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newsclips -- Newsclips for July 7, 2010.
Posted: 07 Jul 2010 10:36:56
California Air Resources Board News Clips for July 7, 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 PG&E Opposes Initiative To Block State Climate Law. California businesses are beginning to pick sides in the initiative battle over the state's landmark climate change law. Pacific Gas and Electric Co. on Tuesday said it will oppose the November ballot initiative, which seeks to suspend Assembly Bill 32, a law that mandates statewide reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. PG&E joins corporations such as Levi Strauss and Co. and eBay Inc. in opposing the rollback. Posted. http://www.sacbee.com/2010/07/07/v-print/2872971/pge-opposes-initiative-to-block.html http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hKPBv6ryL27OX8lhnZ0QgZWhXl7QD9GPU0KO0 http://www.latimes.com/business/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-us-california-climate-law,0,7971672.story http://www.kcba.com/Global/story.asp?S=12767045 'Climategate' Inquiry Mostly Vindicates Scientists. London -- An independent report into the leak of hundreds of e-mails from one of the world's leading climate research centers on Wednesday largely vindicated the scientists involved, saying they acted honestly and that their research was reliable. But the panel of inquiry, led by former U.K. civil servant Muir Russell, did chide scientists at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit for failing to share their data with critics. Posted. http://www.sacbee.com/2010/07/07/v-print/2873475/leaked-climate-e-mail-inquiry.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/08/science/earth/08climate.html http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2010/07/climategate-inquiry-clears-scientists-of-dishonesty/1 http://www.latimes.com/business/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-climate-hacked-e-mails,0,3423287.story EU Tightens Timber-Trade Rules to Save Forests, Fight Emissions. The European Union decided to make suppliers of timber to Europe guard against illegal logging, bolstering a push to fight climate change through worldwide forest protection. The European Parliament voted to force companies to use a system of due diligence to ascertain that the timber they sell in the 27-nation EU was harvested legally. Posted. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/07/07/bloomberg1376-L54YI907SXKY01-0NSAUGL423TAAIOR2VJQUCHLNS.DTL&type=printable GREEN ENERGY Feds Pull Plug On Cities' Green Home Loans. San Francisco's new, $150 million program to help property owners finance solar and other energy-saving programs is all but dead, according to city officials, after a federal agency announced Tuesday that the program and others like it across the state are potentially risky and inadvisable for mortgage lenders. The programs have been widely championed as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and energy bills and to create green jobs. Posted. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/07/MNCI1EA8OI.DTL&type=printable Leaders Of Green Religion Movement Hope Gulf Spill Inspires Faithful To Support Cleaner Energy. New Orleans - Where would Jesus drill? Religious leaders who consider environmental protection a godly mission are making the Gulf of Mexico oil spill a rallying cry, hoping it inspires people of faith to support cleaner energy while changing their personal lives to consume less and contemplate more. Posted. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-us-rel-religion-today,0,2811614,print.story http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/07/07/national/a083800D15.DTL DIESELS US: CARB To Ease Truck GHG Law Tightening Proposals. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has told trucking representatives that, because of the effects of the recession on the industry, it intends to ease the financial burden on operators through vehicles already in service having to comply with the board’s proposed tightening of greenhouse gas (GHG) limits within the state’s borders. Posted. http://www.automotiveworld.com/news/powertrain/82805-us-carb-to-ease-truck-ghg-law-tightening-proposals AIR POLLUTION EPA Says New Air Pollution Rule Would Cut Smog From Coal-Fired Power Plants. Washington - The Obama administration is proposing a new rule to tighten restrictions on pollution from coal-burning power plants in the eastern half of the country, a key step to cut emissions that cause smog. The Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday the new rule represented its most consequential effort yet to tackle deadly pollution that contributes to smog and soot that hangs over more than half the country. Posted. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-us-epa-clean-air,0,4300499,print.story Smog Contributes To Drought – Research. Air pollution is contributing to drought, according to scientists at the Desert Research Institute in Colorado. Sulfate, nitrate and possibly some organic compounds -- byproducts of any combustion process, including natural fires -- attract tiny bits of water moisture that evaporate before they can coalesce into rain droplets or snow. This cuts the amount of snowfall in half, and the amount of water stored in the snowpack by 25 percent, said scientists Randy Borys and Doug Lowenthal. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/07/07/6 MISCELLANEOUS Oregon Scientists Make Sticky Tape From Vegetable Oil. A professor of wood science and engineering in Oregon State University who won the 2007 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award from the Environmental Protection Agency has now come up with a vegetable-based, pressure-sensitive glue that is environmentally benign, cheap and doesn't require petrochemicals. The new adhesive is made from vegetable oils instead of the acrylate-based polymers usually used in the $26 billion global pressure-sensitive tape market. Posted. http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2010/07/oregon-scientists-makes-sticky-tape-from-vegetable-oil/1 BLOGS The Case For Being Careful With The Climate. To make one more point on the Manzi/Plumer debate, I really think the concept of "the planet" should be more central in the debate over global warming. It's stating the obvious to say that we really don't know how to work this orb we're on, but it's true: Posted. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/07/the_case_for_being_careful_wit.html Lexus Takes Its Comedy-Fueled Debate Series on the Road. The comedians Tracy Morgan, Andy Samberg and Jamie Kennedy, and the singer Mark McGrath probably aren’t the first names that come to mind when you think of the vanguards of environmentalism. But each will moderate a debate in a series covering four major cities and organized by Lexus to promote its new compact hybrid, the CT 200h, which goes on sale early next year. Posted. http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/07/lexus-takes-its-comedy-fueled-debate-series-on-the-road/?pagemode=print On Our Radar: A Warming Antarctic. The Antarctic Peninsula is warming at five times the global average, according to a new study in the journal Science. The region’s average winter temperatures have risen 6 degrees Celsius since 1960. Environmental groups announce their intention to sue Exxon for violating the Clean Air Act law “thousands of times” at a Texas refinery over the last five years. Posted. http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/07/on-our-radar-a-warming-antarctic/?pagemode=print EPA’s New Air Pollution Rules Crack down on the Dirtiest Power Plants. Are we finally going to clean the skies of smog-causing nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide? The Environmental Protection Agency proposes new rules this week that would force power plants in 31 states, mostly in the East, to cut emissions of both to more than half of their 2005 levels by 2014. Posted. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/07/07/epas-new-air-pollution-rules-crack-down-on-the-dirtiest-power-plants/ And If The Incentives Don't Work... Back in April, the Shasta County Regional Transportation Planning Board heard a presentation from state air-quality officials about SB 375, a law that encourages denser growth as a tool to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The new law has caused a lot of trepidation that Californians will all be forced to live in condos by the railroad tracks and that local cities and counties will lose their authority to make planning decisions. Posted. http://blogs.redding.com/bross/archives/2010/07/and-if-the-ince.html