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Posted: 19 Nov 2010 10:52:03
California Air Resources Board News Clips for November 19, 2010. 


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AIR POLLUTION

Cleaner Cars on California Roads, Cleaner Air above Them.
California’s famous freeways are full of cleaner cars, cutting
peak levels of air pollution and enabling many residents to
breathe easier. As the Los Angeles Times reports, a new report
from the Environment California Research & Policy Center says
that vehicles on California’s roads today are 99 percent cleaner
than their counterparts from five decades ago. What this means is
that while 100,000 miles in a 1960s-era car resulted in 2,000
pounds of smog-forming pollution, the same amount of driving
generates only 10 pounds of the compounds. Posted.
http://www.fairwarning.org/2010/11/cleaner-cars-on-california-roads-cleaner-air-above-them/
http://egpnews.com/?p=21847
                                      
New Anti-Pollution Rules Target Consumer Products. The State Air
Resources Board adopted regulations Thursday that will reduce air
pollution from 11 categories of consumer products. Those include
bug sprays and a variety of household and professionally-used
cleaners. Posted.
http://www.inlandnewstoday.com/story.php?s=16905

Smog Study Confirms Vast Improvement in Auto Emissions. L.A.’s
air is 70 percent cleaner than in 1970. Air pollution from cars
and trucks in Los Angeles and across California has dropped more
than 85 percent since 1975 due to clean-air policies, according
to a report issued Tuesday. The new report comes just one week
after California voters defeated a statewide ballot to delay
implementation of tougher pollution standards contained in AB 32,
California’s landmark air pollution control bill, until the
state’s unemployment rate drops to 5.5 percent for a full year.
Posted. http://egpnews.com/?p=21847&print=1

For Southern California's Inland Valley, Change Is in the Air,
and on the Roof. Southern California’s Inland Valley is America’s
loading dock. Products from Asia that arrive in the nation’s two
busiest cargo seaports, Los Angeles and Long Beach, or that come
as air freight directly from China, Japan or South Korea to the
Los Angeles or Ontario international airports, are often first
deposited in the region’s vast warehouses. Posted.
http://solarhbj.com/news/for-southern-californias-inland-valley-change-is-in-air-01122

Household Cleaners to be Reformulated to Clean up California
Smog. About 2,000 household cleaning products will be
reformulated to reduce smog-forming compounds under a new
regulation adopted Thursday in California. The rule will trigger
a new, mandatatory wave of “green” products, including window
cleaners, general purpose cleaning sprays, degreasers, oven
cleaners, metal polishes, furniture sprays, heavy-duty hand soaps
and spot removers. Posted.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=household-cleaners-to-be-reformulated

CDC: Seven Large Airports Still Allow Indoor Smoking. Seven of
the largest U.S. airports still allow smoking indoors, exposing
travelers to secondhand smoke, says a new study by the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention. The study cites the following
large airports that allow smoking in designated smoking rooms,
bars or airline clubs: Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver, Las
Vegas, Charlotte, Washington Dulles and Salt Lake City. The
airports account for about 22% U.S. passenger boardings. Posted.
http://travel.usatoday.com/flights/post/2010/11/cdc-seven-large-airports-still-allow-indoor-smoking/131743/1

CLIMATE CHANGE

GM Spending $40 Million to Offset Year's Worth of Chevrolet
Pollution. In a dramatic move, General Motors is announcing today
that its Chevrolet brand will invest $40 million in projects to
offset all the global-warning carbon dioxide emissions that its
new cars and trucks sold in the U.S. create through the end of
2011. The move comes on the first day that GM is no longer
privately held and majority owned by the government. It is now
more free to make such decisions, even though the government
still has a sizable stake. GM is now a publically traded company.
Posted.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2010/11/gm-general-motors-chevrolet-pollution-carbon-co2-offset/1
        
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/11/18/3195848/chevrolet-invests-in-clean-energy.html#

Boxer Resigned To Incremental Progress On The Environment A
little more than a year ago, Sen. Barbara Boxer staged a rally on
the Capitol grounds to introduce the most ambitious effort in the
nation's history to curb climate change. On Thursday, the newly
re-elected Democrat and environmental champion was thinking
smaller -- a lot smaller -- about what Congress might accomplish
on the global warming front. That's what the collapse of sweeping
anti-global warming legislation this summer and the drubbing
Democrats took at the polls two weeks ago will do.. Posted.
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_16650628

Traders, State Officials Applaud First-Ever Swap In Calif. Much
to the surprise of state officials, California's carbon market
launched itself this week when Barclays Bank PLC and NRG Energy
Inc. completed what was the first-ever swap of a greenhouse gas
emissions permit to be issued by state regulators after cap and
trade goes live in 2012. The deal marks the first time a
California carbon allowance has been traded and was viewed by
many as a symbolic moment. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/11/19/6

'Governator' Sees Fighting Climate Change As His Next Role. As
Arnold Schwarzenegger's role as California's governor comes to an
end, he is already lining up his next gig -- climate change
champion. This week, Schwarzenegger, a Republican, launched the
R20 climate network, a global alliance of city and state leaders
pledging to work together to address climate change. The alliance
plans to implement clean technology projects in developing
countries financed by industrialized nations. "I always was a big
believer in doing things on a global level," Schwarzenegger said.
Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/11/19/8

DIESEL

CARB Amends Reefer Unit Rule. The California Air Resources Board
has amended its Transport Refrigeration Unit Airborne Toxic
Control Measure to allow 2003 engines to meet a less stringent
standard. CARB adopted the change at its Nov. 18 board meeting.
It asked owners of TRUs and TRU generator sets with 2003 engines
to order compliance technology now to meet in-use standards by
Dec. 31. Posted.
http://www.etrucker.com/apps/news/article.asp?id=86028
http://refrigeratedtrans.com/refrigeration/equipment/carb_adopts_changes_to_reefer_unit_measure_1119/

Financing Fuel Savings. I s there anyone who has been on our
nation’s roads during the last few months that has not seen—and
possibly at times been bothered by—road construction and repair
accompanied by signage that proudly announces that the
improvements have been funded by the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act? Of course, folks in the trucking industry
generally applaud road improvements since they tend to increase
operational efficiency—unless construction delays happen to
affect our personal plans. Posted.
http://www.fleetequipmentmag.com/Item/81789/financing_fuel_savings.aspx

FUELS

California to Update Land Use for Ethanol. The California Air
Resources Board yesterday agreed to update the land use change
and other indirect effects of biofuels production under their Low
Carbon Fuels Standard (LCFS). The board is asking for updates to
the land use values for corn ethanol, sugarcane ethanol, and soy
biodiesel, and other feedstocks by spring of 2011 to implement
the LCFS, which currently penalizes corn ethanol to the extent
that it would not be approved for use in the state, while
sugarcane ethanol meets the standard. Posted.
http://domesticfuel.com/2010/11/19/california-to-update-land-use-for-ethanol/

GREEN/ENERGY

Arnold Schwarzenegger: California Shows The Green Revolution is
Alive and Well. When the Copenhagen summit on climate change
failed to reach agreement last December, many thought it was the
beginning of the end for the fight against global warming. But I
can report nearly a year later that the Green Revolution is alive
and robust in states, provinces, and localities across the world,
starting in California. Posted.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Global-Viewpoint/2010/1118/Arnold-Schwarzenegger-California-shows-the-green-revolution-is-alive-and-well

VEHICLES

Electric Car Travels From Alaska To Argentina. An electric sports
car completed a 70-day trip on the Pan-American Highway, starting
near the Arctic Circle in Alaska and finishing at the world's
southernmost city. The SRZero sports car used lithium iron
phosphate batteries to power two electric motors. The car's
designers and drivers, from Imperial College London, looked for
sustainable ways to charge the batteries, such as using
geothermal energy in Chena Hot Springs, Alaska. "The SRZero was
literally being charged from energy taken straight out of the
earth with absolutely zero CO2 emissions," said Alex Schey, a
mechanical engineer behind the trip. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/11/19/10

Mercedes Shows Off Fuel Cell B-Class Car. The Mercedes-Benz
contribution to the green car spotlight at the Los Angeles Auto
Show this year is word that the German automaker will be making
available in the United States a limited number of its new
B-Class F-CELL fuel cell powered vehicles. And when we mean
limited, we do mean limited – the plans are for “selected
customers” to get the first vehicles before year’s end, with a
total of around 70 of these environmentally friendly cars being
made available on a rental basis in California by 2012. Posted.
http://www.earthtechling.com/2010/11/mercedes-shows-off-fuel-cell-b-class-car/print/

OPINION

HARROP: EPA to California: Go for It. Has the recent Republican
sweep of the House doomed President Barack Obama's clean-energy
agenda? Possibly. Has it doomed America's? Hardly. It's simply
moved the center for enlightened environmental policy 2,840 miles
to the west ---- to California, where it's been before. That's
why the thumping Californians gave to Proposition 23 is so
globally important. Its passage would have frozen a
groundbreaking law that requires a sharp drop in the state's
greenhouse gas emissions and stymied less dramatic efforts
elsewhere. Posted.
http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/columnists/harrop/article_061647d1-9f9a-51af-b334-2ae0ff9413d5.html

Science the GOP Can't Wish Away. Watching the raft of newly
elected GOP lawmakers converge on Washington, I couldn't help
thinking about an issue I hope our party will better address. I
call on my fellow Republicans to open their minds to rethinking
what has largely become our party's line: denying that climate
change and global warming are occurring and that they are largely
due to human activities. Posted.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/18/AR2010111806072.html

UN Climate Change Panel Chairman: Yup, Global Warming Policies
Are Really About Redistributing Wealth. Ottmar Edenhofer isn’t
exactly a household name, but he’s a big deal in the world of
global warming. The German economist is the co-chair of the UN’s
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which produces a lot
of the reports and data that continue to get people all, er, hot
and bothered about the problem of global warming. Posted.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/un-climate-change-panel-chairman-yup-global-warming-policies-are-really-about-redistributing-wealth-109224694.html#ixzz15kSmJtcy

A Promising, Underutlilized Resource: Old Tires. Earlier this
month, California voters resoundingly reaffirmed their commitment
to the environment by defeating Proposition 23, which would have
suspended the state's climate-change law. This commitment
continues a long tradition of environmental stewardship -- today,
California leads the nation in waste diversion and we recycle
more cans, bottles, computers, batteries and paper than any other
state. We're "green." Everybody gets that. Posted.
http://www.bakersfield.com/opinion/forum/x1206833781/A-promising-underutlilized-resource-old-tires

Opinion: Clean Energy Moves Forward -- And California Leads The
Way. This week, I hosted the Governors’ Global Climate Summit 3
at the University of California, Davis.  This summit showed the
world that the green revolution is moving full-speed ahead, with
or without international agreements, and the California voters’
defeat of Proposition 23 was the perfect example of that. Since
this summit last gathered, we have seen tremendous progress
throughout the world.  Posted.
http://www.capitolweekly.net/article.php?_c=za9naawmkrdbrb&xid=za8lgtw5u7dwqm&done=.za9naawmks1brb#

BLOGS

Schwarzenegger's Post-Governor Plan: Fight Climate Change. Arnold
Schwarzenegger will not likely be remembered as California's most
beloved governor -- he's leaving office with his approval rating
in the 20% range. But history may be kinder to the legacy he
leaves on climate action. Addressing global warming eventually
became his trademark issue, with the passage of a climate bill
that requires California to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions
to 1990 levels by 2020 often considered Schwarzenegger's crowning
achievement. Posted.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/11/schwarzenneger-governor-plan-climate-change.php

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