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newsclips -- CARB Newsclips for June 26, 2017.
Posted: 26 Jun 2017 16:40:58
CARB Newsclips for June 26, 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 California Air Resources Board (ARB) staff has posted the staff presentation for the Workshop on June 26, 2017, that will focus on the design of a pilot financial mechanism for dairy-related projects producing low carbon fuels, as required under SB 1383 (Lara). The presentation can be found at: http://www.arb.ca.gov/fuels/lcfs/lcfs_meetings/lcfs_meetings.htm -------------------------------------------------- Do you own or operate forklifts, sweeps/scrubbers, industrial tow tractors, or airport ground support equipment? If so, this regulation may apply to your business. For more information please go to the ARB Rulemaking webpage: https://www.arb.ca.gov/regact/2016/sparkignition2016/sparkignition2016.htm -------------------------------------------------- The Large Spark-Ignition Engine Fleet Requirements Regulation (LSI Regulation) requires specific equipment be initially reported to the California Air Resources Board (CARB or Board) by June 30, 2017 and labeled by July 30, 2017. The LSI Regulation reporting user guides, importing equipment guides, the amended regulation language, and other useful LSI regulation information are available at https://www.arb.ca.gov/lsi The Air Resources Board (ARB) announces the launch of its new California Dairy and Livestock GHG Reduction Working Group (Dairy Working Group) and Subgroup list serves that will provide interested stakeholders with up-to-date information about current activities and processes. Sign-up for the main Dairy Working Group process List Serve: https://www.arb.ca.gov/listserv/listserv_ind.php?listname=dairy CAP AND TRADE AIR POLLUTION Trump administration looks to ease rule on toxic dust exposure. The Trump administration wants to exclude the shipbuilding and construction industries from an Obama-era rule to reduce workers’ exposure to a toxic material that can cause a deadly lung disease. The rule finalized on Jan. 9 reduces permissible exposure to beryllium from 2.0 micrograms per cubic meter of air to 0.2 micrograms of beryllium per cubic meter of air over an eight-hour period. http://thehill.com/regulation/pending-regs/339130-labor-dept-proposed-changes-to-worker-protection-rule CLIMATE CHANGE Carbon in Atmosphere Is Rising, Even as Emissions Stabilize. On the best days, the wind howling across this rugged promontory has not touched land for thousands of miles, and the arriving air seems as if it should be the cleanest in the world. But on a cliff above the sea, inside a low-slung government building, a bank of sophisticated machines sniffs that air day and night, revealing telltale indicators of the… https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/26/climate/carbon-in-atmosphere-is-rising-even-as-emissions-stabilize.html A flurry of recent statements show widespread climate doubt in the Trump administration. After President Trump withdrew from the Paris climate agreement, journalists repeatedly asked the White House what he thought about climate change — and couldn’t get straight answers. Since then, though, additional statements from Trump and members of his administration have provided… https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/06/23/there-really-isnt-much-mystery-about-what-trump-and-his-government-think-about-climate-change/?utm_term=.a3b906b30363 Sea level rise isn’t just happening, it’s getting faster. In at least the third such study published in the past year, scientists have confirmed seas are rising, and the rate of sea level rise is increasing as time passes — a sobering punchline for coastal communities that are only now beginning to prepare for a troubling future. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/06/26/sea-level-rise-isnt-just-happening-its-getting-faster/?utm_term=.613a5ac27d85&wpisrc=nl_most-draw7&wpmm=1 Mayors seize initiative on climate. With the Trump administration’s withdrawal from the Paris climate accord, national policy on climate change will emerge from U.S. cities working to reduce emissions and become more resilient to rising sea levels, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said at the annual U.S. Conferences of Mayors meeting in Miami Beach. The conference supported the Paris agreement… http://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/Mayors-seize-initiative-on-climate-11244846.php Experts: US exiting climate pact may doom some small islands. To small island nations where the land juts just above the rising seas, the U.S. pulling out of the Paris global warming pact makes the future seem as fragile and built on hope as a sand castle. Top scientists say it was already likely that Earth's temperatures and the world's seas will keep rising to a point where some island states may not survive through the next 100 years. http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/science/article/Experts-US-exiting-climate-pact-may-doom-some-11239108.php US Mayors Push Back Against President Trump On Climate Change. While Republicans and Democrats in Washington deeply divided over how to deal with climate change, the mayors of more than 250 cities are taking a stand. On the final day of the U.S. Conference of Mayors on Miami Beach, they unanimously backed an ambitious commitment to have their cities run entirely on renewable sources, such as wind and solar, in two decades. http://miami.cbslocal.com/2017/06/26/us-mayors-push-back-against-president-trump-on-climate-change/ U.S. mayors promise climate action, rebuke Trump. U.S. mayors voted today at their annual meeting in Miami Beach on resolutions aimed at slashing greenhouse gas emissions, approving a proposal to reach 100 percent clean energy by 2035. If each of the 1,481 cities represented in the U.S. Conference of Mayors achieves zero-carbon emissions energy by 2035, national greenhouse gas emissions would fall by 619… https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2017/06/26/stories/1060056569 Meet Jerry Brown, from 'Gov. Moonbeam' to climate beacon. Jerry Brown was taking in the rare sight of pandas gamboling on wooden platforms and munching bamboo when the impatience inside him spilled out. "They look a little lazy," he said after observing politely. "They do a lot of sitting around, don't they?"Brown doesn't have time to waste. https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060056541 HEATWAVE 12 billion gallons of water pour into Lake Tahoe amid this week's heat wave. The process of the Sierra Nevada spring snow melt sped up this week as a heat wave brought triple-digit temperatures to parts of the Western United States. A thawing snowpack that's massive after a brutal winter fed rivers and reservoirs with high-flowing runoff. One place that saw a stunning impact from all the runoff is Lake Tahoe. http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Lake-Tahoe-filling-up-snow-melt-run-off-Sierra-11242256.php DIESEL ACTIVITIES Rare electric school buses slowly gain traction. Manufacturers are gearing up this year to provide school districts with hundreds of electric student buses as they replace aging diesel rigs. Electric school buses are rare right now. They number in the dozens nationwide, but that stands to change as they move beyond the demonstration and pilot phase with improved technology. https://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2017/06/26/stories/1060056560 GREEN ENERGY The Latest: US Mayors OK Plan to Use Only Renewable Energy. The Latest on the U.S. Conference of Mayors' resolutions to fight climate change (all times local): 12:50 p.m. A bipartisan group of mayors from across the country has unanimously backed an ambitious commitment for U.S. cities to run entirely on renewable sources such as wind and solar in two decades. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/south-carolina/articles/2017-06-26/the-latest-us-mayors-ok-plan-to-use-only-renewable-energy Rooftop Solar Sales Plummet in California. California saw installation of rooftop solar panels plummet during the first three months of this year, according to new data from a clean-energy analyst. The numbers from Greentech Media (GTM) show residential solar installations in California fell more than 30 percent in the first quarter, compared to the same period last year. https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/26/rooftop-solar-sales-plummet-in-california/ Scientists search a gorge for the secrets of wind. A team of researchers looking for ways to expand the use of wind power just finished measuring wind strengths in one of the toughest areas in the world to study it, the gusty, meandering Columbia River Gorge. The 80-mile gorge between Washington and Oregon amounts to a freeway for winds entering from the Pacific Ocean. https://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2017/06/26/stories/1060056538 MISCELLANEOUS Los Angeles Metro approves $1.4B Gold Line funding extension. The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Board of Directors last week agreed to pay for an 11.5-mile, $1.4 billion extension to the Gold Line light-rail route despite not having all the necessary funding in place, according to the San Gabriel Valley Tribune. A voter-approved, half-cent sales tax hike, Measure M, will pay for all but $249 million of the San Gabriel Valley project. http://www.constructiondive.com/news/los-angeles-metro-approves-14b-gold-line-funding-extension/445763/ OPINIONS Here's the real problem with trying to tax our way out of the climate crisis. Fool's gold glitters as brightly as the real thing, but a lot of valuable time and money can be wasted figuring out the difference. The proposal to price carbon pollution in America put forward recently by noted conservatives and fossil fuel companies may be a fresh, constructive way to tackle climate change, but make no mistake… http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/26/heres-the-real-problem-with-trying-to-tax-our-way-out-of-the-climate-crisis-commentary.html BLOGS Climate Change Could Threaten Up To 2 Billion Refugees By 2100. “It’s coming at us faster than we thought.” Charles Geisler, a sociologist at Cornell University, spent much of his career researching where poor people go when rich corporations swoop in and buy the land out from under their feet. But his focus began to shift in 2005, after observing how storm surges tainted farmland in Bangladesh with salt water. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/climate-change-refugees_us_59506463e4b0da2c731c5e73 How to Tell If Your Reps Are Serious About Climate Change. In the wake of Trump pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement, how serious are your elected leaders about fighting back? Perhaps no president in recent times has unified the country, and the globe, as effectively as Donald Trump. In the hours following his rejection of the Paris climate accord, pretty much everyone who didn't actually work… http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/how-politicians-must-fight-climate-change-in-the-trump-era-w489549 California is generating so much solar energy, it's paying other states to take it Massive investment coupled with falling prices has created a perfect renewable storm in the Golden State. The Golden State may want to consider changing its nickname to the Solar State. According to a recent expose in the Los Angeles Times, California's solar boom is growing so fast and… https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/energy/blogs/california-generating-so-much-solar-energy-its-paying-other-states-take-it