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California Air Resources Board News Clips for March 25, 2010. 
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Study: Clean-Air Plan Won't Hurt State Economy. Sacramento -
California's ambitious plan to reduce greenhouse gases will, if
fully implemented, have a negligible impact on the state's
economy over the next decade, according to an analysis released
by the California Air Resources Board. The finding undercuts
doomsday predictions of opponents who want to suspend the plan
until the state's jobless rate improves and who are backing a
November ballot initiative to do so. Posted.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/25/BABQ1CKOQV.DTL&type=printable
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/24/local/la-me-climate24-2010mar24
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2010/03/24/business-financial-impact-us-california-greenhouse-gas-law_7462597.html?boxes=Homepagebusinessnews

http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2010/03/22/daily46.html
http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/new-carb-economic-analysis-ab32-0362.html

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/edf-review-confirms-findings-that-show-california-climate-change-plan-will-support-economic-growth-89051807.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2414731120100324?type=marketsNews
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14749552
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2010/03/assembly-republican-leader-reacts-angrily-to-new-air-board-study-.html

http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/california-240870-jobs-air.html
http://www.ktvu.com/news/22935507/detail.html
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9EL81G80.htm

Air Board: AB 32 Would Positively Impact Economy. California is
expected to create about 2 million jobs by 2020, regardless of
whether the state’s controversial climate change law is
implemented. That’s according to one major finding of an eagerly
anticipated economic analysis by the state Air Resources Board.
Posted.
http://sacramento.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2010/03/22/daily46.html

http://www.csmonitor.com/Money/Green-Economics/2010/0325/The-economic-impact-of-California-s-AB32-law-for-fighting-climate-change

State's Economic Reanalysis Of Its Climate Law Finds Similarly
Benign Results. California's second analysis of its climate
change law, A.B. 32, has again found that the economy will be
largely unaffected on a macro level, although emissions will be
significantly lower as a result of the economic downturn. The
updated analysis comes as California officials are seeking to
calm industry opposition to A.B. 32, including a ballot
initiative that would suspend it until unemployment falls to 5.5
percent from its current level of 12.2 percent (Greenwire, March
19). Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/03/25/4
http://www.scpr.org/news/2010/03/25/air-regulators-latest-ab32-study-predicts-little-o/http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2414731120100325?type=marketsNews

How Republicans Learned To Reject Climate Change. As climate
change emerged as a top issue on the national scene a few years
ago, it had one unusual quality: The response to it showed
surprising signs of bipartisan support. Two or three years ago,
Republicans such as Sen. John McCain and Govs. Arnold
Schwarzenegger and Charlie Crist played nearly as prominent a
role as Al Gore in advocating a robust regulatory response. No
more. Climate hasn't yet become as partisan an issue as, say,
health care and taxes. But it's getting there. Posted.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125075282&ps=cprs

Obama Aides Meet With Senate Dems to Map April Strategy for
Climate Bill. President Obama's top aides huddled yesterday with
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Democratic committee
leaders to map out a strategy for cobbling together 60 votes on a
comprehensive energy and climate change bill once lawmakers
return next month from their spring break. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/03/25/25climatewire-obama-aides-meet-with-senate-dems-to-map-apr-50034.html


Deniers: Denied. Critics who denounce global warming cited this
winter’s snowpocalypse storms on the East Coast as evidence that
climate change doesn’t exist. But new research by environmental
scientists at UC Davis rebuffs their red herring—perhaps once and
for all. Posted.
http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=1390717 

Sunk By Global Warming? Wave goodbye to this disputed island.
India and Bangladesh have been trying to snatch from each other a
tiny landmass that first surfaced in the 1970s in the Bay of
Bengal. It has resubmerged, an apparent casualty of climate
change. Global warming appears to have finally resolved a dispute
that gunboats never could: An island midway between India and
Bangladesh that became a catalyst for military threats in the
1980s is now submerged under the rising sea. Posted.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-disappearing-island25-2010mar25,0,2784791,print.story

Tax Breaks For 'Green' Equipment Signed Into Law. California
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) signed legislation yesterday that
grants manufacturers of green technology equipment a break on
sales taxes. The bill, S.B. 71, applies to the manufacture of
energy-efficiency, biomass, solar, wind and geothermal equipment.
The exemptions run through Jan. 1, 2021, and are capped at $100
million annually. A sponsor of the bill, state Sen. Alex Padilla
(D), said California is one of three states that does not provide
such tax breaks to green manufacturers. "This places California
at a competitive disadvantage when firms are considering whether
to locate or expand in the state," Padilla said. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/03/25/10

Wanted: Green Talent. Even without an energy bill out of
Washington, a green economy is emerging in California. And once
demand gets rolling, green growth could power the state's
economic recovery. At that point, it won't be technology or
political will or even money that is holding back the green boom.
As paradoxical as it sounds with unemployment in double digits,
the green economy is facing a talent shortage. Posted.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/25/ED3L1CKOT6.DTL&type=printable

France Retreats On Plan To Tax Carbon Emissions. Paris - France
backed down Tuesday from a plan to tax carbon dioxide emissions
that had been a central plank of President Nicolas Sarkozy's push
for a more prominent role in the global fight against climate
change. The plan, begun by Sarkozy with much fanfare in
September, has been on the back burner since being ruled
unconstitutional in December. Sarkozy's government had insisted a
reworked tax would nonetheless go into force by July. Posted.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/24/MNLU1CK4EC.DTL&type=printable

L.A. Emissions Credits At Core Of Power Plant Issue. Late at
night last September, while feuding lawmakers publicly and
bitterly reached a multibillion-dollar deal – finally -- to allow
Southern California air-quality regulators to resume issuing
pollution credits, a hijacked bill emerged quietly from the
Assembly and headed to the Senate. The obscure bill originally
dealt with making college textbooks affordable for students.
Posted.
http://www.capitolweekly.net/article.php?_c=yq0vvbrpufly5g&xid=ypz8vwzlhlhwjh&done=.yq0vvbrpug8y5g


Carper Eyes Mid-April Markup For 3-Pollutant Bill. Sen. Tom
Carper (D-Del.) said yesterday that he expects a mid-April markup
of legislation to curb power plant pollution in the full
Environment and Public Works Committee. Carper, the chairman of
the Clean Air Subcommittee, and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.)
unveiled a bill last month that seeks steep cuts in electric
utilities' emissions. The measure aims to cut power plants'
soot-forming sulfur dioxide (SO2) by 80 percent by 2018,
smog-forming nitrogen dioxide (NOx) by 50 percent by 2015 and
mercury by 90 percent by 2015. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/03/25/3

State Gives Tracy Power Plant Green Light to Expand Production.
State officials gave the nod Wednesday to expand a natural
gas-burning power plant next to Tracy, an expansion that could
tap into a proposal to build a solar power farm on 200 acres of
city-owned land known as the Antenna Farm. Posted.
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100325/A_NEWS/3250323


China Leads Major Countries With $34.6 Billion Invested in Clean
Technology. China, Brazil and other developing countries are
pouring billions of dollars into efforts to reduce carbon
emissions and build up renewable energy markets, a trend that
some experts say has turned the traditional climate change debate
on its head. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/03/25/25climatewire-china-leads-major-countries-with-346-billion-15729.html

http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/03/25/1

Governor's Conference On Renewable Energy Focuses On The Mojave
Desert. Harnessing Mojave Desert sunshine and wind is a vital
part of a national strategy to reduce carbon dioxide and other
greenhouse gas emissions, several speakers said Wednesday during
a governor's energy conference at UC Riverside. Rainer Aringhoff,
founding president of Solar Millennium, said ample sunshine makes
the Mojave one of the best places in the world for solar plants.
Posted.
http://www.pe.com/localnews/stories/PE_News_Local_W_renewable25.45df2ba.html
 
Navy And Marines Aim For A Leaner, Greener Fighting Machine.
Laurel, Md. -- Going green and renewable doesn't just save money,
it may save lives of U.S. soldiers, according to military leaders
who argue that a push for energy efficiency and a move away from
fossil-based fuels could strengthen America's military. "Every
dollar spent on gasoline is a dollar that could be better spent
on armor, or artillery, or machinery," Navy Secretary Ray Mabus
said, speaking here at a conference at Johns Hopkins University's
Applied Physics Laboratory. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/03/25/3

Blogs

A Physics Maven’s Take on Skeptical Science. I’ve been meaning
to highlight a particularly interesting blog on climate,
Skeptical Science, and finally have the chance. What’s appealing
about it is the simple way its Australian creator, John Cook, has
cast his journey. It’s basically a list of reference-laden
responses to the many assertions made by one or another of the
variegated camps rejecting the need for action to curb greenhouse
gases. There is a conventional blog stream covering developments
as they occur. But most useful, perhaps, in a world of
information overload, is the basic litany of 101 (and counting)
skeptics’ arguments and responses. Posted.
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/24/a-physics-mavens-take-on-skeptical-science/?pagemode=print

Look! Another Poll That Shows Guess What Ranks LAST? Global
Warming. We’re shocked (of course, we’re not really shocked) to
find that in the latest Field Poll that ranked 12 issues, global
warming ranked dead last among Californians. We’ve lost track of
how many polls show global warming ranking last. But it’s always
nice to see another. Posted.
http://orangepunch.freedomblogging.com/2010/03/24/look-another-poll-that-shows-guess-what-ranks-last-global-warming/19611/