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Obama Eager to Help Advance Climate Bill. President Barack Obama
said on Wednesday he wants to advance a climate bill that has
been stalled in the U.S. Senate, but he did not say it had to
include a cap-and-trade market for emissions blamed for warming
the planet. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/01/28/us/politics/politics-us-obama-cleanenergy.html?_r=1&scp=9&sq=carbon%20emissions&st=cse

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/28/AR2010012801473.html

Climate Change: Lead, Follow Or Get Out Of The Way. The
following editorial appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on
Wednesday, Jan. 27: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is
moving forward with plans to regulate greenhouse gas emissions
that cause global warming. At the same time, Congress - a leading
source of hot air - is debating a resolution that would strip the
EPA of its authority to act. Posted.
http://www.modbee.com/opinion/world/story/1026431.html#ixzz0dvMcJpl7

SEC To Require Disclosure Of Climate Change Risks. A politically
divided Securities and Exchange Commission voted on Wednesday to
make clear when companies must provide information to investors
about the business risks associated with climate change. The
commission, in a 3 to 2 vote, decided to require that companies
disclose in their public filings the impact of climate change on
their businesses -- from new regulations or legislation they may
face domestically or abroad to potential changes in economic
trends or physical risks to a company. Posted.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/27/AR2010012704502_pf.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703410004575029303322357276.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTWhatsNewsCollection

EU Backs Climate Change Report Despite Flaws.  Brussels — The
European Union says it has "full confidence" in a key United
Nations climate change study after its authors apologized for
mistakes. The EU has based an ambitious and costly plan to turn
into a low-carbon economy on dire warnings of global warming from
a 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a
panel of scientists affiliated with the United Nations. Posted.
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/globalwarming/2010-01-27-eu-climate-change-report_N.htm

U.K. University in Climate Controversy Broke Law, Officials Say.
The British university at the center of a controversy over stolen
emails on climate change research broke the law by failing to
comply with requests for raw data, U.K. authorities said. But the
institution won't be prosecuted because the statute of
limitations has expired. The U.K.'s Information Commissioner’s
Office, the ICO, said the emails show requests made to the
University of East Anglia under the Freedom of Information Act
were "not dealt with as they should have been under the
legislation." Posted.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704194504575031022338013284.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Global Warming To Trigger More Warming. Oslo - Climate change
caused by mankind will release extra heat-trapping gases stored
in nature into the atmosphere in a small spur to global warming,
a study showed. But the knock-on effect of the additional carbon
dioxide -- stored in soils, plants and the oceans -- on top of
industrial emissions building up in the atmosphere will be less
severe than suggested by some recent studies, they said. "We are
confirming that the feedback exists and is positive. Posted.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60Q51V20100127

Federal Agencies Prepare To Shrink Greenhouse Gas Footprints.
The costs of greenhouse gas emissions cuts will guide how
aggressively the Obama administration sets the federal
government's first-ever reduction targets, agency officials and a
top White House official said yesterday. After scouring their
operations for fuel and energy saving options in response to
President Obama's October executive order, 35 federal agencies
reported their targets for the year 2020 to the White House in
early January (ClimateWire, Jan. 22). Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/01/28/7

Output Of Super-Warming Gas Grows, Despite Efforts To Curb It.
Emissions of a powerful greenhouse gas have grown rapidly since
the 1990s despite an international effort to curtail output, a
new study finds. Researchers led by National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration scientist Stephen Montzka say the
world emitted roughly 13,500 metric tons of HFC-23 annually
between 2006 and 2008 -- a rate that's about 50 percent higher
than it was in the 1990s. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/01/28/10

Harsh Winter A Sign Of Disruptive Climate Change, Report Says.
This winter's extreme weather -- with heavy snowfall in some
places and unusually low temperatures -- is in fact a sign of how
climate change disrupts long-standing patterns, according to a
new report by the National Wildlife Federation. Posted.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/28/AR2010012800041.html

Grass-Fed Beef Has Bigger Carbon Footprint. Red meat has a bad
reputation among the green-minded for its emissions of
heat-trapping gases that exacerbate climate change. Fertilizer
derived from fossil fuels is required for growing grain to feed
cattle, and cows' digestion produces large amounts of the potent
greenhouse gas methane, which is 25 times more heating than
carbon dioxide. Posted.
http://news.discovery.com/earth/grass-fed-beef-grain.html 

Truckers Clean Up Their Act. Truckers at the Port of Oakland are
scrambling to clean up their rigs this month. If they can't show
they've taken steps to reduce pollution from their trucks' diesel
engines, they'll soon be out of work. Some truckers say the new
state rules are too expensive, especially at a time when revenues
are down. But treating health problems caused by diesel soot may
be even pricier, as Amy Standen reports. Posted.
http://www.kqed.org/quest/radio/truckers-clean-up-their-act

Calif. Recipient of $2.25B In High-Speed Rail Funds. High-speed
rail projects in California, Florida and Illinois are among the
big winners of $8 billion in grants to be announced today by the
White House. California will recieve $2.25 billion to begin work
on an 800-mile-long, high-speed rail line tying Sacramento and
the San Francisco Bay area to Los Angeles and San Diego. The
route will include stations in Fresno and a South Valley
location. Work will include purchasing right-of-way, building
track, signaling systems and stations and completing
environmental reviews.  Posted.
http://www.thebusinessjournal.com/government/3754-calif-recipient-of-225b-in-high-speed-rail-funds
http://www.fresnobee.com/state/story/1799849.html

Livermore Lab Scientists Report Promising Step Toward Fusion.
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory scientists achieved a critical
milestone in the lab's five-decade pursuit of fusion ignition,
according to a study published online today in the journal
Science. In a series of experiments which began last summer and
concluded in early December, scientists at the lab's National
Ignition Facility consistently achieved a critical first step for
generating fusion ignition. The multibillion-dollar facility
officially opened in May 2009. Posted.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_14280777

China Sets Up Energy Agency Headed By PM. Beijing—China has set
up a government agency headed by Premier Wen Jiabao to better
coordinate energy policy, as world's second-largest power
consumer faces growing domestic demand and struggles with
shortages. Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/nation-world/ci_14283349

Social Forum Leftists Decry Climate Talks Failure. Porto Alegre,
Brazil—Activists at the World Social forum say world leaders'
failure to forge a new climate change treaty in Copenhagen shows
the planet's most powerful nations are incapable of setting
important global policy. Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_14285823
http://www.fresnobee.com/world/story/1799195.html

EPA To Visit Calif. Town With Birth Defect Cluster. San
Francisco, Calif.—Dozens of people chanted and held signs outside
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in San
Francisco to draw more attention to a cluster of birth defects in
a town near the largest toxic waste dump in the West. Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_14278369
http://www.fresnobee.com/updates/story/1798736.html

Letters: California Failing. I have been paying close attention
to California since the passage of Proposition 13 in 1978. I have
watched California's politician’s worm and weasel their way
around the will of the people. In the mid-1980s, we stopped
building nuclear power plants. We haven't added a new oil
refinery since 1981. We can no longer fish, farm, log or mine
without environmentalist's heads exploding. Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/opinion/ci_14280024

Neighbors Of Toxic Dump Rally In San Francisco. San
Francisco—Residents of a California farm town near the largest
toxic waste dump in the West gathered in San Francisco to protest
outside the offices of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Posted. http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_14279963

Kawneer Works on Carbon Footprint. Kawneer Company, Inc. of
Visalia has a new program to help its employees and others in
Tulare County become part of the solution to global climate
change – and reduce their energy bills. Posted.
http://www.valleyvoicenewspaper.com/vv/stories/2010/vv_kawneer_0384.htm


BLOGS

Lawsuits Battle Clear-Cutting In Sierra Nevada And Cascade
Ranges. Will clear-cutting forests increase global warming?
That's a contentious issue as California, which is seeking to
slash its carbon footprint, wrestles over rules to manage the
state's private forests. Today, the Center for Biological
Diversity, a Tucson-based environmental group, filed lawsuits
against the California Department of Forestry in seven California
counties to halt logging plans for 5,000 acres across the Sierra
Nevada and Cascade regions. Posted.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/01/clear-cutting-forests-climate-change-sierra-nevada-global-warming.html

Fremont-Based Solyndra Signs Belgium Solar Deal. That’s one way
to go international: Fremont, Calif.-based solar company Solyndra
Inc. has some of its cylindrical photovoltaic systems installed
on rooftop sites in Belgium, the company said today. The project,
involving 1.928 megawatt-peak of generation capability on 10
rooftops owned by a large food retailer in 10 cities, was
completed in just two months and is the largest project ever for
Solyndra.  Posted.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/01/fremontbased-solyndra-signs-belgium-solar-deal-.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GreenspaceEnvironmentBlog+%28Greenspace%29