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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 of Communications. You may need to sign in or register with individual websites to view some of the following news articles. 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