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newsclips -- ARB Newsclips for June 15, 2016.

Posted: 15 Jun 2016 13:59:36
ARB Newsclips for June 15, 2016. 

This is a service of the California Air Resources Board’s Office
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AIR POLLUTION

Climate Impacts From Farming Are Getting Worse. As signs emerge
that the global energy sector is beginning to rein in what once
had been unbridled levels of climate-changing pollution, new
United Nations figures show pollution from farming is continuing
to get worse. Greenhouse gases released from the growing of crops
and livestock directly…
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/farmings-climate-impact-rises-20445?utm_source=Inside+Climate+News&utm_campaign=321b866fd0-Today_s_Climate12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-321b866fd0-327747457


DIESEL ACTIVITIES

Air board holds surprise truck emission inspections. Checking for
compliance with air emission rules, the California Air Resources
Board, assisted by the California Highway Patrol, stopped big
rigs in a surprise checkpoint on North Avenue near Highway 99 on
Tuesday, June 14, 2016. Mark Tavianini of the Air Resources Board
talks about the importance of the operation.
http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article83743912.html 

Air officials inspecting Fresno big rigs to curb pollution.
Nearly 1 million big rigs travel through California each year and
that's why there state's Air Resources Board is cracking down on
trucks emitting toxic fumes. Nearly 1 million big rigs travel
through California each year and that's why the Air Resources
Board is cracking down on trucks emitting toxic fumes.
http://abc30.com/news/air-officials-inspecting-fresno-big-rigs-to-curb-pollution/1385774/


FRESNO TRUCK INSPECTION (VIDEOS)
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FUELS

Suncor sees wildfire costing nearly C$1 billion: sources.  Suncor
Energy Inc has told employees the massive wildfire that struck
northern Alberta in May will cost the company nearly C$1 billion
($777.91 million), two sources at Canada's largest crude producer
said on Tuesday. The wildfire, which forced the evacuation of the
oil sands hub of Fort McMurray…
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-suncor-energy-wildfire-idUSKCN0Z026Y?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=Inside+Climate+News&utm_campaign=321b866fd0-Today_s_Climate12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-321b866fd0-327747457


Giant Wildfire Is No Longer the Canadian Oil Industry's Biggest
Problem. Harbir Chhina helped develop the game-changing steam
technology that allowed companies to tap the world’s
third-largest reserves in Canada’s oil sands. It was a moonshot
that paid off.Now the oil-sands industry, still recovering from
last month’s wildfires, needs another one.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-14/as-canada-oil-fires-fade-the-industry-s-real-problem-re-emerges


Green Climate Fund partners condemned for fossil fuel funding.
Study highlights billions channeled towards oil, coal and gas
from 2013-2015, support campaigners say is ‘deeply at odds’ with
Paris climate deal. Two of the UN’s flagship green fund’s leading
partners have been branded as major funders of oil, gas and coal
projects in a study by four green groups.
http://www.climatechangenews.com/2016/06/14/green-climate-fund-partners-condemned-for-fossil-fuel-funding/?utm_source=Inside+Climate+News&utm_campaign=321b866fd0-Today_s_Climate12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-321b866fd0-327747457


VEHICLES

Germany considers making all new cars emissions free by 2030.
Every car bought in Germany must be a zero-emissions vehicle by
2030 if the country wants to hit its emissions goals, said the
country's deputy economy minister, Rainer Baake, who made the
claim at a climate forum hosted by the Tagesspiegel newspaper.
http://www.autoblog.com/2016/06/15/germany-cars-emissions-free-2030/


VW RECALL

EU proposes stricter tests on car emissions from 2017 in wake of
VW scandal. EU regulators proposed stricter tests on Wednesday on
car fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions from late next
year to plug loopholes highlighted by the Volkswagen emissions
scandal. The draft EU executive proposal, which will go before
the European Parliament and EU leaders…
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-autos-tests-idUSKCN0Z11E5 

Volkswagen announces an $11.3-million investment in California. 
Volkswagen has announced an $11.3-million investment in
California as the automaker works to recover from its emissions
cheating scandal. On Tuesday, VW said it would spend $4.5 million
on a new training center in Eastvale, a small city near
Riverside. It also announced that a new $6.8-million parts
distribution center in Rocklin, northeast of Sacramento, had
officially opened.
http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-vw-investment-20160614-snap-story.html


HIGH-SPEED RAIL

Delays add $63 million to bullet train contract. The California
rail authority on Tuesday approved increasing a contract to build
the first 29 miles of the bullet train system by $63 million to
compensate its lead contractor for delays in land acquisitions.
Tutor Perini was awarded a $1-billion contract in 2013 to
construct bridges…
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-bullet-change-order-20160614-snap-story.html

http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/high-speed-rail/article83764897.html


MISCELLANEOUS

Local Assemblyman’s bills move forward. Assembly Bill (AB) 1965)
was approved by the Assembly on June 2. The bill aims to provide
low-income people with financial incentives to replace their old,
less dependable, high-polluting vehicles with newer, more
reliable and cleaner vehicles. Through the bill, the California
Air Resources Board would be directed to broaden its…
http://www.egcitizen.com/articles/2016/06/14/news/doc575b148950578063955528.txt


OPINIONS

Marilyn Bardet: Let Air District Board members hear you. An
article, “Crude Awakening: Dirty Canadian tar sand oil may be
headed to Bay Area refineries”, by Will Parrish for a Marin
e-weekly, PacificSun, underscores key reasons why the Valero
Crude By Rail Project would affect public health and the climate
and must be denied by the Benicia City Council, as a recent San
Francisco Chronicle editorial recently agreed.
http://www.timesheraldonline.com/article/NH/20160613/NEWS/160619961


BLOGS

Wall Street Journal Ads Call Out The Paper’s Bias On Climate
Change. Well, this is awkward.  Beginning Tuesday and running
until the end of the Republican National Convention in July, the
most widely circulated print newspaper in the United States will
run a series of ads calling out its own bias against climate
change.
http://new.www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/wall-street-journal-climate-change-ads_us_57602f98e4b071ec19ef45d8?utm_source=Inside+Climate+News&utm_campaign=321b866fd0-Today_s_Climate12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-321b866fd0-327747457




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