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California Air Resources Board News Clips for October 13, 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. Gov. Schwarzenegger and Secretary Salazar Sign MOU to Expedite Renewable Energy Development in Calif. Sacramento /California Newswire/ — Further laying the groundwork for California to reach its environmental goals, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar in order to expedite the siting of California renewable energy projects. Posted. http://californianewswire.com/2009/10/12/CNW5651_192812.php Schwarzenegger Signs 2 Renewable Energy Bills, Vetoes Others. California will require utilities to pay consumers for generating more solar and wind power than they use and will boost the payoff for certain solar facilities. The laws take effect Jan 1. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has approved two major initiatives that will require utilities to pay consumers for generating extra power and will boost the payoff for certain solar facilities. Posted. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-solar13-2009oct13,0,2315712,print.story Lesson from Cali Clean Power Veto: Transmission Still a Choke Point for Energy Goals. Hundreds of bills escaped California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s veto power last night ahead of a midnight deadline to act on a mountain of legislation — but not a pair of long-debated clean energy bills. As expected, the governor killed two items, which would have required utilities in California to get at least a third of their energy from renewable sources by 2020, but with limits for how much of that goal they could meet with power generated out of state (at an Arizona solar farm, for example). Posted. http://www.reuters.com/article/earth2Tech/idUS333067385020091012 Governor Signs Bill Easing Rules For Small Polluters. Los Angeles - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a bill expected to reduce air quality regulations and costs on thousands of small industrial polluters throughout much of the Southland - including dozens of gas stations, restaurants and public agencies in Long Beach and surrounding communities. The controversial bill, authored by State Sen. Roderick Wright, whose district includes Long Beach, was signed by the governor in the closing minutes of this year's legislative session late Sunday. Posted. http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_13545538?source=rss http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_13545538 Figuring Out The True Cost Of Complying With California Regulations. A study puts the tab for the state's economy at $492 billion a year. But critics say the study doesn't take into account the benefits the regulations may have. Make no mistake, small-business owner Jane Skeeter isn't happy about the heavy burden she says government regulations put on her architectural-glass manufacturing plant in Chatsworth. She knows that plenty of other California businesses have left the state for cheaper locales with fewer costly rules. Posted. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-smallbiz13-2009oct13,0,6051355,print.story Don't Forget The Other GHGs, Scientists Say. When it comes to climate change, carbon dioxide isn't the only target. That's the message of a new analysis urging policymakers to consider "fast-acting" climate policies for lesser-known greenhouse gases and particles that contribute to warming. The paper, published yesterday by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, focuses on four different strategies its authors say could prevent abrupt climate change over the next few decades. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2009/10/13/6 Obama's Climate - Change Hopes Get A Boost. United Nations/London (Reuters) - Official Washington sounded more upbeat on Monday than it has for weeks in sizing up U.S. President Barack Obama's chances of progress on a climate-change bill in Congress this year. U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer predicted the committee she leads would approve a bill before a U.N. climate summit in Copenhagen in December while Obama's Energy Secretary Steven Chu said he hoped all of Congress would pass a law by then. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/10/12/world/international-uk-climate.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print S.1733 Senate Climate Change Bill Gains Support Of Lindsey Graham Of The GOP. Though the Senate’s version of climate change legislation, S.1733, faces more time in committee, there appears to be the blossoming of slight bipartisan support for this legislation. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has come out in support of this bill. In doing so, he has split with the general consensus of his party. Posted. http://www.examiner.com/x-11326-Liberal-Examiner~y2009m10d12-S1733-Senate-Climate-Change-bill-gains-support-of-Lindsey-Graham-of-the-GOP The Global Warming Consensus Cools. "What happened to global warming?" read the headline - on BBC News on Oct. 9, no less. Consider it a cataclysmic event: Mainstream news organizations have begun reporting on scientific research that suggests that global warming may not be caused by man and may not be as dire and eminent as alarmists suggest. Posted. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/13/ED7O1A4IQU.DTL&type=printable EPA Air Chief Says GHG Registry Could Spur Emission Cuts. The public release of data revealing top U.S. industrial sources of greenhouse gases could spur companies to voluntarily slash their emissions, according to U.S. EPA's top air official. Air chief Gina McCarthy said EPA's new rule requiring large sources of greenhouse gases to report emissions could have an impact similar to that of the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), which since its inception in 1987 has been credited with spurring substantial reductions in toxic emissions. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2009/10/13/2 California Team Leads In Solar Decathlon. Students from Santa Clara University and the California College of the Arts join together to build a house that is energy-efficient but doesn't scrimp on comfort. The village on the National Mall looks like something out of science fiction: dozens of unusually shaped buildings with solar panels protruding from their rooftops. Posted. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-solar-decathlon13-2009oct13,0,3214846,print.story Editorial: Deserting War On Warming. Political and economic realities threaten the Obama administration and the European Union's mutual quest to combat global warming. Temperatures aren't helping much, either. Globally the warming trend effectively ended more than a decade ago. Posted. http://www.ocregister.com/articles/nations-emissions-economic-2604528-warming-global Solar Users To Feel Surge In Wallet. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed two solar energy bills that will make it possible for consumers and businesses to actually make money if they generate surplus electricity. The bills, long sought by California's renewable energy industry and among hundreds signed by the governor late Sunday night, could radically change the relationship between businesses and homeowners and their local utility company, making them paid producers and suppliers of electricity. Posted. http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_13546308 BLOGS Green job, Energy Bills Could Give A Jolt To Southern California. A legal logjam that has stopped regional regulators from issuing smog credits for a variety of projects could be broken by new legislation signed into law by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger – one in a stack of environmental bills signed by the governor Sunday that could help stimulate the Southern California economy. Posted. http://greenoc.freedomblogging.com/2009/10/12/green-job-energy-bills-could-give-a-jolt-to-southern-california/14149/ Firms Announce Major Offsets Transaction. In what its participants call the largest deal of its kind in the United States, Goldman Sachs Group, Blue Source and CE2 Carbon Capital are expected to announce on Monday that they have completed a $12 million carbon offsets transaction.The offsets originate from several emissions-reducing projects managed by Blue Source, a Salt Lake City company that also develops carbon capture and storage projects. Posted. http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/firms-announce-major-offsets-transaction/?pagemode=print Schwarzenegger Signs Solar Bills AB 920 And SB 32. Late last night, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed two major solar initiatives involving a feed-in tariff for utility companies and surplus electricity generated by customers. It was the last day to sign bills from this year’s legislative session. AB 920 requires utility companies to pay households or businesses for any extra electricity produced by the customer’s solar power system. Posted. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2009/10/schwarzenegger-signs-solar-bills-ab-920-and-sb-32.html http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/shopping_blog/2009/10/schwarzenegger-solar-california-ab-920-sb-32.html Power Hub: Tres Amigas and the Future of Clean Energy. Clovis, New Mexico, might just be the cornerstone of a clean-energy revolution. It might also be the epicenter of a political battle over how America embraces green energy. Clovis is the site chosen for the Tres Amigas electricity-transmission project, as our colleague Rebecca Smith reports today in The Wall Street Journal. The idea is to build a powerful substation in New Mexico using advanced supercondctors that could physically connect the three otherwise isolated power grids—the Eastern, the Western, and Texas grids. Posted. http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2009/10/13/power-hub-tres-amigas-and-the-future-of-clean-energy/tab/print/