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Newsclips for July 19, 2010. California Air Resources Board News Clips for July 19, 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 Calif. Companies Want Offsets Early And Often. Companies about to be subjected to California's emissions trading system are urging regulators to include as many offsets as possible in the early stages of trading. The California Air Resources Board (ARB) must adopt the final design by Jan. 1, 2011, according to the schedule it has set itself. At its latest workshop on June 22, agency officials laid out their preference for a "soft" price collar rather than a hard one. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/07/19/6 Letter: Don't Let Government Control Everything. Someone needs to watch the government. In rebuttal to the corporate phobia expressed in many letters, it was the actions of Democrats Chris Dodd and Barney Frank that spurred the wild lending that eventually led to the bankruptcy of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and to the failure of the housing market. Posted. http://www.chicoer.com/opinion/ci_15543049 Without Carbon Emissions Cuts, The 'Anthropocene' Looms As An Ugly Epoch – Study. Choices the world makes about whether to cut man-made carbon dioxide emissions will determine the severity of climate change over the next thousand years -- or longer, according to a new report by the country's leading scientific advisory body, the National Academy of Sciences. That's because the greenhouse gas lingers in the atmosphere for hundreds or even thousands of years. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/07/19/2 Lake Superior, A Huge Natural Climate Change Gauge, Is Running A Fever. The Great Lakes are feeling the heat from climate change. As the world's largest freshwater system warms, it is poised to systematically alter life for local wildlife and the tribes that depend on it, according to regional experts. And the warming could also provide a glimpse of what is happening on a more global level, they say. "The Great Lakes in a lot of ways have always been a canary in the coal mine," Cameron Davis, the senior adviser to the U.S. EPA on the Great Lakes, said last week. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/07/19/1 http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/07/19/19climatewire-lake-superior-a-huge-natural-climate-change-83371.html?pagewanted=print OPINION: Environmentalists And A Clean-Energy Future. Partial solutions won't do; we must move the country, and the world, toward a true clean-energy future. I always felt an uncomplicated pride in the small role I played in protecting the East and West coasts from offshore oil drilling — until the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster. We had a great story: Posted. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-teague-bans-20100719,0,3718514,print.story Turf-Makers Settle Calif. Lawsuit Over Warning Labels. Artificial turf-makers who have been keeping their grass greener by adding lead to their products agreed to limit using the toxic metal in a settlement with the state of California, said state officials Friday. Beaulieu Group, the nation's largest turf supplier, and FieldTurf USA Inc., the largest manufacturer, were charged in 2008 with violating California's Proposition 65 law by not including warning labels on their products. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/07/19/18 California Reviews Emissions Rules. The California Air Resources Board is mulling changes to its regulations aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from certain heavy-duty vehicles. Changes include additional phase-in for large fleets, more flexibility for fleets to report, a storage trailer exemption, clarification of the drayage exemption and clarification of whether modifications to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency SmartWay-verified equipment will comply. Posted. http://www.etrucker.com/apps/news/article.asp?id=85550 'Climategate' Fallout May Impact Legislation. Five investigations into the "Climategate" scandal have now cleared a group of scientists accused of twisting data in an effort to prove the world is getting warmer. But many environmentalists and climate researchers fear the damage has already been done. The scandal spawned big headlines and heated blog posts when it erupted last fall after hackers released a stash of unflattering e-mails from a climate research lab in Britain. Posted. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/19/MNNS1EFLDU.DTL&type=printable A Climate Absolution? The alarmists still won't separate science from politics. The latest study purporting to absolve the scientists involved in November's Climategate scandal was published this month. On predictable cue, we received a letter from our admirers at the United Nations Foundation and the Natural Resources Defense Council urging us to "set the record straight" on "these bogus scandals." Having devoted considerable space to Climategate, we're happy to do that, though not perhaps as our admirers would want. Posted. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703394204575367483847033948.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop#printMode To the Mat on Global Warming. SHORTLY after losing the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore embarked on an arguably even more ambitious campaign: to save the planet from destruction by global warming. His efforts, which included his documentary film “An Inconvenient Truth,” won him a Nobel Prize. But Mr. Gore has not yet achieved his goal of convincing America to limit the industrial pollution that causes climate change. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/business/18shelf.html?_r=1&src=busln&pagewanted=print AIR QUALITY Bad Air in ‘Green’ Buildings. As the “green design” economy grows, consumers tend to equate energy-efficient construction with environmentalism. We assume green buildings are in the interest of both the planet and public health. But a recent dust-up between a nonprofit that certifies energy-efficient buildings and a nonprofit concerned about human health has challenged this easy association, raising questions about the costs of going “green.” Posted. http://inthesetimes.com/article/6191/bad_air_in_green_buildings Mowing Down Air Pollution In SCV. Saving green at cutting green while going green. That’s what more than 200 lawn mower owners did Saturday when they traded in their dirty old grass-cutting machines that pollute the air for clean “green” ones that do not. Everyone who took advantage of the Mow Down Air Pollution exchange program at the College of the Canyons on Saturday morning saved at least $250. Posted. http://www.the-signal.com/section/36/article/31150/ FORMALDEHYDE U.S. law requires less formaldehyde in wood products. President Obama signed a new law this month that limits the amount of formaldehyde, a chemical linked to cancer and respiratory problems, that's allowed in wood products.The law will likely result in more eco-friendly homes but more expensive furniture and cabinetry, reports USA TODAY colleague Jayne O'Donnell. Posted. http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2010/07/law-wood-less-formaldehyde/1?loc=interstitialskip ENERGY Can Wind Power Be Too Much Of Good Thing? On the afternoon of May 19, in a single chaotic hour, more than a thousand wind turbines in the Columbia River Gorge went from spinning lazily in the breeze to full throttle as a storm rolled east out of Hood River. Suddenly, almost two nuclear plants worth of extra power was sizzling down the lines - the largest hourly spike in wind power the Northwest has ever experienced. Posted. http://www.mycentraloregon.com/news/state/ap/99978/Can-wind-power-be-too-much-of-good-thing.html VEHICLES No Evidence That Cell Phones Spark Fires At The Gas Pump. It's dangerous to talk on your cell phone while driving, but what about talking while you are standing at the gas pump, refueling your car? Internet tales suggest cell phones can cause gas pump fires and even explosions, possibly through static electricity. Are the tales truth or myth? Static electricity at the pump definitely can be a fire danger, experts say. But that comes from drivers' clothes, they say, not from cell phones. In California, where most gas pump nozzles have vapor recovery devices, static-caused fires are rare. Posted. http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_15524858?nclick_check=1 Grid Sets Electric Cars' Green Standard. When you drive an electric car in California, you're not just driving on electricity - you're driving on natural gas, nuclear power, hydropower and coal. Drive an electric car in, say, Georgia, and it's mostly coal and nuclear. Public fascination with electric cars is growing, as people and politicians look for ways to fight global warming and wean America off oil. Posted. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/19/BU0M1EF33T.DTL&type=printable OPINION: PD Editorial: Make Hybrids Louder, Silence Illegal Motorcycles. A recent article detailed efforts to end “hybrid creep” by adding artificial noise to gas-electric and all-electric vehicles, which can be practically silent at speeds of less than 20 mph. With hybrids making up a larger and larger share of the vehicles on the road, that sounds like a good idea. All puns aside, the case for artificial noise is bolstered by a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration findings that hybrid vehicles are twice as likely to be involved in pedestrian crashes in low-speed situations such as backing up, entering or departing a parking space or coming to a stop. Posted. http://www.pressdemocrat.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100719/OPINION/100719605/1042&Title=PD-Editorial-Make-hybrids-louder-silence-illegal-motorcycles&template=printart Calif. Recycling Program May Have Paid Millions In Fraudulent Claims. Paying recyclers to keep electronics like televisions and computer monitors out of landfills has backfired on the California government, which has discovered fraudulent claims amounting to millions of dollars. The state's e-waste recycling program is designed to pay only for recycled electronics from Californians. But dishonest recyclers are buying old electronics in other states and recycling them in California for a profit. They make up fake names and addresses for where the objects were collected. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/07/19/19