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Posted: 22 Jun 2010 11:01:51
California Air Resources Board News Clips for June 22, 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’S President Convenes Senators for Final Chance at Climate Bill This Year. President Obama will attempt to seize control of the Senate's splintered climate debate tomorrow with a goal to achieve some greenhouse gas emission restrictions before midterm elections. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/06/22/22climatewire-president-convenes-senators-for-final-chance-13775.html http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/06/22/1 Supervisor Takes Aim At Climate Change Law. If a 2006 law isn’t repealed, according to Supervisor Brad Mitzelfelt, Victor Valley households could end up losing $4,000 each. Mitzelfelt took aim at Assembly Bill 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, Monday afternoon at the monthly Hesperia Chamber of Commerce luncheon, held at the Courtyard by Marriott. Employing a “cap and trade” system that allows companies to trade unused pollution credits, the bill aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2020. Posted. http://www.hesperiastar.com/news/law-3462-supervisor-aim.html Investment Climate Harsh For Newest Energy Technologies – Report. The inventor with a miracle climate gadget can find it. The corporation with a clean-energy division can attract it. But if you're anywhere in the middle, good luck capturing the prize: money. Such is the assessment of a report released yesterday by Bloomberg New Energy Finance: There's financing available for newborn clean technologies and mature ones like wind and solar, but there's hardly a drop for toddler technologies that need a jolt of cash to reach commercial prices. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/06/22/4 Skeptics, A Tiny Minority Among Climate Scientists, Have 'Significant Influence' – Study. The vast majority of climate scientists believe that humans are driving global warming, according to a new study. Between 97 and 98 percent of the world's top climate researchers agree with the major conclusions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- that it is "very likely" that greenhouse gases produced by human activity have produced "most" of the "unequivocal" warming of Earth's average global temperature during the latter half of the 20th century. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/06/22/5 Arctic Sea Ice Melting Unusually Fast. Summer is off to a hot start -- not just in the Washington area, but also in the Far North, where if recent trends continue, Arctic sea ice could reach a new record low that surpasses the foreboding milestone set in 2007. (That's a pretty big if, however). Posted. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitalweathergang/2010/06/arctic_sea_ice_melting_unusual.html UPDATE 1-Kerry Says Obama Intends To Move Votes On Energy. Washington, June 22 (Reuters) - U.S. Senator John Kerry, the top sponsor of the climate and energy bill stalled in the Senate, said President Barack Obama intends to pressure lawmakers to vote for a bill that would put a price on emitting greenhouse gases. Posted. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2212944720100622 Utility-Only Option for Climate Bill Fails to Move the Needle on Capitol Hill. With the clock winding down on efforts to pass a climate bill this year, Senate Democrats are still adding pages to their policy playbook. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/06/22/22climatewire-utility-only-option-for-climate-bill-fails-to-2745.html Editorial: The Country's Behind A Climate Bill. Polls taken in the aftermath of the BP spill show that we're more a nation of environmentalists than many realize. So much for the climate bill. President Obama's big speech last week on the BP oil spill was expected to mark the start of a major White House push for legislation aimed at clean energy and climate change, but the second part of that package went down like a crude-coated pelican. Obama's failure to mention cap-and-trade, or any other scheme to price greenhouse-gas emissions, suggests he doesn't intend to pursue it. You can't fault Obama's political instincts. Posted. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-climate-20100621,0,3842681,print.story Letters: Marriage Of Climate Change Politics And Science. I just want to let the two UCLA professors know, in case they've been sequestered in academia, that the "science" of climate change is so unsettled at this point that the average person trying to make up his mind on the topic should trust no one that claims to have all the answers ["Reader Rebuttal: Climate Change," June 21]. I've done some reading on the topic, and according to one of the books I've read, man is only responsible for 0.3 percent of all the CO2 present in the atmosphere. Posted. http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/climate-254341-change-global.html ENERGY California Bioenergy Stymied Without Bill Passage. A bill (AB 222) that would expedite the introduction of new conversion technologies to produce advanced biofuels and/or green power from organic waste materials in California has recently gained support from three powerful state regulatory agencies. Without endorsement from two Democrats on the Senate Committee on Environmental Quality, however, AB 222 will not reach the Senate floor and will die at the end of the year, allowing many barriers to bioenergy growth to remain in place. Posted. http://www.biomassmagazine.com/article.jsp?article_id=3904 Biomass Supporters Want Exemption From EPA Regulations. Biomass proponents asserting that the carbon benefits of burning woody products should make them exempt from greenhouse gas emission regulations are taking the fight to U.S. EPA. A coalition of 163 groups sent a letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson on Friday pressing her to recognize the carbon neutrality of biomass energy and expressing "dismay" that the agency's final "tailoring" rule, which draws a line in the sand about which large sources will need permits to emit greenhouse gas emissions in the future, does not exempt biomass power. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2010/06/22/7 Newport Beach Neighbors Are Glaring At Solar Panels. Newport Beach residents say the panels on a hillside home are reflecting too much sunlight and want them moved to the roof. The owners say that the panels are staying. Stephen and Mashid Rizzone long planned on creating a fully "green" dream home and impart a legacy of environmental responsibility to their children. Posted. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/orange/la-me-newport-green-house-20100622,0,6813562,print.story Oil Spill Pushes Carbon Tax Back Into Spotlight. Washington -- Ever since 1993, when President Bill Clinton's plan to tax fuels was demolished by energy industry lobbyists, farmers, aluminum makers, anti-tax groups, conservative Senate Democrats and Republicans, energy taxes have been Washington's shortcut to political suicide. The Senate is about to test that dictum again this summer, deciding the fate of climate-change legislation that would put a price on carbon, the foundation of all fossil fuels, and remind drivers that the true cost of gassing up includes millions of gallons of crude drenching the Gulf of Mexico. Posted. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/06/22/MNBL1E0PCQ.DTL&type=printable Ways That Urbanites Can Turn Their Waste Into Compost. I live in an apartment in the city with zero outdoor space, and I don't have any plants that would benefit from compost. Is there any reason at all, then, why I should be composting my food scraps? Posted. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/21/AR2010062104047.html SAIC Gets $13M Smart Grid Contract For Fla. City. MCLEAN, Va. -- Government contractor Science Applications International Corp. said Monday it received a contract valued at more than $13 million to manage a "smart grid" project for the city of Lakeland, Fla. Posted. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/21/AR2010062103870.html BLOGS Study Affirms Consensus on Climate Change. Many debates about global warming seem to boil down to appeals to authority, with one side or the other citing some famous scientist, or group of them, to buttress a particular argument. The tone is often, “My expert is better than yours!” Against this backdrop, some analysts have been trying for several years to get a firm handle on where climate researchers come down, as a group, on the central issues in the global-warming debate: Is the earth warming up, and if so, are humans largely responsible? Posted. http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/evidence-for-a-consensus-on-climate-change/ Economy Exacerbates the High Cost of School Bus CNG Fuel Tanks. Last month, the South Coast Air Quality Management District announced one of its largest CNG school bus awards to the tune of $25 million. In this economy, especially, it sounds like quite a windfall for school districts. The award states that Los Angeles Unified School District will be able to use the funds to purchase 80 new CNG school buses. In all, six Southland school districts received more than $16.6 million for new CNG buses, with L.A. Unified leading the way with more than $13.5 million alone. Posted. http://www.stnonline.com/blogs/school-bus-bay/2358-25-million-going-to-california-school-buses-for-replacements-retrofits What The EPA Can, And Can't, Do. With senators beginning to whine that John Kerry is annoying them by talking climate when they want to talk midterms, it's worth thinking seriously about what can be done on climate change in the absence of a bill that prices carbon. Posted. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/06/what_the_epa_can_and_cant_do.html A Utilities-Only Cap-And-Trade. The big movement on the climate-change bill today is that various power players -- including, most importantly, Rahm Emanuel -- are talking up a "utilities-only cap-and-trade bill." To put this in the simplest terms, it would mean that we price carbon in utilities but not cars. Posted. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/06/a_utilities-only_cap-and-trade.html A Partial Price on Carbon. The odds remain slight that Congress will put a price on carbon across the whole economy. But there’s still a chance that it may put a price on carbon for only power plants (but not for factories or transportation.) Posted. http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/21/a-partial-price-on-carbon/?src=busln