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CAP AND TRADE

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Traders Refocus on State, Regional
Programs. Carbon market enthusiasts have largely given up on the
idea of federal legislation on greenhouse gas emissions. Instead,
most are now looking to establish cap-and-trade in the United
States gradually, through the spread of regional programs.
Experts see only grim prospects for future leadership on climate
change coming from Washington after today's vote count is
tallied. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/11/02/02climatewire-greenhouse-gas-emissions-traders-refocus-on-26503.html

Will the Ghost of Cap and Trade Haunt Democrats Tomorrow -- and
Beyond? House Democrats are bracing for tough losses across the
country today, and the controversial cap-and-trade climate bill
is sure to be part of any post-election analysis. The Democrats'
anticipated loss of the House will be attributed to the sour
economy and unpopular health care reform law, the Wall Street
bailout and economic stimulus bills, among other things. But
Democrats' vote to support the House cap-and-trade climate bill
has played prominently in more than a dozen races across the
country…Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/11/02/02greenwire-will-the-ghost-of-cap-and-trade-haunt-democrat-85287.html?pagewanted=print

CLIMATE CHANGE/GHG

Predicted Voter Turnout Favors Climate Opponents. It's likely
that more voters with doubts or denial about climate change will
visit polling booths today than in years past, according to
analysts and polling. "It's almost a foregone conclusion," Ed
Maibach, director of George Mason University's Center for Climate
Change Communication, said of the expected turnout. Republican
enthusiasm and the party's rising dismissal of global warming are
coinciding to make this an Election Day marked by climate
dissent. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/11/02/02climatewire-predicted-voter-turnout-favors-climate-oppon-92875.html?pagewanted=print


Second Poll Shows Californians Back Climate Change Law. A second
poll in a week shows Californians remain steadfast in their
support for the state's pioneering climate change law and don't
want it suspended, as a controversial measure on Tuesday's ballot
would do. The non-partisan Field Poll finds 48% of likely voters
oppose Proposition 23, which would suspend the 2006 law until
California's unemployment rate -- now 12.4% -- falls below 5.5%
for a full year. Posted.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2010/11/poll-californians-climate-change-law/1

States, Enviro Groups Urge Court To Let EPA Climate Rules
Proceed. Days after the Obama administration asked a federal
court not to stop U.S. EPA's climate program from taking effect
on Jan. 2, a coalition of 20 states and 13 environmental groups
has pledged its support for the agency, saying that despite
"extravagant claims of harm" from industry, the new greenhouse
gas regulations would hardly hurt them. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/2010/11/02/10/

Oil Firms Bankroll Calif. Climate-Change Measure. In California,
voters will decide Tuesday whether to put the state's landmark
climate-change law on hold until the jobless rate there goes
down. The ballot measure known as Proposition 23 is being
bankrolled mostly by oil companies. Supporters aren't saying that
global warming is a good thing — or that it doesn't exist. Their
arguments have mainly been about economic effects. Posted.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130982095

Study Details Trade-Off Between Growing Crops, Climate Change. A
new study led by researchers at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison underscores the often conflicting goals of
feeding a growing global population and working to combat climate
change. The study, published online Monday in the Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences, provides a detailed picture of
how clearing land for farming also releases greenhouse gases into
the environment. Posted. 
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/11/02/3151569/study-details-trade-off-between.html#ixzz149ETR9u2

Oil Companies for Prop 23 Stress Jobs, Costs Of Climate Measure.
Valero Energy Corp. and Tesoro Corp., two of the biggest
contributors to the $10 million that has been raised to support
California's Proposition 23 ballot initiative, will find out
today whether the money was put to good use. The state will cast
its vote today on the proposition, which would stall California's
aggressive climate change law until the state's unemployment rate
has been less than 5.5 percent for a full year.  Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/2010/11/02/7/

Calif. Prop. 23: Greens Turn to Public Health Message to Mobilize
Latino Voters. Opponents of California's Proposition 23, a
measure that would block legislation to limit greenhouse gas
emissions, have turned to a public health focus to mobilize
Latino voters. Research that I recently published with Ed Maibach
and colleagues finds that this frame of reference has the
potential to engage segments of the public who may otherwise be
ambivalent or less concerned about climate change.  Posted.
http://bigthink.com/ideas/24773

AIR POLLUTION

California Venture Capitalist Doerr Helps Fund Fight for
Pollution Fees. Hedge-fund manager Tom Steyer and venture
capitalist John Doerr, who are defending California’s global
warming laws from a challenge at the ballot box, have also put
$1.4 million toward a fight over government fees. Steyer, founder
of San Francisco-based Farallon Capital Management LLC, gave $1
million last week to the campaign against Proposition 26, which
would make it harder for state and local agencies to impose
regulatory fees, according to California election records. Doerr,
a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in Menlo Park, gave
$400,000.  Posted.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-01/california-venture-capitalist-doerr-helps-fund-fight-for-pollution-fees.html

EPA Plans Late-December Release For New Ozone Standard. Though
the Obama administration was initially expected to issue stricter
smog standards this summer, U.S. EPA now says it may not be ready
to release a final rule until New Year's Eve. EPA is currently
reconsidering the George W. Bush-era changes to the National
Ambient Air Quality Standards for ground-level ozone, which is
the main component in smog. A final decision is now scheduled to
come by Dec. 31, the agency told a federal court yesterday.
Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/11/02/2

FUEL 

EPA Fuel Economy Labeling: Is There A Better Metric?The U.S.
Department of Transportation and Environmental Protection Agency
face twin and equally daunting tasks as they revise the fuel
economy labels as mandated by the 2007 Energy and Independence
Security Act. Not only must they incorporate accurate fuel
economy, greenhouse-gas emissions and smog-forming emissions
ratings for gas-powered passenger vehicles, they also must
incorporate plug-in battery-electrics that derive power from
other sources. Posted.
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/11/01/3149122/epa-fuel-economy-labeling-is-there.html#ixzz149F1FQGc

GREEN ENERGY

'Green' Grades Are In For USD, UCSD. Officials at University of
San Diego, home to a new solar-panel array, have made steady
progress in sustainable efforts during recent years, according to
a report card that grades U.S. colleges and universities on
energy efficiency. The private university rose from a D+ in 2009
to a B+ this year in nonprofit group Sustainable Endowments
Institute's annual sustainability report card. Posted.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/nov/02/green-grades-are-usd-ucsd/

PG&E Suspends Northern Calif. Wave Energy Project. Arcata, Calif.
-- Pacific Gas and Electric Co. is suspending a wave energy
project it had planned to build off the northern California
coast. PG&E says the WaveConnect project had become too expensive
and that the technology had not developed fast enough for the
project to be viable. The utility had planned to test three or
four different wave power generators in an area about three miles
off the coast of Arcata. Posted.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/10/31/state/n120259D09.DTL&type=printable

Solar Installation Makes Cents. The sun beat down on 1,224 solar
panels on the rooftop of east Lodi's Meehleis Modular Buildings
Inc. on Monday morning, and a computer indicates 18.1 megawatts
of power had been generated by 9:30 a.m. The solar panels atop
the Meehleis warehouse can generate 190 kilowatts of power and
represent 20 percent of all solar power in the city of Lodi.
Posted.
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20101102/A_NEWS/11020315/-1/A_NEWS14

Intel, Kohl’s Lead U.S. in Purchasing Clean Energy. Computer-chip
manufacturer Intel Corp. and Kohl’s Corp. department stores lead
the U.S. in purchasing electricity from renewable sources such as
wind and solar energy, the Environmental Protection Agency said. 
Intel, for the third year in a row, is the biggest buyer of
renewable power by volume, the EPA said in a statement today. 
Posted.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-01/intel-kohl-s-lead-u-s-in-purchasing-clean-electricity-epa-survey-says.html

PORTS

Port of Los Angeles OKs Creation of Nonprofit to Manage Community
Mitigation Projects Despite State Lands Objections. Despite
strong objections from the State Lands Commission, a new
nonprofit organization approved by the Port of Los Angeles last
week will begin meeting within the next six months to decide how
to spend the money in a landmark Port of LA community mitigation
trust fund. Posted.
http://www.cunninghamreport.com/news_item.php?id=1372

OPINION 

California Vote on Greenhouse Gases Has National Import. The
following editorial appeared Sunday in The Washington Post: It’s
not Plan A, B or even C, but if Congress continues to do nothing
on climate change, environmentalists can at least take heart that
some states are planning to cut greenhouse emissions on their
own. As usual, California leads the way, with a robust greenhouse
gas law mandating a reduction in the state’s emissions to 1990
levels by 2020, which its state legislature approved in 2006.
Posted.
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/opinion/50582893-82/california-emissions-greenhouse-states.html.csp

BLOGS

Global Warming, Environmental Funds, Parks Featured On California
Ballot. Voters in the Golden State headed to the polls Tuesday
and faced the usual cluttered politi-prose of ballot initiatives.
They can be forgiven if they're tempted to vote "no" across the
board, and for environmentalists, that's two-thirds right. Here
are the propositions that the green vote cares about: Prop. 23:
This measure would suspend -- some say, effectively end --
California's landmark climate change legislation, known as AB 32,
until the state experiences unemployment of 5.5% for a full year.
Posted.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/11/global-warming-environmental-funds-parks-featured-on-california-ballot.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GreenspaceEnvironmentBlog+%28Greenspace%29

Prop. 26: A New Strategy For Big Oil Companies? When Chevron,
California's largest company, looked at how it could wield
influence in this election cycle, it shunned Proposition 23, the
high-profile ballot initiative to suspend the state's
global-warming law. So did Shell, Conoco Phillips and ExxonMobil.
But if many of the large oil-producing companies judged the
global-warming initiative as too controversial, and unlikely to
succeed, they found another way to express their views. Posted.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/11/prop-26-prop-23-oil-companies-chevron.html

Global Warming for Gamers. Think you’ve got the smarts to rein in
climate change without crashing the global economy? In the real
world, even leaders of nations are having trouble figuring that
out. But in the new strategy video game “Fate of the World,”
players singlehandedly confront that daunting challenge, while
tackling peak oil, overpopulation and saving the rain forest to
boot. Posted.
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/02/global-warming-for-gamers/?partner=rss&emc=rss