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California Air Resources Board News Clips for February 16, 2010.

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Cost-Sharing Funds Available. The California Air Resources Board
(CARB) plans to issue a rule by the end of 2010 that will require
the replacement or retrofitting of older diesel motors in ag
equipment such as tractors, harvesters, self-propelled spray
rigs, forklifts and ATVs with cleaner burning motors. Posted.
http://westernfarmpress.com/tree-nut-crops/cost-sharing-funds-0216/

Air Quality Regulators Reach Out To Business Community. An olive
branch went out to Bakersfield's business community Tuesday as
state air quality regulators took an opportunity to quiet
suspicions that they're bent on quashing profits and costing
people their jobs. Posted.
http://www.bakersfield.com/news/business/economy/x914961373/Air-quality-regulators-reach-out-to-business-community

$440M Of Stimulus For Calif EPA Projects In '09. El Cerrito,
Calif.—Nearly $440 million in federal stimulus funds went into
California environmental projects last year, including upgrades
to the state's aging water infrastructure. Posted.
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14411573

$517M Of Stimulus For Calif EPA Projects To Date. El Cerrito,
Calif.—The Environmental Protection Agency is spending about $517
million in stimulus dollars to shore up the economy and create
green jobs in California, a top federal official said Tuesday.
Jared Blumenfeld, administrator for the EPA's Pacific Southwest
region, made the announcement while touring a rain garden in El
Cerrito that got stimulus funds to plant landscaping that removes
chemicals from stormwater runoff that flows into the San
Francisco Bay. Posted.
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14417275

Defections Shake Up Climate Coalition. Three big companies quit
an influential lobbying group that had focused on shaping
climate-change legislation, in the latest sign that support for
an ambitious bill is melting away. Oil giants BP PLC and
ConocoPhillips and heavy-equipment maker Caterpillar Inc. said
Tuesday they won't renew their membership in the three-year-old
U.S. Climate Action Partnership, a broad business-environmental
coalition that had been instrumental in building support in
Washington for capping emissions of greenhouse gases. Posted.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704804204575069440096420212.html#mod=todays_us_page_one

Oceano Dunes Ecosystem Needs Constant Care. Take 4,000 acres of
wind-swept dunes, five-and-a-half miles of beach and numerous
rare plants and animals and combine that with 2 million people
and tens of thousands of trucks and off-highway vehicles a year.
Posted. http://www.sanluisobispo.com/dunes/story/1031386.html

British Airways To Buy Jet Fuel From City Waste. British Airways
will start sourcing a small portion of its jet fuel from
municipal waste from 2014, under a deal with U.S.-based biofuel
company Solena Group, the two companies announced on Monday.
Posted. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61F37520100216

Fuel-Stingy Hybrid Truck Means Bountiful Savings For California
Food Bank. When Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San
Mateo (CA) Counties delivers fresh fruits and vegetables to local
neighborhood community centers with its new Kenworth
diesel-electric hybrid tractor, the expected fuel savings could
enable the food bank to provide an additional 14,000 meals
annually. Posted.
http://refrigeratedtrans.com/2010-emissions/kenworth_hybrid_truck_helps_california_food_bank_save_0217/

Controversies Create Opening for Critics. The spate of recent
controversies about climate research has given fresh voice to a
group of scientists who question the mainstream view that human
activity is warming the planet to dangerous levels. Posted.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704804204575069723794293584.html

Opinion: Consensus or Con? This column was scoffing at global
warming back when global warming was still cool. But even we have
been surprised at the extent of the past three months' "meltdown"
of global warmism, to use the metaphor that everyone seems to
have settled on. Posted.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704804204575069551130098386.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion

The Continuing Climate Meltdown. It has been a bad—make that
dreadful—few weeks for what used to be called the "settled
science" of global warming, and especially for the U.N.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that is supposed to be
its gold standard. Posted.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748703630404575053781465774008.html

Opinion: Global Weirding Is Here. Of the festivals of nonsense
that periodically overtake American politics, surely the silliest
is the argument that because Washington is having a particularly
snowy winter it proves that climate change is a hoax and,
therefore, we need not bother with all this girly-man stuff like
renewable energy, solar panels and carbon taxes. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/17/opinion/17friedman.html?pagewanted=print

Cement Industry Seeks A Voice As EPA Sets Its Climate Rules.
Amid the recent flood of legal challenges to U.S. EPA's finding
that greenhouse gases threaten human health and welfare was one
from an industry that sees its future in the agency's hands. With
the Obama administration pushing forward climate, energy and
environmental policies and Congress wringing its hands, it is a
time of regulatory uncertainty for many major energy users. The
U.S cement industry -- one of the economy's most energy-intensive
-- is a good example of a sector facing plenty. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/02/17/5

BLOGS

States Bite Back Against Emissions Regulations, Even California.
When automakers and the Obama White House announced agreement on
a single national standard for emissions and fuel economy last
May, the entire auto industry heaved a huge sigh of relief. The
issue was settled, at least until 2016. Posted.
http://www.greencarreports.com/blog/1042686_states-bite-back-against-emissions-regulations-even-california

AB 32 Opponents Vulnerable on Pollution's Health Hazards.
Imagine if Toyota made this statement: "It has come to our
attention that, due to faulty gas pedals, a small number of our
cars have killed or injured a small percentage of our customers.
However, to recall and repair our cars to address this problem
would simply be too costly, especially in this difficult economy.
Posted.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-kim/ab-32-opponents-vulnerabl_b_464050.html

L.A. County Ranks 26th Of 56 In New Health Study; Orange County
In Top 10. New county health rankings for every state in the
country were released Wednesday by the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation and the University of Wisconsin’s Population Health
Institute. Posted.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/02/la-county-ranks-26-of-56-in-new-health-study-orange-county-in-top-10.html

Cellulosic Fuel Gets Cheaper, Companies Say. Two of the world’s
leading companies in the enzyme business, Novozymes and Danisco
of Denmark, announced this week that they had found a way to
produce enzymes that could reliably and affordably convert
agricultural waste into so-called cellulosic ethanol. Posted.
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/cellulosic-fuel-gets-cheaper-companies-say/

San Francisco’s Electric Cars Proliferate. In Monday’s New York
Times, Clifford Krauss and I wrote about the ways cities are
preparing for the rollout of electric cars later year. West Coast
cities like Portland, Ore.; Los Angeles; and San Diego are vying
to become electric car capitals. Posted.
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/san-franciscos-electric-cars-proliferate/

Three Firms Quit Climate Lobby. Three influential multinational
corporations have decamped from the United States Climate Action
Partnership, a 3-year-old lobbying group. They cited mounting
concerns over the direction of climate change legislation,
particularly concessions to the politically influential coal
sector. Posted.
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/three-firms-quit-climate-lobby/