What's New List Serve Post Display
Below is the List Serve Post you selected to display.
newsclips -- ARB Newsclips for January 4, 2015. Happy New Year
Posted: 04 Jan 2016 15:22:32
ARB Newsclips for January 4, 2015. 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 China's Capital Sees Small Improvement in Air in 2015-Government Bureau. China's capital Beijing saw a small improvement in air quality last year, the city's environmental protection bureau said on Monday, although levels of a major form of pollution remain several times higher than international standards. http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2016/01/04/world/asia/04reuters-china-pollution.html To fight the world's worst air pollution, New Delhi forces cars off the roads. Like many middle-class professionals in this car-crazed capital, Tarun Thawani drives to work every day, both for comfort and because he usually has piles of documents to carry. But on Monday, the accountant left his car… http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-india-pollution-new-delhi-cars-20160104-story.html Texas joins red state revolt against EPA ozone rule. Texas has filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration over its new ozone rule, bringing the tally of states challenging the regulations to nine. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Monday that the state opposes the stricter limit on surface-level ozone because compliance with the rule would hurt business in the state. http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/264349-texas-rounds-out-state-lawsuits-against-epa-ozone-rule Cities choke on air pollution. People exposed to health hazards; Dhaka, Narayanganj, Gazipur among world's 25 cities with poorest air. The quality of air in the capital is extremely unhealthy. The presence of pollutant particles in its air even on a normal day is more than six times the healthy limit. http://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/cities-choke-air-pollution-196717 CLIMATE CHANGE Power Plants Threatened as Global Warming Affects Water Supplies. More than two-thirds of the world’s power plants may have trouble running at full capacity as the warming climate affects water supplies, according to a new study. Reduced streamflows and rising water temperatures may reduce monthly generating capacity at nuclear, fossil-fuel and biofuel-powered plants… http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-04/power-plants-threatened-as-global-warming-affects-water-supplies U.S. Becomes More Vulnerable to Tropical Diseases Like Zika. Tropical diseases — some of them never before seen in the United States — are marching northward as climate change lets mosquitoes and ticks expand their ranges. But that does not mean that epidemics will break out, scientists say. Whether a few cases explode into a full-fledged outbreak depends on a set of factors far more complex than the weather. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/05/health/us-becomes-more-vulnerable-to-tropical-diseases-like-zika.html Weather Dominates Insurance Claims in 2015-Munich Re. Insurers paid out around $27 billion (18.34 billion pound) for natural disaster claims last year with weather causing 94 percent of incidents, underscoring the challenge posed by climate change, data from reinsurer Munich Re showed on Monday. While the climate phenomenon known as 'El Niño' reduced the development of hurricanes… http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2016/01/04/business/04reuters-disaster-insurance.html Five takeaways from the Paris climate deal. Last month, 195 countries met in Paris and agreed to curb global warming. What are the most important things to know about the Paris climate deal? The UN climate talks in Paris have ended with an agreement between 195 countries to tackle global warming. http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0104/Five-takeaways-from-the-Paris-climate-deal Could ice sheets reveal the secrets of sea-level rise? Three years ago, scientists discovered that ice loss in Greenland and Antarctica has accelerated since 1992 due to climate change. Now the same group of scientists has launched an initiative to use satellite data to continually monitor changes in ice mass at the poles. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/01/04/stories/1060030046 DROUGHT California Braces for Series of El Nino Storms. After all the talk, El Niño storms have finally lined up over the Pacific and started soaking drought-parched California with rain expected to last for most of the next two weeks, forecasters said Monday. As much as 15 inches of rain could fall in the next 16 days in Northern California… http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CALIFORNIA_STORMS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT OTHER RELATED STORIES http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/01/04/us/ap-us-california-storms.html Climate Change Warming World’s Lakes, Says Study. A new study by NASA and the National Science Foundation reveals that climate change is rapidly warming lakes around the world, according to findings in Geophysical Research Letters. The study, published last month, used temperature data taken via satellites and ground measurements from 235 lakes around the world and analyzed temperature changes over 25 years. http://www.climatecentral.org/news/climate-change-warming-worlds-lakes-19862 Calif. drought threatens 58M trees. Millions of California trees are in jeopardy of dying because of water stress from the state's historic drought, increasing temperatures and bark beetle infestations, new research finds. Data and maps, published last week in the journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reveal the extent of the damage caused by the state's four-year drought… http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/01/04/stories/1060030040 El Niño set to worsen food shortages. Disruptions in global weather patterns linked to a strong El Niño episode will aggravate food insecurity in many parts of the world, including in Africa, Asia and parts of the Caribbean, aid agencies have warned. "The effects of the strongest El Niño in several decades… http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/01/04/stories/1060030043 VW RECALL VW Sued by U.S. in Diesel Emissions Scandal. The Justice Department sued the German automaker Volkswagen in federal court Monday, saying that the company installed illegal devices in nearly 600,000 diesel engine systems to impair emissions controls, that way increasing harmful air pollution. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/05/business/vw-sued-justice-department-emissions-scandal.html Volkswagen Faces Billions in Penalties as U.S. Sues for Environment Violations. The U.S. Justice Department on Monday filed a civil lawsuit against Volkswagen AG for allegedly violating the Clean Air Act by installing illegal devices to impair emission control systems in nearly 600,000 vehicles. The allegations against Volkswagen, along with its Audi and Porsche units, carry penalties… http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2016/01/04/business/04reuters-volkswagen-usa.html How Do Modern Diesel Engines Work? VW Explains It On Video? Volkswagen has a lot of explaining to do. Since it was revealed in September that the company installed "defeat device" software on diesel cars that allowed them to cheat on emissions tests, VW has been slow to discuss what it plans to do with the affected cars. The carmaker still hasn't confirmed when it will begin a recall of the 482,000… http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1101660_how-do-modern-diesel-engines-work-vw-explains-it-on-video GREEN ENERGY Google Helps Analyze if Rooftop Solar Panels Are Good Deal. The company that lets you compare air fares and translate foreign languages online wants to make it easier to weigh the costs and benefits of installing solar panels on household rooftops. Google is rolling out a new online service that quickly tallies up considerations of going solar… http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/01/03/business/ap-us-google-sunroof-.html Offshore wind to set sail, studies find. The dawn of a more robust era in offshore wind may be breaking, according to two recent reports on floating wind power that show long-inaccessible deepwater sites with some of the highest winds on Earth now appear to be within reach. One report, a polling result commissioned by the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) at its annual conference in November… http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/01/04/stories/1060030048 OPINIONS The Dirty Truth About ‘CleanDiesel’ AS scandals go, it was a juicy one. Volkswagen, one of the world’s highest grossing automakers, persuaded consumers it had created a new generation of so-called clean diesel cars — until investigators discovered that defeat devices, which activated emissions controls only when the cars were tested… http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/03/opinion/sunday/the-dirty-truth-about-clean-diesel.html?_r=0 We Need a New Green Revolution. DESPITE the four-year drought that has parched California and led to mandatory restrictions on water use, farmers there have kept feeding the country. California produces more of 66 different food crops than any other state, $54 billion of food annually. Maintaining this level of productivity has been quite a challenge in recent years… http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/04/opinion/we-need-a-new-green-revolution.html SDUSD climate change plan hailed. I was heartened to read the article in the Aug. 14 edition describing San Diego Unified School District's new climate change initiative. Hopefully, this initiative will result in ending the extremely environmentally unfriendly activity of busing students across San Diego. This will result in a huge reduction in harmful carbon dioxide emissions. http://sdnews.com/view/full_story/27029555/article-SDUSD-climate-change-plan-hailed Letter: El Nino and climate change. Your interesting Monitor article “Hello Winter” (Monitor front page, Dec. 30) was the continuation of a long series of articles about the weird, warm, snowless December that New Hampshire has experienced. To the two authors’ credit, the word “climate” appeared when describing “the climate phenomenon called El Nino.” http://www.concordmonitor.com/opinion/20329817-95/letter-el-nino-and-climate-change California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips.