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Posted: 27 Dec 2010 12:04:27
California Air Resources Board News Clips for December 27, 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. CLIMATE CHANGE Climate Change Effects Vary Widely Between Rich And Poor Countries. Cancun, Mexico -- When Ulamila Kurai Wragg visited New York in 2009 to speak about the frightening climatic changes taking place in the Cook Islands, some audience members stunned her. "I was hearing, 'There's no such thing as climate change. What proof have you got?' “Wragg recalled.”The experience I had in New York was not easy to forget," said the member of the Cook Islands delegation to this month's United Nations climate summit in Cancun. Posted. http://www.contracostatimes.com/environment/ci_16947877?nclick_check=1 Obama Pushed To Deliver On Climate. Jan. 2 isn’t just your ordinary Sunday. It’s the day the Obama administration will officially start regulating greenhouse gas emissions, and critics have issued dire predictions of economic destruction. With all the fiery rhetoric about how damaging the regulations could be, the White House is under pressure to fulfill its pledge to tackle climate change while avoiding the appearance that it’s hindering job growth. Posted. http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=1605B4EB-F1E3-E75E-65B79621A5229A0A Next Year Offers Little Cheer for Those Battling Climate Change. Austin, Texas - For advocates of action to prevent climate change, 2010 was mostly a year to forget. It began with gloom, after the collapse of the Copenhagen climate meetings in December 2009. The mood darkened further as it became clear that cap-and-trade legislation to combat greenhouse gas emissions would not pass the U.S. Congress. A sliver of hope came from a modest agreement at climate meetings in Cancún, Mexico, earlier this month, on a more solid multinational commitment to finding ways to cut emissions. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/27/business/energy-environment/27green.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print GREEN ENERGY State Mandate Will Power Green Job Growth, But Not In Sacramento. A new state mandate requiring utilities to buy more of their power from environmentally friendly sources is transforming communities around California with new solar farms, wind farms and geothermal projects. But in Sacramento, the local utility is already so "green" that it has met state requirements to use renewable power sources. The potentially unfortunate result: Sacramento lacks a major driver for the kinds of jobs springing up elsewhere. Posted. http://www.sacbee.com/2010/12/26/v-print/3278901/state-mandate-will-power-green.html Dangerous Patriot Games for Renewable Energy. Have you heard about China's secret plan to build itself a shield against climate change while everyone else roasts? Neither have we. But national rivalry always lurks around an industry as dependent on government support as renewable energy. Just before Christmas, egged on by the United Steelworkers, the U.S. Trade Representative said China's subsidies to its wind power firms blocked American competitors like General Electric. Posted. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203731004576045733497760812.html Greener Refrigerator Set To Enter U.S. Market In 2011. Greenhouse gases other than carbon dioxide may not get as much global attention, but policymakers and business leaders view curbing these emissions as a way that nations can shrink their carbon footprints. Refrigerators have a role in this story. For decades, Americans have known only two types of household refrigerators: the pre-1996 fridge that uses an ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) refrigerant - commonly known by its trademark name, Freon - and the subsequent models that use the global-warming refrigerant called hydrofluorocarbon (HFC). Posted. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/26/AR2010122602479_pf.html On The Greenbeat: California Electric Car Rebates Could Run Dry; Carsharing Catches On With Major Automakers. Here’s the latest action we’re following on the GreenBeat today: California’s electric car rebates could run out — The state fund that pays $5,000 rebate California offers for zero-emission cars is currently funded with $8 million, enough to pay out 1,600 car buyers. But the amount of money available doesn’t match the pace of electric car rollouts, and would likely run out by mid-2011, according to advocacy group Plug In America, the Los Angeles Times reports. Posted. http://venturebeat.com/2010/12/27/on-the-greenbeat-california-electric-car-rebates-could-run-dry-carsharing-catches-on-with-major-automakers/ MISCELLANEOUS California To Rewrite Toxic-Chemical Regulations. California will take another stab at writing regulations that limit the toxic chemicals in consumer products after too many people said the rules weren't strict enough. The state's Department of Toxic Substances Control will miss a deadline Sunday to approve the new regulations, designed to remove harmful chemicals from toys, makeup, household cleaners and other products. California's regulations could eventually influence how other states govern such chemicals. “Posted. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/12/26/BA201GVJFU.DTL&type=printable OPINION Failure To Act Led To New Carbon Regs. Unless and until Congress crafts legislation setting out a sound national policy to address our energy future as well as global climate change, it should not bar the Environmental Protection Agency from using its existing authority to require large new sources of greenhouse gases to install the best available control technology at the time they are constructed. The source of EPA's authority — indeed in the view of the Supreme Court, its mandate to deal with greenhouse gases — is the Clean Air Act of 1970. Congress made significant midcourse corrections to it in 1977 and then again in 1990. Posted. http://www.sacbee.com/2010/12/26/v-print/3281787/failure-to-act-led-to-new-carbon.html Climate Change Optimism. This editorial appeared in the Baltimore Sun on Thursday, Dec. 23: The best news to be found on the climate change front this month was a report that the polar bear, a threatened species that has come to symbolize the dangers of global warming, may yet be saved - if greenhouse emissions are reduced over the next two decades. Unfortunately, that's a big "if." International climate talks that ended early this month in Cancun, Mexico, produced no legally binding agreement. They weren't expected to - nor is the stalemate expected to break in the near future. Posted. http://www.sacbee.com/2010/12/27/v-print/3283041/climate-change-optimism.html Diesel Nudge. Cleaning California's air at the cost of commercial devastation would be a Pyrrhic victory at best. Delaying some diesel emissions rules shows a recognition that the state economy has tanked. But air quality regulators should beware of easing rules further: California will never meet clean up its unhealthy air without cracking down on diesel pollution. The state Air Resources Board last week pushed back deadlines for new pollution rules covering diesel-powered trucks, buses and construction equipment. The board adopted regulations in 2007 and 2008 governing those vehicles. Posted. http://www.pe.com/localnews/opinion/editorials/stories/PE_OpEd_Opinion_D_op_27_ed_dieselrules.109d37.html BLOGS Out With the E-Waste, in With the … Recycling cellphones, computers and other electronic waste can be a challenge, as my colleague Elisabeth Rosenthal has observed on this blog. But next month, the Lower East Side Ecology Center in New York City plans 10 e-waste recycling events throughout the boroughs at which any type of working or nonworking computers, televisions, DVD players, phones and other gadgets and audiovisual equipment will be accepted from both households and small businesses. Posted. http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/ Wintry Weather and Global Warming. Here was the scene out our back door here in the highlands of the Hudson River Valley early Monday morning: Countless similar scenes have been recorded early in the Northern Hemisphere winter across western Europe and big swathes of the United States. So it wasn’t surprising to read the takeaway line in an op-ed article over the weekend by Judah Cohen, a commercial weather analyst, on the seeming paradox of unusually wintry winters in many populous parts of the Northern Hemisphere even as the world warms: It’s all a snow job by nature. Posted. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/27/wintry-weather-and-global-warming/?partner=rss&emc=rss When Clean Energy Is Not So Clean. The Environmental Protection Agency’s move to regulate greenhouse gas emissions should be a boon to so-called “clean energy.” But as examples from Colorado to California to upstate New York illustrate, the real definition of clean energy is hard to come by. And limiting greenhouse gas emissions could lead to a host of other environmental issues. The latest example, pointed out by the New York Times this morning, is a controversy in Colorado over processing uranium for nuclear reactors. Posted. http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/daily-brief/2010/12/27/when-clean-energy-is-not-so-clean#ixzz19L5IOK3h