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CARB Newsclips for March 21, 2017. 

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CARB BUSINESS

Please see the agenda for this week’s 2 day CARB meeting in
Riverside:
https://www.arb.ca.gov/board/ma/2017/ma032317.pdf


Please consider the following news release from the California
Air Resources Board:
http://www.arb.ca.gov/newsrel/newsrelease.php?id=900     

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) invites you to
participate in a public workshop on the Fiscal Year (FY) 2017-18
Funding Plan for Low Carbon Transportation Investments, Air
Quality Improvement Program (AQIP), and the potential $25 million
Volkswagen settlement funds for zero-emission vehicle (ZEV)
aspects of vehicle replacement programs. The meeting will be held
at the following time and place:

Date:   Thursday, April 6, 2017
Time:   9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Place:  Cal/EPA Headquarters Building
        Coastal Hearing Room, Second Floor
        1001 I Street
        Sacramento, California 95814

A meeting notice for the workshop is posted at: 
https://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/aqip/meetings/meetings.htm        

RFP Information: The Data Monitoring, Collection, and Analysis
for Projects Granted under FY 14-15 AQIP and Low Carbon
Transportation GGRF Investments RFP advertisement is available
at: 
https://caleprocure.ca.gov/pages/Events-BS3/event-search.aspx    
     
(Event ID 0000004538).  In order to submit a response, please
register on the Cal eProcure website at:
https://caleprocure.ca.gov/pages/          

The final date for the proposal submission is Friday, March 24,
2017, 3:00 p.m., Pacific Standard Time.
CAP AND TRADE

Governor Brown, Oil Industry Share Interest In Cap-And-Trade
Extension. Gov. Jerry Brown and the oil industry are both pushing
to preserve California’s struggling cap-and-trade program. But
that will require support from Democratic lawmakers who have
doubts about the program. The program allows companies to choose
between lowering emissions and purchasing a limited number of
credits for them. http://www.capradio.org/92175 

A discussion of cap-and-trade in California. Cap and trade is
either a sensible effort to reduce pollution in California
without undue damage to the state’s economy, or it is a
circumvention of the drastic action that is really needed to
safeguard the environment.
That chasm, separating environmentalists from much of
California’s business community…
http://capitolweekly.net/discussion-cap-trade-california/ 

Carbon market slump could last for a while — report. A new
analysis of California's carbon market finds that low demand
could continue for the next year and a half, but eventually
rebound to the tune of $8 billion through 2020. California's
greenhouse gas market has been sluggish for nearly the last year,
due to jitters about the program's legal status.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2017/03/20/stories/1060051711 

CLIMATE CHANGE

How Americans Think About Climate Change, in Six Maps. Americans
overwhelmingly believe that global warming is happening, and that
carbon emissions should be scaled back. But fewer are sure that
the changes will harm them personally. New data released by Yale
researchers gives the most detailed view yet of public opinion on
global warming.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/21/climate/how-americans-think-about-climate-change-in-six-maps.html?_r=1


Trump Repeal of Climate Rules Means U.S. Paris Target Now Out of
Reach. The U.S. would have had to ramp up its climate ambitions
to help slow global warming to the 2 degrees C goal, but under
Trump, it's going in the opposite direction. Whether the U.S.
meets its emissions-reduction commitments under the Paris climate
accord is pivotal to the success of the global agreement…
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20032017/paris-climate-agreement-donald-trump-global-warming-clean-power-plan


Global CO2 emissions are flat, but it's not all good news. For
the third year in a row, the carbon dioxide emissions that drive
climate change worldwide have been level. The emissions pause is
particularly noteworthy because it comes despite a growing global
economy, the International Energy Agency announced. That's a sign
that carbon emissions are "decoupling" from the economy as other
sources of energy come online.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2017/03/20/stories/1060051707 

The climate, not just genetics, shaped your nose. The planet's
climate has shaped continents, coastlines, land-use patterns —
and the human nose. New research indicates that the human nose
has, over millennia, tailored itself to best suit the climate it
finds itself in. In a nutshell, warmer and more humid
environments are populated by wide-nosed people, while narrower
noses are more preferable in colder, drier regions.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2017/03/20/stories/1060051713 

Greens gird for Trump admin assault on social cost of carbon.
Environmentalists are expecting the White House to zero out the
government's estimate of the cost of global damage caused by the
release of an additional ton of carbon dioxide into the
atmosphere. President Trump is reportedly ready to use his
executive power to target the Obama administration's calculator
of the social cost of greenhouse gases.
http://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2017/03/20/stories/1060051739 

ZERO-EMISSION FUEL CELL ELECTRIC BUSES

http://seekingalpha.com/news/3243033-ballard-power-deploy-20-zero-emission-fuel-cell-electric-buses-california

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ballard-in-consortium-with-new-flyer-to-deploy-20-zero-emission-fuel-cell-electric-buses-in-ca-613637143.html

http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/cnw/release.html?rkey=20170213C8291&filter=5611

http://ballard.com/about-ballard/newsroom/news-releases/news02131701.aspx

http://www.metro-magazine.com/sustainability/news/720025/consortium-forming-to-deploy-20-fuel-cell-electric-buses

https://www.thestreet.com/story/14000416/1/ballard-in-consortium-with-new-flyer-to-deploy-20-zero-emission-fuel-cell-electric-buses-in-ca.html

http://www.advfn.com/news_Ballard-in-Consortium-With-New-Flyer-to-Deploy-20_73845906.html

http://www.cbs8.com/story/34493864/ballard-in-consortium-with-new-flyer-to-deploy-20-zero-emission-fuel-cell-electric-buses-in-ca

http://www.altenergymag.com/news/2017/02/13/ballard-in-consortium-with-new-flyer-to-deploy-20-zero-emission-fuel-cell-electric-buses-in-ca/25598/

http://www.greencarcongress.com/2017/02/20170214-ballard.html 
http://www.electricenergyonline.com/detail_news.php?ID=621571&cat=;59&niveauAQ=0

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/news-sources/?mid=cnw.20170213.C8291

https://www.centralcharts.com/en/13649-ballard-power-systems-inc/news/531911-ballard-in-consortium-with-new-flyer-to-deploy-20-zero-emission-fuel-cell-electric-buses-in-ca

http://www.canadianmanufacturing.com/supply-chain/new-flyer-provides-20-buses-for-california-green-transit-project-while-ballard-chips-in-fuel-cells-185040/


FUELS

Sen. Feinstein suggests Gorsuch would undermine EPA on fuel
mileage standards. The heated dispute between California and the
Trump White House over aggressive federal fuel mileage standards
emerged as an issue in the confirmation hearing of Supreme Court
nominee Neil Gorsuch. Much to the dismay of California, the Trump
administration has put on the shelf fuel rules that would require
vehicles…
http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-essential-washington-updates-feinstein-suggests-gorsuch-would-1490113388-htmlstory.html


GREEN ENERGY

Does 'green energy' have hidden health and environmental costs?
(THE CONVERSATION) There are a number of available low-carbon
technologies to generate electricity. But are they really better
than fossil fuels and nuclear power? 
To answer that question, one needs to compare not just the
emissions of different power sources but also the health benefits
and the threats to ecosystems of green energy.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Does-green-energy-have-hidden-health-and-11015751.php


Competition heats up for Md.'s first offshore wind farm. Maryland
may get its first offshore wind farm soon — but not without a
fight. Two developers are going head-to-head in a battle to
construct the first wind turbines off the coast of Ocean City,
Md.
U.S. Wind Inc., a subsidiary of Italian conglomerate Toto
Holding, and Skipjack Offshore Energy LLC…
http://www.eenews.net/energywire/2017/03/20/stories/1060051706 

OPINIONS

Opinion: California clean car rules have cleaned the air, saved
consumers money. When California air quality regulators meet on
Friday to review the state’s Advanced Clean Cars program,
automakers will likely argue that continuing to produce
low-emission vehicles over the next eight years would be too
burdensome. However, automakers are meeting existing clean-car
standards today and have the technology to go much farther.
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/03/21/opinion-california-clean-car-rules-have-cleaned-the-air-saved-consumers-money/


California’s Drought May Be Over, But Its Water Troubles Aren’t.
In the years before California’s civil engineers got around to
confining the Sacramento River, it often spilled over its banks,
inundating huge swaths of the Central Valley. Sometimes the
floodwater would stand for a hundred days at a time. The botanist
William Henry Brewer, writing in 1862, after a season of
torrential rains, described the valley as “a lake extending from
the mountains on one side to the coast range hills on the other.”
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/californias-drought-may-be-over-but-its-water-troubles-arent





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