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Posted: 30 Nov 2010 12:30:04
California Air Resources Board News Clips for November 30, 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 Waste Management Receives Air-Quality Honor. Waste Management officials in San Diego operate the country's largest fleet of liquid natural gas trucks, a distinction that recently won the company recognition from the county's air-quality agency. The Air Pollution Control District honored Waste Management with a Blue Sky Leadership Award, an honor given to businesses that show commitment to bettering air quality. Posted. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/nov/29/waste-management-receives-air-quality-honor/ EPA's Success Presents New Challenges, Agency's Chief Says. With U.S. EPA taking intense criticism from Republicans and businesses, Administrator Lisa Jackson said today her 40-year-old agency is battling a new problem: Americans are taking a healthy environment for granted. When EPA was created in 1970, Cleveland's Cuyahoga River was so polluted that it caught fire. Pittsburgh and Los Angeles were choking on smog on a daily basis. And the widespread use of DDT and other toxic chemicals was killing off bald eagles -- the very symbol of the United States. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/11/29/29greenwire-epas-success-presents-new-challenges-agencys-c-73961.html?pagewanted=print Road Construction Company Faces Millions Of Dollars In Air Quality Fines. Lake County, Calif. – A company that completed a disputed road project in the south county is facing millions of dollars in fines due to its alleged failure to get the proper air quality permits. International Surfacing Systems, which has offices around California and Arizona, was cited earlier this fall by Lake County Air Quality Management District for several violations, according to Air Pollution Control Officer Doug Gearhart. Posted. http://lakeconews.com/content/view/17208/919/ Water District, Cement Companies Struggle with Emissions Rules. The Tehachapi-Cummings County Water District continues to line up support in opposition to proposed emission control Rule 4702 that the district says will increase green house gases, reduce fuel efficiency, result in higher water prices, harm agriculture and place a severe financial hardship on the water district. “It's going to affect every single person in our district,” said water district Operations Manager Steve Minton. “And not in a good way.” Posted. http://www.tehachapinews.com/content/water-district-cement-companies-struggle-emissions-rules/32683 CLIMATE CHANGE Cap-and-Trade Market Spanning North America Weighed by States. California, New Mexico and 10 U.S. Northeastern states may try to create a North American carbon market on their own now that President Barack Obama has given up on cap-and-trade legislation that stalled in Congress. The emissions-trading system would be based on a planned carbon market in California, the most populous state, and an existing regional cap-and-trade program for power plants in the Northeast, according to state environmental officials. Posted. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/11/29/bloomberg1376-LCNWTQ0UQVI801-2DVHRLU62ULOEUHU3LQE07QSCU.DTL#ixzz16mmapQfP http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2010-11-30/cap-and-trade-market-for-north-america-weighed-by-states-after-obama-fails.html Even When Frozen, Soils Get Busy Emitting CO2. Microbes have long done the world's dirty work. They gobble up oil spills. They defend our guts against disease. And even in rugged northern latitudes, hosts of bacteria filter through the soil, feeding on falling leaves and decay, freeing carbon and nutrients for each spring's renewal. For a long time, scientists thought the essential role played by soil bacteria in the northern carbon cycle was purely seasonal: During summer, heat-loving bugs would tear through leaf litter and waste with a frenzy, multiplying rapidly. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/11/29/29greenwire-even-when-frozen-soils-get-busy-emitting-co2-77544.html As Diplomats Debate, the Climate Doesn't Wait. Once more, as they've done each year for two decades, parties to the 193-nation U.N. climate treaty assembled Monday to debate what to do about global warming, after a year in which its impact came into sharper focus in many realms and regions. The United States' top scientists have attested to shifts in the planet's environment already under way. Posted. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/29/AR2010112904661.html New Front Opens In War Against Global Warming. Many policymakers and business leaders have come to see the most basic method of slowing global warming - cutting carbon dioxide emissions through a binding treaty - as elusive for now. They are turning their attention instead toward a more achievable goal: curbing other greenhouse gases that are warming the planet. Posted. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/29/AR2010112905479_pf.html Climate Change Conference Begins in Mexico. Mexico's President Felipe Calderon speaks at the opening of the United Nations climate change conference in Cancun, 29 Nov 2010. The United Nations Climate Change Conference got underway in the Mexican beach resort of Cancun on Monday with calls for decisive action to curb greenhouse gas emissions worldwide as part of an effort to curb global warmingPosted. http://www.voanews.com/english/news/Climate-Change-Conference-Begins-in-Mexico-110980424.html Negotiators Eye Ozone Treaty As Shortcut To CO2 Deal. A proposal to curb some of the world's most potent heat-trapping gases by expanding a decades-old treaty appears to be turning heads. With international attempts to broker major climate deals falling short, expanding the Montreal Protocol may represent the best shot at fighting rising temperatures, some analysts say. And overcoming one of the most formidable hurdles to this approach may be on the menu at the global warming summit in Cancun, Mexico. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/11/30/1 Can Faith Slow Climate Change? The prayer was recited regularly by a young Sally Bingham growing up in San Francisco. Only years later, as an ordained Episcopal Church priest, did Bingham realize something was amiss with the childhood supplication.” There was this terrible hypocrisy," she said. "This disconnect between what we said we believed in and how we behaved." Posted. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=can-faith-slow-climate-change FUELS Al Gore's Billion-Dollar Mistake. In Greece earlier this month, Al Gore made a startling admission: "First-generation ethanol, I think, was a mistake." Unfortunately, Americans have Gore to thank for ethanol subsidies. In 1994, then-Vice President Al Gore ended a 50-50 tie in the Senate by voting in favor of an ethanol tax credit that added almost $5 billion to the federal deficit last year. And that number doesn't factor the many ways in which corn-based ethanol mandates drive up the price of food and livestock feed. Posted. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/30/ED8F1GIVH6.DTL&type=printable Breaking Away From Coal. Progress Energy Carolinas, one of the South’s larger utilities, faced a dilemma last winter. Several of its coal-fired power plants were aging and needed scrubbers to reduce emissions and meet North Carolina pollution laws. Executives figured that even tougher regulations were coming from Washington, and overhauling 11 generators at four plants would have cost nearly $2 billion, which would have been passed on to the company’s 1.5 million electric customers. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/business/energy-environment/30utilities.html?src=busln Ethanol Group Asks EPA To Rethink Life-Cycle GHG Analysis. An ethanol trade group wants U.S. EPA to follow California's lead and re-examine the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions associated with corn ethanol production. In a letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson last week, the Renewable Fuels Association called on the Obama administration to consider following the lead of the California Air Resources Board, which recently resolved to incorporate new research into its low carbon fuel standard (LCFS) that is expected to lower the emissions penalty for corn ethanol (Greenwire, Nov. 19). Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/11/30/8 Conservative, Liberal Groups Unite To Oppose Ethanol Supports. A coalition of strange bedfellows including the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute, liberal network MoveOn and even a Catholic missionary group came together yesterday on a letter urging Congress to let $6 billion in ethanol tax credits lapse at the end of the year. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/11/30/5 Low Carbon Fuel Could Raise California Fuel Prices Sharply. The Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), which will be implemented in California starting in January after the defeat of Prop 23, may be an instructive example of the Law of Unintended Consequences. It mandates that carbon levels in fuel be lowered 10% by 2020, by using biofuel or purchasing emission credits. This is certainly a laudable goal. But Houston, we have a problem. California already has steep gas prices compared to other states. LCFS will almost certainly mean even higher prices. Posted. http://caivn.org/article/2010/11/30/low-carbon-fuel-could-raise-california-fuel-prices-sharply GREEN ENERGY UC Davis Turns to Smart Lighting Systems to Save Energy. UC Davis turned on its new Smart Lighting Initiative recently to slash the amount of electricity it uses to illuminate its buildings and grounds. UCD is the first large institution in California to act on a September state mandate to reduce lighting energy use by 60 percent or more by 2020. What's more, the university intends to reach that goal in half the time -- by 2015. It has a good start: Since 2007, it has already reduced lighting energy consumption by about 10 percent. Posted. http://www.dailydemocrat.com/news/ci_16740960 Undersea Cable Ends San Fran's Grid Isolation, Provides Cleaner Power. San Francisco -- Construction of a 53-mile, $500 million power line that snakes under the San Francisco Bay into the city here was completed yesterday, providing electricity for the first time from cleaner sources of energy to the north. The Trans Bay Cable, which extends from Pittsburg, Calif., on the east side of the bay under the Bay Bridge, is capable of meeting as much as 40 percent of this city's peak power demand. The line provides access for the first time to wind power projects that until now have been inaccessible. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/11/30/4 VEHICLES Honda Insight: America's First Mass Produced Hybrid Adds To 2011 Lineup. On sale today, the 2011 Honda Insight hybrid with its new standard features and the addition of a value-oriented entry model that offers enhanced value, exclusive content and a Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) starting at $18,200, plus a $750 destination and handling charge. The range of Insight models for 2011 now starts with a new value-oriented base model, simply designated as "Insight. Posted. http://www.examiner.com/autos-in-atlanta/honda-insight-america-s-first-mass-produced-hybrid-adds-to-2011-lineup-review OPINION What Cancun Climate Talks Could Achieve. Last winter, President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton rescued high-profile international climate negotiations in Copenhagen from total failure. Buoyed by House passage of a comprehensive climate bill, Mr. Obama promised that the United States would cut its greenhouse emissions 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020, and he committed the United States to assist developing countries in adapting to global warming and greening their economies. Posted. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/29/AR2010112905828_pf.html Time for New Blood at State Air Resources Board. “Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.”— Julius Caesar, 62 B.C. Julius Caesar, the Roman general and ruler, made that statement while divorcing his wife Pompeia when she was accused of having an affair with his colleague, Clodius Pulcher, a charge that was never proved. Posted. http://www.vcstar.com/news/2010/nov/29/time-for-new-blood-at-state-air-resources-board/#ixzz16miMlAsA No Pie for 'Air Nazi' Snitch. I read in Richard Beene's Nov. 26 "Bakersfield Observed" column that some moron snitched off the plans of the Bakersfield Track Club for the usual bonfire following its annual Pie Run on Thanksgiving morning. This rat has no conscience or scruples because, due to his political correctness, the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District disallowed the bonfire unless actual food was being prepared on a grill. Posted. http://www.bakersfield.com/opinion/letters/x1263267105/No-pie-for-air-Nazi-snitch Opinion: It Takes a Nation to Save a Planet. The United Nations named 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity, but the past year has proved to be a tough one for planet Earth. Last winter, negotiators returned from Copenhagen having failed to reach a meaningful agreement to reduce greenhouse gases. In the spring and summer, the Gulf of Mexico was hit with the largest oil spill in history, due in part to lax oversight by regulatory agencies. Posted. http://www.aolnews.com/opinion/article/opinion-it-takes-a-nation-to-save-a-planet/19737099 MISCELLANEOUS Cleaner Cleaners? A new law in California aimed at cleaning up cleaning products may help reduce air pollution nationwide. The new regulation—passed unanimously on November 18 by the California Air Resources Board (ARB)—will require that makers of household cleaning products, including glass sprays, bug sprays, degreasers, furniture sprays and metal polishes, reduce the amount of toxic solvents known as volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in these products. Posted. http://www.emagazine.com/view/?5425&printview&imagesoff Deceptive Agency To Punish Deception. On Wednesday a California state agency with a well-earned reputation for deception will hold a public workshop that may well set a new standard for governmental hypocrisy in California – and that’s really saying something. The hearing is the spawn of the California Air Resources Board (CARB), which has proposed a regulation [1] prohibiting false statements. Under the new regulation, no one submitting information to CARB could knowingly and willingly “falsify, conceal or cover up by any trick, scheme, or devise a material fact.” Posted. http://watchdog.org/7423/deceptive-agency-to-punish-deception/print/