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California Air Resources Board News Clips for November 4, 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. AIR POLLUTION Grants Available to Replace Tractors. The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District will administer a new program funded by local, state and federal funds to provide grants to replace certain tractors. The objective of the grants is to replace the older tractors being used in the valley with newer, cleaner-burning tractors. Posted. http://www.thebusinessjournal.com/agriculture/7002-grants-available-to-replace-tractors CLIMATE CHANGE Nichols Says Fee Referendum Won't Derail Calif. Climate Law. California's chief air regulator says a referendum passed by voters this week that alters the definition of an environmental fee does not apply to the state's climate change law, A.B. 32. Mary Nichols, chairwoman of the California Air Resources Board (ARB), talked to reporters yesterday in the wake of California voters' having rejected one ballot measure on global warming only to approve a second measure that could apply to A.B. 32 (Greenwire, Nov. 3). Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/11/04/5 Prop. 23 Battle Marks New Era In Environmental Politics. Wealthy Californians and conservation groups united in a bipartisan campaign to defeat the oil industry-sponsored initiative to suspend the state's greenhouse gas law. Proposition 23, the oil industry sponsored initiative to suspend California's greenhouse gas law, was touted early on by environmentalists as a "David vs. Goliath" battle. "Its our slingshot vs. their oily club," said Steve Maviglio, a spokesman for opponents. Posted. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-global-warming-20101104,0,3173526,print.story Governor Sets Sights On Federal Climate Change Law. Los Angeles, CA -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is seizing on the defeat of an oil-industry attempt to derail California's landmark global warming law, saying Wednesday it provides proponents of clean energy and climate control the perfect opportunity to put those issues back on the national agenda. Posted. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/11/03/state/n151054D79.DTL&type=printable Election Results Likely to Proliferate Climate-Related Lawsuits – Study. Climate-related lawsuits are growing rapidly in the United States, even as federal climate change legislation seems to have been put on hold indefinitely following the results of Tuesday's midterm elections. The number of lawsuits either supporting or opposing efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions is set to triple by the end of this year as compared to last year. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/11/04/04climatewire-election-results-likely-to-proliferate-clima-86439.html?pagewanted=print Elections Alter Climate and Energy Landscape. Tuesday's election results will force the White House and its environmental allies to trim their ambitions for sweeping climate legislation and seek more modest bipartisan measures to cut oil dependence and greenhouse gas emissions. Posted. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/04/AR2010110402490.html?hpid=topnews California Voters Opt To Stay the Course with GHG Emissions Law. Californians who turned out to vote Tuesday, Nov. 2, were decisive in their opinion not to suspend implementation of a much ballyhooed greenhouse gas law. Approved in 2006, the law allows the California Air Resources Board to create many new regulations. Specific to trucking, CARB was given the authority to formulate several trucking regulations aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions, including the state’s drayage rule, and truck retrofit rule. Posted. http://www.landlinemag.com/todays_news/Daily/2010/Nov10/110110/110310-02.shtml Obama to Face New Foes in Global Warming Fight. The Obama administration and the new Congress appear headed for early confrontations over the reach of environmental regulation and federal subsidies for fossil fuel development. The administration is moving determinedly forward on a series of actions to limit emissions of greenhouse gases and other air pollutants, to restrict some coal mining practices and to eliminate multibillion-dollar tax breaks for the oil and gas industry. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/business/energy-environment/04enviro.html?src=busln Prop. 23: State's Global-Warming Law Survives Challenge. Opponents of an effort to repeal the state's global warming law said their victory at the polls Tuesday was the work of a bipartisan coalition, including business owners concerned about climate change. They also said it shows strong voter support for creation of a "green" economy. Posted. . http://www.ocregister.com/news/prop-274321-law-warming.html Santa Cruz Carbon Plan Leads To All Roads. If 5,000 Santa Cruz homes install solar panels by 2020, the city will cut its residential electricity use by 25 percent. So dim the PG&E bill and let the sunshine in, say city planners. It’s a bold plan—currently only 500 homes have solar systems—and one of several ambitious goals proposed by the city of Santa Cruz to cut greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent from 1990s levels by 2020. Posted. http://news.santacruz.com/2010/11/03/santa_cruz_carbon_plan_leads_to_all_roads California Rejects Prop 23, Providing a Likely Boost for Green Cars. In a round rebuke of energy interests who had tried to block California's landmark AB 32 emissions law from taking effect next year, voters defeated Proposition 23 at the polls yesterday by a count of 61.4 percent to 38.6 percent. The nearly 23-point margin was the most one-sided result among the state's nine ballot referendums this year, showing that while Posted. http://www.hybridcars.com/news/california-rejects-prop-23-providing-likely-boost-green-cars-28863.html California Voters Say Yes to Clean Energy and to Ending Budget Gridlock. In back-to-back hits to Texas, one day after the San Francisco Giants beat the Rangers, California voters delivered a second great triumph, voting to safeguard the state’s booming clean energy economy by defeating Proposition 23 and saying no to dirty Texas oil. There were nine measures on the statewide November ballot and NRDC took positions on four of them: we supported Propositions 21 and 25, and opposed Propositions 23 and 26. Posted. http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/site/?q=print/8352 Prop. 23 Battle Marks New Era In Environmental Politics. Wealthy Californians and conservation groups united in a bipartisan campaign to defeat the oil industry-sponsored initiative to suspend the state's greenhouse gas law. Proposition 23, the oil industry sponsored initiative to suspend California's greenhouse gas law, was touted early on by environmentalists as a "David vs. Goliath" battle. "Its our slingshot vs. their oily club," said Steve Maviglio, a spokesman for opponents. Posted. http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-me-global-warming-20101104,0,7146988,print.story Prop. 23 Defeat Sweet For Tom Steyer. Billionaire hedge fund manager Tom Steyer is jubilant. Not only did California voters reject Proposition 23, the measure that sought to suspend the state's landmark global warming bill, but they did so by a staggering 21-point margin. "We had a huge victory," Steyer, co-chairman of the No on 23 campaign, said in a post-election conference call Wednesday. "It was the biggest no of any statewide proposition vote." Posted. http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_16515271?nclick_check=1 California Vote May ‘Stifle’ Environmental Laws. California’s approval of a ballot measure making it harder to pass regulatory fees may undermine state environmental laws, including planned limits on greenhouse gases, said the Climate Action Reserve, a Los Angeles-based carbon offsets program. Proposition 26 on yesterday’s ballot won by 53 percent to 47 percent, according to the California Secretary of State’s Elections Division. Posted. http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-11-03/california-vote-may-stifle-environmental-laws.html Election Results Likely To Proliferate Climate-Related Lawsuits – Study. New York -- Climate-related lawsuits are growing rapidly in the United States, even as federal climate change legislation seems to have been put on hold indefinitely following the results of Tuesday's midterm elections. The number of lawsuits either supporting or opposing efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions is set to triple by the end of this year as compared to last year. And by late 2010 or early 2011, the nation could even see some of the more public and contentious climate change legal battles come before the Supreme Court. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/11/04/2 2 Climate Skeptics May Change State Policies. Republicans solidified their control of governorships with the victories of two climate skeptics in Maine and Florida among a new class of conservative leaders with less enthusiasm for far-reaching plans to combat global warming. Combined with GOP sweeps of gubernatorial races in much of the Midwest and South, the electoral outcomes cast doubts about whether states will move forward with proposed cap-and-trade programs, renewable energy programs and fossil-fuel development, analysts say. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/11/04/3 China Comes Close To 20% Reduction In Energy Intensity. China will "get close" to meeting its 2010 target of reducing energy intensity by 20 percent, the World Bank reported yesterday. In its latest China Quarterly Update, the World Bank found the Asian economic giant's growth has "moderated" -- declining from 10.6 percent in the first half of the year to 9.6 percent in the third quarter. Economists attributed the cooling economy to a fading of the impact of China's stimulus infusion and a normalizing monetary stance. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/11/04/6 Lack Of Mandatory Targets Spells End Of Voluntary Cap And Trade In U.S. With chances for national climate legislation looking dim, the only nationwide U.S. cap-and-trade market will die, its owner said before Tuesday's election. Big American companies like Ford Motor Co., Bank of America Corp. and Intel Corp. had all agreed to participate in the market that was started in 2003, Intercontinental Exchange Inc. But the market depended on voluntary emissions reductions, targets that were supposed to be made mandatory once the federal government adopted a cap on carbon emissions. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/11/04/8 Prop. 23 Defeat Energizes Backers, Opponents Alike. It seems that Proposition 23 was just a test case – a pilot program for a national and global debate on green energy and technology. Proponents and opponents of the ballot initiative alike say that what happened in California will set the stage for a much larger national movement. In a landslide defeat, Californians renounced a ballot initiative that would have killed the state’s landmark climate legislation. Posted. http://californiawatch.org/watchblog/prop-23-defeat-energizes-backers-opponents-alike-6369 Proposition 26 Could Undercut AB 32? Download audio (MP3) On Tuesday, voters added several lines of new code to the software that governs public budgets in California. Proposition 26 will require a two-thirds vote at the state and local level to pass new fees. That's a daunting prospect for many programs that rely on fees to function. Prop. 26 could undercut the very climate change initiative voters protected at the polls. Posted. http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201011040850/b High-Tech Donors, Sophisticated Outreach Helped Defeat Prop 23. Proposition 23, the ballot initiative aiming to suspend California's greenhouse gas reduction law, was soundly defeated 61 percent to 39 percent, thanks in part to large donations by high-tech entrepreneurs and one of the most sophisticated field operations ever mounted for an environmental issue. "It is the largest public referendum in history on climate and clean energy policy," said Fred Krupp, president of the New York-based Environmental Defense Fund. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/11/04/5 California Cap-And-Trade Survives Electoral Challenge. Carbon finance, emissions trading & offsets. Californians have voted strongly in favour of cap-and-trade on greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions, rejecting a ballot initiative to suspend the introduction of state’s global warming bill, AB-32. In mid-term elections, the same voters also installed the Democrat candidate for the governorship, Jerry Brown, over Republican candidate Meg Whitman, whose platform had included delaying AB-32 by a year. Posted. http://www.carbonpositive.net/viewarticle.aspx?articleID=2168 “Carb” Cutting To Proceed On Schedule In California, Voters Nix Prop 23. Groups that sought to postpone air pollution controls in California lost at the polls on Tuesday. An estimated 61 percent of California’s voters said no to proposition 23, and yes to keeping the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, Assembly Bill 32 (AB 32) on schedule. The laws aim to cut the state’s industrial carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions back down to 1990 levels by the year 2020 and are slated to take effect in early 2012. What does AB32 mean for businesses in California and the U.S.? Posted. http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/04/carb-cutting-cal-prop23-fails/ FUELS Ethanol Credits May Be Early Test For Republican Budget-Cutters. With a wave of Republicans riding into Congress on a platform of fiscal conservatism, questions about the fate of ethanol subsidies are bubbling to the surface. Efforts to secure extensions for a tax credit for blending fuel with ethanol and an import tariff for ethanol -- both set to expire at the end of year -- have faced stiff opposition in Congress, but industry players are planning to continue their push for the provisions during the lame-duck session. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/11/04/4 GREEN ENERGY California Cuts Carbon in Bid to Spur Clean Technology Boom. The state's voters backed a plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions back to 1990 levels. San Francisco --Voters have turned back an effort to suspend California's efforts to tackle climate change, a wide-reaching program ranging from a cap-and-trade market for greenhouse gas emissions to energy efficiency standards for televisions. In 2006 California passed a law—the Global Warming Solutions Act (Assembly Bill 32)—that pledged the state to reduce its greenhouse gas emission levels back to 1990 levels by 2020. Posted. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=california-cuts-carbon-in-bid OPINION Brown's Green Vision For California. The governor-elect must now figure out how to pay for California's alternative-energy future and ensure that all the state's residents benefit from new opportunities in the field. During the campaign season, it was easy to dismiss the idea of a green energy future for California as mere campaign rhetoric. But with the second coming of Jerry Brown, the reelection of Barbara Boxer and voter endorsement of state policies to curb global warming, California really is poised to lead the country to a greener future. Posted. http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-oe-hayden-green-california-20101104,0,5292207,print.story Logue: Big Money Beat Proposition 23. Chico - Assemblyman Dan Logue, R-Linda, said big money defeated Proposition 23, which would have put the brakes on Assembly Bill 32, the state's clean-air act. "We were outspent three-to-one," Logue said in a phone interview Tuesday night. Logue spearheaded the Proposition 23 campaign. AB32 was passed and signed by the governor in 2006. It provides that between 2012 and 2020 greenhouse gas emissions will be reduced to 1990 levels. Posted. http://www.chicoer.com/news/ci_16518946 BLOGS Prop. 23 Campaign Concedes Defeat. Backers of Proposition 23, the ballot initiative to suspend California's ambitious global warming law, conceded defeat, calling the outcome "a victory for Wall Street over Main Street" and vowing to continue their efforts to "save jobs" and curb energy costs. “While the global warming law may attract venture capital dollars to the state, they will not translate into the jobs or economic activity promised by Proposition 23’s opponents,” said Jack Stewart, president of the California Manufacturers and Technology Assn. Posted. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/11/prop-23-defeat-global-warming-climate-change.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GreenspaceEnvironmentBlog+%28Greenspace%29 Solar Company Solyndra To Close Factory, Cut Jobs. It isn’t easy being green for Solyndra Inc., the controversial Bay Area solar power system manufacturing company. The company said Wednesday that it is shuttering one of its factories to save $60 million in capital expenditures, laying off 40 employees and letting the contracts for more than 100 temporary workers expire. Posted. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/11/solar-company-solyndra-to-close-factory-cut-jobs.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheTechnologyBlog+%28Los+Angeles+Times+Technology+Blog%29 Obama Revisits Energy Policy, Cap-And-Trade And EPA Regulation. Besides acknowledging a "shellacking" in midterm congressional elections, President Obama on Wednesday addressed some of the fronts on which Republicans and "tea party" activists claimed victory: Environmental Protection Agency regulation on greenhouse gas and the cap-and-trade approach to energy policy. Posted. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/11/obama-revisits-energy-policy-cap-and-trade-epa-regulation.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GreenspaceEnvironmentBlog+%28Greenspace%29 Climate Cues from the Next House Speaker. At the global climate change conference in Copenhagen in December, President Obama pledged to cut United States emissions from 2005 levels by 17 percent by 2020 — if he could get Congress to pass climate and energy legislation. The task proved impossible even with Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress. But now, any legislative progress on the issue will depend on the cooperation of the new Republican majority in the House of Representatives and the incoming majority leader, presumed to be John Boehner of Ohio. Posted. http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/03/climate-cues-from-the-next-house-speaker/?partner=rss&emc=rss Muddled Up In Climate Politics. For those of us hoping for substantive climate or energy legislation in the near future, Tuesday’s election was a mixed bag at best. And that’s after having lowered our expectations following Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) decision to pull the plug on advancing the American Power Act back in July. If Democrats couldn’t muster the votes or political capital with majorities in both houses of Congress, there was little chance following a mid-term election that was sure to weaken their hold. Posted. http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/2010/11/04/muddled-up-in-climate-politics/