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newsclips -- Newsclips for August 24, 2010.

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 10:51:30
California Air Resources Board News Clips for August 24, 2010.  


This is a service of the California Air Resources Board’s Office
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CLIMATE CHANGE/GHG’S 

Cap And Trade Gets Environmental Analysis. No regulation escapes
environmental review in California -- even cap and trade. The
upcoming program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will undergo
an environmental assessment, including comparing it to a carbon
tax, according to the California Air Resources Board (ARB). The
analysis, known as a Functional Equivalent Document, is scheduled
to be released along with the actual cap-and-trade regulations in
October. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/08/24/4

Are Chemical Companies Gaming the Carbon Credit System? A
controversy is brewing over whether some chemical companies are
abusing a program that gives them carbon credit revenues for
destroying a potent greenhouse gas created as a by-product in
their operations. At issue is whether some companies are
intentionally overproducing trifluoromethane (HFC-23) in order to
destroy it and generate certified emissions reduction (CER) units
under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). HFC-23 projects
account for more than half of all CDM carbon credits sold to
date. Posted.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS271914704820100824

GAS NOZZLES

3,000 Gas Stations Must Take Latch Off Nozzle. Life just got a
little more inconvenient for Californians who like to wash their
windshields or grab a snack at the mini mart while filling up the
tank. The state fire marshal ordered about 3,000 gas stations -
about one third of all the stations in California - to remove the
latches that allow patrons to fill up their gas tanks hands free.
Posted.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/24/BAO11F28BC.DTL&type=printable
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/08/24/2979289/calif-orders-removal-of-gas-nozzle.html
http://www.10news.com/news/24737971/detail.html
http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?ID=16089
http://www.ocregister.com/news/fire-263353-gas-nozzle.html

ENERGY

Power Plants' Cooling Heats Up In Capitol. A sharp dispute is
brewing in the Capitol over a plan pushed by the Los Angeles
Department of Water and Power to ease new state rules over the
way power plants use ocean water to cool their engines. Three
plants affected by the new rules – Harbor, Haynes and Scattergood
– provide nearly 40 percent of Los Angeles’ available power
generation and are critical to the stability of the grid,
according to the DWP. Posted.
http://www.capitolweekly.net/article.php?xid=z2wjmxrnji1vxn#

Factories Shuttered En Masse To Keep Up With Emissions Deadline.
China has shut down 2,087 highly polluting factories, fearing
that it will otherwise miss a high-profile environmental deadline
set for 2010. The government had pledged to reduce China's energy
consumption per unit of gross domestic product by 20 percent
before the end of 2010. Official data has suggested that the
country will miss its mark despite top leaders' efforts to curb
emissions growth and develop renewable energy. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/08/24/6

VEHICLES

Bay Area Officials Push To Build Chargers For Electric Cars. The
Bay Area is expected to soon become one of America's hottest
markets for the first mass-produced electric cars, the Nissan
Leaf and the Chevy Volt. But in the rush to drive electric, one
thing is missing -- places to charge up. Concerned that the next
generation of green drivers not be left stalled by the roadside,
air officials have approved a $5 million plan to install 5,000
electric car chargers around the nine-county Bay Area in the next
five years at homes, apartments, office buildings, parking
garages and other locations from San Jose to Santa Rosa. Posted.
http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_15872290
http://www.contracostatimes.com/environment/ci_15872292?nclick_check=1

EPA, CARB to Review SCR Policies. The Environmental Protection
Agency and California Air Resources Board have agreed to begin a
“thorough review” of their policies regarding the operation of
selective catalytic reduction-equipped heavy-duty diesel engines
when diesel engine fluid tanks run dry. The review outlined in
legal settlements disclosed in federal and state court documents
filed earlier this month, are the result of lawsuits filed last
year against EPA and CARB by engine maker Navistar Inc. Posted.
http://www.ttnews.com/articles/basetemplate.aspx?storyid=25053
DIESELS

CARB Recommends Compliance Extension. The California Air
Resources Board staff is recommending an extension of the
compliance deadlines for the state’s emission-reduction rule for
2003 transport refrigeration units. The “reduced in scope”
recommendations call for an extension of the deadline for model
year 2003 ultra-low-emission TRUs to the end of 2017.
Low-emission reefers must be in compliance by Dec. 31. CARB
officials outlined their suggested amendments to the rule at an
Aug. 18 workshop. Posted.
http://www.ttnews.com/articles/printnews.aspx?storyid=25055


MISCELLANEOUS

Green Groups Backing City's America's Cup Bid. San Francisco
officials backed off from plans Monday to seek a legislative
exemption to state environmental law for facilities to host the
next America's Cup after some environmentalists pledged to
support the city's bid for sailing's premier race. The moves
defuse a potentially embarrassing showdown between
green-credentialed Mayor Gavin Newsom and environmental groups
worried that the city's efforts would create a road map for
wealthy interests to circumvent state environmental law on big
projects. Posted.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/24/BA161F26LI.DTL&type=printable

BLOGS

Unemployment Vs. Global Warming. Is “thinking green” an economic
luxury?  Intuition implies that it may be, but so far there’s
been little empirical evidence on the subject. Two economists
recently changed that: using data from Google keyword searches
between 2004 and 2010, Matthew E. Kahn and Matthew J. Kotchen
found that “higher unemployment rates within a state decrease
internet search activity for global warming, but increase search
activity for unemployment. Based on this revealed preference for
interest in global warming, therefore, it appears that recessions
crowd out concern for the environment…” Posted.
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/24/unemployment-vs-global-warming/?pagemode=print

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