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newsclips -- Newsclips for February 10, 2010.

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 11:26:48
California Air Resources Board News Clips for February 10, 2010.
 

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Climate Group Admits Mistakes. Some IPCC Officials Say the
U.N.-Sponsored Group Must Improve Procedures for Reviewing
Reports. Some top officials of a Nobel Prize-winning
climate-science organization are acknowledging the panel made
some mistakes amid a string of recent revelations questioning the
accuracy of some of the information in its influential reports.
Officials of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a
United Nations-sponsored network of scientists whose reports
strongly influence global policy on greenhouse-gas emissions,
initially played down some of the allegations. Posted.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704182004575055703697897576.html#printMode

Climate And Energy Issues Send Hordes To K Street. The number of
companies and organizations hiring energy lobbyists reached
record levels last year as major climate legislation worked its
way through Congress. More than 1,700 groups and businesses
turned to K Street in 2009 for help on energy, climate and
nuclear issues, a jump from 1,331 in 2008, according to new data
compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics. The numbers
constitute a more than 70 percent increase from three years ago
and include companies ranging from information technology giants
to steel manufacturers. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/02/10/10climatewire-climate-and-energy-issues-send-hordes-to-k-s-21839.html
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/02/10/1

Misguided Opposition to AB32 and Cap and Trade. Whether or not
Congress eventually approves the greenhouse-gas reduction
agreements reached in Copenhagen late last year, California will
soon have a cap-and-trade system in place. Unless voters here put
a ballot initiative to the contrary on the November ballot and
then pass it. Sponsors of this putative proposition call it the
“California Jobs Initiative,” contending jobs will be lost in
efforts to fight global warming by demanding lower industrial
emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane.
Posted.
http://www.vcstar.com/news/2010/feb/09/misguided-opposition-to-ab32-and-cap-and-trade/

Commentary: AB 32 Is Killing Our Economy. Mike Rothschild is the
Mayor Pro Tem in Victorville and a board member of the Mojave
Desert Air Quality Management District. I have served on the
Mojave Desert Air Quality Management District (MDAQMD) board for
its entire 17-year existence and as it chairman the first three
years.  I led the effort to separate MDAQMD from the South Coast
Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) and the credit transfer
bills.  As the author of the resolution to repeal AB 32 (carbon
emission standards), I am urging each city council and the San
Bernardino board of supervisors for their support.  Posted.
http://www.publicceo.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1175:commentary-ab-32-is-killing-our-economy-&catid=148:environmental-issues-broad

Conservatives Mock Gore On Snowfall. With the nation’s capital
buried in several feet of snow and the federal government brought
to a halt by Mother Nature, conservatives are mocking former Vice
President Al Gore and his crusade to curb global climate change.
The vocal doubters of global warming frequently use any
unseasonal snowfall or cold spell to mock Gore and the scientists
who believe human actions are unnaturally warming the planet.
Posted. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/32783.html

Opinion: Repealing Climate Bill Would Hurt Silicon Valley
Economy. Our state's landmark climate bill — the California
Global Warming Solutions Act (AB32) — has put California squarely
at the forefront of the fight against global warming by requiring
the state to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels
by 2020. This is good for the environment, and, just as
importantly, for the innovation economy and job creation.
However, U.S. Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Granite Bay, and state
Assemblyman Dan Logue, R-Marysville, have launched a misguided
initiative drive that could block the progress and promise of
AB32. Posted.
http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_14368056?nclick_check=1

Editorial: Senate Offers Some Hope For Legislation To Combat
Climate Change. CLIMATE CHANGE legislation, according to
conventional wisdom, is all but dead for the year. It fell victim
to Senate gridlock, yawning gaps between lawmakers over how and
even whether to tackle the issue and President Obama's decision
last year to place it third on his list of priorities, after the
stimulus and health care. Posted.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/09/AR2010020903526.html

Editorial: Global Warming Snow Job. Record snowfall illustrates
the obvious: The global warming fraud is without equal in modern
science. The fundamental problems exposed about climate-change
theory undermine the very basis of scientific inquiry. Huge
numbers of researchers refuse to provide their data to other
scientists. Some referenced data is found not to have existed.
The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007 report
that global warming activists continually cite invented a large
number of purported facts. Posted.
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/10/global-warming-snow-job//print/

Challenged Back Home on His Right, McCain Stays Away From
Climate Bill.Sen. John McCain once led the global warming debate
on Capitol Hill, pledging to force repeated floor votes on
cap-and-trade legislation until it passed. "Over time we will not
be elected Miss Congeniality in the Senate, but we will win," the
Arizona Republican said in April 2006. But McCain has gone on
hiatus from the issue since losing the presidential election to
Barack Obama. Posted. 
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/02/10/10climatewire-challenged-back-home-on-his-right-mccain-sta-91703.html?pagewanted=print

China's Pollution Census Thorough, Not Public. Beijing - China
has revealed its most ambitious measure of what explosive
development has done to its environment, saying Tuesday that its
first national pollution census has mapped nearly 6 million
sources of industrial, residential and agricultural waste. The
world's largest polluter also said its pollution levels might
peak sooner than expected as China tries to balance economic and
green concerns. The central government now has a year to use the
census results to shape its next five-year environmental
protection plan. Posted.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/10/MNO81BUQ23.DTL&type=printable

'Columbo' Fights Gas Emissions Law. As mismatches go, "Columbo"
vs. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger may not rank with David vs.
Goliath, but California's environmental and energy policy would
be dramatically altered if the little guy wins this fight.
Posted. http://www.fresnobee.com/1148/story/1815594.html
http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/2525716.html

FedEx Applies 'Environmental Philanthropy' to Move Traffic and
Cut Emissions in Mexico City. Insurgentes Avenue runs 18 miles
across Mexico City. It is one of the longest, most congested
urban thoroughfares in the world. The city's decision in 2005 to
carve out a bus lane in the middle of the avenue is seen as a
marquee effort to promote public transportation and get pollution
under control. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/02/10/10climatewire-fedex-applies-environmental-philanthropy-to-92542.html


Asthma And Wood-Burning Stoves: A Heated Issue. The discussion
regarding wood-burning fireplaces has been a heated issue (excuse
the pun) in Napa County. On July 9, 2008, the Bay Area Air
Quality Management District Board adopted Regulation 6, Rule 3,
to limit emissions of particulate matter from wood-burning
devices. Seventeen Bay Area counties and cities have adopted this
regulation. Napa County and the city of Napa are not among them.
Posted.
http://www.napavalleyregister.com/news/opinion/mailbag/article_760b50d8-15f0-11df-b2d0-001cc4c03286.html


Biodiesel Firm Hopes Grant Will Fund Project. Chico - Nonprofits
use Web site voting to earn dollars for their causes, but now a
local Chico business hopes Pepsi's "refresheverything.com" could
mean a new chapter. Springboard Biodiesel has hopes that daily
voting on the Pepsi site could mean a $250,000 windfall for the
company. Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_14371687

Feinstein, Boxer Call For Delay On Plans To Expand Central
Valley Landfill. The senators seek a moratorium on the facility's
growth until investigations into birth defects in Kettleman City
are completed. Reporting from Kettleman City, Calif. California's
two U.S. senators on Tuesday called for a moratorium on plans to
expand the state's largest toxic waste landfill pending the
completion of investigations into birth defects in the nearby
farm workers' community of Kettleman City. Posted.
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-me-toxic10-2010feb10,0,6902217,print.story

State: Birth Defect Rate In CA Town Not Unusual. Fresno,
Calif.—State health officials said Tuesday they found nothing
unusual about the rate of infant birth defects in an impoverished
San Joaquin Valley farm town located next to the West's largest
toxic waste dump. Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_14365819

Uphill Fight for Landfill. Privately owned Forward Landfill, one
of the busiest dumps in California, wants to nearly triple its
available space despite objections from neighbors, farm advocates
and pilots at nearby Stockton Metropolitan Airport. Forward
disposed of 1.2 million tons of trash in 2008, ranking eighth
among nearly 200 California landfills, state records show.
Posted.
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100210/A_NEWS/2100332/-1/a_news14


Company Hopes to Put SoCal's Power-Storage Problems on Ice. Ice
Energy has a novel solution for the electricity challenges of the
21st century: Make Popsicles. Put another way, the company wants
to freeze water at night in refrigerator-like boxes adjacent to
commercial air conditioners and then thaw it during the day, when
power demand is highest. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/02/09/09greenwire-company-hopes-to-put-socals-power-storage-prob-51420.html


Work Starts In March On 'Green' Makeover Of Former Sentinel
Building. Santa Cruz - Work is scheduled to begin in mid-March on
a "green" makeover of the former Sentinel building for Ecology
Action and Cruzio. Developer Joe Appenrodt, a partner in the
consortium that bought 207 Church St. at an auction in September,
put the price tag Tuesday at $4 million to $5 million. The
building has been a downtown landmark since 1966. Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_14367027

World Ag Expo opens in Tulare. The rain may have muddied the
grounds of the International Agri-Center in Tulare, but it did
not seem to slow the thousands of visitors to the 43rd annual
World Ag Expo. Posted.
http://www.fresnobee.com/business/story/1814712.html

Con Edison Calls For More Solar Energy Projects. New York -- Con
Edison, a unit of Consolidated Edison Inc., on Tuesday filed a
proposal with the state of New York calling for more funds for
solar energy projects in New York City. In Con Edison's filing
with the New York State Public Service Commission, it called for
the development of 25 megawatts of solar energy resources in New
York City by 2015. Posted.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/09/AR2010020902336.html

Blogs

The Distracting Debate Over Climate Certainty. Anyone tracking
the decades-long fight over curbing greenhouse gases can see the
tendency of the most passionate advocates on either side to try
to build their cases around certainty. “There’s no longer any
debate,” became a mantra in the post-Katrina surge of greenhouse
campaigning, cresting after the 2007 publication of the fourth
set of reports on warming from the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change. Posted.
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/the-distracting-debate-over-climate-certainty/


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