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Posted: 21 Oct 2009 11:56:39
California Air Resources Board News Clips for October 21, 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. Fill It Up With Electricity, Please. ELECTRIC cars are coming in big numbers for the first time. Again. The prediction has been here before, almost every time governments have worried about oil supplies and air pollution. Manufacturers dabbled with electrics after the oil shock of 1979-80. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/automobiles/autospecial2/22ELECTRIC.html As Hybrid Buses Get Cheaper, Cities Fill Their Fleets. IF you wonder whether hybrid-electric vehicles will ever catch on, simply ask one of the millions of people who ride in them every day. Hybrid-electric buses, that is. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/automobiles/autospecial2/22BUS.html http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/2009/10/21/17 PD Editorial: Roaring Motorcycles. It's time to crack down on illegally modified exhaust systems. Clearly, there’s no shortage of opinions about motorcycle noise. We had our own gripes before we published an op-ed column by John Johnson Jr. of the Los Angeles Times about riders who illegally modify their bikes to make them louder (“Those noisy hog days of summer,” Sept. 23). “Visit any coastal community or travel mountain roads on a summer weekend and you will see them: desktop rebels rumbling along in vast, growling herds,” Johnson wrote. Posted. http://www.pressdemocrat.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091020/OPINION/910209948&Title=PD-Editorial-Roaring-motorcycles&template=printart Chinese Official Warns Copenhagen Climate Talks May Fail. BEIJING – Prospects for a global climate-change agreement at a summit in Copenhagen in December dimmed further after a senior Chinese climate-talks negotiator said talks may fail unless developed countries change their demands. The comments by Lu Xuedu, deputy director of China's National Climate Center and a senior official in China's climate-talks delegation, added to fears that the outlook for agreement in Copenhagen are worse than just a few weeks ago, after preliminary climate talks in Bangkok laid bare a growing divide between richer and poorer nations. Posted. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125612559252798713.html?mod=googlenews_wsj#printMode China, India Sign Climate Change Cooperation Accord. India signed an agreement with China, the world’s biggest polluter, to increase cooperation on tackling climate change after the countries rejected calls from rich nations to set binding caps on carbon emissions. The memorandum of understanding was signed today in New Delhi by India’s environment minister Jairam Ramesh and Xie Zhenhua, vice minister at China’s National Development and Reform Commission. The agreement comes ahead of a United Nations climate-change summit in Copenhagen in December. Posted. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aFyFHkF6C3Fs http://www.contracostatimes.com/environment/ci_13608337# Climate Bill Aids Authors' States. A little noticed Environmental Protection Agency analysis shows that the pending climate-change bill in Congress would particularly benefit the states represented by its primary authors. The analysis, obtained by The Washington Times, shows that the states that would benefit most from the climate legislation that passed the House in June include California and Massachusetts. Posted. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/20/climate-bill-aids-authors-states/ As Time Runs Short for Global Climate Treaty, Nations May Settle for Interim Steps. With the clock running out and deep differences unresolved, it now appears that there is little chance that international climate change negotiations in Copenhagen in December will produce a comprehensive and binding new treaty on global warming. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/21/science/earth/21treaty.html?em Obama to Give Senate Climate Bill a Push with MIT Speech. President Obama will try to push the Senate climate bill forward Friday with an energy-themed speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, just days before the start of a marathon series of hearings featuring testimony from top administration officials. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/10/21/21climatewire-obama-to-give-senate-climate-bill-a-push-wit-53858.html?scp=2&sq=carbon%20emission&st=cse Gore: China, US Must Cooperate On Climate Change. Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore said Wednesday that cooperation between China and the U.S., the world's two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases, is crucial to tackling the climate change crisis. Posted. http://www.modbee.com/world/story/901625.html Global Warming Could Spur Growth in Northwest Forests – Study. Over the next century, global warming could boost forest growth in the Pacific Northwest, a new study has found. Warming temperatures could lead to a significant increase in the productivity of high-elevation forests in the region, researchers at Oregon State University and the Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Research Station found. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/10/20/20greenwire-global-warming-could-spur-growth-in-northwest-43219.html Livestock Accounts for Half of Greenhouse Gases, Study Claims. Livestock production accounts for at least half of human-caused greenhouse-gases emissions, according to a study by Washington-based researcher Worldwatch Institute that disputes a 2006 United Nations report. Cattle, pigs and other domesticated animals discharge gases that are the equivalent of at least 32.6 billion tons of carbon dioxide, or 51 percent of world emissions, wroteRobert Goodland, former lead environmental adviser at the World Bank, and Jeff Anhang, a World Bank researcher. Posted. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aNpVC3cew7oU# Greenhouse-Gas Output Rose 1% in Industrialized Nations in 2007. Greenhouse-gas output in developed nations rose 1 percent in 2007 from a year earlier, underscoring the need to reach an effective agreement to fight global warming at a Copenhagen summit in December, the United Nations said. Emissions in the 40 countries required to report the gases under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change have now risen by 3 percent since 2000, the global body said. In the smaller group of 37 nations that are party to the Kyoto Protocol climate treaty, emissions rose by 0.1 percent in 2007, it said. Posted. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a8iryo54aIZQ# http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/2009/10/21/5 Ships, Planes Should Cut Emissions Up to 20%, EU Says. The European Union proposed that the shipping and airline industries reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by as much as 20 percent over the next decade as part of any new United Nations accord to fight global warming. Ships would have to cut greenhouse gases by a fifth in 2020 compared with 2005 and airlines would need to trim discharges by 10 percent during the period under the EU proposal to the UN. European environment ministers endorsed the negotiating position at a meeting today in Luxembourg. Posted. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601100&sid=aEs.JZVa9xp8# http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/2009/10/21/7 LOIS HENRY: CARB Can't Ignore Credibility Problems. Credibility is power. When you have it, it's like a rock in your fist. But despite its power, it can be as fragile as an eggshell -- handle it with care or it'll shatter into a gooey mess. That's what I believe the California Air Resources Board members have on their hands as they bull forward with the diesel emissions rules they passed last December based on a health report written by CARB researcher Hien Tran. Tran lied about having a Ph.D in statistics from Davis. Posted. http://www.bakersfield.com/news/columnist/henry/x1260873480/LOIS-HENRY-CARB-cant-ignore-credibility-problems# Wind Industry Uses Federal Grants To Add Capacity. Denver—Armed with nearly $1 billion in federal grants, wind farm developers installed more capacity and got projects off the drawing board in the third quarter. Yet turbine manufacturers struggled amid excess supply, a trade group reported Tuesday. Posted. http://www.contracostatimes.com/business/ci_13602160# Lighter, Cheaper, LED Light Bulbs Are Starting To Enter The Marketplace. Just when you were finally warming up to the idea of swapping out your old light bulbs with compact fluorescent ones, you may soon find a new alternative at your local hardware store. Retailers are starting to carry bulbs built around light-emitting diodes, or LEDs. These bulbs promise to last longer and use less energy than even compact fluorescents (CFLs), which already are much longer-lived and power-efficient than standard incandescent bulbs. Posted. http://www.sacbee.com/702/v-print/story/2268389.html Air Quality Board To Consider Voluntary Wood-Burning Regulations. A month after rejecting mandatory wood stove and fireplace restrictions in the Chico area, the Butte County Air Quality Management District board will Thursday be asked to approve a voluntary program for the third year. District staff is asking that the "Check Before You Light" program be revived for the period from November through February. The program asks residents of the Chico urban area to check pollution forecasts before lighting a residential wood fire during those four months, and to refrain from lighting a fire if bad air quality is expected. Posted. http://www.chicoer.com/news/ci_13607482 Utilities Vow Expedited Push To Accommodate Plug-In Vehicles. The nation's largest electric utilities will "move forward aggressively" to build infrastructure and provide customer services needed to accommodate plug-in electric vehicles, an industry group pledged today. The Edison Electric Institute unveiled a pledge to expedite full-scale commercialization and deployment of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) at a PEV conference in Detroit. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2009/10/21/10 Obama Battery Grants May Help GM Market Cheaper Electric Cars. General Motors Co. and other automakers may be moving closer to the $30,000 electric car, $10,000 cheaper than it has estimated, as Obama administration subsidies cut battery costs by as much as half. Energy storage costs are falling because of $2.4 billion in federal grants, leaving companies including GM, Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler Group LLC poised to win buyers with more-affordable plug-in and electric autos, said Mark Duvall, director of electric transportation at the Electric Power Research Institute. Posted. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aHxVR7B_zrtk# BLOGS BP Chief Sees Decades of Fossil Fuel Use. Tony Hayward, the chief executive of the oil giant BP, said Tuesday at the Oil & Money conference in London that his company’s forecasts suggest that fossil fuels will still satisfy about 80 percent of global energy needs in 2030. Posted. http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/21/bp-chief-sees-decades-of-fossil-fuel-use/