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newsclips -- Newsclips for September 4, 2014
Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:12:50
ARB Newsclips for September 4, 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 Emissions from energy generation jump most in eight years after carbon price axed. Carbon emissions from the country's main electricity grid have risen since the end of the carbon tax by the largest amount in nearly eight years. Data from the National Electricity Market, which covers about 80 per cent of Australia's population, shows that emissions from the sector rose by about 1 million tonnes, or 0.8 per cent, at an annualised rate last month compared with June. Posted. http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/emissions-from-energy-generation-jump-most-in-eight-years-after-carbon-price-axed-20140903-10by8d.html AIR POLLUTION Salton Sea inaction could cause 'catastrophic change,' report says. Saving the beleaguered Salton Sea will be expensive, but allowing it to continue deteriorating will cost even more in terms of dollars, unemployment, property values and damage to public health, according to a study released Wednesday by the Pacific Institute. Straddling Riverside and Imperial counties, the Salton Sea has never attracted the political constituency of the state’s other bodies of water -- Lake Tahoe, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta or the San Francisco Bay. Posted. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-salton-sea-warning-report-20140903-story.html?track=rss Cleaner Air Shown to Reduce Health Costs. A study of air pollution reduction measures over the past ten years in Taiyuan, China, shows more than 50% of health costs associated with loss of life and disability have been saved as a direct result of the regulations’ implementation. Posted. http://www.buildings.com/news/industry-news/articleid/17937/title/cleaner-air-shown-to-reduce-health-costs.aspx CLIMATE CHANGE EPA OKs FutureGen plan for CO2 storage. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday said it has approved permits for the FutureGen clean coal project to store carbon dioxide underground, a key step in the longstanding plan to build the project. FutureGen plans to store carbon dioxide, a greenhouse linked to climate change, after capturing it from a power plant in western Illinois. Posted. http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/09/02/4101104_epa-oks-futuregen-plan-for-co2.html?rh=1 La Mesa planning to plant new trees. La Mesa has had city workers cut down most of the shade trees along La Mesa Boulevard as it gets deeper into its Downtown Village Streetscape Improvement effort. Planned since March 2008, the $5.8 million project's intent is to improve crosswalks and pedestrian areas; update sidewalks, curbs, gutters and pedestrian ramps; upgrade landscaping, street trees and planters; add new lighting; new benches, new trash receptacles and new recycling containers; and update street signs, pedestrian and vehicular directional signs. Posted. http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/sep/03/la-mesa-planning-plant-new-trees/ As the seas rise, a slow-motion disaster gnaws at America’s shores. Missions flown from the NASA base here have documented some of the most dramatic evidence of a warming planet over the past 20 years: the melting of polar ice, a force contributing to a global rise in ocean levels. The Wallops Flight Facility’s relationship with rising seas doesn’t end there. Posted. http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/waters-edge-the-crisis-of-rising-sea-levels/ HIGH-SPEED RAIL Comment period extended for two California high-speed rail projects. The California High-Speed Rail Authority has extended the public comment period to Sept. 12 for the Palmdale-to-Burbank and Burbank-to-Los Angeles high-speed rail projects. On July 24, the authority and Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) published the notices of preparation and intent for the receipt of public comments regarding the environmental documents for the two sections. Posted. http://www.progressiverailroading.com/high_speed_rail/news/Comment-period-extended-for-two-California-highspeed-rail-projects--41723 DROUGHT Water allocation an issue at fracking locations across US and globally. Extracting natural gas for energy from shale rock deep underground requires lots of water, but much of the world's shale gas is in regions where water is already scarce, including part of California, according to a study issued Tuesday. The amount of recoverable natural gas from shale formations would increase global reserves by nearly half, the report from the World Resources Institute found. Posted. http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/04/6677344/water-allocation-an-issue-at-fracking.html#storylink=cpy GREEN ENERGY Largest corn waste-to-ethanol facility launches. The world's largest refinery that turns corn plant waste into ethanol began production Wednesday in Iowa, and many national and international dignitaries in attendance touted the technology as a major step in the shift from the fossil fuel age to a biofuels revolution. Posted. http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Netherlands-king-attends-ethanol-plant-opening-5729946.php VEHICLES Plant gets Tesla closer to electric car for masses. To bring electric cars to the masses, Tesla Motors will transform an expanse of desert where pioneers passed on their way to the California Gold Rush and wild mustangs still roam the hillside. This time, the rush will be in Nevada, which Tesla chose over four other states as the site for a $5 billion factory that the carmaker projects will crank out enough high-tech car batteries to power 500,000 vehicles annually by decade's end. Posted. http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Plant-gets-Tesla-closer-to-electric-car-for-masses-5732578.php http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_26460239/jackpot-tesla-motors-appears-have-chosen-nevada-site?source=rss http://green.autoblog.com/2014/09/03/tesla-will-build-first-gigafactory-in-nevada/ BLOGS California Drought Snapshot: Snowless Mount Shasta. That’s John Muir, writing in 1877. The pioneering conservationist, who looked at California’s mountains and always saw poetry, was describing a harrowing day and night spent stranded near the summit of Mount Shasta in a spring blizzard. He and a companion, who had been caught in the open with only the clothes they were wearing, survived the night by sleeping near steam vents high on the mountain. Posted. http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2014/09/03/california-drought-snapshot-snowless-mount-shasta/ It’s a historic year for temperature extremes. This year is shaping up to be one of the weirder ones in America’s weather history. That’s because we now seem to be living in two geographically separate nations: one scalded by unbearable heat, the other bitten by waves of unusual cold. Posted. http://grist.org/climate-energy/its-a-historic-year-for-temperature-extremes/ Will Obama do the right thing on smog this time? Over the coming year, President Obama will either repeat or undo one of his greatest insults to the environmental community — and to the nation’s air quality. On Friday, the EPA reaffirmed its longstanding scientific finding that current rules allow too much ozone (a.k.a. smog) in the air and do not adequately protect human health. Posted. http://grist.org/politics/will-obama-do-the-right-thing-on-smog-this-time/ Toyota will steer clear of driverless cars. Toyota executives say the company's primary focus is on safety. At least for the time being, that means the company won't pursue development of a driverless car. Speaking at the company's advanced safety seminar in Ypsilanti, MI, Thursday morning, Seigo Kuzumaki, Toyota's deputy chief safety technology officer, said that Toyota envisions a future driving environment that optimizes the best of both humans and computers, not choosing one over the other. Posted. http://www.autoblog.com/2014/09/04/toyota-will-not-develop-driverless-car/ Tesla is quietly installing higher-speed, non-Supercharger network. To a Tesla Model S driver, 58 miles an hour is pretty tepid when it comes to driving speed. Recharging speed, though? That's a pretty good clip. The California-based automaker is complementing the deployment of it high-powered Superchargers with slightly-less-super wall chargers that supply 80 amps and can provide almost 60 miles worth of driving in one hour of charging, according to The Wall Street Journal. Posted. http://green.autoblog.com/2014/09/04/tesla-quietly-installing-higher-speed-non-supercharger-network/ California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips.