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newsclips -- Newsclips for November 27-30, 2009

Posted: 30 Nov 2009 12:23:01
California Air Resources Board News Clips for November 27-30,
2009. 

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California Preliminary Draft Cap-and-Trade Climate Regulation
Praised. Environmental Defense Fund praised the California Air
Resources Board (CARB) for its preliminary draft regulation (PDR)
to reduce global warming pollution in the state. The PDR outlines
key concepts the agency is considering as it designs a
comprehensive cap-and-trade program. Posted.
http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/view/130650
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/11/25/25climatewire-agency-defers-decision-on-allowances-in-calif-5070.html
http://www.mercurynews.com/business-headlines/ci_13860419

California Statehouse Staffer Is A Superstar Of His Own. Kip
Lipper, who is as renowned inside the Capitol as he is anonymous
outside, is responsible for some of the nation's most
groundbreaking environmental laws over the last 30 years. If he
were a basketball star instead of a statehouse staffer, he'd be
Kobe Bryant or Magic Johnson -- a veteran playmaker, feared by
foes, his best moves unleashed just before the buzzer. But like
so many Sacramento insiders, Kip Lipper plays out of the
limelight, in the back corridors of the Capitol, unknown to the
public whose air and water and ecological ethos he has made his
specialty over the last three decades. Posted.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lipper29-2009nov29,0,7562121,print.story

New Climate Targets May Not Change Daily Life Much.
Washington—Americans' day-to-day lives won't change noticeably if
President Barack Obama achieves his newly announced goal of
slashing carbon dioxide pollution by one-sixth in the next
decade, experts say. Except for rising energy bills. And how much
they'll go up depends on who's doing the calculating. Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/nation-world/ci_13873325

US and China To Reduce Emissions, But Not Enough. Amsterdam—Even
after the U.S. and China set targets this week for reducing
greenhouse gas emissions, the world's combined pledges ahead of
next month's climate summit fall far short of what experts say is
needed to avert dangerous global warming. Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/nation-world/ci_13879665
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/28/MN6I1ARCLQ.DTL&type=green

Union Pacific Wins Award For Cutting Air Pollution. Union
Pacific's efforts to reduce air pollution around the busy
California ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles have been
recognized. The Harbor Association of Industry and Commerce of
Southern California recently gave the Omaha-based railroad its
"Salute to Industry" award. Posted.
http://www.modbee.com/state/story/952148.html#ixzz0YMR70mRc
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/348/story/938100.html
http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_13889594

L.A. Suburb's Rebirth Rides On Electric Car Plant. Downey — This
blue-collar suburb on the edge of Los Angeles once helped send
men to space. After the collapse of its aerospace industry, its
ambitions are now more down-to-earth but still looking toward the
future. The City Council last week unanimously approved an
agreement aimed at luring Tesla Motors' electric car
manufacturing plant to the former site of a NASA plant that
helped develop the Apollo program and the space shuttle fleet.
Posted.
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_13879093?source=rss&nclick_check=1

Long Beach Port's Clean Trucks Program Is Working. One year ago
the Port of Long Beach launched its landmark Clean Trucks Program
— an aggressive, cutting-edge effort to clean up the air
pollution from the truck fleet by 80 percent. One year later, the
success of the program is indisputable. Posted.
http://www.presstelegram.com/opinions/ci_13886368 

Doomsday Looming For Many Truckers At Los Angeles And Long Beach
Ports. Clean-air guidelines banning older rigs and those without
diesel particulate filters take effect Jan. 1. Many drivers says
the changes are just too costly. Filiberto Cervantes has already
separated from his wife and kids, lost his car, moved into his
truck and says he subsists largely on a diet of $1 cheese
burritos. But Jan. 1 looms like a date with the grim reaper
himself. Posted.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-truckers27-2009nov27,0,32440,print.story

Scientists Weigh In On The Politics Of Climate Change. When
climate scientists talked recently about their latest research on
global warming, they also responded to questions about the
politics surrounding climate change. Here's a glimpse into the
scientists' "take" on the role politics plays in the climate
change debate. Posted.
http://www.kpbs.org/news/2009/nov/30/politics-climate-change/ 

Climate Research E-Mail Controversy Simmers. The scientific
conduct of climate researchers has come under increasing heat in
a sprawling online debate over leaked e-mails that, critics say,
raise questions about the arguments that global warming threatens
the world. The fight comes as leaders of 192 nations prepare to
meet Dec. 7-18 in Copenhagen to craft an agreement to stem the
heat-trapping "greenhouse" gases that feed temperature rise.
Posted.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2009-11-30-warming30_ST_N.htm

China Ties Plans To Cut CO{-2} To Economic Growth. Washington -
China announced Thursday that it will cut its economy's carbon
intensity by up to 45 percent by 2020, the state news agency
Xinhua said, and that Premier Wen Jiabao will participate in
international climate negotiations in Copenhagen next month. The
move by the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter to set a
near-term target of a 40 to 45 percent reduction, coming a day
after President Obama set U.S. climate goals for the talks,
suggests a possible breakthrough in Demark next month in the
long-stalled climate negotiations. Posted.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/27/MNRT1AR37R.DTL&type=printable

Official: Leaders May Join Obama at Climate Summit. An
administration official says some world leaders may change their
schedules so they can attend an upcoming climate conference the
same day as President Barack Obama. Obama will attend the
Copenhagen summit on Dec. 9 before heading to Oslo to accept the
Nobel Peace Prize. At least 90 other world leaders will also
attend the conference, though most are expected to arrive the
following week. Posted.
http://www.modbee.com/politics/story/953090.html#ixzz0YMStN4Dr

Intrigue and Plot Twists in Global Climate Talks. In the
otherwise ponderous and unhurried context of global climate
negotiations, the past two weeks have seen a variety of gripping
twists. It started this month in Singapore, where Barack Obama,
the U.S. president, and other leaders used the sidelines of an
economic forum to deflate expectations for a treaty at the
December climate summit meeting in Copenhagen. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/business/energy-environment/30iht-green30.html


Reader Rebuttal: Rules for TVs, Cars. Robert Murphy contends
that recent flat screen TV and "cool car" energy efficiency
regulations by the California Energy Commission and California
Air Resources Board amount to central government planning,
Soviet-style ["Buying TVs and cars, Soviet-style," California
Focus, Nov. 19]. Sadly, his ideological blinders prevent him from
recognizing decades of California environmental leadership, much
of which is now institutionalized by other states and the federal
government as well. Take, for instance, Title 24 energy
efficiency building codes. Posted.
http://www.ocregister.com/common/printer/view.php?db=ocregister&id=221478
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/bill-217026-boxer-committee.html
http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/warming-221491-california-global.html
http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/warming-221483-global-one.html
http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/peer-221438-reviewed-climate.html?pic=1

Solar Panels Causing Some Storms. Even as California and the
federal government encourage solar power, homeowners often have
to fight homeowners associations for their right to install the
systems. Ready to chuck his electric bills, Camarillo resident
Marc Weinberg last year asked his homeowners association for
permission to put solar panels on his roof. When the Spanish
Hills Homeowners Assn. said no, Weinberg sued the group. Posted.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-solar-panels30-2009nov30,0,610712,print.story

Opinion: Climate Researchers' Stunning Lack Of Integrity. The
following editorial appeared in the Dallas Morning News on
Friday, Nov. 27: Not long ago, a computer hacker stole a large
trove of e-mails between leading climate scientists from around
the globe, and published them on the Internet. Suddenly, the heat
is on - as well it should be. Posted.
http://www.modbee.com/opinion/world/story/953032.html#ixzz0YMTrSwG7

Opinion: Panel Discusses Climate Change and The Clean-Tech
Response To It. With California in the process of implementing
the most aggressive climate change legislation in the country,
"Energy and the Environment" was the topic for a panel discussion
at the Silicon Valley Leadership Group's "Projections 2010:
Leadership California" conference at Santa Clara University's
Louis B. Mayer Theatre this fall. Participants explored the
challenge and opportunity of climate change and the clean-tech
response to it. Posted.
http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_13874393 

Opinion: Copenhagen's Missing Ingredient: Water. Scientists
stress water's profound link with climate change, yet delegates
at next week's conference have deleted water from the working
draft of a binding environmental treaty. Climate change conjures
up factory smoke, corn ethanol, cap-and-trade, hybrid cars. It
also evokes Al Gore, drowning polar bears, African famine and
Hurricane Katrina. Posted.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-workman30-2009nov30,0,1314434,print.story

Opinion: My Word: California Must Transition To Cleaner Diesel
Trucks. AS THE country struggles to overcome the worst economic
recession in 70 years, many families are confronting hardships
unparalleled in their lifetimes. While there have been loud cries
to wait to clean up diesel pollution from trucks and buses until
our economy fully recovers, such a conclusion would be a
monumental mistake. Posted.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/opinion/ci_13867491

Editorial: States Take Climate Initiative. California is not
waiting for Congress to act on curbing industrial emissions that
contribute heavily to smog and global warming. In Congress, the
House passed a bill in June that would reduce industrial
emissions annually through a cap-and-trade program. As reported
by The Washington Post, the bill mandates that industrial
emissions throughout the country be reduced to 17 percent below
2005 levels by 2020 and to 83 percent below those levels by 2050.
Posted.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/nov/30/states-take-climate-initiative/

Editorial: Real Progress Possible At Climate-Change Summit. The
upcoming climate-change showdown in Copenhagen is shaping up as a
test of gamesmanship. Which is better: a Washington pledge to
trim emissions slightly at the start, and then more steeply over
the following decades? Or China's pledge to promise greater
energy efficiency right away even if it remains the No. 1 emitter
of carbon dioxide? The contending claims and the politics behind
them are a tangle. But that doesn't mean that next month's Danish
conference dubbed "son of Kyoto" can't produce serious results.
Posted.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/30/EDTP1ARCRH.DTL&type=printable

Blogs

California's Cap-And-Trade Trial Run. The California Air
Resources Board released a draft plan to impose a cap-and-trade
regime on the state's utilities, refineries and factories. The
plan, which comes as part of the implementation of the sweeping
environmental law AB32, makes California a laboratory for testing
how the market-based approach to reducing greenhouse gas
emissions will work. The same arguments lodged against the
federal government's attempt to create a cap-and-trade system are
in play in the Golden State. (Read here to learn more about how
cap-and-trade systems work.). Posted.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/green/detail?&entry_id=52361

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