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newsclips -- Newsclips for November 10, 2010.

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 10:49:51
California Air Resources Board News Clips for November 10, 2010.

 
This is a service of the California Air Resources Board’s Office
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AIR POLLUTION

Air Regulators Clamp Down On Lead Emissions From Battery
Recycling Plants. Local officials order facilities in Vernon and
City of Industry to meet the EPA's new, stricter standard by
2012. Southern California air pollution officials have moved to
clamp down on toxic emissions from two battery recycling plants
in Los Angeles County. The regulations, announced this week, are
designed to meet the first new federal standards for airborne
lead pollution in three decades, which were adopted in 2008.
Posted.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lead-pollution-20101110,0,870583,print.story

Bad Economy Delayed Diesel Pollution Rules. A government clash
over diesel pollution rules in Southern California could bring
penalties that affect federal funding for future transportation
projects and cripple growth and employment in the region, a local
economist and officials said Tuesday. The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency may issue a rare disapproval of California's
plan for reducing noxious fine-particle pollution in Southern
California and the San Joaquin Valley. Posted.
http://www.pe.com/localnews/stories/PE_News_Local_D_pollution10.49250b4.html

Carbon Monoxide The Leading Cause Of Accidental Poisoning Deaths
In U.S. Carmichael, CA - Carbon monoxide, also known as the
"silent killer," is an odorless, tasteless, colorless gas that's
a bi-product of combustion. According to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, carbon monoxide is the leading cause of
accidental poisoning deaths in America. Dimitri Stanich with the
California Air Resources Board says every year about 35
Californians die as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning and
hundreds more are made sick by the gasPosted.
http://www.news10.net/news/story.aspx?storyid=105064&catid=2

Lawrence Lab Fined For Toxic Metal Contamination. Livermore,
Calif. -- The company that manages the Lawrence Livermore
Laboratory has agreed to pay a $200,000 fine for mishandling
ventilation equipment that led workers to be exposed to a toxic
metal. The U.S. Department of Energy announced the penalty
Tuesday. The government said that on two occasions in 2007 and
2008, poor oversight during and after the removal of ventilation
equipment led workers to be exposed to beryllium. Exposure to the
metal used in the research and development of nuclear weapons may
lead to an irreversible and sometimes fatal scarring of the
lungs. Posted.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/11/10/state/n085941S28.DTL&type=printable

In Global Forecast, China Looms Large as Energy User and Maker of
Green Power. China’s push for rapid economic development will
dominate global energy markets and be the single biggest force in
spurring higher oil prices and carbon emissions linked to climate
change over the next quarter-century, the International Energy
Agency reported on Tuesday. At the same time, however, China is
poised to be the driving influence behind the development of
renewable energy like wind and solar power, according to the
agency’s annual energy outlook. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/10/business/global/10oil.html?ref=energy-environment&pagewanted=print

Sen Durbin Seeks Probe Of Air Quality On Diesel Passenger Trains.
It is well known that exhaust from diesel powered vehicles
contains heavy particulates that are known to cause a wide
variety of illnesses.  Some commuter rail systems, such as in
Chicago (METRA) and the San Francisco Bay Area (Caltrain), use
diesel driven locomotives putting rail commuters in close
proximity to diesel emissions.  Last week the Chicago Tribune
released unsurprising results of investigation of air quality in
the METRA trains and train stations.  Posted.
http://www.examiner.com/green-transportation-in-national/sen-durbin-seeks-probe-of-air-quality-on-diesel-passenger-trains

Enviros Challenge EPA Cement-Kiln Standards In Bid For GHG
Limits. Environmentalists have mounted a legal challenge to U.S.
EPA's new air pollution standards for cement kilns, arguing that
the agency was required to limit greenhouse gases in light of its
finding that carbon dioxide emissions are a threat to human
health and welfare. The Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense
Council were among a handful of advocacy groups that submitted
petitions before this week's deadline to challenge the standards.
Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/11/10/9

Lead Isotopes Tag The Origins Of Particulate Air Pollutants. Air
Pollution: Study finds that 29% of the Bay Area's particulate air
pollution comes from across the Pacific. The Clean Air Act sets
air quality standards that municipalities in the United States
must meet. But some pollution travels from thousands of miles
away. Now researchers have developed a method to more precisely
identify the origins of small particulate pollutants (Environ.
Sci. Technol., DOI: 10.1021/es101450t). With it, they determined
that 29% of the San Francisco area's particulate pollution comes
from eastern Asia. Posted.
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/88/i46/8846news3.html

CLIMATE CHANGE

Top UN Climate Official Sees Good Prospects For A Limited Deal At
Cancun Meeting. Amsterdam - The top U.N. official on climate
change says the U.S. and China have moved closer on elements of a
global warming agreement under discussion at a major conference
next month. Christiana Figueres says "there is a deal to be done"
when delegates from most the world's countries convene in Cancun,
Mexico. The two-week meeting begins Nov. 29. She says the
conference will not seek to complete a full climate change
treaty, but will try to adopt decisions on several practical
issues to slow the growth of heat-trapping greenhouse gases and
to help countries brace for changes brought by a warming world.
Posted.
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/wire/sns-ap-eu-climate-talks,0,5717079,print.story
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-10/climate-change-talks-in-cancun-a-last-chance-for-gases-deal-ramesh-says.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20101110-713374.html
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/11/10/10climatewire-venezuelan-climate-envoy-recalls-bloody-palm-21433.html

EPA Issues Guidelines For States' GHG Permitting. U.S. EPA has
released a long-awaited guidance document that instructs state
and local officials how to start issuing permits for power
plants, refineries and other large stationary sources of
greenhouse gases when EPA's new climate rules take effect next
year. State and local officials will need to absorb the
information by Jan. 2, when they must begin requiring the maximum
achievable control technology for greenhouse gases at new and
modified facilities. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/11/10/1

VEHICLES

Largest-Ever Drop In New Car Emissions Recorded In E.U. Average
carbon dioxide emissions from new cars sold in the European Union
fell by 5 percent last year, putting the European Union well on
pace to meet its emission reductions goals. The European Union
aims to cut average emissions from new cars to 130 grams of
carbon dioxide per kilometer (209 grams per mile) by 2015. Connie
Hedegaard, the E.U. commissioner overseeing climate action, said
the reduction, the largest annual drop ever recorded, meant that
"the industry is on track to achieve the 2015 target," adding
that many manufacturers would likely reach their goal in advance.
Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/11/10/10

OPINION

Editorial: Job Flight Not Air Board's Problem. California seems
intent on traveling a road to self-destruction paved with
government mandates and regulations that drive businesses and
jobs out of state while discouraging new job creation. A prime
job-killing, business-punishing scheme is the insistence on
achieving radical environmental goals, despite their real-world
economic liabilities. The California Air Resources Board has
adopted a mandate that utility companies produce 33 percent of
their electricity from so-called renewable resources by 2020.
Posted.
http://www.ocregister.com/common/printer/view.php?db=ocregister&id=275211

BLOGS

What Does Proposition 26 Mean For Climate Change? Given how low
the chances of congressional action on climate change are now,
state efforts like California's climate bill, AB 32, are going to
pick up a lot of the slack. AB 32 requires the state to cut
yearly emissions by 174 million metric tons, which translates
into a national reduction of over 7 percent, so a successful
effort to repeal or weaken it could have major national
implications. Proposition 23, which would have effectively
repealed AB 32, lost substantially last week. Posted.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/11/what_does_proposition_26_meanf.html

Charting China’s Energy Explosion. Workers building houses last
month near a coal-fired power plant in Taiyuan in northern China.
If your gasoline and electricity bills go up in the years to
come, and you want to blame someone other than yourself, a new
report by the International Energy Agency has some ammunition for
you. Posted.
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/09/charting-chinas-energy-explosion/?pagemode=print

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