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Posted: 15 Apr 2010 10:33:07
California Air Resources Board News Clips for April 15, 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. Cities Cleaning The Air With Draft Plan. Under an environmentally charged Senate bill, Ventura County is required to reduce greenhouse gases through smart building, public transportation methods. Sometime in the 1960s, leaders in Oxnard included in their general plan document some very ambitious ideas for what the city would look like far, far into the future: the Year 2000. “There’s a phrase in there from the consultant who prepared the plan that says, ‘Orange County is the model, and that’s what we should be doing.’ Posted. http://www.vcreporter.com/cms/story/detail/cities_cleaning_the_air_with_draft_plan/7812/ Green-Collar Debate. Politicians dispute the immediate economic impact of Assembly Bill 32. Is California’s landmark law to ratchet down greenhouse-gas emissions good for the state’s economy? It depends who gets asked. Backers of Assembly Bill 32, the 2006 law that requires California to reduce emissions of gases such as carbon dioxide to 1990 levels by the end of the decade, argue that efforts to improve fuel and energy efficiency will spark more innovation, kick-start new green industries and generate thousands of white- and blue-collar jobs. Posted. http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/PrintFriendly?oid=1403923 Valley Braces For Tougher Fed Air-Quality Rule. Federal officials are expected in August to announce a new ozone standard that local air leaders say is virtually impossible to achieve by the 2031 deadline. The new standard would be up to 30% tougher than an earlier threshold — which the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District is struggling to meet by 2024. To meet the new standard just seven years later, the Valley would have to eliminate gasoline, diesel and other fossil fuels used in industries and vehicles, said district executive director Seyed Sadredin. Posted. http://www.fresnobee.com/2010/04/14/v-print/1896388/valley-braces-for-tougher-fed.html Allergies Worse? Climate change could be culprit, study finds. Allergies will worsen and trigger more asthma attacks if climate changes continues, warns a new report by the National Wildlife Federation. With spring arriving 10 to 14 days earlier than 20 years ago, pollination is starting sooner, according to the report, which shows projected changes in habitat. Tree pollen is the most common trigger for spring hay fever. Posted. http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2010/04/allergies-worse-climate-change-is-the-culprit-study-finds-/1 Greenhouse Gas, Other Pollution Go Hand In Hand, Report Finds. California's top greenhouse gas polluters are disproportionately located in minority and low-income communities where air pollution has long threatened public health, including five within a few miles of Long Beach. A report released Wednesday by professors at three California universities found most of the state's major polluters - oil refineries, power plants and cement kilns - are almost exclusively located in cities and towns where residents suffer from some of the worst air pollution in the nation. Posted. http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_14883747 Study Targets 5 South Bay Refineries for Negative Health Effects. Five refineries in the South Bay and Harbor Area top a list ranking the negative health effects created by California's greenhouse gas emitters, according to a report issued Wednesday that focused on the state's closely watched global warming law. The report argues that while the state works to reduce greenhouse gases throughout California, it should take into account air pollution at the local level - particularly in poor and minority communities that the authors say are disproportionately affected by emissions from oil refineries, power plants and cement facilities. Posted. http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/ci_14885369 Poor, Minority Communities Stand To Benefit From Well-Drawn AB32 Rules. Some of the biggest emitters of gases that contribute to global warming sit in California's poorest neighborhoods. Oil refineries, cement plants and power facilities aren't going anywhere, but state law requires that their greenhouse gas disappear. A new study from USC and other California researchers points out that these carbon contributors also send out pollutants that cause asthma and heart disease to surrounding neighborhoods in their emissions. Regulators are considering a carbon market for hundreds of the state's largest emitter. Posted. http://www.scpr.org/news/2010/04/15/greenhouse-poor/ http://solveclimate.com/blog/20100414/study-minority-communities-suffer-most-if-california-suspends-ab-32 Who Loses if California’s Climate Law is Halted? No doubt you've heard the warnings -- the melting ice caps and rising sea levels, the extinct polar bears and extreme weather conditions. From pop culture movies like The Day After Tomorrow, to the tireless work of advocates like Al Gore, the discussion around climate change has often focused on environmental catastrophe and what the future may hold if humans don't change their carbon-emitting ways. Posted. http://www.grist.org/article/2010-04-14-who-loses-if-californias-climate-law-is-halted/ Coal Chiefs Go On Offensive as Pickens Pushes Case for Natural Gas. A dramatic preamble to an upcoming climate policy fight played out yesterday on Capitol Hill, pitting the coal, oil and natural gas industries against each other as lawmakers fired up debate about powering a low-carbon U.S. economy. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/04/15/15climatewire-coal-chiefs-go-on-offensive-as-pickens-pushe-62650.html Coal Executives Split on Carbon Caps, Climate Science. A trio of executives from the world's largest coal companies told Congress yesterday their industry is providing the fuel of the future, but the officials remained divided on several key policy questions. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/04/15/15greenwire-coal-executives-split-on-carbon-caps-climate-s-57111.html Clean Energy Dreams. It was December 11, 1997, and I was standing next to Ed Smeloff in a giant room in Kyoto, Japan, as hundreds of people from dozens of nations jumped to their feet and began applauding wildly. It was one of those transcendent moments that remain etched in one’s memory, as it was announced that the Kyoto Accord on climate change had been reached. Posted. http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=1404199 Companies Get Sold On Green, Consumers Wary. U.S. corporations looking to slash costs during the recession found some savings in environmentally conscious business practices, but a higher price tag on green products is a barrier to many consumers. Posted. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/14/AR2010041402671.html Obama: China Must Act On Climate Change. Sydney — U.S. President Barack Obama says the world cannot wait for China to commit to tackling global warming. Obama was speaking in an interview with Australian television broadcast Thursday ahead of a trip to Asia next month. Asked specifically about China's commitment to curbing greenhouse emissions, Obama told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. that the impulse of the Asian giant's leaders at the moment was to let developed countries deal with the problem first. He said that "the point we have tried to make is that we can't allow China to wait." Posted. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hpD4HAQBi9lJJicpOGek-AOPGUAwD9F3ENT80 Blogs Who Loses If California’s Climate Law Is Halted? No doubt you've heard the warnings -- the melting ice caps and rising sea levels, the extinct polar bears and extreme weather conditions. From pop culture movies like The Day After Tomorrow, to the tireless work of advocates like Al Gore, the discussion around climate change has often focused on environmental catastrophe and what the future may hold if humans don't change their carbon-emitting ways. These are, of course, serious concerns and we need to address them to secure our planet's future. Posted. http://www.grist.org/article/2010-04-14-who-loses-if-californias-climate-law-is-halted/print/PALL Could Obama's Supreme Court Pick Kill Climate-Change Bill? Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has a warning for President Obama -- pick your next Supreme Court nominee wisely, or else you might not get a climate-change bill this year. Graham was asked yesterday whether the high court confirmation process would harm the effort to pass a climate bill this year. His answer: If Obama “picks somebody that is going to be controversial, yeah; if he picks somebody that is genuinely believed to be acceptable to a wide range of people, no.” Sounds almost threatening. Posted. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/04/could_obamas_supreme_court_pic.html