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newsclips -- Newsclips for August 29, 2014
Posted: 29 Aug 2014 13:08:34
ARB Newsclips for August 29, 2014. 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. CAP AND TRADE California's Cap and Trade System Could Help Ease Central Valley Pollution. California’s cap and trade program could help clean up pollution in the Central Valley. FM89’s Diana Aguilera explains the early stages of the effort. A few months ago the state came out with a report ranking the most polluted places in California. Many Fresno County neighborhoods ranked among the worst. Posted. http://kvpr.org/post/californias-cap-and-trade-system-could-help-ease-central-valley-pollution EPA Rules Could Breathe New Life into Cap and Trade. Earlier this year, mayors from across the country renewed a pledge to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, building on the 10th anniversary of a national movement that brought new bike lanes, solar panels and entire fleets of hybrid government vehicles to cities. But the mayors made one significant change to their platform: They scrapped the idea of lobbying Congress for a national cap-and-trade program. Posted. http://www.governing.com/topics/transportation-infrastructure/gov-epa-cap-trade-power-plant.html AIR POLLUTION LA County Public Works fined $256K over air pollution violations. State air regulators fined L.A. County’s Department of Public Works $256,000 for violating air pollution rules. The California Air Resources Board audited records for the county’s heavy-duty diesel fleet four years ago, and the fine levied now is the result of a settlement under which county public works paid over $192,000 to the state’s air pollution control fund. Posted. http://www.scpr.org/news/2014/08/28/46342/air-regulators-ding-la-county-public-works-over-di/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+893KpccSouthernCaliforniaNews-Science%2Ftechnology+%28KPCC%3A+Science+News%29 CLIMATE CHANGE Does Antarctic sea ice growth negate climate change? Scientists say no. In the blue half-light of the Antarctic autumn, a thin film spreads across the continent's coastal waters. It's an embryonic form of sea ice: a mush of microscopic crystals that floats on the dense, salty water of the Southern Ocean. As winter takes root, this proto-sea ice grows thicker and stronger until it encircles Antarctica in a vast frozen ring. The ice spans nearly 7 million square miles at its peak, an area roughly twice the size of the United States. Posted. http://www.latimes.com/science/la-sci-antarctic-sea-ice-20140830-story.html#page=1 DIESEL EMISSIONS CARB urges TRU upgrade orders in August's final days. The California Air Resources Board says reefer owners must have emissions upgrade orders placed by Aug. 31 in order to be eligible for any time extensions. CARB’s Transportation Refrigeration Unit rule requires reefers and gen sets to be upgraded within seven years of the manufacture date. By Dec. 31, 2014, reefers and gen sets with a manufacture year of 2007 must be retrofitted with a verified diesel particulate filter or replaced with a newer engine model year unit. Posted. http://www.landlinemag.com/Story.aspx?StoryID=27574#.VAC2CGPxCSo West Sacramento beer distributor fined for Air Resources Board violations. Beverage distributor DBI Beverage Inc. was fined $116,400 for failing to monitor the emissions of its diesel truck fleet, the California Air Resources Board announced Wednesday. DBI Beverage has locations in West Sacramento, Chico, Truckee, South San Francisco, Fairfield, Ukiah, San Jose and Stockton. Posted. http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2014/08/28/west-sacramento-beer-distributor-fined-air-violati.html FUELS Feds to resume leasing for fracking in California. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management will resume issuing oil and gas leases next year for federal lands in California after a new study found limited environmental impacts from fracking and other enhanced drilling techniques, the agency said Thursday. Posted. http://www.sacbee.com/2014/08/28/6662140/feds-to-resume-leasing-for-fracking.html Environmentally Friendly Fracking Fluids: The Next Energy Breakthrough? One of the biggest complaints against hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking" -- the process of injecting high-pressure fluids to release hydrocarbons trapped in deep shale reservoirs -- is that it harms the environment. Even as fracking has helped bring about a veritable shale revolution that has sent U.S. oil production to a multi-decade high and helped reduce the nation's dependence on foreign energy, it has also drawn the ire of those concerned about the environment. Posted. http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Environmentally-Friendly-Fracking-Fluids-The-5721136.php VEHICLES Hitting the Gas on Hydrogen. California is inching tantalizingly closer to the birth of a new automotive industry based on hydrogen. Fuel-cell vehicles — electric cars that run on hydrogen — will be popping up this year and next year, as will new clusters of fueling stations in and around San Francisco, Los Angeles and Orange County. Posted. http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/aug/29/tp-hitting-the-gas-on-hydrogen/ Hydrogen highway inches closer. California is inching tantalizingly closer to the birth of a new automotive industry based on hydrogen. Fuel cell vehicles — electric cars that run on hydrogen — will be popping up this year and next near new clusters of fueling stations in and around San Francisco, Los Angeles and Orange County. Posted. http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/aug/29/california-opens-hydrogen-highway/ ‘Greenest’ refrigerated truck goes into service for dairy business. West Horsley Dairy is making deliveries around London with a 7.5-tonne Fuso Canter Eco Hybrid, complete with a carbon- and noise-free chiller which uses a eutectic system instead of traditional air-blown fridge. The Canter Eco Hybrid's chassis was supplied by dealer Rossetts Commercials and the insulated body was built by Jackson Coachworks, of Loughborough, featuring its 'eistechnik' eutectic refrigeration system. Posted. http://www.transportengineer.org.uk/transport-engineer-news/reenest-refrigerated-truck-goes-into-service-for-dairy-business/63762/ MISCELLANEOUS Bike lane project moving forward. A Highway 33/140 bike lane project moved a step closer to fruition recently with City Council approval of a supplemental funding agreement which will pick up the city’s share of the project cost. City Manager Greg Greeson said the additional dollars will come through the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District. Posted. http://www.westsideconnect.com/2014/08/28/bike-lane-project-moving-forward/ OPINION The role of health care in preventing climate catastrophes. This week, leading health authorities are huddled at World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, discussing how to confront one of the most urgent threats to humanity. It's not Ebola. And it's not HIV/AIDS, malaria, cancer, obesity, heart disease or diabetes. The problem - a changing climate - doesn't fit the traditional definition of health hazard and yet it threatens to undermine the health of individuals and communities in nearly every nation. Posted. http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/08/29/4094064/the-role-of-health-care-in-preventing.html www.modbee.com/2014/08/29/3510013/the-role-of-health-care-in-preventing.html#storylink=misearch BLOGS Renewable energy is up, but renewable investment isn’t. Here’s optimistic news: Last year marked the strongest boom in green energy yet, with 22 percent of the world’s electricity produced by wind, solar, or other renewable energy sources. Sure, those figures are promising, but the International Energy Agency, the Paris-based organization behind a new report on the renewable energy market, cautions that some governments are shying away from policies that promote clean energy and that’s discouraging investment in the sector. Posted. http://grist.org/list/renewable-energy-is-up-but-renewable-investment-isnt/ Accounting for the Expanding Carbon Shadow from Coal-Burning Plants. Steven Davis of the University of California, Irvine, and Robert Socolow of Princeton (best known for his work dividing the climate challenge into carbon “wedges”) have written “Commitment accounting of CO2 emissions,” a valuable new paper in Environmental Research Letters showing the value of shifting from tracking annual emissions of carbon dioxide from power plants to weighing the full amount of carbon dioxide that such plants, burning coal or gas, could emit during their time in service. Posted. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/28/accounting-for-the-expanding-carbon-shadow-from-coal-burning-plants/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0 Tesla Model S now the least-stolen car in the US. When is a Honda Accord more appealing than a Tesla Model S? When you're a thief. The Accord continues to reign as the most-stolen car in the US but the Model S is now claiming a new and interesting title: the least-stolen car in America. Last year, it wasn't even on the list. Of course, sometimes a Model S is stolen and the most famous case ended with tragic results. Posted. http://green.autoblog.com/2014/08/28/tesla-model-s-now-the-least-stolen-car-in-the-us/ California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips.