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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
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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

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