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Posted: 18 Mar 2010 11:27:09
California Air Resources Board News Clips for March 18, 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. An Oily Turn. Assemblyman Dan Logue has sold out to Big Oil polluters. Assemblyman Dan Logue’s effort to neuter AB 32, California’s landmark global-warming law, took an oily turn last week, when it was discovered that his and Rep. Tom McClintock’s effort to qualify an anti-AB 32 initiative for the November ballot had been taken over and was being bankrolled—to the tune of $2 million—by two Texas oil companies, Valero and Tesoro. They also happen to be two of the biggest polluters in California. Posted. http://www.newsreview.com/chico/PrintFriendly?oid=1388495 Warming Bill Is Hardly A Job-Killer. There were no game-changers in Monday night's debate between Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner, the Republican candidates for governor. Whitman leads in the polls by about 30 points, and Poizner did nothing to alter the dynamic. That may be just as well. The statements Poizner made Monday about AB 32, California's global warming law, were alarmingly ill-informed. If he actually believes what he said, then he doesn't understand the state's economy, and he's not qualified to be governor. Posted. http://www.presstelegram.com/opinions/ci_14697150 Aliso Viejo to Consider Policy to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Coming up at Wednesday's City Council meeting at 7 p.m. Evaluate development of a Climate Action Plan to provide city officials with policies on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The plan could enhance the city's competitive economic advantage over south Orange County cities and would help minimize the city's risk for potential litigation when the city updates or adopts major amendments to its general plan, according to a staff report. Posted. http://www.ocregister.com/news/city-239769-plan-pass.html As Senate Trio Advances Climate Measure, Energy-Only Bill Remains a Possibility. Details emerged yesterday on a sweeping Senate energy and climate proposal just days after three senior Democrats huddled to discuss alternative ways to tackle the issue later this spring on the floor. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/03/18/18climatewire-as-senate-trio-advances-climate-measure-ener-84418.html Drive Started For Ballot Measure To Suspend State's Greenhouse Gas Law. A backlash against efforts in California and Congress to rein in greenhouse gas emissions is brewing in hard economic times. A coalition of businesses — including two Bay Area oil refiners — and an anti-tax group has begun a signature drive for a November ballot initiative that would suspend California's pioneering law to combat global warming until the jobless rate drops back to 2006 levels. Posted. http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14698740?nclick_check=1 Early Butterflies Linked To Global Warming. Researchers say they have proven for the first time that man-made global warming is changing an animal's life-cycle. Butterflies are emerging in spring more than 10 days earlier than they did 65 years ago, and this shift is linked to climate change, reports a University of Melbourne-led study. "The work reveals for the first time, a causal link between increasing greenhouse gases, regional warming and the change in timing of a natural event," the Australian university said Wednesday about the findings. Posted. http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2010/03/early-butterflies-linked-to-climate-change/1 South County Chambers Ask For No Immediate Action On Oceano Dunes Air Pollution Study. The Pismo Beach and Grover Beach city councils voted this week to ask the county Air Pollution Control District board not to take any action on a recent study on the particulate pollution caused by off-roaders at the Oceano Dunes state park. Posted. http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2010/03/17/1070290/south-county-chambers-ask-for.html Report: Many Power Plants Emitting More Mercury. Many of America's coal-fired power plants lack widely available pollution controls for the highly toxic metal mercury, and mercury emissions recently increased at more than half of the country's 50 largest mercury-emitting power plants, according to a report Wednesday. The nonpartisan Environmental Integrity Project reported that five of the 10 plants with the highest amount of mercury emitted are in Texas. Plants in Georgia, Missouri, Alabama, Pennsylvania and Michigan also are in the top 10. Posted. http://www.modbee.com/2010/03/17/1091692/report-many-power-plants-emitting.html#ixzz0iXkhdMis Court Rejects Riverside Bid To Block LA Port Growth. An Orange County judge has ruled against Riverside's 2009 lawsuit seeking to block expansion of the Port of Los Angeles and force the port to help pay for transportation improvements the project would require. City officials said Wednesday they will appeal the decision. Posted. http://www.pe.com/localnews/stories/PE_News_Local_W_wport18.47b787a.html Woodland, Despite Attempts To Be Green, Blackened By PG&E's Use Of Dirty Energy. The city saw an increase in its overall carbon footprint during 2008, according to a report delivered to the Woodland City Council on Tuesday. The report, which was compiled by the city's Environmental Services staff, sought to measure 2008's emission levels and compare them with the baseline results collected in 2007. Ultimately, despite having consumed less energy in 2008, the levels of greenhouse gas emissions linked to Woodland were up from the previous year. Posted. http://www.dailydemocrat.com/news/ci_14699698 Marin Energy Battle Plays Out Before State Commission. A Pacific Gas and Electric Co. spokeswoman told the California Public Utilities Commission on Tuesday that the investor-owned utility is spending millions of dollars to pass Proposition 16 because it wants to protect California taxpayers. But Shawn Marshall, vice chairwoman of the Marin Energy Authority, told the commission that she and other critics of the initiative have their own name for the June ballot measure: "The monopoly protection act." Posted. http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_14697545?nclick_check=1 Calif. Commission Staff Recommends Mojave Solar Thermal Project. BrightSource Energy's plan to build a solar thermal power plant in the Mojave Desert took a big step forward this week when staff at the California Energy Commission said they would support the proposal, despite some negative environmental impacts to the region. In two documents released yesterday, CEC analysts said coping with climate change and expanding renewable energy in the state should trump how the 392-megawatt facility and its soaring towers would hurt plants, wildlife, land and scenery in the Ivanpah Valley. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/03/18/6 Critics Take ARB Scientists To Task On Diesel Regulation. On February 26, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) held a symposium in Sacramento on the effects of PM2.5, a form of pollutant that is in part caused by diesel exhaust, on premature deaths. The symposium was intended to debate the science that buttresses the diesel regulations that truckers complain have cost many of them their jobs. ARB scientists faced off against critics of their work, facilitated by Jonathon Samet. Posted. http://www.martinezgazette.com/news/story/i667/2010/03/17/critics-take-arb-scientists-task-diesel-regulation Study Calls For More Prescribed Burns To Reduce Forest Fire Emissions. A new study offers a prescription to increase carbon storage in western U.S. forests: Use more controlled burns to prevent a completely scorched earth. Increasingly, forest managers are setting so-called "prescribed" fires to clear out underbrush and small trees that, if left to accumulate, can quickly escalate a single spark into a catastrophic blaze. Prescribed practices mimic the natural, smaller burns, caused by lightning or set by Indians that were all but eliminated by decades of unnatural fire suppression. Today, in many Western forests, piles of fuels are just waiting for a spark. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/03/18/2 Wall Street's Advice: Pass On Solar, Buy Coal. While clean energy may be the future, Wall Street is currently betting on a more reliable, if dirty, fuel: coal. Nearly four-fifths of analysts currently rate Peabody Energy Corp., the United States' largest coal producer, as a recommended investment, while First Solar Inc., the largest manufacturer of thin-firm solar panels, is recommended by 44 percent of analysts. More broadly, a global index of coal producers has risen 6.5 percent this year, while a similar solar index has dropped 17 percent. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/03/18/4 Blogs British Ads Ignore Uncertainties of Climate Change, Watchdog Agency Finds. Act on CO2 Posters like this one have been criticized by an advertising watchdog. Click image to see larger version. Other examples are here. A British advertising watchdog this week criticized a government poster campaign publicizing the dangers of climate change — the latest setback in efforts to raise awareness of the issue. Posted. http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/british-ads-ignore-uncertainties-of-climate-change-watchdog-agency-finds/?pagemode=print Polluting Hair Products Yanked From Shelves. A variety of hair products that release pollution into the air must be removed from store shelves across California, state Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced Tuesday. The hair products are sold by a New York-based company, Pro’s Choice Beauty Care Inc., which state officials say is the largest distributor of hair and nail products in the nation. Posted. http://greenoc.freedomblogging.com/2010/03/16/polluting-hair-products-yanked-from-shelves/21155/ Major California Solar Project Moves Ahead. California regulators on Wednesday recommended that the state’s first new big solar power plant in nearly two decades be approved after a two-and-half-year review of its environmental impact on the Mojave Desert. The recommendation by staff members of the California Energy Commission — which still must be accepted by the commission board — comes three weeks after the federal Department of Energy offered the project’s builder, BrightSource Energy, a $1.37 billion loan guarantee to construct the 392-megawatt Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System. Posted. http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/major-california-solar-project-advances/