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Newsclips for July 20, 2010. California Air Resources Board News Clips for July 20, 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. APPOINTMENTS Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Appointments – July 20, 2010. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today announced the following appointments: Stanley Young, 62, of Davis, has been appointed communications director for the Air Resources Board (CARB). He has worked for CARB as acting communications director since April 2010 and information officer III since 2009. Previously, Young was information officer II at CARB from 2008 to 2009 and special contractor from 2007 to 2008. Posted. http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/?p=81560 AB 32 California's Top Economists Agree: Killing AB 32 Will Be Costly for California. More than 100 Ph.D. economists with expertise in California energy and climate issues released an open letter yesterday warning against any delay in the implementation of California clean energy policies. A broad array of the nation's leading economists, including Nobel laureate Kenneth Arrow, a former professor at Stanford University, disagree with those who support suspending implementation of emission reduction policies. Posted. http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/site/?q=print/7970 http://sacramento.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2010/07/19/daily25.html http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/07/20/5 Former 'Green Jobs Czar' Van Jones Opposes Prop. 23, Lauds Clean-Tech Sector. President Barack Obama's controversial former "green jobs czar" Van Jones said efforts to roll back California's landmark climate change law will not only hurt Sacramento's budding clean-tech sector but also open the door for competing cities and states to wrest away green jobs and businesses. Posted. http://www.sacbee.com/2010/07/20/2901043/former-green-jobs-czar-van-jones.html California Democratic Party Votes To Stop Prop 23. The California Democratic Party (CDP) unanimously voted on Sunday to oppose Proposition 23, the ballot measure being financed by Texas oil companies to suspend California's clean energy and air standards. Posted. http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&aid=4424&ptid=9 CLIMATE CHANGE/GHG’S Obama Calls For More Greenhouse Gas Cuts. President Barack Obama wants federal government workers to re-think their commuting and work-related travel in an attempt to further reduce the government’s greenhouse gas emissions. The White House aims to cut the federal government’s indirect greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent from 2008 levels by 2020, said Nancy Sutley, chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, at a clean energy forum held Tuesday at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. Posted. http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2010/07/19/daily18.html?t=printable Climate Scientist Stephen H. Schneider Dies. Stephen H. Schneider, an internationally noted climate scientist at Stanford University who gathered powerful evidence for global warming that made him a fierce advocate for policies to combat climate change for four decades, died Monday while on a flight to London from a science meeting in Stockholm. Dr. Schneider had apparently suffered a heart attack, Stanford officials said. He was 65. Posted. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/20/BAE71EGMD2.DTL&type=printable http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-me-stephen-schneider-20100720,0,254147.story http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/science/earth/20schneider.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/19/AR2010071905108.html http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_15551070 http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2010/07/great-loss A Russian Warning on Retreating Ice. Associated Press Russia’s prime minister, Vladimir Putin, right, visited an Arctic archipelago in April to help call attention to global warming. He tagged an anesthetized polar bear so it could be tracked. Sea ice in the Arctic is again in rapid retreat this summer, putting the region on pace to match the record lows seen in 2007, the head of Russia’s environmental agency said Tuesday, according to a Bloomberg News report. Posted. http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/a-russian-warning-on-retreating-ice/?pagemode=print http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-07-20/arctic-ice-melting-fast-may-reach-all-time-low-russia-says.html 2010 Heats Up News Hype over Global Warming. Morning shows, USA Today focus on 'record' heat; offer dire predictions about droughts, floods and snowfall. While some people can't stand the heat, the news media revel in it. On July 15, USA Today reported that according the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 2010 is the hottest year on record. ABC and CBS morning shows have also focused on the "record heat." Posted. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703724104575379313351584040.html?mod=googlenews_wsj DOE: Paint Roofs White To Cool The Earth. The Department of Energy will paint the roofs white on its buildings to save energy and fight global warming. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu ordered DOE offices to “implement cool roof technologies” (paint their roofs white or use reflective coatings) and he encouraged the heads of other federal agencies to give similar orders for their buildings. Posted. http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2010/07/19/daily6.html?t=printable U.K. Government Must Guarantee Green Spending Or Miss Carbon Targets – Report. London -- The U.K. government must maintain its current spending on low-carbon energy technologies or risk missing its carbon emission cut targets as well as the opportunity to build a green economy, a special report by the independent Committee on Climate Change says. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/07/20/6 Climate Change Is Bad For Your Health. While we've been "enjoying" a foggy summer here in San Francisco, the East Coast has been sweltering under some record breaking heat waves. And climate change models show such heat waves will occur more often and last longer, according David Easterling, a climatologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center. Posted. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/green/detail?&entry_id=68191#ixzz0uFRQjS6X Study: Climate Change Grasped Better As Health Issue. Framing climate change as a public health problem helps people, even skeptics, better understand the issue's significance, reports George Mason University researchers. Most of the 74 adults surveyed, who varied in both their demographics and views on climate change, reacted favorably to a short essay on the human health implications of global warming, according to an exploratory study released Monday by the university's Center for Climate Change Communication. http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2010/07/climate-change-health-problems/1 With Carbon Cap Efforts Stalled, Focus Shifts To RES, Low-Carbon Fuels. With ongoing Senate efforts to price carbon currently sputtering, a number of lower-profile proposals to curb greenhouse gas emissions are drawing the attention of lawmakers and lobbyists. Two of the larger issues under debate as Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) inches closer to unveiling a broad energy package are the strength of the renewable electricity standard that is expected to be included in the bill and whether the legislation will include a controversial low-carbon fuels standard. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/EEDaily/print/2010/07/20/1 BP's Secret Ticket Request Line. For more than a decade, BP has operated a hush-hush phone line that California lawmakers can call to request box seats to NBA games and concerts at the Sacramento stadium named after its West Coast subsidiary. Posted. http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/07/bp-secret-ticket-request-line-california Report accounts for military GHG contributions. A paper to be published Tuesday in Environment Magazine found that the military activities related to acquiring and protecting oil imports from the Middle East generate significant greenhouse gas emissions that have, so far, been unaccounted for in fuel and climate regulations such as the Environmental Protection Agency’s Renewable Fuels Standard and California Air Resources Board's (CARB) Low Carbon Fuels Standard. Posted. http://www.feedstuffs.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=F4D1A9DFCD974EAD8CD5205E15C1CB42&nm=Breaking+News&type=news&mod=News&mid=A3D60400B4204079A76C4B1B129CB433&tier=3&nid=794ACDBEF5C6404EB2B1B5AEEE87C72D GAS NOZZLES Nozzle Puzzle: Pumps Becoming More Hands-On. So-called “hold-open clips” can make pumping gas a breeze, but they’re quietly becoming a thing of the past at many service stations statewide. The devices, which lock a gas nozzle’s handle open while fueling, are being removed from pumps at several stations under an agreement between the state and a nozzle manufacturer. The California Air Resources Board, state fire marshal and Dayton, Ohio-based Vapor Systems Technologies in mid-June issued letters to 3,000 stations encouraging the clips’ removal. Posted. http://www.uniondemocrat.com/20100720100557/News/Local-News/Nozzle-puzzle-Pumps-becoming-more-hands-on AIR QUALITY New Air Quality Rules Create A Stink. Developers worry that new air quality guidelines could delay or kill urban housing projects by adding costs and time to the approvals process and exposing developments to more lawsuits. Posted. http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2010/07/19/story2.html?b=1279512000%5E3653611 ENERGY/GREEN ENERGY U-T Editorial: A Different Democrat? ELECTION 2010: Brown's Focus On 'Green' Jobs Won't Revive State Economy. Jerry Brown bills himself as a different sort of Democrat. The attorney general’s unconventional biography certainly backs that up. Over the past 40 years, while secretary of state, governor, presidential candidate, radio host and mayor of Oakland, Brown has variously seemed like a conventional liberal, a rowdy populist and a pragmatic moderate. Posted. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jul/20/u-t-editorial-different-democrat/ U.S. Should Have Clear Policy On Clean Energy – Locke. The United States should follow the example of Colorado and invest immediately in the new-energy economy, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke said yesterday during a visit to Denver. The state has aggressively pursued renewable energy by requiring utilities to get 30 percent of their supply from renewable sources by 2020. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/07/20/17 Marin Voice: Clean Energy's morphing promises. The Marin Energy Authority started electricity deliveries in May, promising to deliver green energy that meets or beats PG&E prices to municipalities, businesses and high-use residential customers. But cracks immediately appeared in MEA. How green is the power? What are the costs and risks? Posted. http://www.marinij.com/ci_15548903?source=most_emailed The Newest Green Classroom is Ready For California Students. As we first reported a few months ago, the Gen7 line of modular classrooms have gained attention in the state of California due to both their eco-friendly features and a commitment to improving student performance. Posted. http://earth911.com/news/2010/07/20/the-newest-green-classroom-is-ready-for-california-students/ VEHICLES Toyota Settles Suit Alleging Hybrid Patent Infringement. Toyota Motor Corp. has settled a patent-infringement dispute that threatened to derail U.S. imports of its hybrid vehicles, including the Prius. The settlement ends six years of litigation with Paice LLC. Alex Severinsky, a Soviet emigrant who founded Paice, claimed Toyota had used his 1994 patented system for gas-electric hybrid cars without his permission. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/07/20/8 Industry Groups Urge Obama To Form Electric-Vehicle Task Force. Four automotive and electric alliances are urging President Obama to form a federal task force to help launch electric vehicles and meet the administration's goal of getting a million electric vehicles on the road by 2015. The groups said in a letter to Obama that the proposed public-private task force could coordinate government policy with industry needs, make it easier for consumers to buy and use electric vehicles and reduce the country's reliance on oil. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/07/20/12 Honda Plans 2012 U.S. Launch For New Electric Vehicle. Honda Motor Co. announced plans to sell an electric vehicle as well as a plug-in hybrid starting in 2012 in the United States and Japan, though no other details were released. "Honda has no future unless we achieve significant reduction in CO2 emissions," said Honda President Takanobu Ito. "The next 10 years will be a true test for Honda's survival." Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/07/20/13 Volkswagen Hopes To Lead Electric Vehicle Market. Volkswagen AG CEO Martin Winterkorn is "deeply convinced" that the German automaker will become a leader in the battery-powered electric car sector. Winterkorn spoke yesterday at the launch of the sixth-generation VW Jetta compact at the automaker's Electronics Research Laboratory in Palo Alto, Calif. Volkswagen, Europe's largest automaker, has already been a leader in diesel technology and fuel-efficient gas engines and is working on electric cars. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/07/20/14 BLOGS Clean Energy Options: In the Wake of the Oil Spill, Energy Alternatives That Will Create Jobs. With less than 5 percent of the world’s population, the United States produces 25 percent of greenhouse gases, making it the second largest emitter in the world after China. The American public is well-aware of this issue; according to a Pew Research Center Poll, three-fourths of Americans described climate change as a serious problem. Posted. http://www.progressivestates.org/node/25318 As Exxon Continues Climate Denial Crusade, Raw Story Fighting Back. I've decided it's time for us to do our part to ameliorate the coming climate catastrophe -- but let's please stop using the phrase "climate change." In an effort to offset carbon emissions produced by Raw Story and everyone who visits our site (our energy costs and yours), we will begin purchasing carbon credits through Terrapass.com. Posted. http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0719/raw-story-carbon-neutral/