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Posted: 20 Sep 2010 12:30:46
California Air Resources Board News Clips for September 17-20,
2010. 
 


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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

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