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newsclips -- Newsclips for March 29, 2010.

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 11:23:01
California Air Resources Board News Clips for March 29, 2010. 

This is a service of the California Air Resources Board’s Office
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individual websites to view some of the following news articles.

California's 'Cool Car' Rules Are Shelved. The state Air
Resources Board halts a plan to require a clear, reflective glaze
on windows amid complaints that it would interfere with
monitoring of ankle bracelets and degrade cellphone signals.
California officials Thursday abruptly halted a controversial
effort to slash the carbon footprint of automobile air
conditioning. “Cool car” rules would have required a clear,
reflective glaze on vehicle windows as a way to block excessive
sunlight and heat. Posted.
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/26/local/la-me-cool-cars26-2010mar26
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ju6-tyPeiebb9-XT8dAZC0YcbnZAD9EMH4NO0
http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-03-25/bay-area/18970424_1_greenhouse-gases-ab32-energy
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14764492?nclick_check=1
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-03-25/carbon-auctions-should-be-very-small-schwarzenegger-says.html
http://www.environmentalleader.com/2010/03/26/carb-halts-cool-car-rule/
http://www.modbee.com/2010/03/26/1103395/calif-nixes-rule-mandating-reflective.html
http://www.vcstar.com/news/2010/mar/26/calif-reverses-rule-mandating-reflecting-windows/
http://www.autoblog.com/2010/03/26/report-california-scraps-cool-cars-legislation-automakers-l/
http://rumors.automobilemag.com/6626446/green/california-scraps-cool-cars-legislation-push-for-reflective-glass/index.html
http://gas2.org/2010/03/26/california-drops-cool-cars-legislation-entirely-will-start-process-anew/

Sen. Collins Suggests Pairing 'Cap And Dividend' Bill With
Energy-Only Measure. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said last week
that a climate bill she co-sponsored with Sen. Maria Cantwell
(D-Wash.) could be paired with energy-only legislation on the
Senate floor. Collins told Clean Skies News on Friday that one
way to move her "cap and dividend" climate measure forward would
be to add it to the energy legislation approved last year by Sen.
Jeff Bingaman's (D-N.M.) Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/03/29/2

State Legislators Ramp Up Campaigns Against EPA Rules. Illinois
state Rep. Dan Reitz, a Democrat and a former coal miner, is
worried that pending federal climate change rules will cripple
the economy, and he wants Congress to step in and stop it. Reitz,
who represents the 116th District in southern Illinois, launched
his own assault against U.S. EPA climate rules when he introduced
a resolution urging Congress to postpone greenhouse gas
regulations for factories, power plants and other so-called
stationary emission sources. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/03/29/1

Ships In U.S., Canadian Waters To Face Stricter Pollution
Controls. To curb air pollution, large tankers, container ships
and cruise boats will have to use low-sulfur fuels when passing
through U.S. and Canadian coastal waters, under a proposal
adopted by a United Nations rulemaking body Friday. Posted.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/26/AR2010032603735.html
http://www.modbee.com/2010/03/26/1103755/new-rule-cuts-ship-pollution-around.html
            
http://www.montereyherald.com/state/ci_14764548?nclick_check=1
http://www.fresnobee.com/2010/03/26/1874233/new-rule-cuts-ship-pollution-around.html?storylink=misearch


Tractor Regs Sow Seeds of Uncertainty. Regulations meant to
reduce air pollution, the new engine-efficiency standards for
diesel engines, have created a cloud of confusion among those
responsible for following and those helping to implement the
guidelines. The rules for farmers and truckers who operate
on-road vehicles are put forth in a set of 2008 regulations.
Posted.
http://www.uniondemocrat.com/2010032699531/News/Local-News/Tractor-regs-sow-seeds-of-uncertainty
http://www.uniondemocrat.com/2010032499502/News/Business/Truckers-farmers-faced-with-regulations


Antioch Seeks Residential Input on Emission Planning.
Communities throughout the state are taking steps to cut their
greenhouse gas emissions, and this city is no exception. Antioch,
though, may have more wiggle room to get green than most. A
recently completed assessment of Antioch's greenhouse gas
emissions shows that residential and commercial emissions
comprised 44 percent of the city's 301,179 metric tons of
pollutants, with the rest mainly from transportation, industrial
and waste. Posted.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/green-living/ci_14767880 

Cluster of Birth Defects Brings Tests. A list of 28 chemicals
known to cause birth defects was given by state officials to
residents concerned about a rash of such defects here, and the
officials said they would test for the chemicals in local air,
water and soil. But residents attending a public meeting last
week on the issue said they want the state to put a moratorium on
processing an application to expand the Waste Management
hazardous waste landfill near the town, which they suspect is the
source of chemical contamination causing birth defects. Posted.
http://www.modbee.com/2010/03/28/1105223/cluster-of-birth-defects-brings.html#ixzz0ja2S0RNd

Green Alternative Takes Toxins Out of Dry Cleaning. Susanna Ko
has a personal reason for being the owner of the GreenEarth
Cleaning dry-cleaning business in Solana Beach on Coast Highway.
She is a breast cancer survivor. “I wanted to find something that
would help me and the environment,” Ko said. Ten years ago, Ko
and her husband, Thomas, owned a dry-cleaning business in Vista.
Using the industry standard at the time, Ko was exposed daily to
the solvent perchloroethylene, commonly known as perc. Now
identified as a carcinogen, perc has been used by dry cleaners
for 30 years. Posted.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/mar/28/green-alternative-takes-toxins-out-of-dry-cleaning/


Southern California Faces Sanctions for Failing to Meet Federal
Ozone Standard. Southern California is facing federal sanctions
for failing to meet an air-pollution health standard that was
repealed by the Bush administration in 2004. The sanctions are
expected to cost the region's largest industries and utilities
millions of dollars in new fees every year until the standard is
met. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is requiring the
regional air-quality agency to impose the fees beginning next
year on the 400-plus top-polluting industries and utilities.
Posted.
http://www.pe.com/localnews/environment/stories/PE_News_Local_W_pollutionfees27.482777e.html


Roadside Attraction. It wasn't quite "The British are coming!"
but the town crier (the guy on the phone) sounded the alarm: "The
Green Police are out there and alive!" They'd set up a checkpoint
near La Sierra High. Put cars on a "scale-looking device" to
check emissions. If they were too high? He wasn't sure, but what
happens to "failed" cars at other checkpoints? Impounded! Posted.
http://www.pe.com/columns/danbernstein/stories/PE_News_Local_W_dan28.4798e14.html

War of the Job-Killing Studies. The California Air Resources
Board, to no one’s surprise, the other day unveiled its own
“study” of the economic effects of the sweeping Assembly Bill 32,
the 2006 Global Warming Solutions Act. The state’s air-pollution
police contend that the sweeping crackdown on carbon-dioxide
emissions actually will add 10,000 new jobs to the state by 2020.
The ARB’s bottom line: implementing these regulations “won’t
hurt” California. Posted.
http://www.desertdispatch.com/opinion/one-8165-air-resources.html


Suspend AB 32 for the Sake of California’s Economy. Would you be
willing to bet everything you have on a single roll of the dice? 
Would you bet everything that everyone in California has? The
state is about to roll the dice, on global warming regulation.
The Governor could stop this gamble, but will he?
The gamble is California’s ambitious global warming law, AB 32,
passed in 2006. The law has a safety valve that allows the
Governor to suspend emissions caps if economic conditions warrant
it. Posted. http://www.turlockjournal.com/news/article/3457/ 

Other Voices: Logue, Mcclintock Want to Gut Key Clean Air
Standards. Why are our elected representatives attacking our
health in Nevada County? This is probably the first question you
have to ask yourself to understand why our Assemblyman, Dan
Logue, and our Congressman, Tom McClintock, are behind the fight
against California's Assembly Bill 32 (passed in 2006). Assembly
Bill 32, signed by Governor Schwarzenegger, is a major initiative
by the Air Resources Board for reducing California's greenhouse
gasses by 30 percent to 1990 levels by 2020 and 80 percent below
that by 2050. Posted.
http://www.theunion.com/article/20100327/OPINION/100329806/1024

Our View: Governor Can't Back Down on AB32. Now is no time for
Gov. Arnold Schwar-zenegger to go all wobbly on his landmark
achievement -- the Assembly Bill 32 law that aims to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. The centerpiece
is creation of a cap-and-trade program that would allow power
plants, industries and other major producers of greenhouse gases
to purchase permits for carbon emissions. Companies that reduce
emissions below their allotment (the cap) can sell them on the
open market (the trade). Posted.
http://www.mercedsunstar.com/2010/03/27/1364709/our-view-governor-cant-back-down.html#ixzz0ja3HZXTt

San Jose May Tout Itself as "Green Capital," But $2M Bid for
Huge Airport Solar Project Goes to Canadian Firm. To many Silicon
Valley solar companies, the chance to bid on San Jose's largest
municipal solar installation might seem a welcome opportunity,
especially during a slow economy. San Jose, after all, is the
place Mayor Chuck Reed has pitched as the "world center of
clean-tech innovation.'' Since he became mayor in 2007, at least
eight solar companies have moved or expanded here. Posted.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/green-living/ci_14770887 

San Ramon Body Shop Goes Green, Saves Green. Geoff Johnson was
far from delighted when a federal mandate came down in the 1990s
forcing his auto body shop to recycle paint. But once he was
dragged kicking and screaming into environmentally friendly
practices, he embraced them — to the point that he won the
Chamber of Commerce's first Green Business Award in 2009. Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/environment/ci_14760508?nclick_check=1


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!!! Arnold Rips Air Board's AB 32 Proposal, Stresses Need for
National Approach To Global Warming. The gov's letter to Mary
Nichols of the air board on the occasion of the release of
another preposterous study minimizing AB 32's economic fallout is
jaw-dropping.  It starts with his usual claptrap about green jobs
-- but then it reverses course from so much other stuff he's
said.  He says it's crucial that AB 32 meshes "as seamlessly as
possible into a comprehensive national strategy." This
acknowledges the obvious point that California's economy is at
risk if it has much higher energy costs. Posted.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/weblogs/americas-finest/2010/mar/25/arnold-disavows-air-boards-ab-32-plan-stresses-nee/


Geoengineering 'Fixes' Help Us View Climate Change. Here's a
question for you (assuming that you are open to the evidence that
recent climate change is largely manmade): How confident are you
that humanity will take the necessary steps to reduce
greenhouse-gas emissions and limit global climate change to the
lower end of the current projections? Posted.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitalweathergang/2010/03/one_merit_of_geoengineering_a.html


California Climate Law Would Add Jobs, Study Suggests. The
California Air Resources board estimates in a new study that the
state’s climate law would create 10,000 new jobs. California’s
climate change law won’t decimate the state’s economy and will
help increase job growth modestly over the next 10 years,
according to a state air control group study released this week.
The California Air Resources Board, tasked with monitoring state
air pollution levels, projects the law will add 10,000 new jobs
to the state by 2020. Posted.
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/california-climate-law-would-add-jobs-study-suggests/?pagemode=print

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