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Posted: 19 Jul 2010 12:28:38
Newsclips for July 19, 2010. California Air Resources Board News
Clips for July 19, 2010.

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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

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