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newsclips -- Newsclips for April 23, 2010
Posted: 23 Apr 2010 10:13:23
California Air Resources Board News Clips for April 23, 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. Calif. Considers Delaying Diesel-Emission Rules. California air regulators took steps Thursday to delay the nation's toughest rules to slash emissions from diesel-powered construction equipment, saying the poor economy has left many of the vehicles sitting idle. Members of the California Air Resources Board said they want to give companies more time to comply because construction activity in the state is down about 50 percent since the regulations were adopted three years ago, and that has significantly reduced harmful emissions. Posted. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iwTbTcan4fd0JSo9iEeso3PgGX8gD9F8DJ781 http://www.pe.com/localnews/stories/PE_News_Local_W_diesel23.4818fd6.html http://www.kcra.com/politics/23238367/detail.html http://cbs13.com/wireapnewsca/Amid.poor.economy.2.1650610.html http://www.latimes.com/business/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-us-calif-diesel-rules,0,1364128.story http://newstalk1290.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/ca-considers-delaying-diesel-emission-rules/ http://www.fresnobee.com/2010/04/22/1907517/trucks-may-get-a-break-on-air.html#ixzz0lw7mILz7 http://www.mercedsunstar.com/2010/04/23/1396647/air-regulators-may-back-off-changes.html http://foxandhoundsdaily.com/blog/daniel-weintraub/6815-truck-rule-based-flawed-data-arb-staff-admits http://www.todaystrucking.com/news.cfm?intDocID=23822 Cattle Feed May Be Cause of Air Woes. Feed for dairy cows appears to be the biggest single source of a key ozone-making gas in the smoggy San Joaquin Valley. The finding overturns a suspicion experts had several years ago that dairy air pollution mostly comes from manure and cow belching. Fermenting corn silage and other feed create almost twice as much reactive organic gas as cars do, says a study by the University of California at Davis. Organic gases cook together with nitrogen oxides from cars to make some of the worst ozone problems in the country. Posted. http://www.modbee.com/2010/04/22/1139094/cattle-feed-may-be-cause-of-air.html#ixzz0lw9sdNBz http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ihAEWzvhO96iJcjG6tPYTaVBap1gD9F8CJKG0 http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/business/6971421.html http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2010/04/23/study-cow-feed-may-be-causing-air-problem.html http://www.kmph.com/Global/story.asp?S=12358511 http://blog.taragana.com/science/2010/04/22/study-dairy-cow-feed-not-manure-may-be-to-blame-for-high-ozone-levels-in-central-california-11385/ Navistar Drops Suit Against CARB. Navistar International Corp. said April 22 it had withdrawn a lawsuit it had lodged against the California Air Resources Board (CARB) following an agreement with the state agency to address issues raised in the litigation. The truck and engine maker had asked the San Francisco Superior Court to rule that CARB was improperly certifying 2010 diesel engines equipped with selective catalytic reduction (SCR) after treatment because the agency was applying U.S. Environmental Protection Agency certification requirements that permitted SCR-equipped trucks to operate for extended periods without controlling NOx emissions. Posted. http://www.etrucker.com/apps/news/article.asp?id=85070 Cities Back State's Emission-Cutting Law. A group representing California's cities voted overwhelmingly Thursday to support the state's landmark efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, rejecting efforts by some of the group's members to seek a delay in implementing the law. The proposal by a committee of the League of California Cities to ask the state to consider moving back deadlines for cutting emissions coincided with the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, the world's largest celebration of environmentalism. Posted. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/22/MNDP1D2DQG.DTL#ixzz0lwF8sjND Solano Joins Bay Area Regional Effort To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions. With traffic on Interstate 80 a major source of air pollution, Solano County has joined a regional effort to enact transportation and land-use reforms in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Hundreds of Bay Area regional leaders met Thursday in Oakland to launch the planning process for the region's new Sustainable Communities Strategy. "We all know that air pollution does not stop at the county borders and one of the reasons we get dinged on air quality is I-80," said County Supervisor Barbara Kondylis of Vallejo, who attended the summit. Posted. http://www.timesheraldonline.com/news/ci_14943562 Palm Desert Council Updated on Emissions Bill. Financial incentives could be in the cards for six Southern California counties — Riverside included — which must participate in California's Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act. Sharon Neely, deputy executive director of Policy Strategy and Public Affairs with the Southern California Association of Governments, which is directing the bill's implementation, delivered the news Thursday to Palm Desert staff and City Council members at a study session. Posted. http://www.mydesert.com/article/20100423/NEWS01/4230304/1006/news01/Palm+Desert+council+updated+on+emissions+bill Emissions Often Underestimated, EPA Standards Old. The nation's oil and chemical plants are spewing a lot more pollution than they report to the Environmental Protection Agency — and the EPA knows it. But the federal agency has yet to adopt more accurate, higher-tech measuring methods that have been available for years. Significant changes will not be seen for at least two more years, even though an internal EPA watchdog called for improvements in 2006 and some of the more sophisticated measuring devices have been used in Europe since the 1990s. Posted. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g3llBP3CEiHasq4ztuAIMtM1_xugD9F8AGP82 Global Warming: Believe It. Your editorial on global warming ("Keeping the debate honest," April 20) was rather disingenuous. The controversy or debate about global warming exists mostly in the media, not among climatologists. The actual survey report -- "A National Survey of Television Meteorologists About Climate Change: Preliminary Findings" -- can be found at www.climatechangecommunication.org/resources_reports.cfm. This Web-based survey was sent to 1408 TV meteorologists who were members of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) or the National Weather Association (NWA) offering them $30 to complete a 51-item questionnaire. The findings are based on returned surveys from just 571 recipients who completed at least some portion of the survey. Posted. http://www.timesheraldonline.com/opinion/ci_14934654 Senate Panel Clears Budget but Nips Climate Reconciliation. The Senate Budget Committee yesterday hamstrung the chamber's ability to move climate change legislation through the filibuster-proof reconciliation process on its way to passing a budget resolution that also freezes spending for most domestic programs. The panel yesterday approved the fiscal 2011 budget blueprint by a 12-10 vote, with only Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) breaking from his party to vote against the measure.. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/04/23/23greenwire-senate-panel-clears-budget-but-nips-climate-re-28143.html OPINION; Combating Climate Change: Lessons From The World’s Indigenous Peoples. Bolivia’s president says developing nations must not be shut out of international negotiations for combating the greatest environmental issue of our time. When I arrived at the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen in late last year, the first thing that struck me were environmental activists braving the freezing weather to voice their disappointment at being locked out of the largest ever international meeting on climate change. Inside the conference, I realized that Bolivia was in a position similar to that of the protesters outside. Posted. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oew-0423-morales-20100423,0,6422441.story Climate Change A Matter Of Science. A recent editorial (“Is climate change happening?” April 18) said belief in climate change was a matter of “faith.” But for scientists, it is certainly not. Scientists see multiple lines of evidence that conclusively demonstrate that burning fossil fuels and destroying forests overloads the atmosphere with heat-trapping gases warming our planet. Posted. http://www.mydesert.com/article/20100423/OPINION02/4220395/-1/newsfront/Climate-change-a-matter-of-science EEI, Three Oil Companies To Back Climate Bill; Top 10 Highlights Of Kerry Proposal. The nation's largest electric utilities association and three of the country's biggest oil companies will endorse the climate proposal Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) and Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) will introduce Monday, Kerry told supporters in a private phone call Thursday evening. Posted. http://views.washingtonpost.com/climate-change/post-carbon/2010/04/by_juliet_eilperin_the_nations.html Leaders Talk about Earth Day after 40 Years. Staff writer Peter Fimrite asked leading environmentalists to discuss the significance of Earth Day. Here are some excerpts. Posted.http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/18/MNUT1CUA6C.DTL#ixzz0lw6ykjPA Tokyo's Goal: Be the Greenest. Reporting from Tokyo on a man-made island in Tokyo Bay, garbage is getting a makeover. Tons of waste are trucked here daily to a large industrial building. What can't be recycled is burned and filtered for toxins. The ash is turned into building material, and the heat is converted into electricity — enough to power 55,000 homes. Posted. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-green-tokyo-20100423,0,2676539.story The 2 Biggest Carbon Emitters Find Common Ground in Clean Energy Technology. America's relationship with China may be a swinging pendulum, but energy cooperation between the two greenhouse gas-spewing giants appears to be on a steady track, Energy Department officials and others familiar with the programs say. From Google's denunciation of China's Internet censors to the White House decision to sell Taiwan $6.4 billion in new armaments, relations with China appeared to be on a collision course through early 2010. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/04/23/23climatewire-the-2-biggest-carbon-emitters-find-common-gr-53598.html Chabot College "Teach-In" Against Hayward Power Plant. A resounding "No!" The word was shouted and filled the Chabot College Performing Arts Center on Thursday when attendees were asked if they wanted a 600-megawatt natural gas-fired facility to be built on the Hayward shoreline, about a mile from the campus. College officials organized an Earth Day "teach-in" program to inform and rally residents and students against Calpine's Russell City Energy Center, which was approved by the air board in February. The air board acts under the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency. Posted. http://www.contracostatimes.com/environment/ci_14940352 http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_14940352 Blogs The Bay Area Governments' Earth Day Summit. On this Earth Day, leaders from Bay Area city and county governments met to figure out how they are going to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Hundreds of politicians and staffers shuffled into the cavernous convention center at the Oakland Marriot. The cattle prod forcing this herd of local officials to move in roughly the same direction is one of California's new global warming laws, senate bill 375. Posted. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/kalw/detail?entry_id=61969#ixzz0lwFhTvCq Earth Day Protest at an Oakland Gas Station. At 8 a.m. Thursday, 50 people gathered at the Valero gas station at the corner of Telegraph and Grand Avenues near downtown Oakland. Their issue was the role of the oil company Valero in the campaign for a ballot measure to derail, at least temporarily, the 2006 California law designed to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Posted. http://bayarea.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/earth-day-protest-at-an-oakland-gas-station/ http://www.examiner.com/x-28442-LA-County-Political-Buzz-Examiner~y2010m4d22-Happy-Earth-Day-Occidental-Petroleum-joins-effort-to-kill-Californias-antiglobal-warming-law http://laist.com/2010/04/22/protesters_take_on_valero_over_init.php?gallery0Pic=2 Man-Made Carbon Dioxide Making Oceans More Acidic, Study Finds. Oceans worldwide are turning increasingly acidic as they absorb more carbon from the atmosphere, which could have negative effects on many forms of marine life at the base of the oceanic food chain, including plankton, coral and large mollusks such as oysters, a National Research Council study has found. Oceans are an important part of the planet's carbon cycle, and hold the largest active pool of carbon near the surface of the Earth. Posted. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/04/manmade-carbon-dioxide-making-oceans-more-acidic-study-finds.html