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California Air Resources Board News Clips for February 23, 2010.

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Despite A Peace Offering, Lawmakers Advance Plans To Limit EPA
Climate Rules. Senate lawmakers intend to push forward efforts to
curtail U.S. EPA's climate regulations, despite the agency's
assurances yesterday that it will cautiously phase in
controversial permitting requirements. Responding to recent
concerns from moderate Senate Democrats, Jackson offered
industrial facilities a reprieve this year from Clean Air Act
obligations that could have kicked in as soon as next month. 
Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/02/23/2

Why Global Warming Should Concern Us All, Central Valley Folk In
Particular. As a concerned citizen, I always favor a healthy
debate, but not a steady stream of tactical distractions that are
designed to hide the truth, obscure the facts and divert
attention away from the real issues. Unfortunately, that's what's
happening in the debate about energy and global warming. Posted.
http://www.bakersfield.com/opinion/community/x431719753/Why-global-warming-should-concern-us-all-Central-Valley-folk-in-particular


CARB Forms Expert Workgroup On ILUC. The California Air
Resources Board (CARB) has appointed 30 people to an expert
workgroup that will meet for the first time Feb. 26. The
workgroup will look at, among other things, indirect land use
change (ILUC) as included in the state’s low carbon fuel standard
(LCFS). Notably, there is one ethanol producer representative
from Poet LLC and a representative from enzyme-maker Novozymes.
Posted.
http://www.ethanolproducer.com/article-print.jsp?article_id=6387

Bloom Energy raises the curtain on its fuel cell technology.
Bloom Energy, a Sunnyvale startup that has been working on a fuel
cell that would allow homes and businesses to generate their own
electricity, is raising the curtain on its technology this week.
Posted. http://www.insidebayarea.com/business/ci_14450048
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_14450048?nclick_check=1

Group Petitions EPA To Reduce Soot Pollution. ANCHORAGE,
Alaska—An environmental group petitioned the Environmental
Protection Agency on Monday to reduce soot, saying it accelerates
melting of glaciers and sea ice. The Center for Biological
Diversity called for regulations to be implemented under the
Clean Water Act. Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_14449256
http://www.modbee.com/2010/02/22/1059195/cummins-justice-department-settle.html
http://fleetowner.com/management/news/cummins-epa-carb-parts-error-0223/

UN Climate Talks To Resume in April in Germany. Bonn,
Germany—The United Nations says formal negotiations on an
international treaty to control global warming will resume in
Bonn in April, four months after the failed climate change summit
in Copenhagen. Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_14453814
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/23/AR2010022301443_pf.html
http://www.modbee.com/2010/02/22/1059199/group-petitions-epa-to-reduce.html

Emissions Vows Not Enough To Avoid 2 Degree C Rise: U.N. Nusa
Dua, Indonesia (Reuters) - Emission cuts pledges made by 60
countries will not be enough to keep the average global
temperature rise at 2 degrees Celsius or less, modeling released
on Tuesday by the United Nations says. Posted.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/23/AR2010022301124.html

Girl Scouts Aim To Replace 63,000 Light Bulbs With Compact
Fluorescent Models. How many Girl Scouts does it take to change
63,000 light bulbs? That may sound like a joke, but to the
members of the Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital, it's
no laughing matter. Posted.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/22/AR2010022204142.html

Can Corals Gradually Adjust To A Warming Climate? San Diego --
For plants, animals and marine life whose environment changes,
their options are stark and simple: Move, adapt or die. But when
the marine life in question is a coral reef cemented to the ocean
floor and the threat is climate change, the outlook appears
grimmer, said scientists presenting new findings here at the
annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/02/23/4

Browner, Kerry Stay Upbeat On Cap And Trade In 2010. President
Obama remains committed to passing comprehensive energy and
climate legislation in 2010 despite calls from Senate moderates
to wait until after the midterm elections, a top White House aide
said today. "We want to do it this year," Carol Browner, the
president's climate and energy adviser, told reporters following
her appearance at a panel discussion hosted by The New Republic.
Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/02/23/2

Turf Grass Not Always A 'Green' Thing, Study Shows. UC Irvine
Research Finds That The Greenhouse Gases Absorbed By Lawn Can Be
More Than Offset By Earth-Unfriendly Maintenance Practices. Green
is good, right? Not necessarily when it comes to lawns, according
to a new study by UC Irvine researchers. For the first time,
scientists compared the amount of greenhouse gases absorbed by
ornamental turf grass to the amount emitted in the irrigation,
fertilizing and mowing of the same plots. It turns out keeping a
lawn is not good for Mother Earth. Posted.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-parks-climate23-2010feb23,0,5154516,print.story

E.P.A. Plans to Phase in Regulation of Emissions. Facing wide
criticism over their recent finding that greenhouse gases
endanger the public welfare, top Environmental Protection Agency
officials said Monday that any regulation of such gases would be
phased in gradually and would not impose expensive new rules on
most American businesses. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/business/energy-environment/23epa.html?src=twr&scp=5&sq=air%20pollution&st=cse


EPA's Gradual Phase In of GHG Regs Garners Qualified Praise From
Senators. Facing mounting pressure from congressional lawmakers
on both sides of the aisle, the Obama administration yesterday
vowed to gradually phase in climate regulations for industrial
sources. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/02/23/23climatewire-epas-gradual-phase-in-of-ghg-regs-garners-qu-50837.html?scp=7&sq=air%20pollution&st=cse


Mojave Desert Solar Project Gets $1.37 Billion Nod From DOE.
Brightsource Energy Inc., which develops utility-scale thermal
solar power plants, landed $1.37 billion in loan guarantees from
the U.S. Department of Energy yesterday to build three
utility-scale solar thermal power plants. The Oakland,
Calif.-based concentrated solar power (CSP) company has proposed
projects designed to generate a total of 400 megawatts of power,
which would power about 140,000 homes. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/02/23/3

EPA Chief Goes Toe-To-Toe With Senate GOP Over Warming Science.
U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson today defended the science
underpinning pending climate regulations despite Senate
Republicans' claims that global warming data has been thrown into
doubt. "The science behind climate change is settled, and human
activity is responsible for global warming," Jackson told the
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. "That conclusion
is not a partisan one. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/2010/02/23/1
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/22/AR2010022204829.html