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California Air Resources Board News Clips for February 10, 2010. 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. 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/