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newsclips -- ARB Newsclips for September 8, 2016.

Posted: 08 Sep 2016 15:18:56
ARB Newsclips for September 8, 2016. 

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CAP AND TRADE

Oil companies at odds with GOP over carbon tax. Oil companies may
be getting comfortable with the idea of a carbon tax, but members
of Congress are not. The concept is absent from the latest
taxation plan put forward by House Republicans. The plan focuses
on reducing corporate and personal income taxes, which GOP
lawmakers argue will help boost business.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/09/08/stories/1060042456 

AIR POLLUTION

Air pollution costs trillions and holds back poor countries, says
World Bank. Study finds dirty air takes huge economic toll on
poor countries and costs the world more than $5tn annually in
lost work days and welfare costs. Air pollution costs the world
trillions of dollars a year and severely impedes development in
many countries, according to the World Bank.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/sep/08/air-pollution-costs-trillions-holds-back-poor-countries-world-bank

EPA gives ground on NOx emissions in final cross-state rule.
Power plants will be allowed to emit some 16,000 more tons of
ozone-forming nitrogen oxides next summer under the final version
of U.S. EPA's Cross-State Air Pollution Rule update than the
agency had originally proposed. In the initial draft of the
regulations released last November, EPA's air office sought…
http://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2016/09/08/stories/1060042522

CLIMATE CHANGE

Climate Change Isn’t Just Making Us Hot: We’re Angrier and More
Violent. More crime, more death—even more bad math grades. And
economies will continue to slow. It doesn’t take a PhD to see
that climate affects our lives. Anyone who lives far enough from
the equator can tell just by opening the closet. It takes a lot
of scientists, however, to reveal how climate affects
us—particularly as our climate changes.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-08/climate-change-isn-t-just-making-us-hot-we-re-angrier-and-more-violent


Obama on Climate Change: The Trends Are ‘Terrifying’.
Seventy-four years ago, a naval battle off this remote spit of
land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean changed the course of
World War II. Last week, President Obama flew here to swim with
Hawaiian monk seals and draw attention to a quieter war — one he
has waged against rising seas, freakish storms, deadly droughts
and other symptoms of a planet choking on its own fumes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/08/us/politics/obama-climate-change.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=2


Brown to sign landmark climate bill today. California Gov. Jerry
Brown (D) will sign a bill today enshrining greenhouse gas
targets in the nation's most populous state through 2030. The
measure, S.B. 32 by state Sen. Fran Pavley (D), would require the
state to reduce its carbon emissions to 40 percent below 1990
emissions levels by 2030, the most aggressive target of any
state.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/09/08/stories/1060042474 

GREEN ENERGY

Promoters of cleaner electric grid zapped by roadblocks. Building
new high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) power lines in the United
States will help the nation's aging power grid handle more
renewable energy. It also promises to sharply cut emissions that
cause climate change. But the U.S. electricity transmission
system is saddled with a sprawling regulatory process that vets
proposed long-distance projects at a glacial pace.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/09/08/stories/1060042458 


OPINIONS

Absolutely nothing. California’s water supply shortage is a
microcosm of what’s wrong in U.S. politics. The San Joaquin
Valley in Central California is the most productive agricultural
area in the world and is the envy of many countries that rely on
imported food supplies because their climate or soil is not
suitable to sustain farming. But California’s water supply to
this region has been critically curtailed by the government’s
inability to manage water resources.
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/energy-environment/294923-absolutely-nothing






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