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Posted: 06 Oct 2009 11:26:44
California Air Resources Board News Clips for October 6, 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. Apple Falls From Chamber Over Stance On Climate. You have to hand it to the folks at Apple Inc. Once they get the bit between their teeth, no matter how long it takes, a race to the front can be reasonably predicted. On Monday, the Cupertino company rocked the world - at least the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's world - by abruptly quitting the business lobby on account of the latter's "recent comments opposing the EPA's effort to limit greenhouse gases." Such comments, like putting climate change through a "Scopes monkey trial," already have prompted PG&E and others to exit the chamber. Posted. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/06/BU2I19UDE9.DTL&type=printable http://www.mercurynews.com/topstories/ci_13492186 http://www.insidebayarea.com/business/ci_13492190# http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_13492186 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/05/AR2009100503098.html Obama Orders Agencies To Cut Emissions, Energy Use. Washington -- President Barack Obama ordered federal agencies on Monday to set ambitious goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, cut energy use, save water and recycle more, urging a government that once ranked among the nation's largest polluters to "lead by example" on environmental protection and energy efficiency. Posted. http://www.sacbee.com/702/v-print/story/2233683.html http://www.modbee.com/politics/story/882296.html# http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-obama-green6-2009oct06,0,6310034,print.story http://www.contracostatimes.com/nation-world/ci_13490976# Clinton Gives Newsom Shot In The Arm. Former President Bill Clinton delivered a boost Monday to San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's campaign for governor, formally endorsing him in next year's race and calling Newsom a national leader in green technology and energy. "San Francisco may be the greatest city in the entire country" on issues of environment and energy conservation, "and it may be because of (Newsom's) leadership," Clinton told a crowd of students at Los Angeles City College. Posted. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/05/MNP71A1E7J.DTL&type=printable Can Lean Times Also Be Green Times? Whitman argues that economic issues push environmental concerns aside. The governor has long said both need attention. As the giant cargo cranes at the Port of Long Beach loomed behind him, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last week cut quickly to a debate gaining intensity in his Republican Party: Should the state's passion for environmental protection survive a foundering economy? Posted. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-week4-2009oct04,0,7473507,print.story Locals Try Sinking Plan to Store CO2 Underground. Germany's Coal-Burning Plants Are Aiming to Cut Emissions by Burying Them -- and That Isn't Going Over Well in Some Towns. Brandenburg, Germany - Ulf Stumpe is scared of carbon dioxide -- but not the stuff blamed for global warming. What worries him is the CO2 a local energy firm wants to inject into the earth thousands of feet under his village. Posted. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125476964655765445.html#printMode Energy Efficiency Ranks High In Country's Plans; CO2 Is Seldom Discussed. The second of an occasional series on China. Dezhou, China -- A guide shows off row after row of gleaming, black, chrome-coated tubes used in the millions of solar thermal water heaters Himin Solar Energy Group produces each year. The corporate building alone saves 1 million kilowatt-hours by using solar heating, the guide informs his group. But when he is asked how many tons of carbon dioxide emissions the average solar water heater saves, silence fills the hall. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2009/10/06/1 Moderate GHG Cuts Could Ward Off Catastrophic Climate Damage – Study. Enacting "moderate" cuts in greenhouse gas emissions could dramatically lower the risk of severe future climate change, according to a new analysis by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. But there's a catch. Limiting Earth's total temperature rise to roughly 2 degrees Celsius -- the climate "guardrail" adopted by many governments -- means those emissions cuts would have to start soon, the study says. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2009/10/06/3 Pomona Boys and Girls Club helps residents save energy. Pomona - The young energy efficiency inspectors, dressed in bright colored t-shirts identifying them as members of the Boys & Girls Club of Pomona Valley, arrived ready for business last week. The four club members walked through the home of Raymond Ramirez and Daniela Macias looking for energy waste. Posted. http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_13488481# Agencies Told To Reduce Emissions. The federal government will require each agency to measure its greenhouse-gas emissions for the first time and set targets to reduce them by 2020, under an executive order signed by President Obama Monday. Posted. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/05/AR2009100502725.html New Report Details Costs of Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions. With enough technological advances, the world could get to a dramatically lower level of greenhouse gas emissions at a cost of between one and three percent of global GDP per year, according to a report issued Tuesday by a group of economists. That price tag is in line with previous economic estimates aimed at meeting more modest climate goals. Posted. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/06/AR2009100600018.html Colo. Company Looks To Salvage Neb. Ethanol Plants. Lincoln, Neb. -- A Colorado-based company could be in the market for abandoned ethanol plants in Nebraska. Gevo Inc. of Englewood, Colo., would retrofit the plants to make an alternative fuel called biobutanol. Posted. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/06/AR2009100601586.html Modesto May Trash Blue Bag Recycling Program. The city's blue bag recycling program could be headed to the big landfill in the sky. The City Council votes tonight on whether to trash the 12-year-old recycling program, which officials say isn't doing much to help the environment. The blue bag program allows residents to put recyclables in blue shopping bags and toss them into their black, 96-gallon garbage container. Posted. http://www.modbee.com/1618/story/882588.html?storylink=omni_popular Southern California Air Projects Get $26.5 M from Stimulus. U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Oct. 1 announced $26.5 million in funding for diesel emission reduction projects in Southern California under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. This infusion of money will help the region finance projects to reduce diesel emissions, protecting public health and the environment across the region. Posted. http://eponline.com/Articles/2009/10/06/Southern-California-Air-Projects-Get-26.5-M-from-Stimulus.aspx?p=1 Commentary: Cool Cash To Be Made On Warming Mania. Many corporations hopped on the global warming bandwagon because, as skeptic Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., puts it, “This is about profit, not Gaia” (the Greek earth goddess). When government regulation seems inevitable, some corporate decision-makers reckon it's better to be at the table than on the menu. They seek, in Mr. Inhofe's words, “greater competitive advantage through regulatory means.” Posted. http://headlines.ocregister.com/articles/warming-45564-global-data.html EPA Chooses Capping For DDT Off Coast. Nearly 40 years after pesticide dumping stopped off the Palos Verdes Peninsula, federal environmental regulators have selected a long-delayed cleanup strategy to address the toxic mess left behind. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that it has chosen a plan - first announced as an alternative in June - to begin capping a contaminated area of an underwater formation known as the Palos Verdes Shelf. Posted. http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_13493491# Editorial: Our View: High Cost Of Climate Fees. First of two-part editorial. California's climate police have begun charging businesses millions of dollars in global warming fees to enforce arbitrary regulations, even as their federal counterparts move to forcibly reduce industrial greenhouse gas emissions with even more costly regulations. Two bills in Congress propose yet further convoluted schemes to drive up conventional energy costs by forcing further emission restrictions. Posted. http://www.appeal-democrat.com/articles/high-87305-climate-view.html Editorial: U.S. Chamber Is A Dinosaur On Climate Change. Silicon Valley's future, and the nation's, is clean technology. The news last week that venture investments in clean tech rose 10 percent from the previous quarter, and that the U.S. government has invested $60 billion in the sector, make that clear. But the U.S. National Chamber of Commerce, which purports to be the voice of the nation's businesses, has turned into a dinosaur when it comes to clean energy. Posted. http://www.mercurynews.com/search/ci_13474082?IADID=Search-www.mercurynews.com-www.mercurynews.com Black Carbon Spurs Melting Of Himalayan Glaciers. Tiny particles of soot from old diesel engines or wood stoves are "unequivocally having an impact on glacial melting" in the Himalayas, according to Chinese and Indian scientists. The results, to be announced this month in Kashmir, will point to how the soot, known as black carbon, has accelerated melting in the glaciers, which feed the river systems of more than half the world's people. The soot both absorbs heat while in the atmosphere and decreases the Earth's reflectivity when it settles on otherwise white glaciers. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2009/10/06/6/ Pledge To Scrap Emissions Law Difficult. California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman's vow to suspend the state's global warming initiative may not be easy to implement, advocates say. The Republican candidate for governor has said she would move to suspend California's landmark 2006 law, signed by current Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, on the first day she took office. Posted. http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/10/05/Pledge-to-scrap-emissions-law-difficult/UPI-22451254762836/ CARB-Harassed Dealer: We Broke No Law. California dealer Balz Renggli says the state’s Air Resources Board is wrongly accusing his store, Moto Forza in Escondido, of once marketing modified dirtbikes as streetbikes, then registering them for street use. The allegations led to a $90,000 settlement in April. (Read that story here. [http://www.dealernews.com/dealernews/article/articledetail.jsp?id=624842&searchstring=carb]). Posted. http://www.dealernews.com/dealernews/LATEST+NEWS/CARB-Harassed-Dealer-We-Broke-No-Law/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/631526?contextCategoryId=48475 BLOGS Climate Costs: Can The World Really Afford to Roll Back Carbon Emissions? By and large, even in Oklahoma, the debate over how to tackle climate change boils down to a simple question: How much is this going to cost? That’s been true of the scrum all year in Congress, which has turned into dueling banjos of competing studies arguing that climate legislation will either cost a “postage stamp a day” or kneecap the entire U.S. economy. Posted. http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2009/10/06/climate-costs-can-the-world-really-afford-to-roll-back-carbon-emissions/tab/print/ A New Trend: Paying For Parking ... Just About Everywhere. Could Californians soon be paying for parking at a grocery store or retail shopping center? Or even to park on a residential street? Local government officials statewide are expected to consider this and other policies in the near future that could put a price on public parking spaces that previously were free to Californians. Posted. http://www.publicceo.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=691:a-new-trend-paying-for-parking-just-about-everywhere&catid=148:environmental-issues-broad Water Bottles: What Do You Use? Lost in a sea of water bottles, and don’t know what to do? Well, here’s a look at your options based on one family’s experiences. Posted. http://greenoc.freedomblogging.com/2009/10/05/water-bottles-what-do-you-use/13747/ Global Warming Fad Not Just Cooling Off, But Dying. The furor about alleged global warming is declining even faster than global temperatures, which have been headed south for more than a decade. “The great global warming scare is over - it is well past its peak, very much a spent force, sputtering in fits and starts to a whimpering end,” writes Lawrence Solomon. He adds that most Americans don’t blame humans for climate change and consider whatever warming may have occurred as natural. Posted. http://orangepunch.freedomblogging.com/2009/10/05/global-warming-fad-not-just-cooling-off-but-dying/13349/ Water From Waste Now On Tap In Placentia. Orange County’s recently built system for converting sewer water into drinking water is running close to full capacity, and the water it produces is beginning to arrive in Placentia’s taps — likely resulting in slightly better water quality, according to the Orange County Water District. Posted. http://greenoc.freedomblogging.com/2009/10/05/waste-to-drinking-water-system-now-on-tap-in-anaheim/13707/