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newsclips -- Newsclips for December 22, 2009.

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 10:00:48
California Air Resources Board News Clips for December 22, 2009.

This is a service of the California Air Resources Board’s Office
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Watching Your Carb(S). The California Air Resources Board wants
to clear the air in the golden state. But its efforts to
establish and enforce new air-quality regulations leave many
fleet operators confused, especially as the struggling economy
makes it difficult to invest in clean-air (green) technology.
Full-service truck leasing can offer fleet operators some
answers. Full-service leasing companies, such as paclease,
bellevue, wash., provide trucks that not only meet and exceed the
state’s new air quality standards, but that also help operators
improve their image, driver morale, productivity and fleet
efficiency. Posted.
http://www.recyclingtoday.com/Article.aspx?article_id=54948

Wood Burning: Hazardous To Your Health. Though the recent
freezing weather may seem like the worst time to call a
wood-burning ban, the scientific evidence documenting the harm
caused by wood smoke pollution justifies such restrictions. As a
physician, I know all too well the health impacts caused by toxic
smoke. Breathing these particles can literally shorten life and
send our most vulnerable residents to the emergency room. Posted.
http://www.timesheraldonline.com/opinion/ci_14047375

A Cool Wind Braces The Hot Air Crowd. For years, global warming
alarmists have pointed to every drought and heat wave as proof
that global warming was a real environmental threat. They had few
qualms about blurring the line between weather and climate to
make a PR point. Perhaps, then, it was karma that brought a
blizzard and freezing temperatures to the U.N. climate change
Conference of Parties confab in Copenhagen (or COP-15 for short)
last week. Posted.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/22/EDUT1B7LFC.DTL&type=printable

AB32's Schemes Kill Jobs. Coming from Hollywood may explain Gov.
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s disconnect with reality. In the real
world, saying so doesn’t make it so. In Copenhagen last week, he
made the astonishing claim that the Golden State is evidence we
need not choose between a clean environment and economic growth
because: “We’ve proved that over and over again in California.”
Environmental well-being and economic vitality need not conflict.
But California is far from proof. Posted.
http://www.desertdispatch.com/common/printer/view.php?db=desertdispatch&id=7535

U.S. Cap And Trade Looks Out Of Reach In 2010. Washington
(Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers face an uphill battle enacting a
climate bill in 2010 that includes a cap-and-trade market in
greenhouse gases, after this month's U.N. meeting in Copenhagen
failed to hammer out a global pact on emissions cuts. U.S.
climate legislation remains likely as lawmakers feel pressure to
help the country lead in production of low-carbon energy sources
such as wind, solar and nuclear power. Posted.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BK3SJ20091221

OPINION: Time for a Climate Change Plan B.  The U.S. president
is in deep denial.The world's political leaders, not least
President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Gordon Brown, are in a
state of severe, almost clinical, denial. While acknowledging
that the outcome of the United Nations climate-change conference
in Copenhagen fell short of their demand for a legally binding,
enforceable and verifiable global agreement on emissions
reductions by developed and developing countries alike, they
insist that what has been achieved is a breakthrough and a
decisive step forward. Posted.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704107604574607793378860698.html?mod=rss_Today's_Most_Popular#printMode

Editorials on the Climate Conference in Copenhagen. The
following editorial appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on
Monday, Dec. 21: COLD COMFORT. The climate-change talks in
Copenhagen provided another frank lesson to the rest of the world
on the limits to a U.S. president's power. Posted.
http://www.modbee.com/opinion/world/story/982380.html#ixzz0aR6uzKBz

Climate Change Bill Tough Sell. Earlier this year, Democratic
Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, the leader of an effort to
write a U.S. climate change bill, argued that domestic cuts in
greenhouse gas emissions would help President Obama pry similar
cuts from China and other major developing nations. Posted.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/22/climate-change-bill-tough-sell/


Earth, Too Big To Fail? Rebecca Solnit is the author, most
recently, of A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary
Communities That Arise in Disaster. This piece originally
appeared on TomDispatch. It’s clear now that, from her immoveable
titanium bangs to her chaotic approximation of human speech,
Sarah Palin is a Terminator cyborg sent from the future to
destroy something -- but what? It could be the Republican Party
she’ll ravage by herding the fundamentalists and extremists into
a place where sane fiscal conservatives and swing voters can’t
follow. Posted.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/12/21/opinion/main6005817.shtml


Green Battle Rages in Desert. Mojave Protection Bill Would Put
Prime Solar-Power Sites Off Limits. Barstow, Calif. -- A
California senator's move Monday to put more than one million
acres of the Mojave Desert off limits to development is
spotlighting a clash between two prime goals of
environmentalists. Before Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein
introduced legislation to create the Mojave Trails National
Monument and other protected wilderness areas, solar-power
developers had submitted nearly two dozen proposals since 2006
for projects that would make the Southern California desert the
biggest solar farm on Earth. Posted.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126144129302900923.html#printMode

Report: New Mexico's Greenhouse Gas Emissions Up. Albuquerque,
N.M. — An inventory of New Mexico's greenhouse gas production
shows residents have reduced their average emissions from
gasoline use over a seven-year period, but they're consuming more
energy to heat, cool and power their homes. Despite efforts by
Gov. Bill Richardson's administration to address climate change
and lower greenhouse gas emissions, a draft inventory prepared by
the state Environment Department shows New Mexico's total direct
emissions increased by about 4 percent between 2000 and 2007 to
80 million metric tons. Posted.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jHGcqoys1dlwTTOnjGfoz2ePu8_QD9COC50G0

EPA: Duke Energy To Spend $93M To Settle Air Rules Violations.
New York --Duke Energy Corp. (DUK) will spend $93 million to
resolve violations of federal emissions rules at a coal-fired
power plant it owns in Indiana, federal officials said Tuesday.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of
Justice said a settlement reached with one of the largest U.S.
utilities includes a $1.75 million civil penalty and $85 million
in required environmental upgrades at the Gallagher coal-fired
plant in New Albany, Ind. Posted.
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20091222-707288.html

Central Valley Farming Town Demands Answers On Birth Defects.
Kettleman City — Maricela Mares-Alatorre was well aware of the
industrial and agricultural pollutants that surrounded her as she
grew up in this tiny farm town just three miles from the largest
toxic waste dump in the West. Her parents had founded People for
Clean Air and Water two decades ago to successfully fight a
proposed incinerator at the dump. It was an early but defining
struggle for the environmental justice movement. Posted.
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14043513?source=rss

BLOGS

California Study Finds New Homes Are Toxic. A year ago we
complained that energy efficiency was obviously a good thing, but
not at the cost of air quality and the health of occupants.
Energy efficient houses are built to be as airtight as possible,
filled with materials and cleaning products that release all
kinds of hazardous chemicals, and yet there is no legal
requirement for heat recovery ventilators. Posted.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/california-houses-are-toxic.php

The Real Climate Hoax. In all of the recent news about climate
change, leaked emails, complex negotiations, and watered-down
agreements in copenhagen, one fact has't received enough
attention. The climate "hoax" is real. The only problem is that
the real hoax is the effort by climate change deniers who argue
that the climate isn't changing, or that it isn't because of
human actions. It is, and it is. The science is unambiguous. The
climate is changing, rapidly, and it is doing so because of our
emissions of greenhouse gases. Posted. 
Http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/gleick/detail??Blogid=104&entry_id=53957

Small CO2 Changes Make Big Changes In Global Warming. A research
team out of yale university has found that the types of increases
in carbon dioxide taking place in the atmosphere today could have
a much larger effect on global temperatures than anticipated.
Mark pagani, associate professor of geology and geophysics at
yale and the lead author of the paper in the online edition of
nature geoscience, and his team have found that a relatively
small rise in co2 can have dramatic temperature issues. Posted.
http://www.examiner.com/x-30464-Portland-Science-News-Examiner~y2009m12d21-Small-Changes-make-Big-Changes-in-Global-Warming

Melting Permafrost Adding To Global Warming. Along with the
melting Arctic ice caps, scientists are concerned about melting
permafrost. Massive amounts of methane as well CO2 are stored in
the permafrost. Methane (CH4) has 20 more times the heat trapping
power of CO2. While the spotlight has been on the role of CO2 in
global warming, some scientists are very worried about current
methane levels. Methane levels have risen sharply before most of
the major rapid warming spell in Earth's history. Posted.
http://www.examiner.com/x-24190-Toledo-Environmental-News-Examiner~y2009m12d22-Melting-permafrost-adding-to-global-warming

Population Growth and Global Warming. Are condoms and birth
control pills more cost-effective than windmills and solar panels
as tools to curb global warming? Yes, and by a wide margin,
contends Thomas Wire, a post-graduate researcher at the London
School of Economics and author of a recent study asserting that
family planning is nearly five times more cost-effective in
mitigating global warming emissions than green energy
technologies such as wind and solar power. Posted.
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/population-growth-and-global-warming/?pagemode=print

Multi-Million-Dollar Cap And Trade Scheme Exposed. Documents due
to be opened to the public in January via a court order will
“unseal all the closed records regarding the successful
prosecution for fraud of Anne Masters Sholtz, a former California
institute of technology economist,” according to a www.nasdaq.com
article. Representatives Joe Barton (r-Texas) and Greg Walden
(r-or), who are house lawyers and ranking members of the energy
committee and oversight subcommittee are responsible for
contacting a federal district court in California concerning the
records. Posted.
http://www.examiner.com/x-16044-christianity--politics-examiner~y2009m12d21-multimilliondollar-cap-and-trade-scheme-exposed

Help for Green-Minded Shoppers. If you’re the kind of consumer
who likes to think about the environment before making a
purchasing decision, some advice is at hand, just in time for
last-minute Christmas shopping. Climate Counts, an advocacy
group, has released its third annual environmental scorecard of
consumer companies and wants shoppers to consider the scores as
they hit the stores. Posted.
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/help-for-green-minded-shoppers/?scp=5&sq=climate%20change&st=cse

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