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CAP AND TRADE

Carbon price impact from Ontario cap-and-trade entry seen
limited. Bargain-basement prices for carbon emissions in the
cap-and-trade market shared by California and Quebec are unlikely
to get much of a lift from Ontario's pending inclusion in the
plan, policymakers for the three jurisdictions said on Thursday.
California posted disappointing results last month from an
auction of carbon permits…
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-usa-carbontrading-idUSKCN11Z2UU?feedType=RSS&virtualBrandChannel=11563


Uncertainty over California cap-and-trade program could impact
Ontario. California is facing major questions about the future of
its cap-and-trade program, even as Ontario and Quebec count on
linkage with the state’s carbon market to meet their aggressive
climate targets over the next 15 years. Ontario, Quebec and
California environment ministers met in Toronto Thursday…
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/uncertainty-over-california-climate-plan-puts-ontario-in-precarious-position/article32152108/


Brand, Perea Spar Over How To Spend Fresno's $70 Million In
Cap-And-Trade Money. The news that the City of Fresno is set to
receive up to $70 million from the state in the form of
cap-and-trade funding is the latest issue in the Fresno mayor’s
race. Mayoral candidates Lee Brand and Henry Perea offered
opposing visions of how to spend the money during a debate last
night that focused on issue of downtown revitalization.
http://kvpr.org/post/brand-perea-spar-over-how-spend-fresnos-70-million-cap-and-trade-money


AIR POLLUTION

Climate fight targeting cows may reshape California dairies.
Dairy farmer Bob Giacomini, 79, is ahead of his time, even if he
didn’t mean to be. Eight years ago, the North Bay native bought a
custom motor, generator and pipeline to make electricity from an
unusual source — cow manure — at his ranch along Tomales Bay. The
hope was that the renewable energy would save him a few bucks and
perhaps bolster the environmental bona fides of his family’s
famed cheese, Point Reyes Original Blue.
http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Climate-fight-targeting-cows-may-reshape-9401293.php


Meet America's super polluters. To see one of the country’s
largest coal-fired power plants, head northwest from this Ohio
River city. Or east, because there’s another in the region. In
fact, nearly every direction you go will take you to a coal plant
— seven within 30 miles. Collectively they pump out millions of
pounds of toxic air pollution.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/09/29/toxic-air-pollution-concentrated-small-number-sites/90846584/


CLIMATE CHANGE

Ethiopia soil map arms farmers with new fertilisers in climate
fight. A comprehensive digital map charting soil fertility in
Ethiopia is proving an important tool in tackling the country’s
low farm productivity, a challenge made more acute by climate
change. The nationwide mapping effort was launched by the
Ethiopian Soil Information System (EthioSIS) in 2012, and is due
to be finished this year.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-climatechange-agriculture-idUSKCN11Z197


EU fast-tracks Paris climate deal to brink of entering into
force. European Union states agreed on Friday on a fast-track,
joint ratification of the Paris accord to combat climate change,
pushing the landmark global pact to the brink of entering into
force. The 2015 Paris deal will guide a radical shift of the
world economy away from fossil fuels.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-eu-idUSKCN12016F


Purple rice, hairless apricots to get boost under mountain label
scheme. Purple rice from the Himalayas, hairless apricots from
Kyrgyzstan and black amaranth grains from the Andes are just some
of the foods to be labeled mountain products under a scheme to
help boost incomes of farmers in these remote regions. The
custodians of most of the world's freshwater and a unique
biodiversity are under pressure from growing hunger, climate
change…
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-agriculture-farmers-label-idUSKCN1201F4


Paris Climate Deal Seen Taking Force This Year as EU Speeds up
Ratification
EU represents 12% of global emissions. A global agreement to
reduce greenhouse-gas emissions is all but certain to enter into
force in November, after European Union environment ministers
agreed on Friday to speed up the bloc’s ratification of the
agreement. The Paris climate deal, which was sealed in December
in…
http://www.wsj.com/articles/eu-set-to-ratify-paris-climate-agreement-1475240342


EU nations approve ratification of climate change pact. The
European Union's environment ministers on Friday approved the
ratification of the landmark Paris climate change pact, paving
the way for the agreement to take effect in November. "It's
really a historic result," French Environment Minister Segolene
Royal told reporters after the ministers agreed unanimously to
ratify the deal at talks in Brussels…
http://www.latimes.com/nation/sns-bc-eu--europe-climate-pact-20160930-story.html


Scientists: World likely won't avoid dangerous warming mark. A
team of top scientists is telling world leaders to stop
congratulating themselves on the Paris agreement to fight climate
change because if more isn't done, global temperatures will
likely hit dangerous warming levels in about 35 years. Six
scientists who were leaders in past international climate
conferences joined with the Universal Ecological …
http://www.latimes.com/nation/sns-bc-us-sci--dangerous-warming-20160929-story.html


Carbon dioxide levels cross 400 ppm threshold, likely highest in
millions of years. Carbon dioxide — the gas scientists say is
most responsible for global warming — reached a significant
symbolic milestone in our atmosphere this month, the Scripps
Institution of Oceanography said. For the first time, daily and
weekly values of carbon dioxide in our planet's atmosphere have
remained above 400 parts per million…
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/sciencefair/2016/09/29/carbon-dioxide-levels-400-ppm-scripps-mauna-loa-global-warming/91279952/


USGS glacier research shows 'tangible evidence' of warming. In
1966, a team of U.S. Geological Survey scientists journeyed to
two small glaciers in Alaska to dig snow pits needed for
measuring snow depth and density at the remote mountainous
locations. Those early findings, repeated twice a year for the
last 50 years…
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/09/30/stories/1060043667 


DROUGHT

As drought grips Iran, farmers lament loss of a way of life.
Watermelons once sprung from this soil, the giant striped fruit
dotting the arid landscape like mushrooms after a rain. “It was
such a garden,” farmer Hossain Mirakhouri, 45, recalled of his
childhood on this sun-scorched plateau east of Tehran. Now
nothing remains of his family’s patch of watermelon, a
water-hungry crop…
http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-iran-drought-snap-story.html

VEHICLES

UPDATE 1-Toyota drops diesel from new model, signals likely
phase-out. Toyota has decided to drop diesel engines from its new
C-HR compact in the wake of Volkswagen's emissions scandal and
will probably do the same for future model renewals, the
carmaker's second-ranking global executive said on Thursday. The
Japanese automaker decided "within the last six to 12 months" not
to offer a diesel version…
http://www.reuters.com/article/autoshow-paris-toyota-diesel-idUSL8N1C5388

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-autoshow-paris-toyota-diesel-idUSKCN11Z1B1


VW RECALL

South Korea's pension fund sues Volkswagen over emissions
scandal. South Korea's National Pension Service (NPS), the
world's third-largest pension fund by assets, said on Thursday it
has filed a suit against Volkswagen in a German court over the
automaker's emissions scandal. The fund is joining a raft of
investors suing the German automaker, which admitted last year to
selling 11 million diesel vehicles…
http://www.reuters.com/article/volkswagen-nps-idUSL3N1C52YA

OPINIONS

The latest attacks on the EPA’s plan for clean power make no
sense. IN WHAT may lead to the definitive word on President
Obama’s signature climate-change policy, the nation’s second-most
prominent court heard several hours of arguments Tuesday on the
Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan. Buoyed by an
unexpected and unusual Supreme Court stay on the plan issued this
year…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-latest-attacks-on-the-epas-plan-for-clean-power-make-no-sense/2016/09/28/ab02bffa-84fd-11e6-ac72-a29979381495_story.html?utm_term=.e64bd5d69160


Letter: Gas-powered leaf blowers should be banned in Chico. Ah,
the scent of fall is in the air: wood smoke, damp leaves, raw gas
... wait, what? According to the California EPA, many two-stroke
engine leaf blowers can emit 30 percent of unused fuel as
exhaust. Edmunds Car Company tests showed that older “two-stroke
leaf blowers pollute 23 times more carbon monoxide…
http://www.chicoer.com/article/NA/20160929/LOCAL1/160929643  

Reservoirs linked to methane emissions: How dirty is 'clean'
hydropower? A new study says artificial reservoirs created by
dams may emit 1.3 percent of global emissions in the form of
methane. How will that affect hydropower-dependent nations? Is
hydropower less clean than it seems? A new study synthesizing
prior research on water reservoir emissions suggests that they
may emit the equivalent…
http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2016/0929/Reservoirs-linked-to-methane-emissions-How-dirty-is-clean-hydropower





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