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Posted: 02 Jun 2010 11:02:59
California Air Resources Board News Clips for June 2, 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. CLIMATE CHANGE CalNex Project Uses $20 M to Examine Air Pollution, Climate Change. The California Air Resources Board and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are taking to land, sea and air to address the most challenging aspects of California’s air quality problem: measuring greenhouse gases and air pollutants. The $20 million CalNex project is employing an unprecedented number of airplanes, ships and researchers to examine the nexus between air pollution and climate change. Posted. http://eponline.com/Articles/2010/06/02/CalNex-Project-Uses-20-M-to-Examine-Air-Pollution-Climate-Change.aspx?p=1 Scientists Decry Attacks By Skeptics Of Climate Change. Walnut Creek, Calif. -- A few years ago, Ben Santer, a climate scientist with Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in Washington, answered a 10 p.m. doorbell ring at his home. After opening the door, he found a dead rat on the doorstep and a man in a yellow Hummer speeding away and shouting curses. Santer shared this story recently before a congressional committee examining the increasing harassment of climate scientists, and the state of climate science. Posted. http://www.sacbee.com/2010/06/01/v-print/2789937/scientists-decry-attacks-by-skeptics.html US Projects 4 Percent Emissions Rise by 2012 to UN. In its first major climate report to the United Nations in four years, the United States projected Tuesday that its climate-warming greenhouse gases will grow by 4 percent through 2020. The first such report submitted under the Obama administration includes a 1.5 percent rise in carbon dioxide emissions, the main gas from fossil fuel burning blamed for global warming. And CO2 from fossil fuel burning still accounts for about four-fifths of all U.S. global warming gases. Posted. http://www.modbee.com/2010/06/01/1189765/us-projects-4-percent-emissions.html#ixzz0piBGhsbQ http://www.contracostatimes.com/nation-world/ci_15203101?nclick_check=1 UC Davis Charts Course To Combat Climate Change. UC Davis has released its first-ever Climate Action Plan that documents the steps it has taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions so far and outlines the university’s next steps to combat global climate change. The University of California system has set a target for all ten UC campuses to return to 2000 emission levels by 2014. Posted. http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=9522 Survey To Look At Climate Change Work Force Needs. Executive search and staffing firm Sequence Staffing and the nonprofit Greenhouse Gas Management Institute this week launch a second annual international survey to determine work force needs of the climate change industry. This year’s survey will ask more than 10,000 climate change professionals to assess the industry’s projected growth, its training requirements and the ability to meet the growing need for greenhouse gas monitoring. Posted. http://sacramento.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2010/05/31/daily11.html EPA 'Tailoring' Rule Creates Challenge For State Regulators. State regulators are scrambling to figure out how they will comply with a new U.S. EPA rule aimed at shielding small facilities from looming greenhouse gas regulations. In Arkansas, for example, where state legislators have imposed a rule blocking the regulation of carbon dioxide as an air pollutant, regulators anticipate challenges meeting EPA's January deadline for compliance with the so-called "tailoring" rule. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/06/02/4 NYC Plans to Adapt to Climate Change. New York City published its plans to adapt itself to a changing climate last week. The report outlines recommendations by the New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC) for the city government in order to prepare the city for changing climatic conditions. The report cites climate change as a key factor in several emergency situations already facing the city, including the extreme weather that disrupted public transportation in August 2007. Posted. http://www.environmentalleader.com/2010/06/02/nyc-plans-to-adapt-to-climate-change/ DOE Aims To Make 'Low E' Windows A Must-Have For Home Construction. Ten years ago, few people knew what a compact fluorescent light bulb looked like, but today, the curly bulb is the symbol of a "green" home. Could high-performance, insulating windows be the next CFL, the next big thing in home energy efficiency? Energy Department officials are trying to propel so-called low-E -- for low-energy -- windows to popularity by bringing down prices. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/06/02/14 LANDFILL EPA Faults Calif. Hazardous-Waste Landfill's Testing Of Contaminants. Fresno, Calif. - A hazardous-waste landfill suspected by Kettleman City residents of causing birth defects has been inaccurately testing treated contaminants for five years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says. Officials at the Waste Management site in Kettleman Hills said they immediately began using an independent testing laboratory last week when the EPA notified them of the problem with their own laboratory. Posted. http://www.sacbee.com/2010/06/01/v-print/2791723/epa-faults-calif-hazardous-waste.html ENERGY Converting CO2 Emissions Into Diesel Fuel Using Solar Energy. A new effort to commercialize a process by which industrial-scale carbon dioxide is converted into diesel fuel was announced yesterday. In an attempt to reduce both American oil imports and carbon emissions, the new coalition among government, academia and private corporations aims to expand a technology that will take on both issues. The major drawback is that, at the moment, the method is prohibitively expensive for industry. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/06/02/5 http://www.truckinginfo.com/news/news-detail.asp?news_id=70579 New South African Coal Plant Seeks Emission Credits For 'Cleaner' Coal. A South African utility company that recently won a $3.75 billion World Bank loan to build the world's fourth-largest coal-fired power plant now is seeking international carbon credits for making the plant more efficient. Eskom Holdings Ltd. has confirmed it is conducting a feasibility study to see if the 4,800-megawatt Medupi Power Station might be eligible for credits under the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/06/02/1 Wine: To Go Greener, Bottles Get Lighter. Wine is about to get lighter. Well, maybe not wine itself; we'll save the issue of overwrought, high-alcohol wines for another day. But there is progress to report in the campaign against heavy wine bottles, those broad-shouldered behemoths that seem to say more about the ego of the winemaker than the quality of the wine. Posted. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2010/06/01/ST2010060101791.html VEHICLES Congress Ponders How To Push Electric Vehicles. Lawmakers have floated a proposal to fast-track electric cars, but some in the clean-car field are worried that the wheels may fall off. Last week, House and Senate legislators released bipartisan plans to speed up the deployment of electric vehicles. In each plan, the centerpiece was a "targeted deployment" approach: Rather than offer the same incentives nationwide, the government would award federal funds to the regions that come up with the best blueprints for rolling out tens of thousands of plug-in cars. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/06/02/2 FUELS U.S. Injects Funds Into China's Jet Fuel Research With Home Market In Mind. When the United States dashed off a $510,000 check last week to China backing the East Asian country's biofuel aviation research, the driving force was the potential market for U.S. jet equipment and jet engine biofuel technology. With China's booming aviation market ranking second in size only after the United States', Boeing Co. approached the U.S. Trade and Development Agency about six months ago and asked it to help pave the way for future deals by backing Chinese efforts to develop biofuel technology, according to Jeff Jackson, USTDA's regional director for East Asia. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/06/02/4 DRY CLEANERS Bay Area May Let Perc Cleaners Buy Some Time. With a major deadline looming in California’s perc phase-out schedule, one regional air district is telling cleaners they can buy some time — literally — for removing their perc equipment. Under the state-mandated July 1 deadline, all perc machines manufactured before July 1, 1995, are to be removed from service. The deadline also applies to any perc machine with an unknown date of manufacture, all machines located in co-residential facilities and all perc machines that have been converted from vented to closed-loop. Posted. http://www.natclo.com/1006/baaqmd.htm BLOGS Opinion: Organic Agriculture: A Solution to Global Warming? In 2008, the Rodale Institute—an organization dedicated to the promotion of organic agriculture—published a widely noted report entitled “Regenerative Organic Farming: A Solution to Global Warming.” The takeaway was that organic agriculture, due to its reliance on biological rather than chemical methods, could substantially reduce carbon emissions generated by the agricultural sector. Posted. http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/02/organic-agriculture-a-solution-to-global-warming/?pagemode=print A Bullish View of Wind Power Out West. Wind energy has plenty going for it: it is clean, unlimited in supply and the most economical source of renewable power. Its clearest drawback is unreliability: sometimes the wind just does not blow. But that intermittency – long considered a major shortcoming – may have little impact on the potential for wind to power much of the electric grid in the western United States, according to a new study by the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Lab. Posted. http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/01/a-sanguine-view-of-wind-power-out-west/?pagemode=print