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newsclips -- CARB Newsclips for June 26, 2017.

Posted: 26 Jun 2017 16:40:58
CARB Newsclips for June 26, 2017. 


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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

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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

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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


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