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Posted: 04 May 2010 11:41:02
California Air Resources Board News Clips for May 4, 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. BALLOT INITIATIVES Bloomberg: California Carbon Law Fight Takes a ‘Giant Step’. An oil industry-supported group that wants California voters to suspend the state’s global warming laws said today it has collected nearly twice the signatures needed to get the proposed delay on the November ballot. More than 800,000 signatures have been gathered in support of an initiative to halt enforcement of the Global Warming Solutions Act until the state’s unemployment rate falls to 5.5 percent from its current 12.6 percent, the California Jobs Initiative Committee said in an e-mail. George Shultz, who was secretary of state in the Reagan administration, was named today as honorary co-chairman of Californians for Clean Energy and Jobs, a group that is campaigning to defeat the ballot initiative. Posted. http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-05-03/california-carbon-law-fight-takes-a-giant-step-update2-.html Associated Press: Groups Seek To Suspend AB-32. A coalition of business groups says it has collected nearly double the signatures needed to qualify a ballot initiative that would suspend California's global warming law. Jon Coupal, president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, says people do not support regulations that will cost jobs and impose billions of dollars in higher energy prices… Environmental groups, utilities and green technology companies claim the oil companies are striving to topple California's law and derail climate legislation in Congress. Posted. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jXxrxXiYbT720lCzjPMfHj89SyIAD9FFJ6L81 San Jose Mercury News: Opponents Of California Global Warming Law Turn In Signatures For November Measure. Technology leaders said Monday they will fight the measure, and expect large Silicon Valley firms to contribute to efforts to defeat it. "We and our membership will vigorously oppose efforts by out of state Texas oil companies to weaken our economy and gut our environmental laws for their own profit," said Carl Guardino, CEO of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, which represents major tech companies. Among the opponents so far of the measure are Google, Applied Materials, Solaria, Serious Materials, the Sierra Club and the League of Women Voters. Posted. http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_15008075 Sacramento Bee: Jon Coupal Submits Petitions To Erase Schwarzenegger's Legacy. Once one of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's allies, Jon Coupal, head of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, now is seeking to undo a major part of the governor's legacy. Coupal submitted signatures to the Sacramento Registrar of Voters today to qualify an initiative that would suspend California's landmark AB 32 signed by Schwarzenegger in 2006 to force reductions in greenhouse gases. Posted. http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/the_swarm/2010/05/post-1.html#ixzz0muCZNmGP Appeal Democrat: Signatures Submitted For Measure To Suspend Climate Bill.Proponents of a state ballot measure to suspend a California climate bill have submitted voter signatures for qualification, saying they have nearly twice the number necessary to do so. One of the chief proponents, Assemblyman Dan Logue (R-Linda), said he believes the submission means the state is one step closer to restoring regulatory sanity. "It's a great day," said Logue of the formal submission today of his measure, which would suspend the 2006 legislation, AB 32, until state unemployment drops to about 5.5 percent for a year. "People will have a voice on this issue." Posted. http://www.appeal-democrat.com/news/signatures-94502-state-logue.html North County Times: Fight Attempts To Stall Greenhouse Gas Law. The California Air Resources Board has published reports showing that the state's economy will grow more than if it did not cut emissions. The Silicon Valley Leadership Group states that suspending AB 32 "is the wrong thing to do and is actually going to wind up costing jobs in the long-run." It has now come to light that the original funding for this ballot initiative came from two Texas oil companies, Valero and Tesoro. Apparently they feel that their best financial interests are served by working with and influencing California politicians and their constituents to see things their way. Posted. http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/perspective/article_85726044-56db-11df-ae29-001cc4c03286.html KPCC: California’s Landmark Global Warming Bill At Risk – Challenge To AB 32 On November Ballot (Bruce Klafter As Guest). Opponents of California’s sweeping environmental bill that passed in 2006 and is scheduled to be phased in between 2012 and 2020, AB 32, want to rescind the legislation through a measure on the November ballot, saying the it is a jobs killer and will cost billions in higher energy costs. To that end, today the California Jobs Initiative Committee is submitting 800,000 signatures, many more than needed. What are the realities –jobs gained, jobs lost, billions in cost to the economy, no cost to the economy? We check in with proponents and opponents to AB 32. Posted. http://www.scpr.org/programs/patt-morrison/2010/05/03/ab-32-is-signed-global-warming-shivers-in-fear/ The Union: Logue Initiative Blocking Emission Cutbacks Nears Ballot. Assemblyman Dan Logue's plan to block a law cutting state greenhouse gas emissions until the economy rebounds looks likely to make the November 2 ballot. Monday, members of the California Jobs Initiative Coalition turned in more than 800,000 signatures of registered voters to qualify for the late year election. “We only needed 440,000,” Logue said. “People realize we need to protect and bring jobs to California. We're going to give working families of California a break until we recover economically.” Posted. http://www.theunion.com/article/20100503/BREAKINGNEWS/100509959/1001&parentprofile=1053 LA Streetsblog: Move To “Delay” California’s Greenhouse Gas Law Gaining Steam. But does the rhetoric meet the reality? The Bee also featured a story this weekend about one of the many green businesses that are based in California because the state's green policies guarantees a market over the next couple of years. The story illustrates how competition for these businesses between states is fierce. While California has experienced a Green Jobs boom in recent years, resulting in 159,000 new jobs, states such as Ohio are jockeying to have those jobs move east, and out of the Golden State. Posted. http://la.streetsblog.org/2010/05/03/move-to-delay-californias-greenhouse-gas-law-gaining-steam/ Legal Planet: The Looming Political Battle Over AB 32 & California’s Environmental & Economic Future. Initiative proponents are expected to have gathered and submit the requisite number of voter signatures needed to qualify the measure for California’s November ballot. That, in turn, will set off what promises to be one of the most consequential and fascinating environmental political battles in recent memory. And one that will doubtless garner considerable national and international attention. Posted. http://legalplanet.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/the-looming-political-battle-over-ab-32-californias-environmental-economic-future/ Ballot Measure Blocking Law Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Likely. A plan to block a law cutting state greenhouse gas emissions until the economy rebounds looks likely to make the Nov. 2 ballot. Monday, members of the California Jobs Initiative Coalition turned in more than 800,000 signatures of registered voters to qualify — nearly twice the number needed. The initiative was started by Assemblyman Dan Logue, R-Linda, who represents Nevada County in the Third Assembly District. “We only needed 440,000” signatures Logue said. “People realize we need to protect and bring jobs to California. We're going to give working families of California a break until we recover economically.” Posted. http://www.theunion.com/article/20100504/NEWS/100509941/1001&parentprofile=1053 Initiative Would Suspend Emissions Law. Measure Funded By Oil Firms Could Be On Ballot. Sacramento - Kicking off what is sure to be a colossal political battle between the old economy and the new, proponents of an oil industry-backed initiative turned in sufficient signatures Monday to force a popular vote this fall on the fate of California’s landmark law to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Assuming enough signatures are valid, the November ballot initiative would suspend enforcement of AB 32 until California’s unemployment rate has dropped to 5.5 percent or lower for four consecutive quarters. Posted. http://www.vcstar.com/news/2010/may/03/initiative-would-suspend-emissions-law/ Business Coalition says it has enough signatures for a ballot initiative to suspend AB 32. The effort to suspend California’s climate change law took a step forward Monday when a coalition of business groups filed signatures for a ballot initiative. If the initiative qualifies for the November ballot, voters will decide whether to suspend AB 32 until unemployment drops to 5.5 percent for a full year. At that time, AB 32 would be restored. Posted. http://sacramento.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2010/05/03/daily17.html Battle against California's landmark global warming law heats up. SAN JOSE — Setting up what is expected to be a multimillion-dollar political battle between oil companies and Silicon Valley tech leaders, opponents of California's landmark global warming law turned in about 800,000 signatures Monday for a November ballot measure to suspend the law. Posted. http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_15011253 California may vote to freeze landmark climate law. Organizers of a California ballot measure that would suspend the state's landmark climate change law, possibly for years, said on Monday they had enough signatures to qualify it for the November ballot. Posted. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64303220100504?type=politicsNews Business groups seek to suspend Calif. climate law. SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A coalition of business groups turned in signature petitions Monday for a ballot initiative that would unravel Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's top environmental priority. If the California Jobs Initiative qualifies for the November ballot, as expected, voters will be asked to consider putting the brakes on the nation's most far-reaching global warming law. Posted. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jXxrxXiYbT720lCzjPMfHj89SyIAD9FFK7HG0 Plan Would Delay Calif. Greenhouse Law. SAN FRANCISCO, May 4 (UPI) -- Energy firms are pushing a referendum that would postpone California's greenhouse gas law until the economy improves, officials said. The California Jobs Initiative said it has submitted about 800,000 signatures, nearly twice the 435,000 needed, to put the proposition on the Nov. 2 general election ballot, Legalnewsline.com reported Tuesday. Posted. http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/05/04/Plan-would-delay-Calif-greenhouse-law/UPI-84011272976332/ The Buzz: Maldonado v. Colbert. Let the battle begin. As promised, backers of a measure to stop California's greenhouse gas reduction law turned in their signatures Monday to put the question to voters in November. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger left no doubt that he would, Terminator-like, fight to the end to protect the centerpiece of his legacy. Posted. http://www.fresnobee.com/2010/05/04/1920136/the-buzz-maldonado-v-colbert.html Referendum on Calif. Greenhouse Law Appears Headed For Voters. SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline)-California voters will likely be asked in the November general election if the state's greenhouse gas law should be put on hold for rosier economic times, a postponement the Democratic frontrunner for attorney general, Kamala Harris, said Monday would be a colossal mistake. Posted. http://www.legalnewsline.com/spotlight/226957-referendum-on-calif.-greenhouse-law-appears-headed-for-voters Initiative Would Suspend Emissions Law. Sacramento — Kicking off what is sure to be a colossal political battle between the old economy and the new, proponents of an oil industry-backed initiative turned in sufficient signatures Monday to force a popular vote this fall on the fate of California’s landmark law to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Posted. http://www.vcstar.com/news/2010/may/03/initiative-would-suspend-emissions-law/ TV COVERAGE KNTV-TV (NBC-SF): 5:17:14 AM: Brief On Initiative To Suspend AB 32, Reinstatement Once Unemployment Rate Improves. ANCHOR: in November voters will decide the fate of California's landmark global warming bill. The chronicle says a group backed by Texas oil giants, Tercero and Valero energy plans to submit signatures for an initiative to suspend the bill until California's unemployment rate improves dramatically. It was signed by Governor Schwarzenegger in 2006 and will reduce green house gas emissions by 25% by 2020. Posted. KCRA-TV (NBC-SAC): 6:19:40 AM: Brief On Initiative To Suspend AB 32, Reinstatement Once Unemployment Rate Improves. ANCHOR: The leaders behind a push to suspend the landmark anti global warming bill say today they will submit the signatures they need to get the plan on to the November ballot. Campaign staff say they have more than 435,000 signatures to qualify. The plan would suspend assembly bill 32 until the unemployment rate in the state drops to about 5.5% for a full year. Posted KTVU-TV (FOX-SF) 08:48:56 - 8:58:56 AM: Brief On Initiative To Suspend AB 32.It appears California voters will decide whether the state should suspend its landmark global warming law. That's because today a group heavily backed by two Texas oil companies will submit the needed signatures to get an initially to suspend it on the ballot. The environmental law mandates that California reduce greenhouse gas emissions, by the year 2020. Critics say that law will kill laws and hurt businesses. Supporters say they've already attracted a half million green jobs to the state. Posted. CLIMATE CHANGE Study Calls For Cuts In More Potent Greenhouse Gases To Limit Climate Damage. Cutting dioxide won't be enough to keep the Earth's climate under the 2-degree-Celsius "guard rail" agreed to by G-8 nations and endorsed in the Copenhagen Accord, according to a new study. Researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography say that the world must also slash emissions of methane, hydrofluorocarbons and other short-lived -- but potent -- greenhouse gases. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/05/04/4 U.N. Delegates Hear Pitch For Global Reductions In Waste And Pollution. United Nations -- Governments yesterday said they will launch a two-year review of heavy industry -- in particular mining, chemicals manufacturing and transportation -- in an effort to advance more "green" resource consumption and economic activities ahead of the next Earth Summit, slated for 2012 in Rio de Janeiro. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/05/04/5 States Prepare To Rise To CO2 Challenge As Senate Climate Bill Collapses. Climate proposals due to be unveiled before the Senate would strip 23 US states of their power to act on climate change. The collapse of an energy reform proposal in Congress last week could return power to north America's historic actors on climate change: the regions. Posted. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/may/04/climate-bill-senate-us-states-emissions/print Ice Cap On West Ugandan Mountain Range Splits. Kampala, Uganda - Ugandan wildlife authorities say the ice cap on the country's western Rwenzori mountain range has split after extensive melting caused by global warming. Nelson Guma says ice covering Mount Margherita, the second highest peak in Africa, has melted forming a large crevasse some 6 meters (nearly 20 feet) wide. Posted. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/04/AR2010050402226_pf.html Walmart Settles In Waste Suit. San Diego — In what is being described as a record-breaking environmental settlement, Walmart has agreed to pay more than $27 million as a result of a lawsuit filed by state Attorney General Jerry Brown and 19 district attorneys throughout the state, authorities announced Monday. “This settlement is historic,” San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis said at a news conference Monday. “It is one of the largest of its type in the United States’ history.” Posted. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/may/03/wal-mart-to-pay-276m/ DIESEL/VEHICLES Oakland Truckers Caught Up In Red Tape, Finger-Pointing. Oakland - Red tape. Finger-pointing. Some Port of Oakland truckers are stuck in the middle of what is becoming a struggle to survive. About 500 truckers who have failed to meet an April 30 deadline to have new diesel particulate filters installed on their rigs were shut out of the Port of Oakland marine terminals Monday. Posted. http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_15009949 http://www.ttnews.com/articles/basetemplate.aspx?storyid=24326 Bet Placed On Propane Trucks. Big Valley Ford Orders 100 To Be Converted. Stockton - Big Valley Ford is pumped up on propane. The Stockton dealership has sold about 30 Ford trucks converted to use propane and has 70 more in the pipeline. Propane, or liquefied petroleum gas, became popular as a motor fuel in the 1970s, when oil prices spiked, but its fortunes have risen and fallen with market prices. Still, many commercial fleets, especially those operated by propane dealers, favor it. Posted. http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100504/A_BIZ/5040310/-1/A_NEWS05 Air District Offers Rebates For Electric Ag Vehicles. Farmers and other agricultural workers can now be compensated for purchasing electric utility terrain vehicles through rebates offered by the California Air Resources Board (CARB). Nearly $1 million is being allotted by CARB as part of its Agricultural UTV Rebate Project to encourage clean air through zero-emission ATVs and UTVs, where up to $2,500, or 15 percent of the price per vehicle, may be returned. Posted. http://www.thebusinessjournal.com/agriculture/4763-air-district-offers-rebates-for-electric-ag-vehicles Renewable Energy: Inexpensive Metal Catalyst Can Effectively Generate Hydrogen from Water. Hydrogen would command a key role in future renewable energy technologies, experts agree, if a relatively cheap, efficient and carbon-neutral means of producing it can be developed. An important step towards this elusive goal has been taken by a team of researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, Berkeley. The team has discovered an inexpensive metal catalyst that can effectively generate hydrogen gas from water. Posted. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100430154902.htm?sms_ss=reddit BLOGS Schwarzenegger attacks ‘greedy oil companies’. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Monday he would mount a vigorous defense of his landmark environmental legislation, vowing to "push back" against "greedy oil companies who want to keep polluting in our state." His comments came as supporters of an effort to roll back AB 32, the global warming legislation Schwarzenegger signed in 2006, announced they had gathered enough signatures to get their measure on the November ballot. Posted. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2010/05/schwarzenegger-attacks-greedy-oil-companies.html Boycott Valero or Blue Shield? In 2006, the Legislature passed and Governor Schwarzenegger signed AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, which set the 2020 greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal into law. AB32 has been called an "ambitious, yet controversial, plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions and promote energy efficiency." The law "aims to rollback carbon dioxide emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, while mandating a further eight percent reduction by 2050.” Posted. http://blogs.redding.com/dcraig/archives/2010/05/boycott-valero.html 800,000 Californians Sign To Put CA's Economy First And Signal 'Welcome Mat' For Manufacturers. The campaign to suspend AB 32's global warming regulations until California's economy and unemployment recovers submitted double the signatures needed today to qualify the "California Jobs Initiative" for the November ballot. The initiative got more than 800,000 signatures, far above the 433,971 needed. The state's citizens understand that implementing AB 32 at the right time in the right way is not an anti-environment position. Posted. http://foxandhoundsdaily.com/blog/gino-dicaro/6878-800000-californians-sign-put-cas-economy-first-and-signal-welcome-mat-manufact Move to “Delay” California’s Greenhouse Gas Law Gains Steam. Gov. Pushes Back. Proponents of clean energy and environmental laws designed to reduce the amount of Greenhouse Gases from being dumped into the air had best not take lightly the challenge to A.B. 32, the California State Law mandating changes that would reduce the state's emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Posted. http://la.streetsblog.org/2010/05/03/move-to-delay-californias-greenhouse-gas-law-gaining-steam/ Why Isn't Obama Talking About Climate Change? I've been thinking a lot about David Roberts's argument that the administration's response to the Deepwater oil spill shows it's not committed to pushing energy legislation this year. "If he was looking for an opportunity to drive home the clean energy message, this was it," Roberts writes. "The Katrina of fossil fuels. Yet all he's done is blandly reaffirm his support for offshore drilling. Posted. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/05/why_isnt_obama_talking_about_c.html Schwarzenegger Vetoes Beach Smoking Ban. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday vetoed a measure that would have banned smoking in state parks and beaches, calling it "an improper intrusion of government into people’s lives.’’ Schwarzenegger, whose own cigar-smoking habit led him to build a smoking tent next to the state Capitol building, said the most far-reaching regulations of tobacco in the nation went too far and that rules should be left up to local cities and counties. Posted. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2010/05/schwarzenegger-vetoes-beach-smoking-ban.html