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