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newsclips -- Newsclips for September 4, 2014

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:12:50
ARB Newsclips for September 4, 2014. 

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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/






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