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Posted: 08 Jun 2017 14:21:49
CARB Newsclips for June 8, 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 Thursday, June 15, 2017 at 10:00 a.m., PDT (WEBCAST) Sierra Hearing Room, 2nd Floor, CalEPA Building 1001 I Street, Sacramento, California The 2010 emission standards for heavy-duty engines have established a limit for oxides of nitrogen (NOX) emissions of 0.20 g/bhp-hr, a 90% reduction from the previous emission standards. However, it is projected that even when the entire on-road fleet of heavy-duty vehicles operating in California is compliant with the 2010 NOX emission standards, the upcoming National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) requirements for ambient particulate matter and ozone will not be achieved in California without further significant reduction in NOX emissions from the heavy-duty vehicles. https://www.arb.ca.gov/research/seminars/sharp/sharp.htm ______________________________ The California Air Resources Board in collaboration with the South Coast Air Quality Management District and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, is holding a free professional wet cleaning demonstration workshop. The free workshop will be held on Sunday, June 11, 2017 from 2:00PM - 4:00PM in Los Angeles. Doors open at 1:45 PM. Venue: London Cleaners, 1073 Gayley Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90024. Space is limited. Register early at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-professional-wet-cleaning-demonstration-workshop-for-dry-cleaners-tickets-33498967313 or by searching for "wet cleaning workshop" on Eventbrite at: http://www.eventbrite.com For more details about the workshop, please visit ARB's Non-Toxic Dry Cleaning Incentive Program (AB998) website at: http://www.arb.ca.gov/toxics/dryclean/ab998.htm AIR POLLUTION 'Lack of progress' prompts study of Portland air pollution authority. Growing impatient for Oregon legislators to clean up Portland's toxic air, Multnomah County and city leaders want to do it themselves. The county and city said Wednesday that they will spend $120,000 to study creating a metropolitan air pollution authority. Such an agency would take power away from the state Department of Environmental Quality… http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2017/06/lack_of_progress_prompts_study.html Deportation fears among LA residents near shuttered Exide plant could impact health study. Nearly 20,000 residents near the shuttered Exide Technologies battery recycling plant could be visited Saturday as part of what Los Angeles County officials called a massive, unprecedented effort to gather health information from those who have lived for years near the chemical-spewing facility. http://www.dailynews.com/health/20170607/deportation-fears-among-la-residents-near-shuttered-exide-plant-could-impact-health-study EPA isn't ensuring refiners meet benzene standards — IG. When U.S. EPA regulators set limits on benzene content in gasoline in 2007, they predicted the new rule would eventually cut emissions of the toxic chemical by 20,000 tons per year. A decade later, however, the agency needs to do more to make sure refiners and importers are meeting those standards, EPA Inspector General Arthur Elkins said in a report released this morning. https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2017/06/08/stories/1060055766 CLIMATE CHANGE California businesses join, pay for Gov. Brown’s China trip. Gov. Jerry Brown has company on his trip to China to further his climate change agenda: About 30 California business leaders are along for the ride to support Brown’s policies and build their own business deals. The business delegation is led by the Bay Area Council business advocacy organization and includes executives at transportation… https://www.apnews.com/146d04e81b2e472e9af6fffdf204998f/California-businesses-join,-pay-for-Gov.-Brown's-China-trip Canada’s Strategy on Climate Change: Work With American States. The timing was coincidental, but the meeting had a new urgency. One day after President Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris climate accord — saying he was elected to serve Pittsburgh, not Paris… https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/world/canada/canadas-strategy-on-climate-change-work-with-american-states.html?_r=0 New York Senate Democrats urge GOP to fight climate change. State Senate Democrats are calling on the chamber's Republican majority to meet New York's progressive stance in combatting climate change. Democratic Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins, of Westchester, on Wednesday sent a letter to Republican majority leader John Flanagan, urging him to advance bills to address climate change… http://wnyt.com/politics/new-york-senate-democrats-urge-gop-to-fight-climate-change/4507779/ Global warming unabated: Carbon dioxide tallied 2nd-largest rise on record last year. As President Trump announced the U.S. withdrawal from the landmark Paris climate agreement last week, federal scientists reported 2016 tallied the second-largest rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide ever recorded. Carbon dioxide is the "greenhouse" gas scientists say is most responsible for global warming. https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/sciencefair/2017/06/07/carbon-dioxide-tallied-2nd-largest-rise-record-last-year/102595430/ What price are Californians paying to fight climate change? Californians pay about 15 cents a gallon extra at the pump to fight climate change. Here’s what they’re getting for their money: continued progress in the effort to curb carbon. Greenhouse gas emissions fell by 1.5 million tons in California in 2015, state officials announced Wednesday. The reduction was the equivalent of pulling 300,000 cars off the road for a year, according to the California Air Resources Board. http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/environment/article154963014.html#storylink=cpy California Governor Jerry Brown is heading back to California, after five whirlwind days in China. The trip ended much as it began. Brown walked through a lush garden and tranquil pond at Beijing city hall to once again sit with a government official. "Well, I’m very glad to be here," says Brown. "I was a mayor myself, the city of Oakland." http://www.capradio.org/articles/2017/06/08/gov-brown-heads-back-to-california-after-china-visit/ Alan Finkel: the man who could bring peace to Australia's climate wars. The chief scientist has been a neuroscientist, engineer and a one-man start-up machine - now he's turned his hand to politics. One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts was waiting but Alan Finkel was ready. The chief scientist, who has a PhD in electrical engineering and worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in neuroscience… http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/alan-finkel-the-man-who-could-bring-peace-to-australias-climate-wars-20170608-gwn0cb.html State says it is reducing greenhouse gas emissions as economy grows. The California Air Resources Board says the latest statewide inventory of greenhouse gas emissions shows significant reductions even as the state has its strongest economic growth since 2005. “This data shows once again that California’s groundbreaking greenhouse gas emission-reduction programs are working as designed,” says Mary Nichols, chairman of the California Air Resources Board. http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?ID=32745 Climate change could boost Lyme disease this year. Researchers expect Lyme disease infections to spike as climate change makes more areas of the world hospitable to the tick-borne bacteria that cause it. The incidence of Lyme infections has already doubled in the United States since 1991, to about eight cases per 100,000 people. And a confluence of climate factors could make this year even worse. https://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2017/06/08/stories/1060055701 Most science teachers don't understand climate change — study. Many science teachers in Florida and Puerto Rico, among the country's most at-risk regions to climate change, hold wrong and naive views of climate science, a study has found. The authors of the report, published in the International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, surveyed science teachers working at secondary schools who "claimed to deeply teach climate change." https://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2017/06/08/stories/1060055739 DIESEL ACTIVITIES CARB certifies ROUSH CleanTech propane engine to .05 g/bhp-hr NOx. CleanTech has developed the first propane autogas engine available in class 4-7 vehicles and Blue Bird Type C buses certified to the optional low NOx level .05 g/bhp-hr. These new Environmental Protection Agency- and California Air Resources Board-certified propane engines are 75% cleaner than the current emissions standard. http://www.greencarcongress.com/2017/06/20170608-roush.html A Changing Climate: Is There Still a Case for Greener Trucks? Diesel is cheap, and environmental funding is under attack. Black smoke was once the inky signature of diesel engines everywhere. Now it has all but disappeared. A 1998 model year truck actually belched 35 times more smog-producing NOx and 60 times more particulate matter than equipment built… http://www.truckinginfo.com/channel/fuel-smarts/article/story/2017/06/a-changing-climate-is-there-still-a-case-for-greener-trucks.aspx FUELS African Oil Trader Taleveras Takes First Step Into Biofuels. Taleveras Group, the African oil trading company, is making its first moves into renewable energy by setting up a joint venture to build a biorefinery in the U.S. with Global Green Development Group. “The world is changing,’’ said Chairman Igho Sanomi in an interview in London. “People are getting more aware on the climate, so cleaner fuels are the future. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-07/african-oil-trader-taleveras-takes-first-step-into-biofuels GREEN ENERGY Biggest Job Growth Expected in Health Care & Renewable Energy. The occupation expected to grow the most over the next several years isn’t for the faint of heart. Jobs for wind turbine technicians—the people who install, maintain and repair wind turbines—are expected to increase 108 percent by 2024, more than any other profession. But it’s still a small industry overall. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-job-projections-2024/ The Energy 202: Seven former heads of Energy renewables office balk at Trump budget. On Thursday, all seven former Senate-confirmed heads of the Energy Department’s renewables office -- including three former Republican administration officials -- told Congress and the Trump administration that the deep budget cut proposed for that office would cripple its ability to function. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-energy-202/2017/06/08/the-energy-202-seven-former-heads-of-energy-renewables-office-balk-at-trump-budget/593819cde9b69b2fb981dc81/?utm_term=.f668ad1918aa DOE To Coal Miners: Drop Dead (Or Work On A Wind Farm In Texas) Energy Secretary Rick Perry has just pulled back the curtain on the Trump energy policy, and it ain’t pretty if you depend on coal for a living. In a new DOE blog post, Perry discusses the US withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement and lays out the case for the US to “protect the environment”... https://cleantechnica.com/2017/06/08/doe-coal-miners-drop-dead-work-wind-farm-texas/ 'Spectacular' drop in renewable energy costs leads to record global boost. Renewable energy capacity around the world was boosted by a record amount in 2016 and delivered at a markedly lower cost, according to new global data – although the total financial investment in renewables actually fell. The greater “bang-for-buck” resulted from plummeting prices for solar and wind power and led to new power deals in countries including… https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/06/spectacular-drop-in-renewable-energy-costs-leads-to-record-global-boost 3 Growth Stocks in Renewable Energy. It's getting harder and harder for any serious investor to overlook renewable energy investments as just a simple fad. The economics of solar and wind energy improve every day and now -- depending on where they are deployed -- are often cheaper power sources than traditional fossil fuels. On top of that, you have older, more established power sources… http://journalstar.com/business/investment/markets-and-stocks/growth-stocks-in-renewable-energy/article_523507a9-f9ff-5f84-84bb-c0b173100b33.html Solar expansion slows compared with red-hot 2016. Falling costs for U.S. solar power helped fuel a sixth consecutive quarter with at least 2 gigawatts of new photovoltaic capacity coming online between January and March, industry data released this morning show. The latest market numbers from the Solar Energy Industries Association and partner GTM Research show an industry… https://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2017/06/08/stories/1060055715 ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE Environmental Justice Resides in Green Limbo at the EPA. For some on the left, justice comes in many forms. There is not just social justice, but also reproductive justice, which seeks to support access to birth control and abortion, and now environmental justice. The term itself is not new. Environmental justice emerged as a concept in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when the environmentalists used civil rights laws… http://www.insidesources.com/environmental-justice-office-limbo-epa/ Passion for environmental justice fuels urban oil drilling study. A UCLA-student–led survey uncovered stark disparities in public health outcomes for L.A. neighborhoods with oil and gas drilling. It’s L.A.’s dirty little secret: 6,717 oil and natural gas wells operate within the Los Angeles Basin — even in residential communities. This spring, six UCLA seniors surveyed residents of one such community, Wilmington… http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/passion-for-environmental-justice-fuels-urban-oil-drilling-study OPINIONS A Nationalist Strategy for Climate Change. Trump's approach is bumptious. It doesn't have to be. President Donald Trump has been defending his plan to withdraw from the Paris climate-change accord on nationalist grounds. Announcing the decision last week, he said he was “elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris.” Vice President Mike Pence, in Iowa, said that Trump had shown he is “more concerned… https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-07/a-nationalist-strategy-for-climate-change ‘No viable solutions’ to global warming? Not exactly accurate. “As yet, there are no viable solutions” to global warming, Robert J. Samuelson bemoaned in his June 5 op-ed, “The truth about warming: We don’t yet have solutions.” “We need to keep searching and hope that something turns up.” Mr. Samuelson should broaden his analysis. As author John Michael Greer has written, climate change… https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/no-viable-solutions-to-global-warming-not-exactly-accurate/2017/06/07/1a76b66e-4acb-11e7-987c-42ab5745db2e_story.html?utm_term=.c611ebe055f5 The U.S. Can’t Leave the Paris Climate Deal Just Yet. Last week, President Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. But it will take more than one speech to pull out: Under the rules of the deal, which the White House says it will follow, the earliest any country can leave is Nov. 4, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/climate/trump-paris-climate-timeline.html?src=twr&_r=2&smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur CO2 isn't air pollution. Trump Derangement Syndrome rears its ugly head again as more fake news is disseminated by the AP and dutifully propagated by the Daily Sun with Sunday's front page headline: "Is U.S. 'cleanest'? Hardly." Domestic leftists, that mythical 97 percent of scientists who we're always being told believe in climate change, and the quasi-socialist states of… http://azdailysun.com/news/opinion/mailbag/co-isn-t-air-pollution/article_6b8f2e28-b6b4-5ecb-9ff3-9e6c0437ac2f.html Trump totally misunderstands climate change. Climate policy is the new culture war, driven by nearly theological passions. Or actually theological passions -- with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi claiming that Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Paris climate accord was a "dishonor to God." While God certainly values his creation, he is probably less concerned with the details of implementing the Paris agreement. http://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/story/opinion/2017/06/08/trump-totally-misunderstands-climate-change/372194001/ Climate Change Facts: Polar Bears Spending More Time Combating Drifting Sea Ice. Polar bears living in rapidly changing environments faced with dwindling sea ice also are facing a treadmill-like effect from the flowing ice. Research by the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Wyoming shows this treadmill is forcing the bears to spend more energy than they’re used to. http://www.ibtimes.com/climate-change-facts-polar-bears-spending-more-time-combating-drifting-sea-ice-2549103 How to Support Renewable Energy (and Why You Really Should). How can you support renewable energy? Plus, why you should. Earlier this month came the news that China plans to invest $361 billion into renewable energy projects over the next three years. A few days later, President Barack Obama penned a single author article in the journal Science, "The irreversible momentum of clean energy,"… https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-support-renewable-energy-and-why-you-really-should1/ Pollution isn't climate change. Some persons equate pollution with climate change. Not so. Much pollution is man-caused. However, climate change is another matter. There are much larger factors at work, all of a physical nature. This issue has been used by political factions for their own benefit. http://missoulian.com/opinion/letters/pollution-isn-t-climate-change/article_6e053cde-5dfc-54a5-a89d-a29674a6790a.html Biofuels work for Oregon. As an agricultural leader, Oregon is already home to nearly 16,000 jobs supported by biofuel production. With all the hype surrounding the oil boom, it’s tempting to pretend that America is on a glide path toward energy independence. Unfortunately, even as fracking reached new heights, America’s total domestic crude oil production declined in 2016. http://www.capitalpress.com/Opinion/Columns/20170606/biofuels-work-for-oregon BLOGS Trump Budget Bares Wholesale Disregard for Environmental Justice Communities, But a New Bill Gives Hope. Many low-income communities and communities of color in the U.S. have not always enjoyed the environmental and public health benefits of environmental safeguards. These communities and their advocates have long demanded redress of the unequal environmental burdens they experience…. http://blog.ucsusa.org/juan-declet-barreto/trump-budget-bares-wholesale-disregard-for-environmental-justice-communities-but-a-new-bill-gives-hope The U.S. Must Not Abdicate Leadership On Climate Change. It was clear from his statements while campaigning that if Donald Trump won the presidential election, it wasn't going to be good news for renewable energy. President Trump has spent his time in office so far undoing environmental regulations and trying to fulfill his campaign promise to revive the coal industry. https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2017/06/08/the-u-s-must-not-abdicate-leadership-on-climate-change/#36d845f010d9 Hydrocarbon King: U.S. Ranks No.1 In 2016. Decreasing production in 2016 not enough to dethrone U.S. oil and gas industry. Despite the lowest commodity prices in 13 years, U.S. oil and gas production in 2016 continued to outpace all other nations, according to a note from the EIA. The United States has been first in the world in natural gas production since 2009, when American output surpassed Russia. http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Hydrocarbon-King-US-Ranks-No1-In-2016.html Acting on climate change and supporting coal workers – we have to do both. President Trump’s astounding decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Accord, packaged like a reality television season finale, was the culmination of a terrible series of events for those of us that care about the environment. From the beginning of his term, President Trump has set out on an openly anti-environmental agenda… http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/energy-environment/336839-acting-on-climate-change-and-supporting-coal-workers