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newsclips -- CARB Newsclips for June 13, 2017.
Posted: 13 Jun 2017 14:30:19
CARB Newsclips for June 13, 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 June 14, 2017 meeting of the AB 32 Environmental Justice Advisory Committee has been rescheduled to June 23, 2017 from 10:00 am to 3:30 pm (PDT) at the CalEPA Headquarters Building, Training Room 1 1001 “I” Street, Sacramento, California 95814. The meeting notice and agenda are posted at: www.arb.ca.gov/cc/ejac/meetings/meetings.htm ___________________________ 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 CAP AND TRADE Ontario earmarks $200M from cap and trade to make schools greener. Money is part of the $1.4B slated for school renewal and repair in the province this year. Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and Education Minister Mitzie Hunter announced on Tuesday that $200 million from the province's cap and trade program will go towards making schools in the province more energy efficient. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-cap-and-trade-schools-funds-energy-energy-wynne-hunter-1.4158260 AIR POLLUTION L.A. and Long Beach mayors sign pact setting zero-emissions goals for ports. The mayors of Los Angeles and Long Beach signed an agreement Monday directing the nation’s largest port complex to reduce air pollution by moving toward zero-emission trucks and yard equipment. The two-page declaration signed by L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti and Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia says the ports “shall advance clean technologies and other efforts to move toward the goal of zero emissions”… http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-ports-clean-air-20170612-story.html Air monitoring program in San Ysidro launches public web tracker. Researchers and health advocates have recently launched a website to track in real time air pollution in San Ysidro, where residents have long complained about emissions pollution from the steady stream of vehicles crossing the U.S. border with Mexico. Air monitoring at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, the busiest land crossing in the Western Hemisphere, has been inconsistent and inconclusive. http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/environment/sd-me-ysidro-air-monitoring-20170613-story.html Expert: Every home located on toxic plume in El Cajon should be tested. There is no doubt now that some residents of two mobile home parks in El Cajon have been exposed to toxic gas seeping into their homes from a plume of contaminated groundwater. Recent air testing and a newly released health risk study make that clear. Residents of the Starlight Mobile Home Park and Greenfield Mobile Estates… http://inewsource.org/2017/06/12/whose-homes-will-be-tested/ IG scrutinizes EPA oversight of air quality models. U.S. EPA's inspector general is set to look at the agency's approval process for air quality dispersion models recommended for use by state, local and tribal air pollution regulators, according to a notice posted today on the IG's website. Regulators rely on such models to simulate the paths of pollutants after they're released into the atmosphere… https://www.eenews.net/eenewspm/2017/06/12/stories/1060055909 EPA fights green groups' bid to pursue Wyo. haze suit. U.S. EPA and power companies are teaming up in opposition to environmentalists’ legal challenge to a Wyoming haze reduction rule to reduce pollution from several Wyoming coal-fired power plants, including Dave Johnston Power Plant. PacifiCorp. U.S. EPA is again siding with the state of Wyoming and power producers to oppose a bid by environmentalists… https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2017/06/13/stories/1060055957 FUELS World Coal Production Just Had Its Biggest Drop on Record. It’s the end of an era for coal. Production of the fossil fuel dropped by a record amount in 2016, according to BP Plc’s annual review of global energy trends. China, the world’s biggest energy consumer, burned the least coal in six years and use dropped in the U.S to a level last seen in the 1970s, the company’s data show. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-13/coal-s-era-starts-to-wane-as-world-shifts-to-cleaner-energy VEHICLES China to clamp down on new car plants in fight against capacity glut, pollution. China's top state planner said it would tighten regulations for building new factories for traditional petrol-burning vehicles, as the country cracks down on "zombie" firms and pushes automakers to convert to non-polluting electric vehicles. China's central government sees electric vehicles as a way for its industry to leapfrog ahead of international competitors… http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-autos-overcapacity-idUSKBN19314U FIAT/CHRYSLER (FCA) Diesels Spew More Pollution Than Allowed Too. Emissions documented by same lab that uncovered VW scandal. U.S. alleges Fiat used defeat devices to evade emissions tests. Fiat Chrysler diesel vehicles spewed pollution as much as 20 times the legal limit, according to testing by the same researchers who exposed the Volkswagen AG emissions cheating scandal. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-13/vw-sleuths-say-fiat-diesels-spew-more-pollution-than-allowed-too GREEN ENERGY Global energy demand stumbles for third year –BP. Global energy demand continued its sluggish growth last year as China's growth fell to its lowest in nearly 20 years while renewables flourished, BP said in a report on Tuesday. Slower demand growth helped stall the acceleration of greenhouse gases emissions for a third year to levels not seen since the 1980s, although emissions remained well above targets set out by nations in Paris in 2015 to fight climate change, BP said. https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-bp-energy-idUSKBN1941S7 OPINIONS Life Support for Coal Will Make the U.S. an Energy Backwater. The market made natural gas more appealing, and the future is in renewables anyway. In the run-up to World War I, German general Erich Ludendorff was said to have described his country’s alliance with the decaying Austro-Hungarian empire as like being “shackled to a corpse.” That phrase aptly describes the situation the U.S. will find itself in if it continues to bet on coal as the fuel of the future. The coal industry is dying. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-13/life-support-for-coal-will-make-the-u-s-an-energy-backwater BLOGS The EPA Budget Cuts Are A Direct Attack on Our Air, Water, and Health. Congress will have a chance this week to question why Scott Pruitt proposes to eviscerate the Environmental Protection Agency budget by 30%. Let that sink in—nearly a third of the agency’s activities could vanish. That is unless leaders in Congress stop such a hemorrhage and restore safeguards put in place to protect the air that Americans breathe and the water we drink. http://blog.ucsusa.org/brenda-ekwurzel/trump-pruitt-epa-budget-cuts Survey: Majority of Americans want states to take the lead on climate change. A majority of Americans believe states should take the lead to address climate change if the federal government fails to act. That’s one of the findings of the latest in a series of National Surveys on Energy and Environment. Sarah Mills is with the Center for Local, State and Urban Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. http://michiganradio.org/post/survey-majority-americans-want-states-take-lead-climate-change California to Trump: We’ll Fund Clean Energy If You Won’t. Amid federal cuts, some state scientists and senators think California should create an energy research effort similar to its breakaway stem-cell initiative. In 2004, nearly 60 percent of California voters approved a ballot measure that dedicated $3 billion to embryonic-stem-cell research, in an act of democratic defiance aimed at President George W. Bush’s earlier ban on federal funding. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608083/california-to-trump-well-fund-clean-energy-if-you-wont/ Big Oil lauds Paris pullout but warns of rising seas, severe storms. Fossil fuel companies are among the biggest supporters of President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris climate accord. Yet federal documents reveal that some companies are well aware of the severe risks of a warming planet. In filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, several oil and pipeline companies acknowledge that climate change… https://www.revealnews.org/article/big-oil-lauds-paris-pullout-but-warns-of-rising-seas-severe-storms/ Miami Considers Converting Residential Land Into Floodwater Parks. In order to mitigate the increased flooding risk in Miami’s low-lying neighborhoods, scientists and government officials in the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact have considered converting developed residential land back into natural spaces designed to hold floodwater. http://www.builderonline.com/land/development/miami-considers-converting-residential-land-into-floodwater-parks_c The three-minute story of 800,000 years of climate change with a sting in the tail.There are those who say the climate has always changed, and that carbon dioxide levels have always fluctuated. That's true. But it's also true that since the industrial revolution, CO₂ levels in the atmosphere have climbed to levels that are unprecedented over hundreds of millennia. So here's a short video we made, to put recent climate change and carbon dioxide… https://phys.org/news/2017-06-three-minute-story-years-climate-tail.html#jCp Google can now map the air pollution levels of city roads: Firm can pinpoint toxic hot spots in a bid to help commuters find a healthier route. Google is now using its all-seeing Street View vehicles to map the pollution levels of city roads. The cars have been fitted with sensors to detect pollutants and map a city's most toxic hot spots in a bid to help commuters find a healthier route. The map reveals that levels of harmful pollutants at junctions http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4599902/Google-Street-View-maps-air-pollution-help-commuters.html#ixzz4jubMzI9D