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Posted: 30 Mar 2010 11:58:38
California Air Resources Board News Clips for March 30, 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. 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/