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newsclips -- ARB Newsclips for October 6, 2016.
Posted: 06 Oct 2016 13:58:41
ARB Newsclips for October 6, 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. AIR POLLUTION Heathrow expansion would not break European pollution law, study finds. London's Heathrow airport could build a third runway without breaking European pollution laws, according to research published before a British government decision on airport expansion, the BBC reported on Thursday. Europe's busiest airport is battling Gatwick, London's number two airport… http://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-airports-heathrow-idUSKCN1260FJ As cities get warmer, their trees lose some of their ability to take carbon out of the atmosphere. All hail the urban tree. These woody wonders standing sentinel along sidewalks and in city parks do more to improve our lives than most of us realize. Trees filter our air and water and increase biodiversity in our neighborhoods by providing habitats for animals. Just being near them has been shown to improve our health… http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/ Councils failing to monitor most British schools for dangerous air pollution. FoI requests reveal ‘alarming discrepancies’ in the monitoring of particulate pollution outside schools by local authorities - despite government advice. Councils are failing to monitor most schools in Britain for dangerous air pollution despite government advice, freedom of information requests have revealed. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/oct/06/councils-failing-to-monitor-most-british-schools-for-dangerous-air-pollution U.S., other countries 'ready for action' on HFCs — McCarthy. The United States is well-positioned for success going into the next week's international negotiations to curb refrigerants that contribute to global warming, U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said yesterday. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/10/06/stories/1060043926 CLIMATE CHANGE Paris climate agreement to take effect Nov. 4. The landmark Paris agreement on climate change will enter into force on Nov. 4, after a coalition of the world's largest polluters and small island nations threatened by rising seas pushed it past a key threshold on Wednesday. President Barack Obama hailed the news as "a turning point for our planet," and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called the agreement's… http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/UN_UNITED_NATIONS_CLIMATE_CHANGE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT OTHER RELATED STORIES http://www.wsj.com/articles/obama-lauds-historic-moment-as-paris-climate-agreement-takes-effect-1475701489 http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/obama-celebrates-paris-climate-deal-effect-month-article-1.2818869 Arresting Global Warming Doesn’t Mean More Money, Top Panel Says. Curbing global warming doesn’t necessarily mean increasing infrastructure spending, according to a key commission created to avert dangerous climate change. The world is expected to invest $90 trillion on all infrastructure in the next 15 years which is more than the present value of all existing infrastructure combined… http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-06/arresting-global-warming-doesn-t-mean-more-money-top-panel-says UN agreement reached on aircraft climate-change emissions. The United Nations' aviation arm overwhelmingly ratified an agreement Thursday to control global warming emissions from international airline flights, the first international climate-change pact to set limits on a single industry. The agreement, adopted overwhelmingly by the 191-nation International Civil Aviation Organization at a meeting in Montreal… http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_AIRCRAFT_EMISSIONS_AGREEMENT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT OTHER RELATED STORIES http://www.wsj.com/articles/countries-agree-first-global-aviation-emissions-cap-1475773733 http://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2016-10-06/un-agreement-reached-on-aircraft-climate-change-emissions http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/07/science/190-countries-adopt-plan-to-offset-jet-emissions.html APNewsBreak: US: Mine expansion to have minor climate impact. U.S. officials approved a 117 million-ton expansion of a Montana coal mine after concluding that burning the fuel would have a minor impact on the nation's overall greenhouse gas emissions, according to documents released Thursday. The expansion of the Spring Creek Mine, Montana's largest coal mine, would generate roughly 160 million tons of carbon dioxide… http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_COAL_MINES_LAWSUIT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT OTHER RELATED STORIES http://www.sacbee.com/news/business/article106409632.html#storylink=cpy Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jerry Brown celebrate 10th anniversary of historic climate law. California politicos reflected on leadership on climate policy at a reception Wednesday to celebrate the state's landmark climate laws. "We've proven that we don't have to choose between a healthy environment and a strong economy," Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) said. http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-sac-essential-politics-updates-arnold-schwarzenegger-jerry-brown-1475704818-htmlstory.html http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article106252992.html http://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2016/10/brown-schwarzenegger-mark-bipartisan-victory-in-climate-change-106113 http://www.capradio.org/82897 UN agreement reached on aircraft climate-change emissions. The United Nations' aviation arm overwhelmingly ratified an agreement Thursday to control global warming emissions from international airline flights, the first international climate-change pact to set limits on a single industry. The agreement, adopted overwhelmingly by the 191-nation International Civil Aviation Organization at a meeting in Montreal… http://www.sacbee.com/news/business/article106391267.html#storylink=cpy Removing CO2 From the Air Only Hope for Fixing Climate Change, New Study Says. Without 'negative emissions' to help return atmospheric CO2 to 350 ppm, future generations could face costs that 'may become too heavy to bear,' paper says. The only way to keep young people from inheriting a world reeling from catastrophic climate change is to reduce carbon dioxide emissions dramatically and immediately… https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04102016/climate-change-removing-carbon-dioxide-air-james-hansen-2-degrees-paris-climate-agreement-global-warming No resting on laurels for climate law architects. More political battles are ahead for California as it pursues its first-in-the-nation greenhouse gas goals, former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) predicted yesterday. Schwarzenegger said he sees the need to quickly secure legal authority to extend the program's cornerstone, the economywide cap-and-trade program that ensures the state will meet its emissions targets. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/10/06/stories/1060043928 Urban climate strategies are good economics — study. Fighting climate change could be a lucrative sector, according to a recent report. The study from the CDP, formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project, looked at 533 cities around the world and their strategies to mitigate climate change. It said that the cities had collectively come up… http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/10/06/stories/1060043910 DROUGHT Weaker water conservation numbers prompt fears that California is going back to its old bad habits. Californians’ water conservation slipped for the third consecutive month in August, prompting new alarm from regulators about whether relaxed water restrictions may be causing residents to revert to old habits as the state enters its sixth year of severe drought. The trend raises new questions about Californians’ willingness to continue austere conservation after spending the last two years… http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-water-conservation-20161005-snap-story.html http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article106155332.html http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Californians-slacking-off-on-saving-water-amid-9775842.php http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article106295292.html http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/05/californians-water-saving-slips-in-august/ http://www.ocregister.com/articles/water-731250-august-percent.html Water savings in California fall below 20 percent in August. Statewide water savings continued to slide in August, dropping below 20 percent shortly after the close of a fifth year of drought, state water officials reported Wednesday. Californians used 17.7 percent less water in August than in August 2013, which fell below July’s 20 percent savings, said State Water Resources Control Board scientist Jelena Hartman. http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/ Californians slacking off on saving water. Drought conditions are still with us, but for a lot of Californians, it seems, the days of shorter showers and browner lawns have come and gone. People up and down the state are slacking off on cutting back — using more water than in 2015 even as the state is dragged through a fifth straight year of drier-than-average conditions, records released Wednesday show. http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Californians-slacking-off-on-saving-water-amid-9775842.php U.S. Southwest faces threat of megadroughts with rising temps. Already dealing with parched conditions, the U.S. Southwest faces the threat of megadroughts this century as temperatures rise, says a new study that found the risk is reduced if heat-trapping gases are curbed. Oppressive dry spells lasting at least two decades have gripped the Southwest before… http://www.ocregister.com/articles/water-731218-southwest-megadroughts.html http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/10/06/stories/1060043923 A set of ghostly, futuristic sails could help save California from drought. Sails are one of the earliest ways humans seized the power of wind — people were using them to move boats across the sea even before the Middle Ages. A new design aims to apply that ancient technology to modern environmental challenges. "Regatta H2O: Familiar Form, Chameleon Infrastructure" is the winner of a site-specific environmental… http://www.businessinsider.com/sails-gather-fog-water-california-2016-10 DIESEL ACTIVITIES Manufacturer of truck engines to pay $28.5M federal settlement. A leading truck-engine manufacturer has agreed to a $28.5 million settlement for allegedly failing to meet emission standards for nitrogen oxides, the Justice Department and U.S. EPA announced this morning. Under the terms of a proposed consent decree, which needs a judge's approval, Detroit Diesel Corp. will pay a $14 million fine and spend another $14.5 million to cut releases of nitrogen oxides http://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2016/10/06/stories/1060043959 FUELS Tapping Norway’s Oil Fund Raises Political Hackles. Low oil prices mean that this year the government for the first time is withdrawing more from the oil fund than it is putting in. Oil-rich Norway could be forming a bad habit. The government said Thursday it would keep draining money from one vessel—the nation’s vast sovereign-wealth fund—to fill a shortage in another—-the annual budget. http://www.wsj.com/articles/tapping-norways-oil-fund-raises-political-hackles-1475766971 How a Saudi Royal Sparked an OPEC Deal and Sent Oil Prices Past $50. The directive was a departure for Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the powerful 31-year-old son of King Salman. Saudi Arabia’s deputy crown prince sent his energy minister to an OPEC meeting last month with a difficult mission… http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-a-saudi-royal-sparked-an-opec-deal-and-sent-oil-prices-past-50-1475763151 Methane leaks declining even as natural gas production grows. College students learn in Economics 101 that no one leaves $20 bills lying on the street. It is a rubric used to fortify the theory that big economic markets are sophisticated and that items of great value are prized and not often wasted. But when it comes to industries that leak natural gas — a powerful global warmer — into the atmosphere… http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/10/06/stories/1060043917 VEHICLES The World's First Fuel Cell Road Vehicle Just Turned 50. GM's fuel cell development was powered by President John F. Kennedy's Project Gemini and the Apollo Program. While the concept of the fuel cell was first demonstrated in 1801, the world had to wait until 1959 to see a vehicle–namely a Allis-Chalmers farm tractor–move under fuel cell power. But in 1962, when Kennedy challenged NASA to safely land a man on the moon before the end of the decade… http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/classic-cars/a31062/the-first-fuel-cell-road-vehicle-just-turned-50/ BLOGS Hurricane Matthew is super strong — because of climate change. “Category 4 and 5 hurricanes could double or triple in the coming decades,” expert warns. Hurricane Matthew is slowly approaching the East Coast where it is expected to wreak havoc with storm surge, wind, and rain. Matthew has already set a number of records — and global warming is giving it a boost. https://thinkprogress.org/global-warming-hurricanes-1c3a1ddca521#.f1wzappp9 California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips.