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newsclips -- Newsclips for March 18, 2010.

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
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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/


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