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Posted: 01 Sep 2009 11:27:34
California Air Resources Board News Clips for September 1, 2009. 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. 2 Local Motorcycle Dealers Fined For Sales Violations. The California Air Resources Board yesterday announced $180,000 in fines against two San Diego-area motorcycle dealers for sales violations. The agency's enforcement officers worked off an anonymous tip that San Diego-based GP Motorcycles and Moto Forza of Escondido were illegally selling Husqvarna off-road motorcycles as on-road models. The companies have agreed to pay the penalties. Posted. http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/sep/01/2-local-motorcycle-dealers-fined-sales-violations/?northcounty&zIndex=158637 Palo Alto Plans For Electric Car Boom. When it comes to energy policy, electric cars may be best known for the impacts they don't have. They don't require foreign oil, and they don't spew greenhouse gases. That's one reason green-conscious Palo Alto officials are abuzz over electric automaker Tesla's plans for a new powertrain plant in the Stanford Research Park. The move has the city poised to be a hub for an environmentally friendly industry that some believe will take off in the next decade. Posted. http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_13244410?source=rss Audi, BMW Sell The Sizzle Of Diesel, Not The Soot. Imagine trying to market a product that most Americans regard as old and obsolete, that is remembered -- if at all -- as low-class and low-tech, noisy and noisome, and whose most notable advocates are truck drivers with prominent trouser cleavage. CB radio? An excellent guess, but no. Diesel, the oilier cousin of gasoline, dominates the European auto market, where fuel prices hover around $7 a gallon. Posted. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ct-neil1-2009sep01,0,6428407,print.column West Sac Biofuels Site Has Plan For Riding Out Slump. Though far behind schedule, the major biofuel operation planned for the Port of West Sacramento is still alive and its developer is in talks with new investors. Long Beach startup Primafuel Inc. unveiled plans in early 2007 to build the state's largest biodiesel plant and a distribution terminal at the port. The company expected to be churning out the diesel substitute within two years. At the time, the market seemed ready to swallow all the biofuel the nation could produce. Posted. http://www.sacbee.com/business/story/2151679.html?mi_rss=Business Climate Trouble May Be Bubbling Up In Far North. Mackenzie River Delta, Northwest Territories (AP) -- Only a squawk from a sandhill crane broke the Arctic silence — and a low gurgle of bubbles, a watery whisper of trouble repeated in countless spots around the polar world. "On a calm day, you can see 20 or more `seeps' out across this lake," said Canadian researcher Rob Bowen, sidling his small rubber boat up beside one of them. A tossed match would have set it ablaze. "It's essentially pure methane." Posted. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/08/30/international/i111058D49.DTL&type=printable Hot Job: Calculating Products' Pollution. Until a few years ago, Nuno da Silva's arcane occupation -- professional pollution calculator -- was of little utility to the corporate world. But in these days of global-warming worries and greener-than-thou marketing, companies suddenly can't get enough of his services. Revenue at the division he manages exploded 150% in 2008 and continues to expand this year, despite the recession. Posted. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125176415696374409.html AE Biofuels, Pearson Fuels Project Awarded $6.9 Million US Department of Energy Grant. Companies to build and supply 55 new E85 fueling stations throughout California. Cupertino, Calif.-- AE Biofuels, Inc., (OTCBB: AEBF), a global vertically integrated biofuels company, and Pearson Fuels, an alternative fuels provider, today announced that they have been awarded a $6.9 grant from the US Department of Energy (USDOE), through its Clean Cities program. Posted. http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS141411+01-Sep-2009+BW20090901 SCENARIOS: Fate Of Climate Change Bill In Congress. Washington - The fate of U.S. climate control legislation is in the hands of the Senate where it faces an uphill climb, as a year-end international meeting in Copenhagen on coordinated action to slow global warming looms. A Senate bill has not even been introduced yet and Democratic backers say it could be late September before one emerges. Nonetheless, Democratic leaders still hope for a vote this year in the Senate. Posted. http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed7/idUSTRE57U5Y720090831 Venture Firm’s ‘Green’ Funds Top $1 Billion. Menlo Park, Calif. — Vinod Khosla, the prominent venture capitalist who has been investing hundreds of millions of his own dollars in green technology companies for the last several years, will now invest other people’s money, too. Khosla Ventures, the firm he founded in 2004 after leaving Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, is announcing on Tuesday that it has raised $1.1 billion in two funds that will invest in green technology and information technology start-ups. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/business/01khosla.html?_r=2&ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print Webcast: CARB ‘Smartway’ Rule To Be Explained Sept. 14. The California Air Resources Board has approved some complicated regulations for trucking carriers to decipher. In order to explain its rules, CARB occasionally airs discussions of the rules and broadcasts them on the agency’s Web site. Truck owners have their next opportunity to hear a CARB explanation on Sept. 14, when it will Webcast an informational session on the Heavy-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Regulation. Posted. http://www.landlinemag.com/todays_news/Daily/2009/Sept09/083109/083109-06.htm Workshops Set On Clean Air Plan. Workshops Set On Clean Air Plan: Public workshops on a plan to clean up air pollution in the Bay Area's nine counties will be held Wednesday morning in Mountain View and Thursday afternoon in Oakland. Posted. http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_13241053 Smoky Air Likely To Hang Around Today. Fresh air was hard to find Monday with the Inland Valley sandwiched between the Oak Glen and the Station fires. The Inland Valley today can expect more unhealthy air for sensitive groups, according to the South Coast Air Quality Management District. That means people with respiratory or heart disease, senior citizens and children should stay indoors. Posted. http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_13241531 Air Quality Very Poor Around Southland. los angeles - Smoke and ash from the Station Fire caused unhealthy to hazardous air quality today in the San Gabriel Mountains and the west San Gabriel Valley, the South Coast Air Quality Management District reported. Posted. http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_13239275 EU Presses US On Climate Change. Brussels—The European Union urged U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday to ensure the United States makes deep cuts in carbon emissions as part of negotiations to reach a new global climate change accord. Sweden's Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren said the 27-nation bloc, as well as the United States and other developed countries, "should deliver" on promises to cut emissions by 80 percent by 2050, from 1990 levels. Posted. http://www.contracostatimes.com/nationandworld/ci_13244910 http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090901-706637.html US Agriculture Interests Split Over Energy Bill. Omaha, Neb.—Legislation to confront climate change could be an economic godsend to farmers and ranchers. Or it could be an enormous financial burden. It depends on whom you ask, and not even farmers and ranchers agree on the matter. Posted. http://www.contracostatimes.com/nationandworld/ci_13244371 Editorial: Global-Warming Welfare Is On Its Way. Anticipating hundreds of millions of dollars a year in greenhouse gas fees collected from California businesses, the Legislature is planning to redistribute much of the bounty to the state's "most impacted and disadvantaged communities." Posted. http://www.ocregister.com/articles/fees-air-global-2547482-board-state Editorial: Global Warming: Get Facts Right First. Before overhauling the U.S. economic system and imposing Draconian restrictions on nearly every aspect of life, it's advisable to get the facts straight. Posted. http://www.ocregister.com/articles/warming-global-government-2545076-chamber-alarmists Opinion: Global Warming And The Sun. Recent studies seem to show that there's more to climate change than we know. Assuming there are no sunspots today, a 96-year record will have been broken: 53 days without any solar blemishes, giant magnetic disruptions on the sun's surface that cause solar flares. That would be the fourth-longest stretch of stellar solar complexion since 1849. Wait, it gets even more exciting. Posted. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-goldberg1-2009sep01,0,2797425.column Opinion: Leslie Eastman: Sacramento March Is Ironic But Passionate. I was one of the 10,000 Californians at the Aug. 28th march in Sacramento: Saving California from Big Government Ego-regulations. Hundreds of tractors and 200 trucks circled the Capitol building this past Friday, to spotlight how devastating environmental activism has been on our trucking, mining, farming, and logging communities. Posted. http://www.sdnn.com/sandiego/2009-09-01/news/leslie-eastman-sacramento-march-is-ironic-but-passionate#ixzz0PsTgitFE BLOGS Fallout Shelter: Team Obama Seeks to Limit Reach of CO2 Ruling. The Obama administration is studying ways to limit the reach of any greenhouse-gas regulations it might eventually set to large industrial sources, such as power plants and factories, rather than small businesses. The move could help the administration limit the political and legal fallout of the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision in April to declare greenhouse gases a threat to public health. Posted.http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2009/09/01/fallout-shelter-team-obama-seeks-to-limit-reach-of-co2-ruling/tab/print/ California’s Proposed 33% Renewable Portfolio Standard. California's legislature is close to passing a requirement to raise the state's Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) to 33% in 2020. If it is enacted, this law will once again place California at the forefront of efforts to expand the role of renewable energy resources like wind, solar, and geothermal in supplying electricity to homes, businesses, and industry. Posted. http://www.greenandsave.com/green_news/green-politics/california-s-proposed-33-renewable-portfolio-standard-4873 Air Quality At Hazardous Levels In Foothill Cities. The Angeles National Forest fire has reduced air quality to hazardous levels in foothill communities in the San Gabriel and San Fernando valleys, officials say. The cities of Altadena, La Cañada Flintridge and La Crescenta are directly affected by the smoke, as are the Los Angeles communities of Tujunga and Sunland. The area Sunday recorded an air Quality index of 398. Anything above 100 is considered unhealthful, officials said. Posted. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2009/08/air-quality-at-hazardous-levels-in-foothill-cities.html Royal Society Says Geoengineering Humanity's Last Hope - But Emissions Reductions Must Be Top Priority. Saying that "man-made climate change is happening and its impacts and costs will be large, serious and unevenly spread, the Royal Society's new paper "Geoengineering the climate: science, governance and uncertainty" [PDF] lays out the case for the necessity for greater consideration of geoengineering schemes as humanity's backup plan, in case emission reduction efforts fail: Posted. http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/09/royal-society-report-on-geoengineering.php?dcitc=th_rss Europe’s Emissions Recipe: A Dash Of Regulation, A Dollop Of Recession. Europe Has Found A Sure-Fire Way To Cut Emissions: The Recession.The European Union said yesterday that emissions of greenhouse gases in main member states in 2008 fell 1.3%, the fourth straight year of declines. The EU said the bloc has now cut emissions by 6.2% over 1990 levels, putting it on track to meet its obligations under the Kyoto Protocol. Posted. http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2009/09/01/europes-emissions-recipe-a-dash-of-regulation-a-dollop-of-recession/tab/print/ Getting Cooler? Senate Misses Another Climate Bill Deadline. Stephen Power reports on climate change. For the second time in two months, the chairman of a key Senate panel with jurisdiction over climate legislation plans to postpone the introduction of her bill. Sen. Barbara Boxer of California, chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, had said earlier this summer that she planned to introduce her bill before Congress left for its August recess; she later extended her timetable to Sept. 8, the day lawmakers return to Washington. Posted. http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/08/31/getting-cooler-senate-misses-another-climate-bill-deadline/tab/print/ Grid Lock: New Transmission Lines Key for Clean Energy–And Coal. Environmentalists are already hoping that the Senate tackles both energy and climate change this fall, rather than simply dealing with the clean energy bits (which are popular) and punting on the climate-change stuff (which isn’t so popular). Here’s another reason greens will want to make sure they go together. Beefing up the nation’s electricity-transmission system to make renewable energy a reality could backfire and make coal an even more widespread source of electricity—unless carbon emissions are reined in at the same time. Posted. http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2009/08/31/grid-lock-new-transmission-lines-key-for-clean-energy-and-coal/tab/print/ Engineering a Climate Solution. Some questions are relatively straightforward. For example: Could engineers pump chemicals into the atmosphere to increase the amount of sunlight reflected away from Earth, cooling the planet? Almost certainly, the answer will turn out to be yes. Posted. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/engineering-a-climate-solution/?scp=2&sq=climate%20change&st=cse Illuminating the Future of Energy. The era of fossil fuels is a blip in history. What will replace it the subject of a polarized debate. An essay by David J. C. MacKay, a professor of physics at the University of Cambridge and the author of the book “Sustainable Energy — Without The Hot Air.” A few centuries ago, the developing world got most of its energy from windmills, from water mills, from whales and from plants. Posted. http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/illuminating-the-future-of-energy/?pagemode=print