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newsclips -- ARB Newsclips for December 5, 2016.
Posted: 05 Dec 2016 13:45:36
ARB Newsclips for December 5, 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 Extension of cap and trade recommended to hit 2030 GHG goal. An extension of California's economywide cap-and-trade program for carbon emissions is needed to hit the state's ambitious target for cutting greenhouse gas pollution by 2030, a proposal from the state's air board said Friday. The California Air Resources Board's "2030 Target Scoping Plan" recommended using cap and trade as the main mechanism… http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/12/05/stories/1060046633 AIR POLLUTION China sets 2020 target for clean air in big cities. China aims to provide clean air in its largest cities for 80 percent of each year, or more than 9-1/2 months, by 2020, up from a figure of 76.7 percent last year, the country's cabinet said on Monday. Amid concern that pollution was stirring social unrest, China launched a campaign in 2014 to revitalize its tainted air… http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-environment-idUSKBN13U0ZG?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=Inside+Climate+News&utm_campaign=8063796d11-Today_s_Climate12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-8063796d11-327747457 Carnival Princess to pay record $40 million for pollution cover-up. Carnival Corp's Princess Cruise Lines will plead guilty to seven felony charges for polluting the seas and deliberate acts to cover it up, and pay a record $40 million criminal penalty, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday. The charges against Carnival's Santa Clarita, California-based Princess unit stem from "illegal dumping of oil contaminated waste from the Caribbean Princess cruise ship,"… http://www.reuters.com/article/us-carnival-usa-pollution-idUSKBN13Q4YB UK health body proposes redesign of speed bumps to cut air pollution. Variable speed limits, redesign of speed bumps and ‘no idling’ zones near schools among Nice recommendations. Speed bumps should be redesigned, speed limits made variable on England’s motorways, sometimes dropping as low as 50mph, and a congestion charge considered in more cities to cut air pollution and save lives, health experts have said. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/dec/01/nice-proposes-smooth-driving-measures-to-cut-pollution-and-save-lives Agencies were urged to address Paramount metal emissions years before air toxics scare. he recent discovery of high levels of a cancer-causing pollutant in Paramount has alarmed residents and led authorities to crack down on dangerous emissions from two metal-processing plants. But the interventions last week by air regulators and health officials followed years of slow and sporadic steps by several agencies in response to health concerns, say residents and activists in the small city southeast of Los Angeles. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-paramount-pollution-history-20161130-story.html Environmental groups suing to stop air watchdog agency’s rollback of air pollution rules. A recent court filing by the nation’s most powerful environmental groups has grown from support for ridding Southern California’s air of lung-damaging particles to a shot across the bow of a Trump administration purportedly set on weakening federal clean air laws. http://www.sgvtribune.com/environment-and-nature/20161202/environmental-groups-suing-to-stop-air-watchdog-agencys-rollback-of-air-pollution-rules EPA seeks court remand of regional haze rule. U.S. EPA wants to rethink its decision to impose new pollution control requirements on Texas power plants, according to agency attorneys seeking an appellate court's permission to remand the regional haze rule, currently at the center of a legal dispute the agency is poised to lose. "A voluntary remand would allow the agency to take a second look at the final rule to determine… http://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2016/12/05/stories/1060046663 EPA to release particulate matter review plan. EPA is set to release a final integrated review plan as soon as today for its recently launched review of air quality standards for particulate matter. The plan would lay out the agency's approach and expected schedule for the review, according to a Federal Register notice set for publication tomorrow. http://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2016/12/05/stories/1060046670 CLIMATE CHANGE Trump, Gore Meet on Climate as Talk Opens With Ivanka. Donald Trump met in New York Monday with Al Gore to discuss an issue the Republican president-elect has long scoffed at: Global warming. The meeting at Trump Tower was initially scheduled with the president-elect’s daughter, Ivanka Trump. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-05/ivanka-trump-gore-discuss-topic-her-father-calls-bunk-climate http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/05/us/politics/donald-trump-transition.html?_r=0 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/12/05/ivanka-trump-to-meet-with-al-gore-to-discuss-climate-issues/?utm_term=.e70aad4a9bb1 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-ivanka-trump-al-gore-climate-20161205-story.html During last period of global warming, Antarctica warmed 2 to 3 times more than planet average. Following Earth’s last ice age, which peaked 20,000 years ago, the Antarctic warmed between two and three times the average temperature increase worldwide, according to a new study by a team of American geophysicists.The disparity – Antarctica warmed about 11 degrees Celsius, nearly 20 degrees Fahrenheit, between about 20,000 and 10,000 years ago… http://news.berkeley.edu/2016/12/05/during-last-period-of-global-warming-antarctica-warmed-2-to-3-times-more-than-planet-average/ Governor Brown Issues Statement on California Air Resources Board's Draft Plan to Achieve 2030 Climate Goals. Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today issued the following statement on the California Air Resources Board's initial draft plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030 - the most ambitious target in North America. https://www.gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=19615 Fake news tries to blame human-caused global warming on El Niño. Climate scientists and real science journalists pushed back, holding the post-truth crowd accountable. Human carbon pollution is heating the Earth incredibly fast. On top of that long-term human-caused global warming trend, there are fluctuations caused by various natural factors. One of these is the El Niño/La Niña cycle. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/dec/05/fake-news-tries-to-blame-human-caused-global-warming-on-el-nino Australia is blowing its carbon budget, projections reveal. Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions are rising despite global reduction efforts, according to detailed projections made by the consultants NDEVR Environmental. Australia’s emissions jumped by 2.56m tonnes in the three months to September, putting them 1.55m tonnes off-track compared with commitments made in Paris… https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/dec/05/australia-is-blowing-its-carbon-budget-projections-reveal?utm_source=Inside+Climate+News&utm_campaign=8063796d11-Today_s_Climate12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-8063796d11-327747457 Climate Change Refugees: Military Officials Warn Of 'Unimaginable Scale' Of Displacement With Global Warming. Barring a shift from current trends, the growing threat of climate change will cause a refugee crisis of “unimaginable scale” and could prove to be the greatest security threat in the 21st century, according to senior military officials interviewed by the Guardian. Rising greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere which trap heat and lead to global warming… http://www.ibtimes.com/climate-change-refugees-military-officials-warn-unimaginable-scale-displacement-2455171 Climate change and the 'fake news' problem. Last week, the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology tweeted out a climate change news story that annoyed a lot of climate scientists. The story was published on Breitbart News Network, whose former executive chairman, Steve Bannon, is now President-elect Donald Trump's chief strategist. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/12/05/stories/1060046634 FUELS Girls turn poo to clean power in Cameroon biogas push. An initiative by youth organizations in Cameroon to turn human waste into biogas is reducing pollution and providing cheap, renewable energy to the growing populations of the university towns of Buea and Bamenda. Bioenergy-Cameroon, a non-governmental organization run by young people, installs equipment that converts waste from septic tanks and pit latrines into biogas… http://www.reuters.com/article/us-cameroon-energy-biogas-idUSKBN13U0MO Enviros move to defend BLM methane rule. Environmental groups will not let the Obama administration's latest methane-slashing rule go down without a fight. The Center for Biological Diversity, the Sierra Club, WildEarth Guardians, the Environmental Defense Fund and an army of other groups on Friday entered the legal fray over the Bureau of Land Management's new methane rule. http://www.eenews.net/energywire/2016/12/05/stories/1060046619 GREEN ENERGY Trump brings Koch network's anti-green-energy stance from the fringe to the center of power. When an obscure nonprofit group attacked one of California’s signature green-energy projects this summer — warning a congressional panel that the embrace of solar energy would lead to crippling hikes in electricity bills — officials in the state shrugged off the testimony as noise from the fringe. http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-kochs-climate-20161205-story.html?utm_source=Inside+Climate+News&utm_campaign=8063796d11-Today_s_Climate12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-8063796d11-327747457 MISCELLANEOUS EU blames China for WTO environmental trade talks collapse. Europe's trade negotiator blamed China on Sunday for scuppering a global environmental trade deal by submitting impossible late demands at World Trade Organization talks aimed at scrapping import tariffs on exports worth more than $1 trillion. "China came in with their list, bringing in totally new elements of perspective… http://www.reuters.com/article/us-trade-environment-idUSKBN13T0MX Air board taps former industry consultant as head. Former industry consultant Wayne Nastri accepted a formal appointment Friday to serve as executive officer of Southern California's air quality board. Republicans looking for a more business-friendly approach hired Nastri as interim head of the South Coast Air Quality Management District about eight months ago. http://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2016/12/05/stories/1060046641 OPINIONS Cashing In on Climate Change. You’ve saved your money and amassed a surplus. You’ve read a few books on investing and gleaned the basics — the importance of diversification, of investing for the long term, and of buying and holding rather than trying to beat the market. But you also know that human-caused climate change will (if it hasn’t already) start eroding economic output. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/03/opinion/sunday/cashing-in-on-climate-change.html Through climate change denial, we're ceding global leadership to China. Remember when China was the climate-action outcast, the obstacle standing in the way of progress in the global fight against a warming planet? What a difference a few years — and an election — can make. Over the past few weeks, world leaders, delegates to the climate change conference in Marrakech and activists everywhere… http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-gardner-china-climate-leadership-20161204-story.html BLOGS Can You Rely on DIY Air Pollution Sensors? The Conversation US Independent source of news and analysis, from experts in the academic community. Until recently, measuring air pollution was a task that could be performed only by trained scientists using very sophisticated - and very expensive - equipment. That has changed with the rapid growth of small, inexpensive sensors that can be assembled by almost anyone. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-conversation-us/can-you-rely-on-diy-air-p_b_13430412.html California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips.