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newsclips -- Newsclips for April 19, 2010.
Posted: 19 Apr 2010 11:29:37
California Air Resources Board News Clips for April 19, 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. Foes Of California's Global Warming Law Pour Money Into A Campaign To Delay It. Opponents of the law, largely oil firms and conservative activists, miss a signature-gathering target date for putting an initiative on the November ballot, but get a cash infusion to keep trying. Oil companies and conservative activists poured nearly $1 million last week into their campaign to place an initiative on the November ballot that would delay enforcement of California's global warming law. Posted. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/politics/la-me-climate-ballot19-2010apr19,0,854423,print.story Plugging In To A Leaner, Cleaner Energy Future. Giant refrigerated warehouse a model of energy efficiency. One of the coldest places in San Diego might well be the most efficient. Half a block from the Mexican border, a giant warehouse uses sunlight to keep frozen food, well, frozen. The $25 million warehouse, known as ICE II, has solar panels on the roof, super-thick foam walls and LED lighting to keep the temperature at around 0 degrees. Posted. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/apr/18/giant-refrigerated-warehouse-a-model-of-energy/ Push For Clean Air Revs Up. State air quality regulators say local rail yards have reduced emissions of a toxic pollutant by about 50 percent since 2005, and regulators want it reduced further by 2020. The Air Resources Board in 2005 implemented new regulations they say resulted in big drops of diesel particulate matter, a carcinogen spewed from diesel-powered trains, freight trucks and cranes. Posted. http://www.sbsun.com/ci_14911711#ixzz0lYtEfBTL http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_14911711 Obama Wants Senate to Tackle Climate Bill After Wall St. Reforms. President Obama expects the Senate to move on to comprehensive energy and climate change legislation once it finishes work over the next few weeks on Wall Street regulatory reform. "This is one of these foundational priorities from my perspective that has to be done soon," Obama said of the climate bill Friday during a White House meeting of outside experts helping the administration on economic recovery plans. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/04/19/19climatewire-obama-wants-senate-to-tackle-climate-bill-af-37578.html?pagewanted=print Opinion: Why Cleaner Air Could Speed Global Warming. Aerosol pollution, which is now on the downswing, has helped keep the planet cool by blocking sunlight. Tackling another pollutant, soot, might buy Earth some time. You're likely to hear a chorus of dire warnings as we approach Earth Day, but there's a serious shortage few pundits are talking about: air pollution. Posted. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-kintisch18-2010apr18,0,2192867,print.story Pollen's More Concentrated This Year. Allergies in some places are worse than usual. Blame a late winter that delayed some trees from flowering, forcing them all into bloom at the same time. Though allergy sufferers in some pockets of the country are having a miserable April, experts dispute the notion that trees across the nation are producing record-high amounts of pollen this year. Posted. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-pollen17-2010apr17,0,5891617,print.story Costantino Leaves CARB For Manatt. Jon Costantino has joined Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP as senior adviser, the law firm said Wednesday. Costantino was previously manager of climate change planning at the California Air Resources Board and was responsible for the Air Board’s “Climate Change Scoping plan,” which dealt with the planning and implementation of AB 32. Posted. http://sacramento.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2010/04/12/daily36.html?t=printable Opponents Ramp Up Effort To Delay Calif. Global Warming Law. Oil companies and conservatives put nearly $1 million into their campaign to put a delay of enforcement of California's global warming law on ballots in November. The renewed spending comes after organizers failed to get 433,000 signatures needed by Friday. The initiative would delay restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions until statewide unemployment drops to 5.5 percent. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/04/19/4 Congress Worked Out Health Care. Is Climate Change Next? Six weeks ago, it looked as if there was no chance that Congress would approve climate change legislation this year. The bill that had passed the House was so long, so complicated, so punitive to the coal-dependent Midwest economy, involved so many political compromises and so much money to be redistributed by the federal government, that it became the whipping boy of choice for conservative politicians and commentators. Passage of health-care legislation, however, may have changed all that. Posted. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/15/AR2010041505755_pf.html Cleaning Supplier to Pay Penalties. A national cleaning solvent supplier has agreed to pay $15 million penalties to for hundreds of alleged air quality and unfair business practices violations, according to a settlement made public Friday. Safety-Kleen of Plano, Tex., sold industrial cleaning solvents containing illegally high levels of smog-forming ingredients to nearly 100 businesses in Southern California, including businesses in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, said air pollution regulators. Posted. http://www.pe.com/localnews/stories/PE_News_Local_W_rb_airpenalties17.3ac381a.html Tackle Air Pollution with Greenhouse Gases, Report Urges. When Rachel Morello-Frosch, a UC Berkeley researcher, takes air samples inside homes near the Chevron refinery in Richmond, she finds significant levels of outdoor air pollutants. Some of the worst examples are tiny particles invisible to the naked eye, called particulate matter, which can embed in people's airways and cause a number of respiratory diseases linked to premature death. Posted. http://www.insidebayarea.com/timesstar/localnews/ci_14892673 Residents Say Airport Pollution Is Lethal. Residents of the Mar Vista neighborhood just east of the Santa Monica Municipal Airport said they are fighting for their lives due to the dangerous air pollution from the numerous jets that take off and land at the popular airport. Sunday, residents and local lawmakers were out in force rallying just 500 yards from where the jets take off with strong and dangerous fumes blasting right into the neighborhood. Many who gathered wore masks on their faces to ward off the jet fuel odors and emissions. Posted. http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=7392927 Ag Burning Restrictions Are Approved. Air pollution cops took another step Thursday toward a ban on agricultural burning in the San Joaquin Valley, though farmers of some crops might get a five-year reprieve. The Valley Air Pollution Control District approved restrictions to begin June 1 on burning vineyards, prunings from walnuts, almonds and other crops, and weeds, along with other materials. The district is compelled to act because of a state law, which began a slow phasing-out of agricultural burning seven years ago. Posted. http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100416/A_NEWS/4160319/-1/a_news14 REGION: Environment Comes Long Way in 40 Years. The air was so dirty people's eyes would burn if they went outside. The water was so polluted people stayed out of the ocean even on sunny days. And workers paved paradise with little thought to whether they were spoiling a natural treasure or placing an animal at risk of extinction. It was a much different world in San Diego and Riverside counties in April 1970, when the first Earth Day was held and the nation's environmental movement was just getting off the ground. Posted. http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/swcounty/article_6bbab97f-9d09-56b3-b0cc-b26202619a69.html Earth Day Turns 40. The yearly celebration born in the baby boomers' tumultuous youth is itself racking up a few candles: the 40th anniversary of Earth Day will be marked around the world on Thursday. It's a firmly entrenched tradition in Orange County as well, with beach cleanups, nature tours, lectures and festivals, many of them meant to impart environmental messages to children. Posted. http://www.ocregister.com/news/day-244647-earth-environmental.html Ag Pilot Says Modesto Turned Him Down For Earth Day Booth. Don't call Dave Stein a crop-duster. The 48-year-old pilot is an "aerial applicator." That's the modern term for pilots like Stein who zoom over farmers' fields. The name isn't the only thing that's changed about his business over the years. Stein thought renting a booth at Modesto's Earth Day celebration today would help educate the public about how aerial applicators, in his view, help the Earth. Posted. http://www.modbee.com/2010/04/16/1131074/ag-pilot-says-modesto-turned-him.html#ixzz0lYwaJID1 Cap-To-Cap to Celebrate Earth Day With Carbon Offsets. With Earth Day’s 40th celebration just days away, the Sacramento Metro Chamber proudly announces that 300 delegates travel for the Capitol-to-Capitol advocacy program is “green.” Metro Chamber member Sacramento Municipal Utility District has once again provided carbon offsets for the official travel portion of each Cap-to-Cap delegate. This is the third year in a row that SMUD has sponsored reduction of the delegation’s carbon footprint. Posted. http://www.sacramentopress.com/headline/25067/CaptoCap_to_celebrate_Earth_Day_with_carbon_offsets Support the California Jobs Initiative. The Board of Supervisors last week adopted a resolution supporting the California Jobs Initiative, proposed to be considered by the voters on the November 2010 ballot. If passed, implementation of Assembly Bill 32 will be suspended until California's unemployment rate is at 5.5percent or less for four consecutive calendar quarters. California has always been a leader in business innovation and technology, and also in environmental stewardship. But this is one case where our effort to be a leader could drive our economy into total collapse. Posted. http://www.sbsun.com/pointofview/ci_14910346 Obama Wants Senate to Tackle Climate Bill after Wall St. Reforms. President Obama expects the Senate to move on to comprehensive energy and climate change legislation once it finishes work over the next few weeks on Wall Street regulatory reform. "This is one of these foundational priorities from my perspective that has to be done soon," Obama said of the climate bill Friday during a White House meeting of outside experts helping the administration on economic recovery plans. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/04/19/19climatewire-obama-wants-senate-to-tackle-climate-bill-af-37578.html Climate Damage Confirmed To Be Serious, Extensive. any of us see planet earth as durable and powerful, but human senses fail to recognize what a surge of new science now confirms: Rapid and serious damage from greenhouse gases, including vast dead zones, now appearing off the Pacific Coast. Internationally respected Mbari ocean chemist Peter Brewer says 85 percent of greenhouse gas emissions come from automobiles and fossil fuel power plants, their output equaling a million tons of carbon dioxide every hour dissolving into the ocean. Posted. http://www.ktvu.com/news/23191344/detail.html Blogs Lawn Mower Exchange Gives Green To Cut Grass. The Air Quality Management District is hoping users of traditional gas-powered lawn mowers will help them "mow down air pollution" when, for the eighth year, the air pollution control agency hosts a series of lawn-mower exchanges throughout Southern California. The program allows local residents to trade in a gasoline mower and receive a new electric mower at a reduced price. Posted. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/04/lawn-mower-exchange-events.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GreenspaceEnvironmentBlog+%28Greenspace%29