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Posted: 24 Sep 2009 11:27:10
California Air Resources Board News Clips for September 24, 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. A New Crop Of Eco-Warriors Take To Their Own Streets. Along the I-710 corridor, where cargo-carrying trucks and trains spew diesel pollution around the clock, grass-roots groups are persuading residents to act and making clean air a priority. It is 8:30 a.m. on a Sunday. Along streets of grimy stucco bungalows with bougainvillea, American flags and "Beware of Dog" signs on chain-link fences, a couple of residents are hosing down lawns. It ought to be quiet, but it's not. Behind the garden walls of Astor Avenue, there's a chugging and a hissing and a clanking and a squeaking. Posted. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-air-pollution24-2009sep24,0,7153996,print.story The Challenge Of Climate Change. At a UN summit on climate change in New York, U.S. President Barack Obama asked world leaders to come together in pursuing policies that allow economies to grow without endangering our planet. Over the next few months, nations of the world will be working to reach a new international agreement to combat climate change. Climate change affects all nations. Rising sea levels, more powerful storms and floods, and more frequent droughts know no borders. President Obama believes all countries must work together to address climate change, and the time for action is now. Posted. http://www.voanews.com/uspolicy/2009-09-23-voa6.cfm No Vote On Murkowski's EPA Amendment – Reid. Senate leaders reached an agreement today allowing votes on a limited number of amendments to the annual spending bill for environmental agencies, excluding a controversial amendment that would limit U.S. EPA's regulatory authority. The amendment from Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) that would prohibit EPA for one year from regulating stationary sources of carbon dioxide emissions was not among those amendments granted votes under the agreement, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced today. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2009/09/24/1 California Governor Fails to Live Up to His Green Goals. In a strange but interesting demonstration of cynicism, Governor Schwarzenegger recently signed an executive order directing state agencies to develop regulations requiring all utilities to achieve 33 percent renewable energy by 2020 -- while at the same time promising to veto a far stronger and smarter mandate in two similar bills finally passed by the Legislature. Posted. http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2009/09/california-governor-fails-to-live-up-to-his-green-goals Government Backs A Private Emissions-Trading Experiment. New York -- The voluntary carbon market is coming to China, at least in a very limited and tentative way. Yesterday, at the New York Stock Exchange, officials unveiled their plans for the "Panda Standard," a voluntary offset project design and verification scheme that would generate a greenhouse gas emissions abatement credit that climate-conscious companies or consumers could use to offset their own emissions. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2009/09/24/3 EV Makers Try To Temper Expectations Ahead Of Calif. Rule. California took the pulse of the zero-emissions vehicle industry this week and found plug-in electric vehicle manufacturers worried about charging infrastructure and public expectations. The California Air Resources Board is hearing from fuel cell and EV manufacturers in preparation for releasing regulations for its Zero-Emissions Vehicle Program. Targets for 2015 and thereafter are due out by Nov. 10, with final targets due by early next year. In its fifth major revision of the program since 1990, it voted last year to reduce the 2014 sales target from 25,000 to 7,500 vehicles (ClimateWire, Sept. 22). Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2009/09/24/4 The Goal: More Environmental Friendliness. Homemakers dry clothes the old-fashioned way, with a line, a few clothes pins and a lot of fresh air. School teachers encourage students to collect paper scraps from home to create classroom art projects. Those blessed with green thumbs teach impoverished communities how to grow cheaper, healthier foods in their own backyards. Posted. http://www.contracostatimes.com/environment/ci_13402694 Gore: Climate Change Laws 'Crucial Step' In Crisis. New York—Former Vice President Al Gore told attendees Wednesday at the Clinton Global Initiative to reach out to U.S. senators and urge them to pass climate change legislation, saying it was the "crucial step" in solving the climate crisis. Posted. http://www.contracostatimes.com/nation-world/ci_13400290 Aiding Poor Nations In Cutting Emissions. United Nations Tuesday's U.N. climate summit gathering and a G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh this week are seen as an attempt to pressure nations to commit to a climate treaty at Copenhagen in December, and to pay for poorer nations to burn less coal and preserve forests. Posted. http://headlines.ocregister.com/news/percent-43529-emissions-greenhouse.html Offsets Purchased For Climate Summit. Perhaps the most direct impact of the U.N. Summit on Climate Change this week was in the tons of CO2 world leaders emitted in flying to New York City -- not to mention those fleets of limousines and cavalcades of attending advisers. This year, however, the United Nations decided to address its delegates' emissions by buying carbon offsets equal to the 461 tons of carbon dioxide generated by the summit. Those offsets are going to support a biomass plant in rural India that turns farming leftovers like rice husks into electricity. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2009/09/24/11 http://www.contracostatimes.com/nation-world/ci_13403029 'Real Deal' Holyfield Tackles Global Warming. Atlanta—Evander Holyfield has no intention of hanging up his gloves. In fact, he'll have a new nickname the next time he climbs into the ring. The Real Deal is now the Lean Green Fighting Machine. Refusing to give up on his goal of retiring as heavyweight champion even as he approaches his 47th birthday, Holyfield said he'll travel to South Korea in November for his next bout—he's not even sure of the opponent—and bring along a message of preserving the environment. Posted. http://www.contracostatimes.com/sports/ci_13409486 Satellite Reveals Faster Melting Of Polar Ice. A NASA satellite has revealed more accurately than ever that polar ice in Antarctica and Greenland is melting from glaciers and ice sheets far faster than scientists had previously thought, a discovery that one UC Berkeley climate expert calls "ominous and distressing." Posted. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/24/MNMM19R00D.DTL&type=printable Warming Climate Brings New El Niño 'Flavor,' Study Finds. Climate change may be the cause of a new "flavor" of El Niño that has emerged since the 1970s, according to a new study. While the classic El Niño is marked by warmer surface waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean and changes in wind patterns that, among other things, reduce hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean, the new variant is markedly different. Known by some as "Modoki," a Japanese word meaning "similar, but different," it heats up the central Pacific, leaving swaths of cooler water to the east and west. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2009/09/24/5 The Globe's 2 Largest Emitters Lay Out Hazy Plays to Curb CO2. United Nations -- In the end, the two most important world leaders at the first-ever U.N. Summit on Climate Change didn't say enough to satisfy supporters or quell critics. President Obama, taking the dais before more than 100 heads of state, pledged that the United States would help lead the world in permanently reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Chinese President Hu Jintaoannounced that his country would cut carbon intensity by a "notable margin" per unit of economic growth. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/09/23/23climatewire-the-globes-2-largest-emitters-lay-out-hazy-p-46216.html E.U. Overstepped Bounds On CO2 Limits, Court Says. Poland and Estonia have the right to challenge the size of carbon dioxide emission caps placed on them by the E.U. authorities, the European Court of First Instance, Europe's second-highest court, ruled yesterday. The nations have challenged cuts mandated by the European Commission, the European Union's executive arm, that trimmed their CO2 allowances drastically -- Poland by 27 percent and Estonia by nearly 48 percent. Those cuts were needed, the commission said, because the countries' previous emissions allocations had been overly generous. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2009/09/24/9 Oakland Solar Firm Hits Desert Swarm. BrightSource Energy has encountered some storm clouds in its quest to bring a solar future to large stretches of the western United States. The Oakland-based developer of solar farms has been forced to scuttle its plans to build a solar energy plant in the Broadwell Dry Lake area of California's Mojave Desert. Posted. http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_13404230 Mark Landsbaum: No Fuel Like An Old Fuel. Every year local, state and federal lawmakers churn out hundreds of new laws most people are unaware of, even though they are obliged not to break any of them. Why? One answer is that it's not necessarily your interest that lawmakers had in mind, especially when they single out particular beneficiaries. Posted. http://www.ocregister.com/articles/government-oil-energy-2578127-new-prices U.S. Panel Shifts Focus to Reusing Nuclear Fuel. Oxon Hill, Md. — With a federal plan to handle nuclear waste in deadlocked disarray, an advisory panel that has spent 20 years studying a proposed repository at Yucca Mountain turned Wednesday to discussing ways of reusing the fuel instead. But the meeting of the panel, the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, made evident that such reuse was uncertain, along with the future of Yucca Mountain, in Nevada, about 100 miles from Las Vegas. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/24/business/energy-environment/24yucca.html?_r=1&hpw=&pagewanted=print Duke, Fpl To Switch To Hybrid, Electric Vehicles. Columbus, Ohio—Two of the nation's largest power generators said Thursday that they plan to begin switching their company cars and trucks to plug-in hybrid vehicles or all-electric vehicles starting Jan. 1 to help cut greenhouse gas emissions. Posted. http://www.contracostatimes.com/business/ci_13409874?nclick_check=1 Agency Posts Tutorial On Engine Regulation. The California Air Resources Board (ARB) posted a succinct 25-slide tutorial on the fleet requirements of its large spark-ignition (LSI) engine regulation on 15 September. "I use the slides in my presentations on the requirements of the regulation and thought that they might be useful to operators visiting the LSI page to better understand the requirements of the LSI regulations," says Mark Williams, air pollution specialist with the zero emissions vehicle implementation section in the mobile source control division of Sacramento-based ARB. Posted. http://www.forkliftaction.com/news/newsprint.aspx?nwid=7639 T. Boone Pickens Promotes Natural Gas Bills At Long Beach Convention. Long Beach - BP Capital Management founder and chairman T. Boone Pickens on Wednesday urged professionals in the solid waste industry to support two upcoming bills that would further efforts to make natural gas an alternative for fuel. Posted. http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_13406403 Chevron Seeks Ecuador Liability In Pollution Case. San Ramon, Calif. (AP) --Chevron Corp. sought Wednesday to force Ecuador into international arbitration for alleged trade violations, an apparent effort to protect itself against a feared negative ruling in a $27 billion lawsuit over environmental damage. Chevron accuses Ecuador of "exploitation" of a civil suit filed over environmental damage that plaintiffs allege Texaco caused in the Amazon rainforest between 1964 and 1990. Chevron, the second-largest U.S. oil company, acquired Texaco in 2001. Posted. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/09/23/financial/f164517D95.DTL&type=printable BLOGS Will California Crack Down On Rail-Yard Pollution? Will California crack down on toxic pollution from rail yards? Community and public health groups are planning a demonstration at Friday's Air Resources Board meeting in Diamond Bar to demand that the state enact tough regulations on the California's 18 rail yards. Trucks, trains and cargo-handling equipment spewing diesel emissions in the yards have caused high cancer risks, according to recent studies. Southern California authorities passed anti-idling rules on locomotives three years ago, but Union Pacific Railway and BNSF Railway got them overturned in court. Posted. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2009/09/railyard-pollution-california.html Whitman Would Suspend Global Warming Law. Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman said in San Diego on Wednesday she would suspend Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's signature environmental initiative if elected. The former eBay CEO told an audience at Gen-Probe Inc. in Mira Mesa she would issue an executive order suspending AB 32 that restricts emissions of greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming, until its long-term economic consequences are better understood. Posted. http://weblog.signonsandiego.com/news/breaking/2009/09/whitman_would_suspend_global_w.html Will It Blend? Not If CARB Has Anything To Say About It. Will it blend? If the answer is no – as was the case with the boron steel used to create the latest Ford Fiesta – perhaps all that's needed is a more powerful blender (insert appropriate Tim Allen-esque grunting sounds here) complete with handlebars and a twist-grip throttle? Enter the Party Blender, which uses a gas-powered engine in lieu of a standard wimpy plug-in electric motor. Posted. http://green.autoblog.com/2009/09/24/report-will-it-blend-not-if-carb-has-anything-to-say-about-it/print/ Global Warming Peace In Our Time? Uh, Not Quite… If you read only headlines, you might think China and the U.S. have agreed to declare global warming peace in our time, ala Neville Chamberlain in another era and another issue. After all, one nearly local newspaper reported this optimistic headline: “U.S., China seek to reignite global talks on climate change.” Posted. http://orangepunch.freedomblogging.com/2009/09/23/global-warming-peace-in-our-time-uh-not-quite/13031/