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Posted: 14 Jun 2010 11:56:57
California Air Resources Board News Clips for June 14, 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/GHG Initiative Won’t Thwart State’s Emissions Fight. Sacramento — California’s aggressive campaign to curb global warming will probably not come to a screeching halt even if voters eventually apply the brakes. An initiative that appears all but certain to qualify for the November ballot would suspend the state’s landmark law to gradually reduce greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming until there’s a sustained economic recovery. Posted. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jun/14/initiative-wont-thwart-states-emissions-fight/ CDM Critics Demand Investigation Of Suspect Offsets. United Nations -- A broad coalition of activists are charging that as much as a third of all Kyoto Protocol carbon offset credits ever sold to banks and governments could be illegitimate because they were generated by firms manipulating the marketplace. Companies, the activists allege, are deliberately generating greenhouse gas pollution in order to snag millions of dollars worth of carbon credits when they then mitigate the emissions. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/06/14/2 IEA Urges Governments, Industry to Advance CO2 Storage Projects. Governments and industry should boost efforts to deploy carbon capture and storage projects that reduce emissions of the greenhouse gas and help fight global warming, the International Energy Agency said in a report. The Group of Eight’s goal of implementing 20 large-scale CCS demonstration projects by 2010 “remains a challenge,” IEA said in the report, which will be presented to G-8 leaders at their summit in Canada later this month. Posted. http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-14/iea-urges-governments-industry-to-advance-co2-storage-projects.html Can Whiter Clouds Reduce Global Warming? A grant from Bill Gates is helping researchers explore the possibility that making clouds whiter and more reflective by spraying them with a fine seawater mist could help block the sun's rays and send them back into space. Cloud whitening builds on the natural cloud-forming Process, says Silicon Valley inventor Armand Neukermans, who received the funding to test if the concept is doable. Posted. http://www.usatoday.com/weather/research/2010-06-10-cloud-whitening_N.htm Senate Votes Down Measure to Block EPA Regulation of Greenhouse Gases. In a 47-53 vote, the U.S. Senate barely voted down a measure Thursday that would have blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions. The resolution, proposed by Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), was in response to the EPA's efforts to regulate carbon dioxide emissions under the Clean Air Act. Posted. http://www.truckinginfo.com/news/news-print.asp?news_id=70686 Goodwill But Still Little Goods On Treaty Talks. International climate change ambassadors and activists returned this week from two-week treaty negotiations session in Bonn, Germany, hopeful of nailing down agreements on deforestation and a few other issues by the year's end. The meetings produced few specific results beyond a draft treaty that -- like others before it -- is drawing criticisms from developing countries. But the big change, many agreed, was the tone. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/06/14/3 Obama Plans To Push For New Global Warming Bill. According to Politico.com, President Barack Obama is planning to utilize the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill as a springboard to initiate a new push for a broad global-warming bill. Politico writer Mike Allen says that Mr. Obama will use his Oval Office address about the Gulf on Tuesday night to include a call for an energy bill. The White House has notified several senators that “an energy deal must include some serious effort to price carbon as a way to slow climate change,” according to a Senate Democratic leadership aid. Posted. http://www.examiner.com/blog/printexaminerarticles.cfm?section=examiners,examiners&blogtype=examiners&mode=alias&blogid=53091&blogURL=Pinellas-County-Political-Buzz-Examiner&byYear=2010&byMonth=6&byDay=14&byAlias=Obama-plans-to-push-for-new-global-warming-bill The Choice to Move Forward on International Efforts to Address Global Warming. Every day a huge amount of oil is spewing into the Gulf of Mexico in the US. This is symbolic of the energy choices that we have made to date. And it shows the dramatic implications of that energy choice. But those energy choices are also having devastating impacts which are less visual but more damaging. Rampant global warming is impacting countries around the world as a result of our energy and development choices. Posted. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jake-schmidt/the-choice-to-move-forwar_b_609022.html New Carbon Trading Phase In Europe Holds More Lessons For U.S. Part Two Of A Two-Part Series On Europe's Carbon Market. Click here to read the first part. Wider auctioning under the third phase of Europe's carbon trading scheme will bring more bumps in the road. Under the E.U. climate and energy package agreed to in December 2008, power plants in Western Europe will pay for all carbon permits starting in 2013. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/06/14/1 Views on Climate Change: What the Polls Show. To the Editor: Re “The Climate Majority,” by Jon A. Krosnick (Op-Ed, June 9): Regarding poll findings about climate change, Mr. Krosnick posits that his question is more legitimate than others. It is but one approach and hardly ideal. The question’s preamble is “you may have heard about the idea that the world’s temperature may have been going up slowly” and then asks whether this is “probably” happening. Such wordings often encourage a positive response: this is known in the polling world as acquiescence bias. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/opinion/l14climate.html?pagewanted=print Republicans Shouldn’t Become the Dirty Energy Party. With huge amounts of oil continuing to pollute the waters off Louisiana, the Gulf oil spill is yet another reminder that it is important for our economy, our environment, and our national security to wean our nation off dirty fossil fuels. Yet most Republicans in California don’t seem to get it. Instead of embracing the job-creating clean energy economy, Sacramento’s Republican leadership is actively attacking it, ridiculing the more than 500,000 clean tech jobs already in the state and solar technologies that are putting thousands back to work in the Inland Empire. Posted. http://www.capitolweekly.net/article.php?_c=ywjltqoypblbpx&xid=ywj1pmt6e95tna&done=.ywjltqoypc8bpx Fontana City Council Supports Effort to Try to Suspend AB 32. As expected, the Fontana City Council unanimously approved on May 26 a resolution that supports the California Jobs Initiative, a proposal by State Sen. Bob Dutton (R-Rancho Cucamonga) which would temporarily suspend AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. The resolution was proposed by Fontana Council Member John Roberts, who described AB 32 as “worrisome” and a huge issue that negatively impacts jobs in the region, causing unemployment rates to rise. Posted. http://www.fontanaheraldnews.com/articles/2010/06/10/news/doc4c111bfc813d8463014004.txt AIR POLLUTION Air Quality Officials Say BNSF Will Cut Emissions at San Bernardino Rail Yard, Westside Residents Not Satisfied. An agreement between air quality regulators and BNSF Railway promises to cut pollution at the company's Westside rail yard, but that's not enough for many who breathe the diesel fumes generated there. The proposal would commit BNSF to the following: Reduce diesel particulate emissions from railyard 45 percent from 2005 levels by 2011. Diesel pollution is to be further cut by 85 percent by 2020. Posted. http://www.sbsun.com/news/ci_15271992#ixzz0qqMUtqlT Research Reveals Cow Feed As Air Pollutant. Researchers and other scientists who have assiduously studied cow manure as an air pollutant might have focused their attention on the wrong end of the cow. Dairy animal feed, especially corn silage, is now being tagged as a significant cause of ozone creation, the major contributor to air pollution, especially in the San Joaquin Valley. Air quality in the valley, home to one of the highest concentrations of dairy animals in the world, has been identified for years as substandard, even dangerous. Posted. http://www.appeal-democrat.com/articles/feed-95982-gasses-air.html FUELS Canada Plans Northeast Blitz To Fight Fuel Standards. The fight over reducing the carbon content of transportation fuels heats up this week with a new push from critics in Canada and the Northeast. Alberta's Environment Minister Rob Renner is launching a multistate tour from Massachusetts to New Jersey today to warn about the economic impact of proposed Northeast and mid-Atlantic fuel standards on his province. He joins a slew of groups in Boston that have blasted new carbon mandates on transportation fuels as a job killer that could lead to skyrocketing gas and heating oil prices. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/06/14/5 VEHICLES Utilities Brace For Electric Cars. Public grid needs upgrades as transportation future looms. The gleaming, squeaky-clean future promised by electric cars comes with a burden: The region's electricity infrastructure will have to be ready to charge all those big, thirsty batteries. The first thousand-vehicle fleet of Nissan Leafs is scheduled to flutter into San Diego County beginning in December, followed in short order by plug-in hybrids like the Chevy Volt. Posted. http://www.nctimes.com/business/article_c2b1a23b-093b-5791-8e94-cb95dc56cfd8.html?print=1 ENERGY U.S. Continues To Lag In Solar Adoption. Government incentives and growing interest in clean, renewable energy have not yet translated into substantial increases in U.S. solar energy capacity, signaling that demand for solar power remains relatively weak. Solar power provides a fraction of 1 percent of energy used by Americans, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association. Despite its size, the United States ranks fourth in total power capacity behind Germany, Italy and Japan. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/06/14/13 Gates Seeks More Spending On Clean Energy Research. Billionaire Bill Gates is urging the government to triple spending on what he says everyone, rich and poor, will need in the future: clean, cheap energy. Gates and other business leaders were meeting with President Barack Obama and lawmakers Thursday to pitch their plan to increase the annual federal spending on clean energy innovation to $16 billion, from $5 billion now. But tight budgets make it a tough sell. Posted. http://www.modbee.com/2010/06/10/1203064/gates-seeks-more-spending-on-clean.html#ixzz0qqV9jLmR GREEN Pondering the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. As librarians, we operate in the public sphere. And we "enlighten" people. The funny thing about enlightening, though, is that to enlighten one has to first educate oneself, to be well informed. But which issues are relevant? Quality-of-life questions, environmental questions, are particularly relevant because they affect all of us, from the homeless guy to the professor, from the pauper to the millionaire. Plastic pollution is one of those problems that has a negative effect on our environment and our quality of life. Posted. http://www.bakersfield.com/opinion/community/x1008891574/Pondering-the-Great-Pacific-Garbage-Patch BLOGS Americans Want To Do Something On Climate -- Just Not the Right Thing. Today’s New York Times carries an op-ed that trumpets supposedly encouraging numbers about what Americans want Congress to do about climate change. Under the triumphant headline, The Climate Majority, Jon A. Krosnick argues that most people still buy climate science -- and they even favor federal action to deal with rising temperatures. Posted. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/06/americans_what_to_do_something.html Killing AB 32 Will Threaten California's Leadership in Wind Energy. Just when California is about to start closing the gap with Texas and Iowa in the amount of wind energy it produces, there's a move afoot by out-of-state oil companies to pull the rug out from under us and thwart the development of these projects. Located in more than 10 California counties and totaling 3,000 MW in capacity (enough to power about a million homes, and much more in the pipeline), these projects will more than double the current amount of wind energy in our state. Posted. http://www.publicceo.com/index.php/local-governments/151-local-governments-publicceo-exclusive/1598-killing-ab-32-will-threaten-californias-leadership-in-wind-energy Fighting For Our "Right" To a Clean Energy Future. A new proposed initiative for the California ballot purports to defend the people of California’s unalienable right to air, water, energy, and natural resources by prohibiting the government from regulating the industries that exploit these common resources. This referendum is either an attempted shell game on the citizenry or a product of dire ignorance. Posted. http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/kgrenfell/a_new_proposed_initiative_for.html Twilight of the Coal Era? Siemens Siemens will furnish gas turbines like this one for two power plants in North Carolina that now rely on coal. The electricity market is in the doldrums, but the market for new generating stations that use natural gas is going strong, industry experts say. Why? Because gas is beginning to replace coal, according to Randy H. Zwirn, president of the Siemens Power Generation Group. On Monday, Siemens is announcing [pdf] that it has won contracts to supply five new high-efficiency gas plants to Progress Energy at two sites in North Carolina that have old coal-fired generators. It is also replacing old gas-fired plants in Florida. Posted. http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/twilight-of-the-coal-era/?pagemode=print