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newsclips -- ARB Newsclips for July 20, 2016.
Posted: 20 Jul 2016 15:29:40
ARB Newsclips for July 20, 2016. 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. CAP AND TRADE Trudeau Commits to Carbon Price Amid Provincial Opposition. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pledging to set a national carbon price to cut emissions, a key message sent as Canada’s provincial premiers meet to discuss how to proceed. Trudeau and the premiers fell short of a commitment to impose a price earlier this year, instead pledging to study a plan that could include “carbon pricing mechanisms… http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-20/trudeau-commits-to-carbon-price-as-canada-moves-to-cut-emissions Beyond Cap-and-Trade: Many Environmentalists Say California Will Improve Climate Policy If It Reduces Emissions at Source. Gov. Jerry Brown has so far been unable to muster two-thirds of state legislators to vote to extend the program beyond its current 2020 expiration. California's cap-and-trade program is a cornerstone of the state's effort to curb greenhouse gases. But it's also in crisis. http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/beyond-cap-and-tradeenvironmentalists-say-california-will-have-fewer-emissions-and-better-policy-if-it-ditches-cap-and-trade/Content?oid=4912218 California Democrats Seek Support to Extend Trading Program. California's Democratic leadership is rallying climate policy supporters to press lawmakers for legislation extending the state's carbon trading program beyond 2020. At a recent event in Sacramento, State Senate President Pro Tem Kevin De León (D) urged clean energy businesses and workers to help push for a bill that ensures the cap-and-trade program... http://www.bna.com/california-democrats-seek-n73014444977/ AIR POLLUTION Indian capital to cancel registrations of diesel cars 10 years or older, immediately. India's top environmental court is taking aggressive action to curb air pollution in the country's capital city. New Delhi authorities were ordered by the courts on Monday to cancel the registrations of diesel cars produced 10 or more years ago. The order from the New Green Tribunal (NGT) takes effect immediately. http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1105089_indian-capital-to-cancel-registrations-of-diesel-cars-10-years-or-older-immediately ALISO CANYON Last of the Porter Ranch residents back home. Thousands forced out after Aliso Canyon natural gas leak. The CEO of Southern California Gas Co. said Tuesday the last of the residents who were forced from their homes in the Porter Ranch neighborhood in Los Angeles County by the massive natural gas leak at Aliso Canyon have returned. “The relocation program that went on for quite a while has ended,” … http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2016/jul/19/porter-ranch-return/ CLIMATE CHANGE Trees Can Limit Climate Change—Unless It Kills Them First. Here’s how forests could turn into a source of the very carbon we’re counting on them to absorb. Forests could actually turn into a source of CO2, according to a study that paired climate forecasts with an analysis of records on more than two million trees across North America. Scientists have considered forests a potential barrier to climate change… http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-20/trees-can-limit-climate-change-unless-it-kills-them-first North American forests not the climate change remedy hoped for – study. North American forests will not fight climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide at levels once hoped for because the trees may not grow big enough, a study said on Wednesday. The new research challenges previous studies that said trees could grow larger due to higher temperatures brought on by global warming, said the authors of the study published in the journal Ecology Letters. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-forests-northamerica-idUSKCN1001MO Too hot to work: global warming to cost $2 trillion in lost productivity. Rising temperatures caused by climate change may cost the world economy over $2 trillion in lost productivity by 2030 as hot weather makes it unbearable to work in some parts of the world, according to U.N. research published on Tuesday. It showed that in Southeast Asia alone, up to 20 percent of annual work hours… http://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-climatechange-costs-idUSKCN0ZZ1S9 After warming fast, part of Antarctica gets a chill: study. The Antarctic Peninsula, among the fastest warming places on Earth last century, has since cooled due to natural swings in the local climate, scientists said on Wednesday, adding that the respite from the thaw is likely to be brief. Rapid warming until the late 1990s on the peninsula, which snakes up toward South America… http://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-antarctic-idUSKCN1002BE Fighting Obama’s Climate Plan, but Quietly Preparing to Comply. Matt Mead, the governor of Wyoming, the nation’s leading coal-producing state, fiercely opposes President Obama’s climate change regulations, which could shutter hundreds of coal plants and deeply wound his state, one of 27 that are suing to block the plan. Nevertheless, Mr. Mead, a Republican, has ordered his top environmental officials… http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/20/us/obama-clean-power-plan.html?utm_source=Inside+Climate+News&utm_campaign=8530578587-Today_s_Climate12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-8530578587-327747457&_r=0 Climate change in 5 charts. WeatherDB breaks down climate change into 5 charts and analyzes how the major contributing factors interact. The year 2015 received the ominous warmest year on record title, and 2016 is likely to be even hotter. It's becoming clear that these warmer weather trends are not arbitrary, but confirmation that climate change is upon us. As global temperatures rise, climate change is becoming a reality… http://www.eastbaytimes.com/breaking-news/ci_30147201/climate-change-5-charts Conservative groups push back against Republican party's climate denialism. Partnership for Responsible Growth and other groups launch campaigns to urge Republicans and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire to accept climate change. Conservative and free-market groups have staged a rearguard effort to get the Republican party to accept the dangers of climate change… https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/20/conservative-groups-republican-party-climate-change-denial?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco&utm_source=Inside+Climate+News&utm_campaign=8530578587-Today_s_Climate12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-8530578587-327747457 A nonprofit group is cloning ancient trees to combat climate change. At the foot of a giant sequoia in California's Sierra Nevada, two arborists stepped into harnesses then inched up ropes more than 20 stories into the dizzying canopy of a tree that survived thousands of years, enduring drought, wildfire and disease. There, the arborists clipped off tips of young branches to be hand-delivered across the country… http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-group-clones-california-giant-trees-to-combat-climate-change-2016-7 http://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2016/07/20/87329068/ First Half of 2016 Blows Away Temp Records. The first half of 2016 has blown away temperature records, capped off by a record hot June, once again bumping up the odds that 2016 will be the hottest year on record globally, according to data released Tuesday. http://www.climatecentral.org/news/first-half-of-2016-record-hot-by-far-20540 NASA scientists on 'cooling': Nope. No, the world is not cooling. This year will vault over 2015 and set a new record for warm temperatures, NASA scientists said yesterday. The average temperatures for the first half of this year are "so in excess" that it is worthy of note… http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/07/20/stories/1060040529 Philippine president will not honor climate change pact. The president of the Philippines does not plan to honor commitments made by the former president at last year's climate change conference in Paris. "You are trying to stifle us ... and tell us we are limited to this and that. That's stupid. I will not honor that," President Rodrigo Duterte said. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/07/20/stories/1060040515 DIESEL ACTIVITIES Hear that train a comin’? Metrolink debuts first of cleaner, quieter trains. The first of 40 new, cleaner-burning diesel locomotives arrived on the platform of Union Station here earlier this week, part of Metrolink’s move toward replacing older, highly polluting trains. The sleek, $7 million locomotive, manufactured by Electro-Motive Diesel Progress Rail, was assembled at Progress Rail’s plant in Muncie, Indiana. http://www.dailynews.com/article/20160719/NEWS/160719460 FUELS The Future of Big Oil? At Shell, It’s Not Oil. The energy giant is shifting to gas as the industry adapts to climate change. At Australia’s Curtis Island, you can see Big Oil morphing into Big Gas. Just off the continent’s rugged northeastern coast lies a 667-acre liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal owned by Royal Dutch Shell, an engineering feat of staggering complexity. Gas from more than 2,500 wells travels hundreds of miles by pipeline to the island, where it’s chilled… http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-20/the-future-of-big-oil-at-shell-it-s-not-oil Alameda County first in Bay Area to ban fracking. Alameda County on Tuesday became the first Bay Area county to ban fracking. A coalition of environmental groups had worked for more than two years to persuade county leaders to ban fracking and other high intensity oil recovery practices to protect against pollution of local groundwater. http://www.mercurynews.com/elections/ci_30145302/alameda-county-set-vote-fracking-ban How to calculate CO2 at export terminals? Let us count the ways. This is the tale of two proposed export terminals. Both located in Washington state, one would send 44 million metric tons of coal each year from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana to power plants in Asia. The other would ship methanol, a colorless, volatile alcohol… http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/07/20/stories/1060040517 DOE eyes 1B tons annually to displace fossil fuels. By 2040, the United States could feasibly use 1 billion tons of biomass to replace more than 30 percent of the country's petroleum consumption, according to a recent U.S. Department of Energy report. Third in a series of national assessments on the potential of biomass… http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/07/20/stories/1060040528 VEHICLES Volkswagen's Audi plans electric car push to put heat on Tesla. Audi will aim for electric cars to account for a quarter of its sales by 2025 as part of a strategic overhaul following the emissions scandal at parent Volkswagen, company sources said, in a move that could step up the challenge to U.S. group Tesla. Audi, which has been slow to embrace battery-powered vehicles… http://www.reuters.com/article/us-audi-strategy-idUSKCN0ZY2TJ VW RECALL Three U.S. states sue Volkswagen, say executives covered up diesel cheating. Senior executives at Volkswagen AG (VOWG_p.DE) including its former chief executive covered up evidence that the German automaker had cheated on U.S. diesel emissions tests for years, three U.S. states charged on Tuesday in civil lawsuits against the company. New York, Massachusetts and Maryland filed separate… http://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkwsagen-emissions-idUSKCN0ZZ1X3 http://www.wsj.com/articles/vw-emissions-cheating-was-prolonged-widespread-new-n-y-lawsuit-says-1468938468?mod=rss_law http://www.autonews.com/article/20160720/COPY01/307209962/vw-emissions-rigging-claims-reach-back-further http://www.businessinsider.com/volkswagen-vw-emission-scandal-new-york-attorney-general-massive-cover-up-matthias-muller-2016-7 VW Earnings Rise Amid Recovery From Diesel-Emissions Scandal. Volkswagen AG’s first-half earnings exceeded market expectations, sending its shares up the most in three months, as improvements at its namesake car brand eclipsed concerns about the growing price tag for the emissions-cheating scandal. Operating profit before special items rose to 7.5 billion euros ($8.25 billion) in the first six months of 2016 from 6.99 billion euros a year earlier, the German carmaker said in a statement. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-20/volkswagen-says-first-half-profit-higher-than-analysts-expected http://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-results-idUSKCN1000VM https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jul/20/vw-profit-tops-forecasts-but-carmaker-takes-another-emissions-hit VOLKSWAGEN EXECUTIVES IMPLICATED IN DIESEL-CHEATING SCANDAL. High-ranking Volkswagen officials, including the automaker’s current and former chief executive officers, were implicated in the emissions scandal today following a nine-month multistate investigation. Volkswagen admitted in September 2015 that it had equipped hundreds of thousands of diesel-engine vehicles in the U.S. http://www.bna.com/volkswagen-executives-implicated-b73014445007/ Volkswagen Warns of Further Hit to Profit by Emissions Scandal. A little more than a month ago, the Volkswagen chief executive, Matthias Müller, said the German carmaker had set aside enough money to cover the financial fallout from its emissions deception. Now, Volkswagen is reversing its position, as the legal scrutiny intensifies. In what amounted to a warning, the company said that scandal-related costs… http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/21/business/volkswagen-profit-emissions-scandal.html?_r=0 VW done with diesel push in U.S., exec says. Volkswagen will take a step back from the diesel powertrains that defined its U.S. vehicle lineup for the better part of a decade amid a repositioning of the brand in the aftermath of the automaker's emissions scandal, VW's top U.S. official says. Hinrich Woebcken, CEO of Volkswagen Group of America, told Automotive News this week that VW won’t relaunch “clean diesels” … http://www.autonews.com/article/20160719/OEM11/160719836/vw-done-with-diesel-push-in-u.s.-exec-says GREEN ENERGY Fannie, Freddie not yet on board White House low-income solar push. The White House's new guidance for agencies to help homeowners pay for solar power and energy efficiency upgrades hasn't brought all the relevant agencies on board yet. Officials yesterday announced the Clean Energy Savings for All Initiative… http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/07/20/stories/1060040532 MISCELLANEOUS Tobacco and Oil Industries Used Same Researchers to Sway Public. As early as the 1950s, the groups shared scientists and publicists to downplay dangers of smoking and climate change. Organizations worried about climate change have long drawn comparisons between the petroleum and tobacco industries, arguing that each has minimized public health damages of its products to operate unchecked. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tobacco-and-oil-industries-used-same-researchers-to-sway-public1/ OPINIONS Facts on climate change should be taken seriously. Climate facts show we must take action now. Thank you for printing articles “Scripps oceanographer is Navy’s eye in the sky” (June 13) and “Report: Carbon dioxide likely to hit record” (June 15) advancing awareness of climate change. The military has long been aware of the urgency of mitigating climate change. As time passes, world security will become more difficult to deal with as polar ice melts and seas rise. http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2016/jun/19/climate-change-ryan-miramar-062016/ California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips.