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newsclips -- ARB Newsclips for September 16, 2015
Posted: 16 Sep 2015 14:57:34
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. AIR POLLUTION Beijing to impose fee on emitters to curb pollution: Xinhua. Manufacturers of furniture, petrochemicals, automobiles and electronics in Beijing will start paying fees in October for emitting volatile organic compounds (VOCs), a source of air pollution, the Xinhua state news agency said on Tuesday. Pollution has triggered increasing unease in China, where smog blankets many major cities, including Beijing, home to 21 million people. http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/15/us-china-pollution-idUSKCN0RF1IR20150915 Poor air quality hampers buildup for Singapore GP. The Singapore Grand Prix is already one of the most physically taxing races on the Formula One calendar, and this year drivers will have to put up with the additional strain of poor air quality. Smoke from forest fires in Indonesia has choked Singapore in the days leading up to the race, with the local government's Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) wavering between "unhealthy" and "very unhealthy." http://af.reuters.com/article/investingNews/idAFKCN0RG16020150916 Study: More than 6 million could die early from air pollution every year. The air we breathe outdoors could be harming more people than ever, a new study suggests. Globally, more than 3 million people die prematurely each year from prolonged exposure to air pollution, according to the World Health Organization. By 2050, it could be 6.6 million premature deaths every year worldwide, a new study predicts. Chronic exposure to air pollution particles contributes to the risk of developing cardiovascular and respiratory diseases as well as lung cancer, WHO said. http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/16/health/air-pollution-deaths-rising/ California’s Fire Problem Is Turning Into a Smoke Problem. So far this year, fires have destroyed hundreds of homes and tens of thousands of acres in California. Thanks to the state’s four-years-and-counting drought, those flames are spreading fast and far. But what travels even faster are the billows of smoke from those fires—which means a fire’s impact extends far beyond its perimeter. http://www.wired.com/2015/09/californias-fire-problem-becoming-smoke-problem/ CLIMATE CHANGE Investigation Finds Exxon Ignored Its Own Early Climate Change Warnings. Despite its efforts for nearly two decades to raise doubts about the science of climate change, newly discovered company documents show that as early as 1977, Exxon research scientists warned company executives that carbon dioxide was increasing in the atmosphere and that the burning of fossil fuels was to blame. The internal records are detailed in a new investigation published Wednesday by InsideClimate News, a Pulitzer Prize-winning news organization covering energy and the environment. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/environment/investigation-finds-exxon-ignored-its-own-early-climate-change-warnings/ Southland rain could be preview of the coming El Niño winter, experts say. It swamped streets, spilled into buildings, sent mud in motion and roiled rivers where rescue crews aided those swept up in the water overflow. Then the downpour that stunned the drought-weary Southland with its intensity slunk off in the sun. But if experts are right, the deluge offered a preview for the wet El Niño winter ahead. http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-0916-rain-20150916-story.html Sierra Nevada snowpack at 500-year low. The State of California - while be warned that the coming El Nino will be a rough one fraught with storms, secretly prays for a lot of water in the forecast. It has been learned that the state's Sierra Nevada snowpack is at a 500-year low, meaning little to no fresh water for the state. http://www.catholic.org/news/green/story.php?id=63849 FUELS Stems, Sticks Seen Driving Biofuel’s Next Expansion After 2020. The next generation of biofuels that don’t use food crops as a raw material are starting to take hold, with a big expansion of the industry coming after 2020, one of the industry’s key suppliers said. Novozymes A/S Chief Executive Officer Peder Holk Nielsen said the industry is shifting slowly toward using more cellulosic material -- the woody bits of plants -- instead of food crops such as corn and sugar beets. http://washpost.bloomberg.com/Story?docId=1376-NUPO516JIJUQ01-1M4I8USNFTRMQTC6RU7Q916R95 UK shale gas cash should pay for carbon capture projects – report. Britain should use revenues from the shale gas industry to help fund the development of projects that capture carbon dioxide emissions and store them underground, a shale gas industry-funded task force said on Wednesday. Britain is estimated to have substantial amounts of shale gas trapped in underground rocks and Prime Minister David Cameron has promised to go "all out for shale", hoping it will help reduce dependence on energy imports and generate additional tax revenue. http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/09/15/uk-britain-shale-report-idUKKCN0RF2VP20150915 Activists say ‘keep it in ground’; Jewell calls it simplistic. Hundreds of environmental groups are uniting under a new banner to curtail greenhouse gas emissions. It’s called: “Keep it in the ground.” They’re asking President Obama to stop new petroleum leases on public lands. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell rejected the idea in a meeting with reporters today. For decades, Alaska’s congressional delegation has been clamoring for more oil and gas leases on federal land. Now, in a letter to Obama, more than 400 green groups are saying exactly the opposite, that the president should just stop fossil fuel lease sales. http://www.alaskapublic.org/2015/09/15/activists-say-keep-it-in-ground-jewell-calls-it-simplistic/ VEHICLES Survey: People can't imagine life without cars. A majority of people around the world could not imagine living their lives without a car, according to a study released Wednesday at theFrankfurt Motor Show. The findings by the International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers (OICA), a group that defends the various interests of the car industry, revealed that 57% of people globally would find life harder or more challenging without access to four wheels. http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2015/09/16/survey-people-cant-imagine-life-without-cars/32489283/ GREEN ENERGY Wind industry says could supply 25 percent of EU electricity by 2030. Wind farms could supply a quarter of the European Union’s electricity needs by 2030 if member states come good on energy and climate pledges, an industry report said on Wednesday. Wind energy provides around 10 percent of the bloc’s electricity but lobby group… http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/16/us-europe-windpower-report-idUSKCN0RG1F420150916?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews Tenneco’s gasoline particulate filter technology ready to meet Euro 6c. Tenneco introduced its oval-shaped gasoline particulate filter design at the 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show . The filters are designed for gasoline direct injection (GDI) engines to reduce particulate emissions in compliance with the Euro 6c emissions regulations, which take effect on 1 September 2017. http://www.greencarcongress.com/2015/09/20150916-tenneco2.html Zambia to triple power generation in two years with solar. Zambia expects to triple power output to 6,000 megawatts (MW) in 2 years through expansion of solar energy by foreign investors, the head of its investment agency said. Erratic electricity supplies have hit mining in the continent's second biggest copper producer, where the bulk of its generation capacity of 2,200 MW of power is water-powered. http://af.reuters.com/article/investingNews/idAFKCN0RG16020150916 MISCELLANEOUS U.S. consumer prices post first decline in seven months. U.S. consumer prices unexpectedly fell in August as gasoline prices resumed their decline and a strong dollar curbed the cost of other goods, pointing to tame inflation that complicates the Federal Reserve's decision whether to hike interest rates. The Labor Department said on Wednesday its Consumer Price Index slipped 0.1 percent last month… http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/16/us-usa-economy-idUSKCN0RG1NB20150916?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews http://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/article35423220.html http://www.modbee.com/news/politics-government/article35423220.html http://www.ocregister.com/articles/percent-682863-prices-inflation.html http://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2015/09/16/us-consumer-prices-fell-01-percent-in-august http://www.ttnews.com/articles/basetemplate.aspx?storyid=39452 One in three California homes prone to wildfires. A third of homes in California are located in areas prone to wildfires, according to data from the U.S. Forest Service, a startling statistic that helps explain the fires that destroyed hundreds of homes in the state over the weekend. More such devastation is likely as people continue to build houses close together in areas vulnerable to wildfires and the blazes themselves become more common as a result of prolonged droughts and higher temperatures partly blamed on global warming, Forest Service and climate data show. http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2015/09/15/wildfire-risk-california/72315460/ OPINIONS Climate change, fire, Jerry Brown, UC, etc. Bold action needed on climate change. Re “Incinerated” (Page 1A, Sept. 14): Unusually devastating wildfires are raging across California. The Bee reports the fires have grown exponentially, been more explosive and grown faster than forecast. The “mass destruction” is so much worse because of the drought. http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article35351745.html#storylink=cpy Ignoring climate change will produce American refugees. Earlier this week, communities in Lake County, Calif., virtually disappeared in minutes, gobbled up by a raging wildfire that sprang up seemingly out of nowhere. Residents could do little except run for their lives. Hundreds of homes and businesses were gone in a few hours. Nineteen-thousand people, a third of the county’s population, are displaced. This is the third devastating fire in this county in the past six weeks, according to the local Santa Rosa Press Democrat, one of a dozen fires currently burning in California alone. http://www.mtexpress.com/opinion/editorials/ignoring-climate-change-will-produce-american-refugees/article_6bf2911c-5bcf-11e5-b97e-e3259de441ba.html BLOGS Celebrating the Best Climate Treaty of All Time. Today is international ozone day, a day when we traditionally celebrate the Montreal Protocol treaty for its historic success solving the first great threat to the global atmosphere--the threat to the protective stratospheric ozone layer from chlorofluorocarbons, CFCs. The treaty's success in phasing out CFCs and related chemicals prevented millions of deaths from skin cancer… http://www.huffingtonpost.com/durwood-zaelke/celebrating-the-best-clim_b_8143502.html California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips.