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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. 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. 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