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CARB Newsclips for March 28, 2017. 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. CARB BUSINESS The Air Resources Board (ARB or Board) will conduct a public meeting at the time and place noted below to consider Truck Field Enforcement Activities and New Screening Technology for High Emitting Vehicles. DATE: April 27, 2017 TIME: 9:00 a.m. LOCATION: California Environmental Protection Agency Air Resources Board Byron Sher Auditorium, 2nd Floor 1001 I Street Sacramento, California 95814 WEBCAST: http://www.cal-span.org/ Air Resources Board staff have posted a white paper on the health benefits of physical activity and air pollution exposure while walking and bicycling for transportation. Download the White Paper: https://www.arb.ca.gov/research/vprp/physical_activity_and_health_final_161216.pdf For more information, including the White Paper and other resources, visit our Built Environment webpage: https://www.arb.ca.gov/research/vprp/vprp.htm A fact sheet summarizing this document can be found here: https://www.arb.ca.gov/html/fact_sheets/physical_activity_fact_sheet.pdf CAP AND TRADE A cap-and-trade system for vehicle emissions? Economists and regulatory experts are proposing a cap-and-trade system for vehicle greenhouse gas emissions to replace existing fuel economy standards. President Trump has vowed to review the emissions and mileage requirements to boost automotive jobs. U.S. EPA and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration have until April 2018 to decide whether to lower the targets. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2017/03/28/stories/1060052177 AIR POLLUTION CLEAN POWER PLAN Trump to unravel Obama's anti-global warming projects. President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order Tuesday aimed at moving forward on his campaign pledge to unravel former President Barack Obama's plan to curb global warming. The order seeks to suspend, rescind or flag for review more than a half-dozen measures in an effort to boost domestic energy production in the form of fossil fuels. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TRUMP_CLIMATE_PLAN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT OTHER RELATED STORIES http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TRUMP_CLIMATE_PLAN?SITE=CAFRA&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/videos/2017-03-28/trump-set-to-reverse-obama-s-paris-climate-policies-video http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-energy-idUSKBN16Z09F http://www.npr.org/2017/03/28/521751276/expected-executive-actions-on-climate-change-policies-aim-to-ensure-focus-on-ene http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/28/519003733/trump-takes-aim-at-a-centerpiece-of-obamas-environmental-legacy https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2017/03/27/trump-takes-aim-obama-efforts-curb-global-warming/Qbjkja8M3IITUGFdajxG4L/story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trump-moves-decisively-to-wipe-out-obamas-climate-change-record/2017/03/27/411043d4-132c-11e7-9e4f-09aa75d3ec57_story.html?utm_term=.7f397ce2f037 http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-set-gut-obama-era-green-energy-provisions-article-1.3011307 http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/326047-trump-to-undo-obamas-climate-change-agenda http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article141167883.html http://www.postandcourier.com/politics/federal_politics/trump-expected-to-take-a-swing-at-dismantling-obama-s/article_39d3289e-13b7-11e7-9c72-5b48aed80784.html http://www.denverpost.com/2017/03/28/environment-groups-oppose-trump-climate-change-order/ https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/03/28/trump-to-sign-executive-order-aimed-at-obamas-climate-change-efforts.html http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-clean-power-plan-climate-change-obama-executive-order-2017-3-2 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/28/trump-climate-change-executive-order-us-dominance-china http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/environmentalists-ready-fight-trump-signs-order-decimate-obamas-clean-power-policy-1614143 http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/27/politics/trump-climate-change-executive-order/index.html http://www.elp.com/articles/2017/03/trump-to-gut-power-plant-emission-regulations.html CLIMATE CHANGE What does California need to meet its climate-change goals? For starters, denser housing and less driving, report says. California will need billions of dollars in new funding for housing and transportation improvements, and to make extraordinary changes to state and local government policies, in order to meet its new 2030 climate change goals… http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-housing-climate-change-study-20170327-story.html European scientists, officials warn against US climate plan. Scientists, officials and environmental campaigners in Europe said Tuesday that the United States would be damaging its own interests if it rolls back the previous administration's efforts to curb climate change. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_EUROPE_US_CLIMATE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT What Trump’s new climate actions mean: A FAQ. On Tuesday, a week after the end of the sixth-warmest winter in the continental United States in recorded history, President Trump will announce a series of actions meant to unwind or dramatically halt Barack Obama’s efforts to fight climate change. What does this mean? What will the effects be? Can Trump keep his promises on energy job creation? Allow us to answer those questions in the form of a FAQ. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/03/28/what-trumps-new-climate-actions-mean-a-faq/?utm_term=.41d5c3648de0 How climate change may be driving extreme weather. Scientists say climate change could be altering the jet stream in a way that causes extreme heat waves, droughts, and flooding. Whether a specific extreme weather event can be linked to climate change rarely gets a straightforward answer from climate scientists or meteorologists. It's complicated, they'll say, but that doesn't mean there isn't a relationship. http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2017/0327/How-climate-change-may-be-driving-extreme-weather ADVANCED CLEAN CARS California Upholds Auto Emissions Standards, Setting Up Face-Off With Trump. California’s clean-air agency voted on Friday to push ahead with stricter emissions standards for cars and trucks, setting up a potential legal battle with the Trump administration over the state’s plan to reduce planet-warming gases. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/business/energy-environment/california-upholds-emissions-standards-setting-up-face-off-with-trump.html?_r=0 https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2017/03/24/us/24reuters-california-autos-pollution.html https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/03/24/us/ap-us-california-fuel-standards.html FUELS Maryland lawmakers vote to ban drilling known as fracking. Maryland lawmakers voted Monday to ban hydraulic fracturing for oil and natural gas, a process better known as fracking. The Senate voted 35-10 for a measure that already has been approved by the House. That sends the bill to Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, who supports the ban. Fracking isn't being done in Maryland now, but a moratorium on issuing permits ends in October. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_XGR_GAS_DRILLING_MARYLAND?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT Study suggests cars are misstating fuel use. Vehicles are significantly less fuel-efficient on the road than the laboratory, according to new research from the Australian Automobile Association (AAA). The study, which spanned the last 10 months, included 17 common cars and found that fuel use was around 25 percent higher than their consumption labels suggested… http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2017/03/28/stories/1060052154 Have markets rendered KXL, Clean Power Plan irrelevant? The Keystone XL pipeline is alive and the Clean Power Plan is on death row, but President Trump's first attempts to make America more fossil-fuel-friendly share this: Energy markets have moved on. Royal Dutch Shell PLC has announced plans to sell its stake in the Canadian oil sands, which Keystone XL was designed to serve. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2017/03/28/stories/1060052174 VEHICLES Tesla deal boosts Chinese presence in U.S. auto tech. China's Tencent Holdings Ltd (0700.HK) has bought a 5 percent stake in U.S. electric car maker Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) for $1.78 billion, the latest investment by a Chinese internet company in the potentially lucrative market for self-driving vehicles and related services. Tencent's investment, revealed in a U.S. regulatory filing, provides Tesla with an additional cash cushion… http://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-stake-tencent-holdings-idUSKBN16Z1FJ CARB Pushes Forward With Stringent Emissions Standards Through 2025, Will Crank It Up Beyond That. Just like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) set out to do late last year, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) has decided to keep its emissions standards locked through 2025. The ZEV program will also remain intact, and eventually accelerate. http://insideevs.com/carb-pushes-forward-stringent-emissions-standards-2025/ AeroVironment and eMotorWerks partner to offer smart advanced electric vehicle charging solutions. AeroVironment and eMotorWerks, a provider of intelligent and cloud-connected smart-grid charging solutions, are partnering to deliver smart advanced EV charging solutions. By integrating eMotorWerks’ JuiceNet smart-grid EV charging platform into AeroVironment’s line of consumer and OEM EV charging solutions… http://www.greencarcongress.com/2017/03/20170328-aero.html Powertrain innovations rev ahead despite mpg, emissions review. European engine launches don’t generally make a lot of noise in the United States, and so it is not really much of a surprise that Ford’s latest motor, an innovative 1.5-liter three-cylinder, pretty much went unnoticed here a month ago when Ford unveiled it. Except for filling in some blanks late last year on several new hybrids and electric vehicles… http://www.autonews.com/article/20170328/BLOG06/170329865/powertrain-innovations-rev-ahead-despite-mpg-emissions-review GREEN ENERGY Brookfield Finds Solar ‘Entry Point’ After SunEdison's Collapse. Brookfield Asset Management Inc., one of the biggest owners of hydropower, is about to make its first major move into solar power. Canada’s largest alternative asset manager has about 10,700 megawatts of clean-energy plants around the world, including 217 hydropower sites -- and just a half-megawatt of solar power that’s enough to power 82 U.S. homes. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-27/brookfield-finds-solar-entry-point-after-sunedison-s-collapse UAE Sees $192 Billion Savings in Switch to Green Power From Gas. The United Arab Emirates forecasts that savings generated by switching half its power needs to clean energy by mid-century will outstrip the investment costs. The Gulf state plans to invest $150 billion in renewable power to 2050, weening the country from dependency on subsidized natural gas power in stages… https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-27/uae-sees-192-billion-savings-in-switch-to-green-power-from-gas Australia’s Wind Farms Could Be “Core Providers” Of Grid Stability, Says AEMO. Australia’s wind farms could soon become “core providers” of crucial grid stability services, assuming a role currently dominated by the nation’s fossil fuel generators, a wind energy conference in Melbourne has been told. https://cleantechnica.com/2017/03/28/australias-wind-farms-core-providers-grid-stability-says-aemo/ 85°C Bakery Cafe Celebrates Its First Solar-Powered Facility. 85°C Bakery Cafe has installed a 325 kW solar photovoltaic (PV) system to power its central kitchen in Brea, Calif. The system, which is expected to produce 527,702kWh of power annually, features 1,226 Mitsubishi Electric Diamond Premium solar modules and seven inverters from Yaskawa – Solectria Solar. http://solarindustrymag.com/85c-bakery-cafe-celebrates-first-solar-powered-facility Africa has 'gigantic' unused wind and solar resources — study. Africa's electrification crisis could be largely solved with wind and solar power, a new analysis from the University of California, Berkeley, shows. But the continent's immense capacity for renewable energy generation doesn't mean new power plants are being built where and when the electricity is most needed. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2017/03/28/stories/1060052160 Batteries, and battery policy, are spreading — report. Demand for grid-level energy storage is growing in states across the country, and policies to support it are expanding at the same time, a new report says. Twenty-one states have 20 megawatts or more of energy storage installed or planned, according to GTM Research, which compiled the information as part of a new data tool. http://www.eenews.net/energywire/2017/03/28/stories/1060052180 MISCELLANEOUS Why record snow followed by warm temperature is a dangerous combination for Owens Valley. As snow continued to fall on the eastern Sierra Nevada this week, platoons of earth movers, cranes and utility trucks fanned out across the Owens Valley, scrambling to empty reservoirs and clean out a lattice-work of ditches and pipelines in a frantic effort to protect the key source of Los Angeles’ water. http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-owens-flood-20170324-story.html AkzoNobel, Maersk Line Partner to Reduce Shipping Carbon Emissions. Paint and coating company AkzoNobel and container shipping company Maersk Line have partnered to reduce carbon emissions per container shipped by 10 percent. The companies say the partnership will also increase transparency on supply chain best practices and integrate sustainability into the customer-supplier relationship… https://www.environmentalleader.com/2017/03/akzonobel-maersk-line-partner-reduce-shipping-carbon-emissions/ OPINIONS Planned Rollback of Climate Rules Unlikely to Achieve All Trump’s Goals. President Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Tuesday to roll back most of President Barack Obama’s climate change legacy, celebrating the move as a way to increase the nation’s “energy independence” and to restore thousands of lost coal mining jobs. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/climate/planned-rollback-of-climate-rules-unlikely-to-achieve-all-trumps-goals.html?_r=0 Using Aliso Canyon is about keeping Southern California safe during a heat wave. To the editor: This editorial misleadingly implies that I am blocking consideration of SB 57 and ignores my continued commitment to renewable energy and, above all else, the safety and well-being of consumers. (“Don't reopen Aliso Canyon until we know what caused the worst methane leak in history,” editorial, March 23) http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-aliso-canyon-reopen-20170328-story.html Letter: Climate change aggravates our air pollution. Utah Climate Center researchers confirm that climate change worsens air pollution by causing stronger inversions, resulting in higher concentrations of particulate air pollution. After too many red air days this winter Utahns need to consider the impact of worsening air pollution on the health of our families. Climate change is not a matter of belief; it is unequivocal scientific fact. http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/5107950-155/letter-climate-change-aggravates-our-air Fuel cell cars won't solve global warming. Fuel cell cars are touted as having no emissions except water. In a limited sense that is true. However, if the entire fuel cycle for the car is considered it most certainly is not. The fuel used by the fuel cell is hydrogen, very pure hydrogen. By combining hydrogen with oxygen from the ambient air, the fuel cell produces electricity… http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/03/28/fuel-cell-cars-solve-global-warming The Giant Trump Climate Order Is Here. What it does, what comes next. In the final days of the Obama administration, scholars and journalists took stock of all that he had done to combat the dangerous rise of climate change. Barack Obama, they pronounced, had built up a surprisingly vast array of climate-concerned rules and guidelines across the government. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/03/trump-climate-eo/520986/ The Cost of Curbing Climate Change. On average, every ton of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere imposes damages equal to about $40. President Trump is expected to issue an executive order soon to reverse Obama-era rules to cut carbon pollution, including a moratorium on leasing public lands for coal mining and a plan to reduce carbon emissions from power plants. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2017-03-28/how-we-measure-the-cost-of-curbing-climate-change Why the West will continue to green without the Clean Power Plan. The region is poised for more renewable energy and less coal. The West likely will continue greening its electricity supply despite President Donald Trump’s expected executive order today aimed at wiping out much of former President Barack Obama’s consequential actions to rein in climate change. But progress will be slower and spottier than it would have been. http://www.hcn.org/articles/why-the-west-will-green-without-the-clean-power-plan Why Blacks Need Environmental Protection — And Why We’re at Risk of Losing It. [Opinion] The EPA is one of the few places African-Americans can go for environmental justice, but it's targeted for heavy cuts from the Trump administration. As African-Americans, we know there are a plethora of reasons our lifespans are almost four years lower than Whites, but there’s a menacing health danger flying under the radar that gets far too little attention. http://www.ebony.com/news-views/epa-trump-african-americans#ixzz4cdJicyWy How Trump's Clean Power Plan Executive Order Will Affect Climate Change. President Donald Trump appears set to issue an executive order Tuesday on the Clean Power Plan, a policy put in place by the Obama administration in an effort to combat climate change. Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt… http://www.ibtimes.com/how-trumps-clean-power-plan-executive-order-will-affect-climate-change-2516358 The Glaring Omissions in Trump’s Climate Rule. In an effort to get his administration back on track after a miserable week, today Trump will sign a new executive order that initiates his efforts to roll back Obama’s climate change policies. President Trump will take the most significant step yet in obliterating his predecessor’s environmental record TuesdaY…. http://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/03/28/the-glaring-omissions-in-trumps-climate-rule/ Was the climate rule really bad for the economy? As President Trump today pulls the first strings in unraveling President Obama's signature climate change regulation, he will claim he's saving Americans from skyrocketing electricity bills and putting coal miners back to work. In truth, that's hard to show. Experts say it's difficult to get more than a rough estimate of how the Clean Power Plan would influence power costs… http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060052178 BLOGS Can We Slow Global Warming and Still Grow? In March 17th, the International Energy Agency announced that 2016 marked the third year in a row that global carbon emissions had stayed at the same level while the world’s economy grew. This three-time repeat has put to rest any lingering suspicions of gremlins in the data. Something new is happening. http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/can-we-slow-global-warming-and-still-grow?intcid=mod-latest U.S. natural gas to Mexico skyrockets, now some worry about dependence. Drug tunnels are not the only passageways beneath the U.S.-Mexico border that transport valuable cargo. Pipelines cross the boundary too, carrying natural gas south. This trade is up 300 percent since 2010, and now is set to double again by 2019. It’s the largest natural gas export capacity expansion in U.S. history… http://inewsource.org/2017/03/27/natural-gas-mexico-skyrockets/ EU states trying to 'rig new greenhouse gas law with loopholes', new report claims. Twenty-five out of 28 states, including the UK, accused of trying to water down the EU’s ‘most important climate law’. Just three out of the 28 European Union countries appear to be in favour of creating a tough new law that would set binding targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new analysis. http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/eu-states-greenhouse-gas-law-loopholes-european-union-global-warming-climate-change-report-carbon-a7654151.html Killing Climate Action = Killing People. The Trump administration continues its war on health today with an executive order that aims to claw back climate protections like the Clean Power Plan. If fully implemented, the polluter-friendly order would guarantee more deadly heat waves, more choking air pollution, and more contamination in our food and water. https://www.nrdc.org/experts/juanita-constible/killing-climate-action-killing-people Trump’s Climate Destruction Plan: A Deal He Can’t Close. President Trump’s sprawling executive order directing the EPA and other agencies to start dismantling President Obama’s climate legacy flies in the face of law, science, and strong public support for climate action. Trump’s executive order is a Climate Destruction Plan. It attacks the centerpiece of his predecessor’s climate legacy… https://www.nrdc.org/experts/david-doniger/trumps-climate-destruction-plan-deal-he-cant-close US Climate Actions Can’t Be Stopped With the Stroke of a Pen. President Trump’s executive orders on climate change can’t slow U.S. action on climate change or progress on the Paris Agreement. Final rules can’t be undone with the stroke of a pen and market dynamics will continue to shift the U.S. to a clean energy economy despite President Trump’s efforts. https://www.nrdc.org/experts/jake-schmidt/us-climate-actions-cant-be-stopped-stroke-pen President Trump’s All-Out Attack on Climate Policy. Today President Trump launches an all-out attack on our country’s policies to address climate change, via an Executive Order expected to be signed this afternoon. We’ve known for some time that something like this was in the works. Yet that doesn’t take away from the shock of the order’s destructive details, which were previewed yesterday by administration officials. http://blog.ucsusa.org/rachel-cleetus/president-trumps-all-out-attack-on-climate-policy California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips.