landmark Paris climate agreement last week,
federal scientists reported 2016 tallied the second-largest rise
in atmospheric carbon dioxide ever recorded. Carbon dioxide is
the "greenhouse" gas scientists say is most responsible for
global warming.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/sciencefair/2017/06/07/carbon-dioxide-tallied-2nd-largest-rise-record-last-year/102595430/


What price are Californians paying to fight climate change?
Californians pay about 15 cents a gallon extra at the pump to
fight climate change. Here’s what they’re getting for their
money: continued progress in the effort to curb carbon.
Greenhouse gas emissions fell by 1.5 million tons in California
in 2015, state officials announced Wednesday. The reduction was
the equivalent of pulling 300,000 cars off the road for a year,
according to the California Air Resources Board.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/environment/article154963014.html#storylink=cpy


California Governor Jerry Brown is heading back to California,
after five whirlwind days in China. The trip ended much as it
began. Brown walked through a lush garden and tranquil pond at
Beijing city hall to once again sit with a government official.
"Well, I’m very glad to be here," says Brown. "I was a mayor
myself, the city of Oakland."
http://www.capradio.org/articles/2017/06/08/gov-brown-heads-back-to-california-after-china-visit/


Alan Finkel: the man who could bring peace to Australia's climate
wars. The chief scientist has been a neuroscientist, engineer and
a one-man start-up machine - now he's turned his hand to
politics. One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts was waiting but Alan
Finkel was ready. The chief scientist, who has a PhD in
electrical engineering and worked as a postdoctoral research
fellow in neuroscience…
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/alan-finkel-the-man-who-could-bring-peace-to-australias-climate-wars-20170608-gwn0cb.html


State says it is reducing greenhouse gas emissions as economy
grows. The California Air Resources Board says the latest
statewide inventory of greenhouse gas emissions shows significant
reductions even as the state has its strongest economic growth
since 2005. “This data shows once again that California’s
groundbreaking greenhouse gas emission-reduction programs are
working as designed,” says Mary Nichols, chairman of the
California Air Resources Board.
http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?ID=32745 

Climate change could boost Lyme disease this year. Researchers
expect Lyme disease infections to spike as climate change makes
more areas of the world hospitable to the tick-borne bacteria
that cause it. The incidence of Lyme infections has already
doubled in the United States since 1991, to about eight cases per
100,000 people. And a confluence of climate factors could make
this year even worse.
https://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2017/06/08/stories/1060055701


Most science teachers don't understand climate change — study.
Many science teachers in Florida and Puerto Rico, among the
country's most at-risk regions to climate change, hold wrong and
naive views of climate science, a study has found. The authors of
the report, published in the International Journal of Science and
Mathematics Education, surveyed science teachers working at
secondary schools who "claimed to deeply teach climate change."
https://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2017/06/08/stories/1060055739


DIESEL ACTIVITIES

CARB certifies ROUSH CleanTech propane engine to .05 g/bhp-hr
NOx. CleanTech has developed the first propane autogas engine
available in class 4-7 vehicles and Blue Bird Type C buses
certified to the optional low NOx level .05 g/bhp-hr. These new
Environmental Protection Agency- and California Air Resources
Board-certified propane engines are 75% cleaner than the current
emissions standard.
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2017/06/20170608-roush.html 

A Changing Climate: Is There Still a Case for Greener Trucks?
Diesel is cheap, and environmental funding is under

attack. Black smoke was once the inky signature of diesel
engines everywhere. Now it has all but disappeared. A 1998 model
year truck actually belched 35 times more smog-producing NOx and
60 times more particulate matter than equipment built… 
http://www.truckinginfo.com/channel/fuel-smarts/article/story/2017/06/a-changing-climate-is-there-still-a-case-for-greener-trucks.aspx


FUELS

African Oil Trader Taleveras Takes First Step Into Biofuels.
Taleveras Group, the African oil trading company, is making its
first moves into renewable energy by setting up a joint venture
to build a biorefinery in the U.S. with Global Green Development
Group. “The world is changing,’’ said Chairman Igho Sanomi in an
interview in London. “People are getting more aware on the
climate, so cleaner fuels are the future.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-07/african-oil-trader-taleveras-takes-first-step-into-biofuels


GREEN ENERGY

Biggest Job Growth Expected in Health Care & Renewable Energy.
The occupation expected to grow the most over the next several
years isn’t for the faint of heart. Jobs for wind turbine
technicians—the people who install, maintain and repair wind
turbines—are expected to increase 108 percent by 2024, more than
any other profession. But it’s still a small industry overall.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-job-projections-2024/ 

The Energy 202: Seven former heads of Energy renewables office
balk at Trump budget. On Thursday, all seven former
Senate-confirmed heads of the Energy Department’s renewables
office -- including three former Republican administration
officials -- told Congress and the Trump administration that the
deep budget cut proposed for that office would cripple its
ability to function.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-energy-202/2017/06/08/the-energy-202-seven-former-heads-of-energy-renewables-office-balk-at-trump-budget/593819cde9b69b2fb981dc81/?utm_term=.f668ad1918aa


DOE To Coal Miners: Drop Dead (Or Work On A Wind Farm In Texas)
Energy Secretary Rick Perry has just pulled back the curtain on
the Trump energy policy, and it ain’t pretty if you depend on
coal for a living. In a new DOE blog post, Perry discusses the US
withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement and lays out the case
for the US to “protect the environment”...
https://cleantechnica.com/2017/06/08/doe-coal-miners-drop-dead-work-wind-farm-texas/


'Spectacular' drop in renewable energy costs leads to record
global boost. Renewable energy capacity around the world was
boosted by a record amount in 2016 and delivered at a markedly
lower cost, according to new global data – although the total
financial investment in renewables actually fell. The greater
“bang-for-buck” resulted from plummeting prices for solar and
wind power and led to new power deals in countries including…
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/06/spectacular-drop-in-renewable-energy-costs-leads-to-record-global-boost

3 Growth Stocks in Renewable Energy. It's getting harder and
harder for any serious investor to overlook renewable energy
investments as just a simple fad. The economics of solar and wind
energy improve every day and now -- depending on where they are
deployed -- are often cheaper power sources than traditional
fossil fuels. On top of that, you have older, more established
power sources…
http://journalstar.com/business/investment/markets-and-stocks/growth-stocks-in-renewable-energy/article_523507a9-f9ff-5f84-84bb-c0b173100b33.html


Solar expansion slows compared with red-hot 2016. Falling costs
for U.S. solar power helped fuel a sixth consecutive quarter with
at least 2 gigawatts of new photovoltaic capacity coming online
between January and March, industry data released this morning
show. The latest market numbers from the Solar Energy Industries
Association and partner GTM Research show an industry…
https://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2017/06/08/stories/1060055715


ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

Environmental Justice Resides in Green Limbo at the EPA. For some
on the left, justice comes in many forms. There is not just
social justice, but also reproductive justice, which seeks to
support access to birth control and abortion, and now
environmental justice. The term itself is not new. Environmental
justice emerged as a concept in the late 1970s and early 1980s,
when the environmentalists used civil rights laws…
http://www.insidesources.com/environmental-justice-office-limbo-epa/


Passion for environmental justice fuels urban oil drilling study.
A UCLA-student–led survey uncovered stark disparities in public
health outcomes for L.A. neighborhoods with oil and gas drilling.
It’s L.A.’s dirty little secret: 6,717 oil and natural gas wells
operate within the Los Angeles Basin — even in residential
communities. This spring, six UCLA seniors surveyed residents of
one such community, Wilmington…
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/passion-for-environmental-justice-fuels-urban-oil-drilling-study


OPINIONS

A Nationalist Strategy for Climate Change. Trump's approach is
bumptious. It doesn't have to be. President Donald Trump has been
defending his plan to withdraw from the Paris climate-change
accord on nationalist grounds. Announcing the decision last week,
he said he was “elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh,
not Paris.” Vice President Mike Pence, in Iowa, said that Trump
had shown he is “more concerned…
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-07/a-nationalist-strategy-for-climate-change


‘No viable solutions’ to global warming? Not exactly accurate.
“As yet, there are no viable solutions” to global warming, Robert
J. Samuelson bemoaned in his June 5 op-ed, “The truth about
warming: We don’t yet have solutions.” “We need to keep searching
and hope that something turns up.” Mr. Samuelson should broaden
his analysis. As author John Michael Greer has written, climate
change…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/no-viable-solutions-to-global-warming-not-exactly-accurate/2017/06/07/1a76b66e-4acb-11e7-987c-42ab5745db2e_story.html?utm_term=.c611ebe055f5


The U.S. Can’t Leave the Paris Climate Deal Just Yet. Last week,
President Trump announced that the United States would withdraw
from the Paris climate agreement. But it will take more than one
speech to pull out: Under the rules of the deal, which the White
House says it will follow, the earliest any country can leave is
Nov. 4, 2020.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/climate/trump-paris-climate-timeline.html?src=twr&_r=2&smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

CO2 isn't air pollution. Trump Derangement Syndrome rears its
ugly head again as more fake news is disseminated by the AP and
dutifully propagated by the Daily Sun with Sunday's front page
headline: "Is U.S. 'cleanest'? Hardly." Domestic leftists, that
mythical 97 percent of scientists who we're always being told
believe in climate change, and the quasi-socialist states of…
http://azdailysun.com/news/opinion/mailbag/co-isn-t-air-pollution/article_6b8f2e28-b6b4-5ecb-9ff3-9e6c0437ac2f.html


Trump totally misunderstands climate change. Climate policy is
the new culture war, driven by nearly theological passions. Or
actually theological passions -- with House Minority Leader Nancy
Pelosi claiming that Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Paris
climate accord was a "dishonor to God." While God certainly
values his creation, he is probably less concerned with the
details of implementing the Paris agreement.
http://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/story/opinion/2017/06/08/trump-totally-misunderstands-climate-change/372194001/


Climate Change Facts: Polar Bears Spending More Time Combating
Drifting Sea Ice. Polar bears living in rapidly changing
environments faced with dwindling sea ice also are facing a
treadmill-like effect from the flowing ice. Research by the U.S.
Geological Survey and the University of Wyoming shows this
treadmill is forcing the bears to spend more energy than they’re
used to.
http://www.ibtimes.com/climate-change-facts-polar-bears-spending-more-time-combating-drifting-sea-ice-2549103


How to Support Renewable Energy (and Why You Really Should). How
can you support renewable energy? Plus, why you should. Earlier
this month came the news that China plans to invest $361 billion
into renewable energy projects over the next three years. A few
days later, President Barack Obama penned a single author article
in the journal Science, "The irreversible momentum of clean
energy,"…
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-support-renewable-energy-and-why-you-really-should1/


Pollution isn't climate change. Some persons equate pollution
with climate change. Not so. Much pollution is man-caused.
However, climate change is another matter. There are much larger
factors at work, all of a physical nature. This issue has been
used by political factions for their own benefit.
http://missoulian.com/opinion/letters/pollution-isn-t-climate-change/article_6e053cde-5dfc-54a5-a89d-a29674a6790a.html

Biofuels work for Oregon. As an agricultural leader, Oregon is
already home to nearly 16,000 jobs supported by biofuel
production.  With all the hype surrounding the oil boom, it’s
tempting to pretend that America is on a glide path toward energy
independence. Unfortunately, even as fracking reached new
heights, America’s total domestic crude oil production declined
in 2016.
http://www.capitalpress.com/Opinion/Columns/20170606/biofuels-work-for-oregon
  

BLOGS

Trump Budget Bares Wholesale Disregard for Environmental Justice
Communities, But a New Bill Gives Hope. Many low-income
communities and communities of color in the U.S. have not always
enjoyed the environmental and public health benefits of
environmental safeguards. These communities and their advocates
have long demanded redress of the unequal environmental burdens
they experience….
http://blog.ucsusa.org/juan-declet-barreto/trump-budget-bares-wholesale-disregard-for-environmental-justice-communities-but-a-new-bill-gives-hope


The U.S. Must Not Abdicate Leadership On Climate Change. It was
clear from his statements while campaigning that if Donald Trump
won the presidential election, it wasn't going to be good news
for renewable energy. President Trump has spent his time in
office so far undoing environmental regulations and trying to
fulfill his campaign promise to revive the coal industry.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2017/06/08/the-u-s-must-not-abdicate-leadership-on-climate-change/#36d845f010d9


Hydrocarbon King: U.S. Ranks No.1 In 2016. Decreasing production
in 2016 not enough to dethrone U.S. oil and gas industry. Despite
the lowest commodity prices in 13 years, U.S. oil and gas
production in 2016 continued to outpace all other nations,
according to a note from the EIA. The United States has been
first in the world in natural gas production since 2009, when
American output surpassed Russia.
http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Hydrocarbon-King-US-Ranks-No1-In-2016.html


Acting on climate change and supporting coal workers – we have to
do both. President Trump’s astounding decision to pull out of the
Paris Climate Accord, packaged like a reality television season
finale, was the culmination of a terrible series of events for
those of us that care about the environment. From the beginning
of his term, President Trump has set out on an openly
anti-environmental agenda…
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/energy-environment/336839-acting-on-climate-change-and-supporting-coal-workers