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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


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