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Posted: 06 Nov 2015 15:18:37
ARB Newsclips for November 6, 2015. 

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CAP AND TRADE

Clean power takes off with 'breakthrough' into low-income
communities. The Clean Power Plan borrows from California's bill
to funnel cap-and-trade proceeds to underserved areas, as new
energy markets uplift more people. When California was building
its carbon emissions cap and trade program, environmental justice
activist Vien Truong and a few others came to the state with an
idea.
http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2433613/clean-power-takes-off-with-breakthrough-into-low-income-communities


CLIMATE CHANGE

Killing Keystone XL, Obama says pipeline not in US interests.
President Barack Obama rejected an application to build the
Keystone XL pipeline Friday after 7 years of federal review,
declaring the proposed project wouldn't serve U.S. national
interests and would have undercut America's global leadership on
climate change. The 1,179-mile proposed pipeline wouldn't have
lowered U.S. gas prices, Obama said…
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_KEYSTONE_PIPELINE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
   

OTHER RELATED STORIES
http://www.wsj.com/articles/obama-administration-to-reject-keystone-xl-pipeline-citing-climate-concerns-1446825732?alg=y
  
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/11/06/usa-keystone-idUKL1N1311KJ20151106?feedType=RSS&feedName=rbssEnergyNews
 
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/06/usa-keystone-republicans-idUSL1N1311OZ20151106
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/07/us/obama-expected-to-reject-construction-of-keystone-xl-oil-pipeline.html?_r=1

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2015/11/06/keystone-pipeline/75293456/
  
http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/11/06/keystone-xl-pipeline  
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/11/06/455007054/president-obama-expected-to-reject-keystone-xl-plan-friday?sc=nd
 
http://www.eenews.net/greenwire/stories/1060027609 

Official: NY probes Exxon, Peabody climate statements. New York's
attorney general is examining statements by Exxon Mobil and
Peabody Energy to determine whether they deceived investors about
the causes and impacts of climate change, an official familiar
with the investigations said Thursday.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CLIMATE_CHANGE_INVESTIGATIONS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT


OTHER RELATED STORIES
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-exxon-climate-probe-20151105-story.html

http://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article43272975.html   
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_29079439/ny-attorney-general-examines-climate-change-statements-by
 
http://www.kspr.com/life/money/exxonmobil-hit-with-climate-change-investigation-in-new-york/21052342_36283306
 
http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2015/1106/Exxon-Mobil-under-fire-Did-energy-giant-suppress-climate-research


Hot weather is now affecting Belgian beer too. One of the most
renowned Belgian beer brewers says it is a victim of climate
change because increasingly high temperatures have shortened the
brewing season by a month since the 1950s. The Cantillon gueuze
brewery needs to cool its hot brew in open vessels so that the
natural yeasts in the air…
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_BELGIUM_CLIMATE_CHANGE_BEER?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

OTHER RELATED STORIES
http://www.sacbee.com/news/business/article43424700.html 

 40-country survey: Majority support for cutting emissions.  A
survey across 40 countries around the world found most people see
global warming as a serious problem, and most of them want their
governments to limit emissions as part of a global agreement
being negotiated in Paris in a month.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CLIMATE_COUNTDOWN_ATTITUDES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Scientists tinker with evolution to save Hawaii coral reefs.
Scientists at a research center on Hawaii's Coconut Island have
embarked on an experiment to grow "super coral" that they hope
can withstand the hotter and more acidic oceans that are expected
with global warming.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SAVING_HAWAII_CORAL?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT


France sees progress on UN climate deal, but questions abound.
Governments have made a "very significant first step" to rein in
climate change with national plans for action but more than 30
core questions remain unsolved before a summit on global warming
starts in Paris on Nov. 30, a French document shows.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/06/climatechange-summit-idUSL8N13136720151106#C5XOcEfsw7ZrXGqx.99


New U.N. report underscores the tough math of the global carbon
budget. With less than a month to go until the all important U.N.
climate change conference in Paris, yet another key report has
reinforced how off target the world is from the goal of limiting
warming to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/11/06/new-u-n-report-underscores-the-tough-math-of-the-global-carbon-budget/


Pledges for Paris Signal Breakthrough in Global Warming Fight.
Climate pledges by nations across the world signal a breakthrough
in efforts to step up the fight against global warming, according
to the United Nations Environment Program. Commitments by 146
countries submitted to the UN for a new climate agreement next
month put the world on track to cut greenhouse gases by 4
gigatons to 6 gigatons…
http://washpost.bloomberg.com/Story?docId=1376-NXEACS6JIJUZ01-1813TD8SB6H8VLC5EHJ4P7GIVT


Global emissions gap could still be 12 bln tonnes in 2030 – UN.
Greenhouse gas emissions in 2030 could still be up to 12 billion
tonnes more than the level needed to keep global warming within 2
degrees Celsius this century, a United Nations report estimated
on Friday. The sixth annual U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP)
report analysed the impact of countries' climate policies and
emissions pledges…
http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFL8N12Y2WS20151106

As scientists warn of ‘chilling effect’ on research, congressman
doubles down on NOAA to release deliberations on climate study. A
nasty fight between a senior House Republican and the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration over a recent climate
change study is getting nastier.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/federal-eye/wp/2015/11/06/as-scientists-warn-of-chilling-effect-on-research-congressman-doubles-down-on-noaa-to-release-deliberations-on-climate-study/


Map: Where climate change is a big deal (and where it isn’t). A
Pew survey conducted in 40 countries found that a majority of
respondents were concerned about the threat of climate change and
wanted their governments to be more proactive about mitigating
its effects. The report comes just weeks in advance of a pivotal
United Nations summit in Paris, where world leaders will attempt
to negotiate a major global pact…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/11/06/map-where-climate-change-is-a-big-deal-and-where-it-isnt/


Michael Bloomberg Targets Attorneys General With Ads on Carbon
Emissions. Former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York City
will run millions of dollars in political television ads against
four state attorneys general who are suing the Obama
administration over new regulations on carbon emissions from
power plants. The ads, which Mr. Bloomberg’s advisers said would
cost more than $10 million…
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/07/us/politics/michael-bloomberg-state-attorneys-general-carbon-emissions.html?_r=0


World only half way to meeting emissions target with current
pledges. Governments will need to increase efforts to limit
carbon emissions in order to stop climate change, says UN report
ahead of Paris summit. Current global efforts to cut greenhouse
gas emissions leave about half of the reductions needed still to
be found, according to a new analysis by the UN.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/nov/06/world-only-half-way-meeting-emissions-target-with-current-pledges


Extreme Heat Defines Climate Change. The connection between heat
waves and global warming strengthens. The lasting legacy of
climate change will be heat. The land, the oceans, all of it.
It’s the tie that binds and while the global average temperature
is the defining metric, the increasing incidence of heat waves
and longer lasting extreme heat is how the world will experience
it.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/extreme-heat-defines-climate-change/


DROUGHT

Early-season storm makes small dent in California's drought
outlook. An early-season storm that blanketed mountains from
Northern California to the Central Valley with snow showed
tangible results on the state’s historic drought, new federal
data show. Two areas of California considered to be in
“exceptional” drought were upgraded to the “extreme” category…
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-snow-drought-monitor-report-20151106-story.html


Majority of Texas out of drought thanks to heavy Oct. rains.
Recent rains that fell on Texas saturated many parts of the state
and lessened drought conditions. The U.S. Drought Monitor map
released Thursday shows that about 95 percent of Texas has no
drought. Just more than 4 percent has moderate drought.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/article43239045.html#storylink=cpy


Bay Area country club gulps over 2 million gallons of water a
week. It takes a lot of water to feed the lush lawns that drape
in vibrant folds across the Menlo Country Club’s golf course on
the edge of Woodside. And, apparently, a crippling drought is
seen as no reason to pull back on the spigot.
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Bay-Area-country-club-gulps-more-than-2-million-6614294.php


CALIFORNIA DROUGHT: Redlands restricts outdoor watering. City
Council OK’s limits in wake of state water board’s $61,000 fine.
Redlands, which was fined $61,000 by the state water board last
week for failing to meet its state water reduction target, will
now limit outdoor watering to two days a week. The City Council
voted Tuesday, Nov. 3, to impose the new irrigation restrictions.
http://www.pe.com/articles/water-785510-state-city.html 

Feds fund research on droughts. U.S. EPA announced $4 million in
grants yesterday for research on the impacts of drought and the
perils it fosters, like wildfire and runoff from flooding. It
comes as climate change exacerbates the frequency and severity of
drought across the United States.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2015/11/06/stories/1060027581 

Heavy rains bring drought relief, except in Calif. Heavy rainfall
that drenched the southern United States in October spurred a
record decline in the nation's drought, even as conditions in
parched California remain largely unchanged, according to the
latest U.S. Drought Monitor report.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2015/11/06/stories/1060027602 

DIESEL ACTIVITIES

Air quality grants available for heavy-duty diesel equipment,
school buses. The Utah Department of Environmental Quality is
providing up to $700,000 to reduce emissions from heavy-duty
diesel vehicles/equipment, school buses and landscape/maintenance
equipment through the Clean Air Retrofit, Replacement and
Off-Road Technology program.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865640773/Air-quality-grants-available-for-heavy-duty-diesel-equipment-school-buses.html?pg=all

FUELS

Biofuels Could Make Up 5-10 Percent of Global Marine Fuel Mix By
2030. According to GoodFuels Marine CEO Dirk Kronemeijer,
biofuels could make up 5-10 percent of the total global marine
fuel mix by 2030, Hellenic Shipping News reports. Though the
figures are an estimate, the company said that it is planning on
a more formal global study to "research the scaling of the supply
and demand of sustainable marine biofuels."
http://shipandbunker.com/news/world/590063-biofuels-could-make-up-5-10-percent-of-global-marine-fuel-mix-by-2030


VEHICLES

Former Tesla workers launch mysterious Gardena start-up with ties
to Chinese multibillionaire. In an industrial corner of Gardena,
near a credit union and pet cemetery, a small white sign in front
of a metal building reads “Faraday Future,” with a number to call
for deliveries. It's the only indication of the high-tech hive of
activity inside, where a mysterious electric car start-up is
taking shape.
http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-faraday-auto-factory-plan-20151105-story.html


Plug-in Electric Car Sales in Canada, October 2015: The Wallet
Ballot. During the same month in which a second-generation
Trudeau won the Canadian election, the second-generation Chevy
Volt took the plug-in electric vehicle sales crown. The new model
helped Chevrolet sell 203 Volts in Canada in October, well above
the 126 sold in September…
http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1100803_plug-in-electric-car-sales-in-canada-october-2015-the-wallet-ballot


VW RECALL

Volkswagen says chief designer de Silva to retire. Scandal-hit
Volkswagen's chief designer Walter Maria de Silva will retire at
the end of November, the company said on Friday, confirming
earlier reports that he would quit. Volkswagen's statement made
no mention of a successor, and said de Silva would remain
connected to the company in an advisory capacity.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/06/volkswagen-emissions-designervolkswagen-idUSF9N12L01D20151106#xTBQXASr7Pa2RpuH.97


Volkswagen Media Site Says its Published Emissions Figures Are
‘Conditional’.
Volkswagen issues warning to journalists logging onto media
database. Volkswagen AG issued a warning to the media on Thursday
in a pop-up window that appears when journalists log onto its
massive media database on the corporate website: the information
found here may be inaccurate.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/volkswagen-media-site-says-its-published-emissions-figures-are-conditional-1446738728


EU asks members to investigate after VW admits new
irregularities. The European Commission has written to all 28
European Union member countries urging them to widen their
investigations into potential breaches of vehicle emissions rules
after Volkswagen admitted it had understated carbon dioxide
levels.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/11/06/uk-volkswagen-emissions-eu-idUKKCN0SU2XE20151106


Correction: Volkswagen-Union Story. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — In a
story Nov. 3 about unionization efforts at the Volkswagen plant
in Tennessee, The Associated Press erroneously identified a
previous labor case involving a Mobile, Alabama, nursing home.
The name of the facility is Specialty Healthcare, not Southern
Healthcare. A corrected version of the story is below: VW opposes
union for maintenance workers at Tennessee plant.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/11/05/us/ap-us-volkswagen-union.html
 

GREEN ENERGY

U.N. climate fund approves first projects ahead of Paris summit.
A multi-billion dollar fund set up by the United Nations to help
poor countries tackle climate change on Friday approved its first
eight projects, which will receive $168 million, a key step
before a global climate summit starts on Nov. 30. The Green
Climate Fund (GCF) has $10.2 billion in pledges and is a key
ingredient for a U.N. climate accord.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/06/us-un-climatechange-finance-idUSKCN0SV0FD20151106#1zT7wTV7KELPmtxu.99


Philippines Largest Wind Farm Gets $20 Million Loan From ADB. The
Asian Development Bank agreed to lend as much as $20 million to
help finance the biggest wind farm in the Philippines. ADB has
signed a financing assignment agreement with the project operator
EDC Burgos Wind Power Corp., Eksport Kredit Fonden, and a
syndicate of international banks for the 150- megawatt Burgos
wind power project…
http://washpost.bloomberg.com/Story?docId=1376-NXE0V46S972901-545C0VMQPFKI0I738R2CVL32UT


Green-living people seek natural burial options. You've switched
to energy efficient light bulbs. You've installed solar panels.
But you probably have not taken the green-living lifestyle as far
as it can go. Talk about greener pastures. Among those who are
attuned to environmental sustainability, some look for a way to
be greener, even after death.
http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/11/06/green-living-people-seek-natural-burial-options/75272990/


MISCELLANEOUS

Lumber Liquidators Hires CEO for Turnaround Bid; Shares Gain.
Lumber Liquidators Holdings Inc. appointed Chairman John Presley
as its next chief executive officer, turning to a longtime board
member and banking-industry veteran to turn around the embattled
retailer. Presley, a Lumber Liquidators director since 2006, will
take the reins from company founder Thomas Sullivan…
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-04/lumber-liquidators-names-new-ceo-after-posting-another-loss

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/05/business/lumber-liquidators-names-john-m-presley-as-chief.html


Kangaroo farts not as environmentally friendly as previously
thought. Kangaroos can no longer feel smug about their
flatulence. Traditionally, it’s been thought that the animals
produce unusually low amounts of methane when they pass gas.
Since livestock farts (I’m looking at you, cows) make up a lot of
our global greenhouse gas emissions that would make kangaroos
potential lifesavers in the global warming department.
http://www.modbee.com/news/nation-world/world/article43333518.html#storylink=cpy


OPINIONS

Soak the rich to help solve California's water crisis.  During a
time of drought, when most urban dwellers are making do with
less, nothing sticks in the craw quite like the cad in Bel-Air
who reportedly is using 90 times as much water as the average
household. Nothing would be more emotionally satisfying than
socking him (or her, or them) with a hefty fine…
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-water-20151106-story.html

Red flags for high-speed rail. Did the California High-Speed Rail
Authority downplay potential cost increases for the state's
controversial bullet train? In a draft PowerPoint presentation
dated October 2013, the agency's project management consultant
estimated that the cost of the first phase of the line, from
Burbank to Merced, could grow to about $36 billion.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-1105-high-speed-rail-20151105-story.html


The oil industry isn’t only polluting our air; it’s polluting our
politics as well. Take a look at the latest lobbying figures
released by the California Secretary of State’s Office. In the
third quarter of this year alone, the oil lobby spent more than
$11 million getting lawmakers in Sacramento to do its bidding.
Its top priority: killing part of Senate Bill 350 that would have
cut statewide gasoline consumption in half by 2030.
http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/soapbox/article43248378.html#storylink=cpy


For clean energy, let’s go with solar. Re “Wind energy is being
unfairly held back” (Insight, Nov. 3): Wind power is not
practical, takes up too much acreage, cannot be stored and is
financed by wealthy investors and large corporations. Jobs are
created when the wind farm is being built, but after it is
powered, only a handful of employees need to remain.
http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article43075578.html#storylink=cpy


Is the threat from climate change really like the Nazis? In the
great tradition of such 1940s sloganeering as “We can do it” (but
not “Keep calm and carry on”), a very animated Gov. Jerry Brown
puts California’s response to climate change on par with the
Golden State’s involvement in the birth of the world’s first
atomic bomb. This isn’t a critique of the significance the
governor places on global warming.
http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/bill-whalen/article43258515.html#storylink=cpy


Menlo Park: As the sea rises so should the urgency to tackle the
problem locally, officials agree. One thing seems certain: The
seas are rising. Yet the approach to dealing with sea level rise
in San Francisco Bay is as fluid as the Bay itself. For one
thing, the science keeps evolving, leading to conflicting reports
of the likely impacts of climate change.
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_29074513/menlo-park-sea-rises-so-should-urgency-tackle

The little things that come with climate change. "It has long
been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the
most important," said Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Nowhere is this
more true than in Integrated Pest Management (IPM), the system I
was taught for controlling pests using least toxic methods. This
is an approach created to stop overreaction to the presence of
small pest problems with powerful chemical insecticides.
http://www.desertsun.com/story/life/home-garden/maureen-gilmer/2015/11/06/little-things-come-climate-change/75099208/


BLOGS

Only 18% in China View Climate Change as ‘Very Serious’ Problem.
When it comes to climate change, many Chinese just aren’t as
fussed as they used to be. That is among the key findings of
global polling by the U.S.-based Pew Research Center, which found
less than one-fifth of Chinese surveyed viewed climate change as
a very serious problem, down 23 percentage points from polling
five years ago.
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2015/11/06/only-18-in-china-view-climate-change-as-very-serious-problem/


Carbon Dioxide Inside Can Be Harmful Too. New studies show that
CO2 inside buildings could be just as harmful as outside. The
dangerous consequences of rising levels of carbon dioxide in the
Earth’s atmosphere are well-documented, from destructive weather
events and deadly health effects, to its harmful impact on
oceans, species migration, agriculture and national security.
http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/at-the-edge/2015/11/06/carbon-dioxide-inside-can-be-harmful-too


Cap and Trade under AB 32 – Now it’s an “Official Success” Many
people have been following the AB 32 cap-and-trade program since
it kicked off on January 1, 2013. After all, it’s the most
comprehensive carbon market in the world; it has created billions
in investments for pollution reduction in California communities
and garnered intense international attention.
http://blogs.edf.org/californiadream/2015/11/05/cap-and-trade-under-ab-32-now-its-an-official-success/





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