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Posted: 23 Nov 2010 12:28:51
California Air Resources Board News Clips for November 23, 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 Ports Agree to Updated Clean Air Action Plan. The Los Angeles and Long Beach harbor commissions on Monday finally agreed to update an environmental plan that will concentrate on reducing harmful emissions spewed from cargo vessels, cruise ships and locomotives over the next decade. The revised Clean Air Action Plan is expected to reduce the risk of cancer from port-related pollution by 85 percent over the next decade. Posted. http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/ci_16682224 http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_16686378 http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_16689091 CLIMATE CHANGE Climate Change Planning For California Urged. California must work harder not just to curb damaging greenhouse gas emissions, but to plan for the unavoidable impacts of climate change on the state's landscape and economy in coming generations, according to an influential group of policymakers, scientists and business leaders. Posted. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/23/BAP21GG2VI.DTL&type=printable Energy Industry Strikes Out on Its Own. A group of utility executives who once lobbied Congress to cap greenhouse-gas emissions say they are now pressing ahead with their own efforts to clean up the industry. "We're making our own destiny," said Chris Gould, vice president of corporate strategy for Exelon Corp. in Chicago, the nation's largest owner of nuclear-power plants and one of the biggest backers of the failed "cap and trade" legislation. The new, take-charge attitude is motivated not only by environmental concerns. Posted. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703559504575631010457589470.html Climate Change Math in Treaties Flawed by Suspect Pollution Calculations. Euan Nisbet, a University of London earth sciences professor who has traveled the world testing the air for greenhouse-gas pollution, makes his way to a rocky outcropping on the eastern coast of Hong Kong Island on a sunny November afternoon. He takes out a battery-operated pump connected to a thin tube and a plastic bag to capture traces of the wind. “This is a good day for collecting samples,” says Nisbet, 61, looking out to sea. Posted. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-23/climate-change-math-in-treaties-flawed-by-suspect-pollution-calculations.html Greenhouse-Gas Pledges Insufficient to Combat Warming, UN Report Finds. National pledges to cut greenhouse gases by 2020 fall short of reductions needed to limit the rise in global temperatures, according to a report released by the United Nations Environment Program. Targets in the nonbinding agreement reached in Copenhagen last year would deliver about 60 percent of the cuts needed to keep the world from warming by 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than in pre-industrial times, according to the study released today. Posted. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2010-11-23/greenhouse-gas-pledges-by-nations-insufficient-un-report-finds.html Spectron Handles First California Brokered CO2 Trade. Spectron Group Ltd. handled the first brokered forward-trade agreement for California carbon allowances at $11.50 a metric ton, the London-based broker said today in an e-mailed statement. On Nov. 17, Barclays Plc and NRG Energy Inc., the largest U.S. independent power producer, said they completed the first deal for carbon-dioxide permits under California’s planned cap- and-trade program for greenhouse gases. Posted. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2010-11-23/spectron-handles-first-california-brokered-co2-trade-update1-.html The Warming of Antarctica: A Citadel of Ice Begins to Melt. The fringes of the coldest continent are starting to feel the heat, with the northern Antarctic Peninsula warming faster than virtually any place on Earth. These rapidly rising temperatures represent the first breach in the enormous frozen dome that holds 90 percent of the world's ice. In 1978, when few researchers were paying attention to global warming, a prominent geologist at Ohio State University was already focused on the prospect of fossil fuel emissions trapping heat in the Earth's atmosphere. Posted. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS84758991620101123 EPA Sets New Rules for Carbon Dioxide Storage. The Obama administration is imposing new rules to protect drinking water and track the amount of carbon dioxide stored underground by "clean coal" technology. The rules, announced Monday, cover an experimental technique to store underground the carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants and other sources. The technique, which involves injecting carbon dioxide in stable geologic formations, is designed to reduce greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming. Posted. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/22/AR2010112203699.html U.N. Researchers Find Slow Diplomacy Creates Large 'Emissions Gap'. World governments must commit to steeper cuts in greenhouse gas emissions to meet their target of limiting warming to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the U.N. Environment Programme said today. Industrialized and developing nations participating in U.N. climate talks last year crafted a nonbinding agreement, the Copenhagen Accord, to limit global emissions, fund clean energy development and help protect vulnerable countries from climate impacts. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/11/23/4 Carbon-Storage Rules Aim To Protect Health, Measure Emissions. U.S. EPA issued a pair of rules yesterday aimed at promoting development of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technology while erecting safety and reporting mechanisms ahead of that build-out. Technology allowing greenhouse gases emitted from coal plants' smokestacks to be captured and then injected underground for long-term storage has long been a darling of some in the utility industry, who see it as an opportunity to develop "clean coal." To date such technology has never been proved at scale. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/11/23/5 DIESEL EMISSIONS Hybrid Tugboat Cuts Emissions. UC Riverside scientists study what is believed to be the world’s only hybrid electric tugboat at Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. A new study by University of California, Riverside scientists of what is believed to be the world’s only hybrid electric tugboat found that the vessel is effective in reducing emissions at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Posted. http://newsroom.ucr.edu/news_item.html?action=page&id=2498 http://www.inlandnewstoday.com/story.php?s=16951 CARB Allows Lower-Level Upgrades to '03 Reefer Units. Owners of model-year 2003 reefer units that run in California can get more legal use out of them for less cost, thanks to a regulations amendment by the state's Air Resources Board. In its Nov. 18 meeting, CARB's directors approved the installation of Low-Emission (LE) aftertreatment equipment to '03 reefer diesels, which would put them in compliance with CARB exhaust-emissions rules until the end of 2017. Posted. http://www.truckinginfo.com/news/news-print.asp?news_id=72270 FUELS EPA Biofuel Storage Rule Marks 'New Round' Of Federal Requirements. The US Environmental Protection Agency's newly proposed rules for underground storage tanks holding higher levels of ethanol and biodiesel could "mark the beginning of a new round of federal UST requirements," the Petroleum Marketers Association of America said. "PMAA has been working closely with the EPA on compatibility issues over the past two years," the group said in its weekly member e-mail, sent Friday. Posted. http://www.platts.com/RSSFeedDetailedNews/RSSFeed/Oil/6617352 Al Gore Reverses Course On Ethanol Subsidy. Former Vice President Al Gore, who once issued the tie-breaking vote to ensure that ethanol and other renewable fuels would continue to receive lucrative tax credits, has reversed course on the subsidy. The corn ethanol tax subsidy, which provides a 45-cent tax credit for each gallon of fuel blended with ethanol, is set to expire on Dec. 31. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/11/23/6 Will Relaxed California Regulations Trigger Demand For Corn Ethanol? Considering a proposal from the staff of the state Air Resources Board, California regulators have announced that they would consider changing their view on the environmental impact of ethanol, a decision that could keep the corn-based fuel competitive with other bio fuels. Posted. http://www.dailymarkets.com/stock/2010/11/23/will-relaxed-california-regulations-trigger-demand-for-corn-ethanol/ World’s Largest Biodiesel Plant Starts Production in Singapore. Neste Oil has started production at its biodiesel plant in Singapore, the world’s largest with an annual capacity of 800,000 tons. The plant will produce the NExBTL diesel which, according to the company reduces the carbon emissions by 40 to 80 percent depending on the percentage blending with the conventional diesel. The biodiesel from the plant can be either blended with the conventional diesel or used directly. The company claims that the biodiesel is compatible with the all the diesel engines currently in use. Posted. http://cleantechnica.com/2010/11/22/worlds-largest-biodiesel-plant-starts-production-in-singapore/ GREEN ENERGY Northrop Opposes Solar Energy Project. Defense contractor says high desert facility might interfere with testing of stealth technology on aircraft. A delay could affect millions of dollars in potential federal stimulus funds. Approval for the first of what could be at least a dozen large solar energy projects planned for the high desert near the Los Angeles-Kern County line is under threat from an unlikely source: the military industry. Posted. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-solar-radar-20101123,0,5208504,print.story VEHICLES Wary Of Surges, Utilities Brace For Electric Car Launch. Electric utilities are watching the launch of mass-market electric cars next month with a wary eye, knowing that a cluster of plugged-in cars could potentially overwhelm the grid. The cars also present a potential windfall for the utilities not seen since the spread of air conditioning in the 1950s and 1960s. But executives are worried that high demand in concentrated areas could create difficulties for the utilities and could ruin the opportunity. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2010/11/23/8/ MISCELLANEOUS Toxic Waste Dump Ruled Out As Cause Of Kettleman City Birth Defects. State Department of Public Health has found no reason for heart and facial deformities in the impoverished community. State health investigators have ruled out a toxic waste dump as the cause of severe birth defects including heart problems and facial deformities in the impoverished Central California farming community of Kettleman City, according to a draft report released Monday. Posted. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-kettleman-defects-20101123,0,1615574,print.story http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/23/us/23town.html BLOGS ‘Take a Lesson,’ Schwarznegger Says on Climate Change. California is just one of 50 states, but its economy, measured individually, is the eighth-biggest in the world, larger than that of Spain, Canada, Brazil, Russia, India or South Korea. Such economic clout makes California ideally positioned to take the lead on energy policy and environmental issues like climate change, even as the United States as a whole has failed to make much progress on either front. Posted. http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/23/take-a-lesson-schwarznegger-on-the-environment/?pagemode=print Degrees of Separation From Climate Goals. In the weeks after the chaotic United Nations climate change summit meeting last December in Copenhagen, 140 nations endorsed the meeting’s goal of limiting the rise in global temperature from pre-industrial levels to 2 degrees Celsius or less in this century. Of those countries signing onto the so-called Copenhagen Accord, 85 made pledges to reduce their own greenhouse gas emissions and participate in international programs to help developing countries slow the rate of growth of their emissions. Are the two pledges compatible? Posted. http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/23/degrees-of-separation-from-climate-goals/?pagemode=print Gore Annoys Corn Ethanol Lobby. Bloomberg News Fermentation tanks at the Mid-Missouri Energy corn ethanol plant in Malta Bend, Mo. Al Gore has apparently irked the biofuels lobby by suggesting during a panel discussion at a green business conference on Monday that his earlier support for corn-based ethanol subsidies was “a mistake.” Posted. http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/23/gore-annoys-corn-ethanol-lobby/?pagemode=print Gone To Satan's Side On Climate Change. Talk about your ironies. The deniers love to talk about the overwhelming mainstream science behind anthropogenic climate change as a "climate religion." Be sure to tell recently defeated Republican Rep. Bob Inglis that. I am sure he will find that ironic. The South Carolina Congressman blames his loss on "his assertions that atmospheric warming is a scientific certainty." Apparently he did not get the memo that Republicans no longer believe in science. Posted. http://blogs.redding.com/dcraig/archives/2010/11/gone-to-satans.html