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Posted: 31 Dec 2014 11:10:00
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CAP AND TRADE

Prices set to rise around 10 cents in Pennsylvania, California in
2015
Two states are poised for about a 10-cent-per-gallon (CPG)
increase in gas prices as the calendar opens on 2015. 
http://www.cspnet.com/fuels-news-prices-analysis/fuels-news/articles/dime-time-gas-prices



AIR POLLUTION

Chinese Court Orders 6 Companies to Pay $26 Million for
Polluting
A court in eastern China has ordered six companies to pay fines
totaling about $26 million for discharging waste acid into two
waterways, according to the court’s microblog account. The fine,
160 million renminbi, is the biggest of any Chinese environmental
pollution case and seems to signal that officials are trying to
crack down on companies that have steadily degraded much of
China’s land, water and air.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/01/world/asia/chinese-court-orders-6-companies-to-pay-26-million-for-polluting.html?_r=0&gwh=8F77852F15F4520FED55FF4922F324A1&gwt=pay


In China, app aims to shame polluters by showing who is fouling
air
Sitting at a desk in his small office here, Ma Jun, one of
China's best-known environmental advocates, shows off his latest
tool in the fight against the nation's crippling air pollution: a
computer app. Displayed on a tablet, the app shows a map of
northeastern China covered with large orange circles, each
representing one of the country's major polluters, reporting its
emissions in real time.
http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-china-bad-air-20141230-story.html#page=1




CLIMATE CHANGE 

French Climate Envoy Sees Hope in Low Oil Prices
Low oil prices could paradoxically help the world reach an
international agreement to fight global warming, according to the
French ambassador charged with organizing a key climate
conference in Paris. France is spending the next 11 months trying
to cajole more than 190 countries into overcoming disagreements
about acceptable greenhouse gas emissions levels and who should
pay to achieve them to produce a binding accord to limit
emissions.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/french-climate-envoy-sees-hope-low-oil-prices-27925435


Paris 2015 is climate’s burning deadline
Agreements on climate change — to paraphrase what the 19th
century German statesman Otto von Bismarck said about lawmaking —
are like sausages. It is best not to know how they are made. On
Dec. 11 this coming year, 195 states are scheduled to strike a
deal in Paris to curb the fossil-fuel gases imperiling Earth’s
climate system.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/31/world/science-health-world/paris-2015-is-climates-burning-deadline/#.VKRF5xamOa8


Global agriculture equipment market set to adopt electric
machinery to combat carbon emissions
The global agriculture equipment market has experienced high
growth figures in recent years, as the global population
increases and therefore more people need to be fed. However,
countries such as India that are seeing their agriculture
industry grow rapidly are also increasing their carbon footprint.
There is now a growing feeling in the global agriculture
equipment market that the adoption of electronically powered
machinery can help reduce the levels of carbon emissions released
into the atmosphere.
http://www.companiesandmarkets.com/News/Agriculture-Farming-Raw-Materials/Global-agriculture-equipment-market-set-to-adopt-electric-machinery-to-combat-carbon-emissions/NI9909


Alaska is Ground Zero for Global Warming Studies
To the untrained eye, Bonanza Creek forest is breathtaking, a
vibrant place alive with butterflies and birds, with evidence of
moose and bear at every turn. But look through forest ecologist
Glenn Juday’s eyes, and you see a dying landscape. Since the
1970s, climate change has doubled the growing season in some
places and raised state temperatures 6 degrees in the winter and
3.5 on average annually since 1950, says Juday, a professor at
the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. Drought is stressing and
killing spruce, aspen and birch trees.
http://alaskatrekker.com/2014/12/alaska-ground-zero-global-warming-studies/




FUELS

Voices and Votes Against Fracking Rang Out and Racked Up in 2014
Burch Muldrow was absolutely fed up with Lewis Petroleum. The oil
company was bulldozing dirt over a pit full of black, oily sludge
on the ranch where he worked as caretaker. Recalling a dramatic
incident that happened two years ago, Muldrow said recently that
he couldn't just stand by and watch. So he grabbed an empty
one-gallon plastic milk jug from the bed of his pickup.
http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20141231/voices-and-votes-against-fracking-rang-out-and-racked-2014?utm_source=Inside+Climate+News&utm_campaign=7e308a28d0-InsideClimate_News12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-7e308a28d0-327749509




GREEN ENERGY

In California, At Least, The Case For Energy Efficiency Is
Building
Commercial building owners and managers will invest close to $960
billion globally between now and 2023 to retrofit existing
facilities with more energy-efficient heating, ventilation and
air conditioning, windows, lighting, plumbing fixtures, and other
key technologies. 
http://www.forbes.com/sites/heatherclancy/2014/12/30/in-california-at-least-the-case-for-energy-efficiency-is-building/


10 Energy Breakthroughs of 2014 That Could Change Your Life
From a new kind of light bulb to a carbon-removing power plant, a
dazzling array of new technologies that promise to save energy
and help fight global warming debuted this year. They're not just
gee-whiz hoverboards—levitating skateboards once considered
Hollywood lore that California-based tech firm Hendo has actually
managed to build. The developments include practical products for
the home, as well as potentially huge advances in how we produce
energy and get around. (See related story: "Four 2015 Energy
Ideas "Back to the Future" (Almost) Got Right.")
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2014/12/141231-2014-cool-energy-ideas/


In New Year, Cleaner Fuel Offshore Means Cleaner Air Onshore
A key component of one of the most significant health protection
measures adopted in the past several years will take effect in
the New Year – and Texas is positioned to reap significant
benefits. Large ocean-going ships, like container vessels,
tankers, and cruise ships are often called floating smokestacks
because they have historically burned fuel hundreds to thousands
of times dirtier than all other mobile sources, including cars,
trucks, trains and construction equipment. 
http://blogs.edf.org/texascleanairmatters/2014/12/30/in-new-year-cleaner-fuel-offshore-means-cleaner-air-on-land/


Top five stories: Energy and environment
It was a busy year on the energy and environment front, from
another delay in the review of the Keystone XL pipeline to
President Obama unveiling his controversial climate regulations
for power plants. Despite being accused of a “war on coal” by
Republicans in their successful campaign to win control of the
Senate, Obama shifted his climate agenda into high gear after the
elections by revealing a deal to cut greenhouse gas emissions
with China.
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/227928-top-five-stories-energy-and-environment




BLOGS

CARB Chairman Nichols Discusses Climate, Air Policies with
Bloomberg BNA
Mary D. Nichols, chairman of the California Air Resources Board,
spoke with Bloomberg BNA correspondent Carolyn Whetzel in Los
Angeles Dec. 16 about the agency's air quality and climate
policies. In this exclusive interview, Nichols discusses what's
ahead in the ongoing implementation of the state's landmark
Global Warming Solutions Act (A.B. 32) and for the nation's first
economywide greenhouse gas emissions cap-and-trade program—now
linked with Quebec's carbon market. This interview has been
edited for clarity.
http://www.bna.com/carb-chairman-nichols-b17179921775/ 

While Much of the U.S. Shivers, Alaskan Fourth Graders Bemoan a
Warm, Snowless December on YouTube
While most of the lower 48 states are shivering their way into
2015, in much of Alaska the concern is persistent warmth. Fourth
graders at the Kuinerrarmiut Elitnaurviat school in Quinhagak
recently caught the attention of some news outlets and climate
scientists with a clever video bemoaning a warm and snowless
December. The town of about 660 residents, mostly Yup’ik Eskimos,
is a mile from the Bering Sea coast.
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/31/while-much-of-the-u-s-shivers-alaskan-fourth-graders-bemoan-a-warm-snowless-december-on-youtube/?_r=0&assetType=opinion


Marketing California's "Climate Credit for Cars" to Everyone
Starting in January 2015, California's cap and trade program is
expanding to include transportation fuels. Gasoline refiners will
be required to purchase allowances for the greenhouse gas
emissions associated with their product, and at $12 a ton for
carbon dioxide, this will raise the price of California gas for
consumers by 10 cents a gallon, according to UC Berkeley
Professor Severin Borenstein. Consumers will likely not notice
the change, given the decrease in the price of oil over the past
year and the overall volatility in gas prices. But the funds
raised will be substantial.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-sandler/marketing-californias-cli_b_6398554.html





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