What's New List Serve Post Display
Below is the List Serve Post you selected to display.
newsclips -- Newsclips for September 20, 2010.
Posted: 20 Sep 2010 12:30:46
California Air Resources Board News Clips for September 17-20, 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. CLIMATE CHANGE/GHG’S A Threat to California’s Climate Change Progress. San Francisco — California’s ambitious climate change agenda could evaporate in a vote in November that pits renewable energy advocates and allies against oil companies and manufacturers. The U.S. Senate has scuttled President Barack Obama’s goal of putting a price on carbon, leaving state and regional efforts the key drivers in the effort to move the country past coal and oil. California is the clear U.S. leader on addressing climate change, unless California voters kill a landmark 2006 state law known as AB32, which was intended to cut carbon dioxide emission to 1990 levels by 2020. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/20/business/energy-environment/20green.html?_r=1&src=busln&pagewanted=print California Braces for Showdown on Emissions. Los Angeles — A ballot initiative to suspend a milestone California law curbing greenhouse gas emissions is drawing a wave of contributions from out-of-state oil companies, raising concerns among conservationists as it emerges as a test of public support for potentially costly environmental measures during tough economic times. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/17/us/17pollute.html?sq=cap and trade&st=cse&scp=2&pagewanted=print New Smog Proposals From EPA Draw Fire. A proposed crackdown on smog by the Environmental Protection Agency is fueling resistance from businesses groups concerned about costs, Republicans who say it'll be a drag on the economy—and some heartland Democrats engaged in tough election battles this fall. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has dramatically stepped up the pace and scope of regulatory activity since 2009. Posted. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704858304575497724034346304.html?mod=ITP_pageone_1#printMode White House Starts Review Of GHG Permitting Guidelines. U.S. EPA is preparing to release long-anticipated guidance about how large industrial sources will be required to slash their greenhouse gas emissions under new climate regulations. White House officials are reviewing the guidance, which they received Friday from EPA, according to a website that tracks federal rules. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/09/20/8 Utah Proceeding With Regulations Plans For Top Greenhouse Gas Emitters. Utah is "moving full speed ahead" to regulate its top greenhouse gas emitters, said Bill Becker, executive director of the National Association of Clean Air Agencies. While other states and some business organizations are fighting the federal government's decision to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act by January, the Utah Division of Air Quality is expanding its permit rules to comply with the federal requirements. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/09/20/8 Arctic Ice in Death Spiral. Uxbridge, Canada - The carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels have melted the Arctic sea ice to its lowest volume since before the rise of human civilization, dangerously upsetting the energy balance of the entire planet, climate scientists are reporting. "The Arctic sea ice has reached its four lowest summer extents (area covered) in the last four years," said Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in the U.S. city of Boulder, Colorado. Posted. http://www.ipsnews.net/print.asp?idnews=52896 GAS NOZZLES Gas Stations Fuming About Order To Remove Nozzle Latches. California gas station owners are fuming about new emission-trapping pump nozzles required by the state’s pollution regulator, the Air Resources Board, after more than a dozen customers were sprayed with gasoline. The state fire marshal is so concerned about the malfunctioning devices that it has ordered the removal of all the latches on the nozzles – despite a state law requiring them. Posted. http://californiawatch.org/watchblog/gas-stations-fuming-about-order-remove-nozzle-latches-4781 AIR POLLUTION SO2, Nox Standards Fail To Protect Environment – EPA. Current air pollution standards for sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) aren't strict enough to prevent damage to the environment, according to a new policy assessment from U.S. EPA that suggests tougher rules could be on the way. EPA is undergoing a review of the secondary National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for both SO2 and NOx. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/09/20/3 ENERGY Universities Push For Bigger U.S. Role In Commercializing Clean Energy Technologies. American research universities are looking for the federal government to become a long-term partner in facilitating innovation and maintaining the country's lead in a wide range of high-tech industries needed in order to remain globally competitive. Top research officers from nearly a dozen academic institutions came to the Capitol not looking for funding but rather to argue a need to reimagine how research flows between them, government and the private sector. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/09/20/3 Energy Cooperation With China Is Critical For U.S. Utilities -- Duke Energy. New York con man "Willie" Sutton famously explained why he robbed banks. "Because that's where the money is," he said, according to urban legend. Bill Tyndall, senior vice president for Duke Energy, uses Sutton's quip to explain why the power company is looking for partners in China. After all, China is an economic competitor to the United States and a world away from electricity consumers in Ohio, Indiana and the Carolinas. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/09/20/4 Bipartisan Group Of Senators Expected To Float RES Bill Tomorrow. A bipartisan group of senators may introduce a stand-alone renewable electricity standards bill tomorrow, making one last push to show leadership that such a measure could pass the Senate. Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and other senators will make a renewable energy announcement tomorrow afternoon, according to an e-mail from the committee, a lobbyist in support of an RES told Greenwire. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/09/20/1 FUELS Long-Term Viability Of U.S. Plants 'At Risk' – Study. Looming federal environmental regulations and changing economic conditions could shut down 18 percent of the U.S. coal fleet in the next two decades, a new analysis finds. Four pending rules from U.S. EPA will make many existing coal plants too expensive to retrofit and will help spur a natural gas boom, according to the assessment from energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/09/20/6 VEHICLES Tesla Gets Ready To Take Over The Former NUMMI Auto Plant In Fremont. When the NUMMI auto plant in Fremont shut down in April, many pronounced it dead -- a triple victim of the recession, sliding auto sales and General Motors' bankruptcy. But NUMMI is about to be reborn. Electric-carmaker Tesla Motors, which stunned the world when it announced plans to purchase the plant in May, officially takes ownership Oct. 1. Already, many Tesla employees call the plant the "Tesla Factory." Posted. http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_16096342?source=email&nclick_check=1 OPINIONS/EDITORIALS Viewpoints: Setting Low-Carbon Fuel Standard Proves Tough For State's Air Board. The 1848 Gold Rush led to California's "Golden State" nickname, but now it's the sun's golden rays that could sustain the state as an economic and environmental powerhouse. Today and for decades to come, California can use its most powerful renewable resource, sunshine, to mitigate fossil fuels' environmental consequences and create green jobs and investment opportunities. Posted. http://www.sacbee.com/2010/09/18/v-print/3038059/setting-low-carbon-fuel-standard.html Other Voices: Like Having A Job? You'll Love Proposition 23. My labor union supports Proposition 23 for one simple reason: It will protect the jobs of millions of hard-working California men and women. Prop. 23 will temporarily suspend some very expensive, job-killing regulations under the state's global warming law, AB32 — regulations that even folks advocating immediate implementation of those rules admit will cost jobs. Posted. http://www.theunion.com/article/20100918/OPINION/100919764/1024 OPINION: Aren’t We Clever? What a contrast. In a year that’s on track to be our planet’s hottest on record, America turned “climate change” into a four-letter word that many U.S. politicians won’t even dare utter in public. If this were just some parlor game, it wouldn’t matter. But the totally bogus “discrediting” of climate science has had serious implications. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/opinion/19friedman.html?sq=climate change&st=cse&scp=4&pagewanted=print MISCELLANEOUS Cleaner for the Environment, Not for the Dishes. Some longtime users were furious. “My dishes were dirtier than before they were washed,” one wrote last week in the review section of the Web site for the Cascade line of dishwasher detergents. “It was horrible, and I won’t buy it again.” “This is the worst product ever made for use as a dishwashing detergent!” another consumer wrote. Like every other major detergent for automatic dishwashers, Procter & Gamble’s Cascade line recently underwent a makeover. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/science/earth/19clean.html?sq=environment&st=cse&scp=2&pagewanted=print Reduce, Reuse, Recycle… Oil Rigs. Nearly five months after BP’s Macondo well was wrecked in a fiery series of explosions that killed 11 rig workers and unleashed America’s largest oil spill, the well head on the sea floor was officially “killed” over the weekend. There’s nothing left of this well but salvaged components and a tangle of steel on the sea floor that will be the subject of investigations and litigation for years to come. Posted. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/reduce-reuse-recycle-oil-rigs/?pagemode=print Human Exposure To BPA 'Grossly Underestimated' – Study. Americans are likely to be exposed at higher levels than previously thought to bisphenol A, a compound that mimics hormones important to human development and is found in more than 90 percent of people in the United States, according to new research. U.S. EPA says it is OK for humans to take in up to 50 micrograms of BPA per kilogram of body weight each day. The new study, published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, suggests that we are exposed to at least eight times that amount every day. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/2010/09/20/2/ BLOGS Dissonance on Green Detergents. As I note in a Sunday article about the new, low-phosphate dishwasher detergents, consumers are not always thrilled about the performance of environmentally friendly cleaning products. But such products have been gaining acceptance, mainly because of health concerns. Many states and local governments have passed laws requiring the use of these products in schools and other government institutions. Posted. http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/dissonance-on-green-detergents/?pagemode=print Scientists React to a Nobelist’s Climate Thoughts. Earlier today, I wrote about the way internal filters can influence how scientists perceive and convey risks (in this instance, risks of human-driven climate change) and how the public weighs scientists’ views. As I stressed, what social scientists call “cultural cognition” is only one factor shaping perceptions of phenomena revealed by science. Another is simply someone’s general familiarity with relevant research. Posted. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/17/scientists-react-to-a-nobelists-climate-thoughts/?pagemode=print A 10 Year Checkup on Global Goals. Ten years after the world’s nations pledged to cut deeply into the problems afflicting the world’s poor by 2015, a Millennium Development Goals Summit is being held at the United Nations today through Wednesday to assess progress. The event overlaps with a batch of related meetings in New York City, including Climate Week and the Clinton Global Initiative. Posted. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/20/a-10-year-checkup-on-global-goals/?pagemode=print Environmental Groups Lobby Obama Administration To Adopt 60 Mpg Fuel Standard. Thursday's Automotive X Prize winners showed it was possible for cars to achieve 100-plus miles per gallon. Now a coalition of 19 environmental groups has launched a campaign urging the Obama administration to adopt a 60 mpg fuel standard that would apply to cars and light trucks by 2025. Posted. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/09/60-mpg.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GreenspaceEnvironmentBlog+%28Greenspace%29 Religion Has Scant Effect on Environmental Views, Poll Suggests. Few Americans say their religion influences their environmental views, according to a new poll by the Pew Research Center for People and the Press. For the survey, Pew reached out to more than 3,000 Americans by phone to explore how religion affects their social and political views. Posted. http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/17/religion-has-scant-effect-on-environmental-views-poll-suggests/?pagemode=print USC's Android air pollution app takes a crowd-sourced approach to cleaner skies. Were you to be given a report on the way you use your smart phone every day, it might tell you that it was 75% e-mail, 15% web browsing, 7% text messaging and 3% Angry Birds. If you agree with that rough picture, then you agree that smart phones are very much "me-oriented" devices. Any idea that we'd use our phones for the betterment of society is like, not really an idea. Posted. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/09/uscs-android-air-pollution-app-takes-a-crowdsourced-approach-to-cleaner-skies.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheTechnologyBlog+%28Los+Angeles+Times+Technology+Blog%29 'Climatopolis': An Optimistic Look At How Cities Will Handle A Hotter Future. Global warming is a given, writes UCLA economist Matthew Kahn in his new book, “Climatopolis: How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter Future.” But Kahn’s perspective on this isn’t gloomy: He says we could flourish in warmer climes. With pop culture-friendly references sprinkled throughout, the book examines what weather patterns will look like across the nation in the next 50 to 60 years. Posted. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/09/climatopolis-matthew-kahn-how-our-cities-will-thrive-in-the-hotter-future.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GreenspaceEnvironmentBlog+%28Greenspace%29