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California Air Resources Board News Clips for March 30, 2010. 

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Valley Must Fund Program Or Face Even Tougher Air Pollution
Controls. The Coachella Valley must find new funding for a key
regional air pollution control program, or face even tougher air
pollution controls and potentially lose transportation funds. The
Executive Committee of the Coachella Valley Association of
Governments pondered that bottom line at its meeting Monday.
Posted.
http://www.mydesert.com/article/20100330/NEWS01/3300309/1026/news12/Valley-must-fund-program-or-face-even-tougher-air-pollution-controls


State Legislators Ramp Up Campaigns Against EPA Climate 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.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/03/29/29greenwire-state-legislators-ramp-up-campaigns-against-ep-73429.html


New Global-Warming Exhibit Shows Steady Shift From Education To
Advocacy At Monterey Bay Aquarium. Visitors to the newest exhibit
at the Monterey Bay Aquarium will see the same marvelous
creatures from around the world that have made the aquarium
famous since 1984. But at the end, they won't just wander off to
the gift shop. They'll be asked to type letters at kiosks urging
their senators to pass a global warming law. They'll be coaxed to
take a pledge to bike more and eat less meat. Posted.
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_14777284 

Editorial: Arnold's Global Warming Ardor Cooling. Days after the
state Air Resources Board touted the economic benefits of curbing
greenhouse gas emissions, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger advised his
climate bureaucracy to slow down the rush to impose carbon
dioxide cap-and-trade regulations. Facing growing public
opposition and a well-financed ballot initiative to suspend the
governor's signature Global Warming Solutions Act, which mostly
takes effect in January 2012, Mr. Schwarzenegger last week wrote
to the air board, asking it to consider a less-costly approach to
restricting greenhouse gas emissions. Posted.
http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/regulations-241621-global-warming.html


E.P.A. Delays Plants’ Pollution Permits. The Environmental
Protection Agency said Monday that it would not require power
plants or other industrial sites to obtain federal pollution
permits for emitting greenhouse gases before next January.  The
statement formally affirms an agency announcement last month that
it would phase in the regulation of climate-altering gases over
several years, starting with the largest sources. Posted. 
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/science/earth/30emissions.html?src=mv
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/29/AR2010032902675.html

California’s Green Jobs Mirage. California’s experiment with
global warming regulations reminds me of a story about a foolish,
old dog who lost his bone in the water when he tried to grab its
reflection.  Similarly, California’s leaders risk sacrificing the
jobs and industries we have today on a hope and a prayer that the
“green jobs” and “green industries” of the future will be better
and more plentiful than those we already have. When Governor
Schwarzenegger signed AB 32, California’s Global Warming
Solutions Act, into law more than three years ago, he declared
that the sweeping new regulations imposed by the measure would be
“good for business.” Posted.
http://www.inlandempire.us/rss/article.php?client=redfusion&id=20100329082817


Sudden Revolt By Insurance Regulators Scales Back Climate Rule
On Industry. A surprise rebellion by a majority of insurance
regulators Sunday reversed key elements of a landmark regulation
requiring the nation's largest industry to publicly disclose its
efforts to address climate change. Companies can now submit their
answers confidentially in most states. The upheaval rolls back
the nation's maiden climate rule on corporations, casting
environmentalists and investor advocates into confusion weeks
before the 12-question survey was supposed to be enacted. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/03/30/1

Plane To Measure Greenhouse Gases Leaves From Boulder, Colo. A
plane that will measure greenhouse gases from the Arctic to the
South Pole departed last week for the first leg of its 24-day
mission, part of a three-year project to determine where and when
gases enter and leave the atmosphere to help narrow in on the
most effective policies to minimize climate change. The
Gulfstream V left Wednesday from a Boulder, Colo.-area airport to
land in Anchorage. From there, it will fly the northern polar
region, stopping in Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand and the southern
polar region before going back to Alaska and Colorado in
mid-April. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/03/30/10

Big Industries Squirm As EPA Regulation Looms Next Year.
Generating a steady chorus decrying too much "regulatory
uncertainty," the nation's largest smokestack emitters have
lodged court challenges and are lobbying states, Congress and the
Obama administration itself to stop U.S. EPA's plans to require
greenhouse gas air permits next year. They speak of lost jobs,
offshore relocations and perverse incentives that lead them to
prolong the lives of the dirtiest plants. 
Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/03/30/3

Who Benefits From 'Green Jobs'? A group calling itself the
Affordable Power Alliance will release a report today saying
greenhouse gas regulations would disproportionately harm
minorities. If U.S. EPA is allowed to regulate greenhouse gases,
the report says, the economy will forgo hundreds of billions of
dollars in economic growth. African-Americans and Hispanics would
suffer the most because they are already economically vulnerable,
the report says. It claims poverty rates for both racial groups
would go up by several percentage points. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/03/30/4

Calif. Scraps 'Cool Cars' Rule. California regulators have
dropped their requirement for all new cars to have
sunlight-reflective or absorbent windows by 2015 in favor of a
performance-based standard to lower cars' internal temperatures.
The "cool car" regulations were part of a suite of greenhouse gas
emissions-cutting tools under A.B. 32, California's 2006 law
reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. The state withdrew the
regulations last week in response to emergency responders and law
enforcement officials' contention that the reflective coatings
might block signals from cell phones or ankle bracelets. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/03/30/6

Fresno Encouraged To Take Up Nuclear. Nuclear energy may not
come to the San Joaquin Valley for years, but a French nuclear
executive wants her company to be involved in making it happen.
"I can see California will be among the first of many states to
establish a clean- energy park with both renewable energy and
nuclear," said Anne Lauvergeon, chief executive office of Areva,
one of the leading developers of nuclear power plants in the
world. Posted.
http://www.modbee.com/2010/03/29/1107598/fresno-encouraged-to-take-up-nuclear.html#ixzz0jg19xcY2

Conference Targets Green Regulations. Scientists and regulatory
experts from 15 countries gathered at Asilomar Conference Grounds
this week to discuss possible regulations that would govern
research in the emerging field of climate intervention. They
released a joint press release Friday expressing "deep concern"
over the limited efforts to reduce global emissions of greenhouse
gases and calling for additional research to examine the need for
"alternative strategies" to moderate future climate change. 
Posted. http://www.montereyherald.com/science/ci_14780817 

'Cash for Kitchen Clunkers': Rebate Program Patterned After Auto
Swap. Milton Langevin swung open the door of a gleaming silver
Kenmore washer at a Sears store here and squatted to scope out
the interior. Thanks to a federal-state program, Langevin and
other Californians can get rebates on energy-efficient appliances
in exchange for old ones starting in mid-April. Posted.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/green-living/ci_14778801 

Solar Power Chooses Mcclellan For New Plant. Solar Power Inc.
will build its new solar-panel manufacturing operation and
headquarters at McClellan Business Park, ending three weeks of
speculation. The Roseville-based company will begin construction
on the 100,000-square-foot building in July and should be
completed in early 2011. The company could produce about 50
megawatts of solar panels at the soon-to-be open local plant,
doubling its annual production in connection with its operations
in China. Posted.
http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2010/03/29/daily4.html?t=printable

Blogs

California’s Updated Economic Analysis Finds Climate Plan Offers
Greener Days Ahead—Part One: Gross State Product. Last Wednesday,
California’s Air Resources Board released a new economic analysis
showing that California can grow its economy and reap immediate
benefits from cleaner air while meeting air pollution reduction
goals of its Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32).  EDF
will be producing a series of blog posts that summarize what CARB
learned about how AB 32 will impact California’s economy. 
Posted.
http://www.favstocks.com/california%E2%80%99s-updated-economic-analysis-finds-climate-plan-offers-greener-days-ahead%E2%80%94part-one-gross-state-product/296474/


Oakland to Discuss Plan to Reach Aggressive Greenhouse-Gas
Reduction Goal. As of November 2009, at least 139 cities in the
United States had climate action plans, including Portland and
Chicago. Oakland doesn’t have one yet, but it does have a goal:
by 2020, the city seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 36
percent of what they were in 2005. That goal is more aggressive
than those of either San Francisco or Berkeley, which both have
climate action plans. Posted.
http://bayarea.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/29/oakland-to-discuss-plan-to-reach-aggressive-greenhouse-gas-reduction-goal/