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newsclips -- CARB Newsclips for June 9, 2017.

Posted: 09 Jun 2017 12:57:28
CARB Newsclips for June 9, 2017. 

This is a service of the California Air Resources Board’s Office
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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     

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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

As Trump's EPA delays smog rules, California vows to forge ahead.
California officials say they are forging ahead with
emissions-cutting measures despite the Trump administration’s
move this week to delay implementation of Obama-era limits on
ozone, the lung-searing gas in smog. U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt told governors
Tuesday he was extending by one year a deadline…
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ozone-delay-20170607-story.html


Low emissions target: how it would work and why the benchmark
figure is a red herring. There is more to the design of a
potential LET – which is widely expected to be included in the
Finkel review – than whether it will allow coal-fired generators
to be included in the scheme. In the discussion that has ensued,
many reports have been hand-wringing about the “benchmark” set in
the LET…
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jun/08/low-emissions-target-how-it-would-work-and-why-the-benchmark-figure-is-a-red-herring
 

CLIMATE CHANGE

'Super Corals' on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef May Save it From
Climate Change, Scientists Discover. Scientists have discovered a
population of “super corals” that appear to have become resistant
to extreme environmental conditions—being able to survive and
thrive in hot, acidic and low-oxygen waters. And they now plan to
search for more climate-adaptable coral populations within the
Great Barrier Reef.
http://www.newsweek.com/super-corals-great-barrier-reef-climate-change-623535


A Little-Known Climate Fund Is Suddenly In The Spotlight. The
Green Climate Fund has been thrust into the spotlight of late.
President Trump singled it out for scorn in his Rose Garden
remarks last week announcing his decision to pull the U.S. from
the Paris Climate Agreement. Along with that move, Trump noted,
he is ending further U.S. contributions to the "so-called Green
Climate Fund — nice name."
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/06/09/532106567/a-little-known-climate-fund-is-suddenly-in-the-spotlight


“Do you believe?” is the wrong question to ask public officials
about climate change. Policy, not the contents of hearts and
minds, is what matters. President Donald Trump’s withdrawal of
the US from the Paris climate agreement has sparked an
unprecedented surge of interest in climate change, putting more
mainstream media attention on the subject than I’ve ever seen. (A
pretty low bar, admittedly.)
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/6/9/15760102/climate-change-belief


Appeals court orders California Air Resources Board to change how
it calculates greenhouse gas emissions. A California appeals
court recently reversed a lower court’s decision to discharge a
court order that had mandated the California Air Resources Board
(ARB) to correct several violations of the California
Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) it had committed when it
attempted to implement the state’s low carbon fuel standards
regulations (LCFS).
http://norcalrecord.com/stories/511124232-appeals-court-orders-california-air-resources-board-to-change-how-it-calculates-greenhouse-gas-emissions
 

The news article that predicted the devastating impact of fossil
fuels on climate change and warned the damage will be
'considerable in a few centuries' - in 1912! A tiny clipping from
a New Zealand newspaper more than 100 years ago predicts the
effects of global warming 'may be considerable in a few
centuries'. The author links the burning of coal and warming of
the atmosphere - describing it as a 'blanket' for the Earth.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4584444/A-century-old-newspaper-predicted-global-warming-1912.html#ixzz4jX2i4KwZ
 

U.S. Congress introduces bipartisan bill on HFCs and other
short-lived pollutants. Yesterday, U.S. Representatives Scott
Peters (a Democrat from California) and Carlos Curbelo (a
Republican from Florida) introduced the bipartisan Super
Pollutant Emissions Reduction, or SUPER Act, into the U.S.
Congress to combat short-lived climate pollutants like
hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).
http://www.ammonia21.com/articles/7671/u_s_congress_introduces_bipartisan_bill_on_hfcs_short_lived_pollutants


Trump is 'wrong.' Chinese criticism intensifies over Paris.
Normally tight-lipped Chinese officials are opening up about
their disappointment in President Trump's withdrawal from the
global climate pact signed in Paris. California Gov. Jerry Brown
(D) has been in China this week to promote action on climate
change, hopscotching from one event to another and signing
nonbinding agreements…
https://www.eenews.net/climatewire/stories/1060055784/search?keyword=california

LA mayor's climate guru heads to clean tech incubator. Matt
Petersen, the top climate expert for Los Angeles Mayor Eric
Garcetti, will take over as president and CEO of the Los Angeles
Cleantech Incubator, a nonprofit that nurtures startups in the
clean technology field. Petersen has worked as Garcetti's chief
sustainability officer since 2013, a position the mayor created
when he took office.
https://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2017/06/09/stories/1060055795


GOP climate policy survives Trump's bombshell. Climate-conscious
lawmakers are stumped on how to tackle carbon dioxide emissions
at the federal level after President Trump's decision to pull the
plug on U.S. participation in the Paris Agreement — but a few
proposals are showing new signs of life.
https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060055802 

DIESEL ACTIVITIES

Trucking Alliance cautions Ottawa on carbon strategy. The
Canadian trucking industry is supportive of current and future
carbon reducing regulations, but decision makers should heed
lessons from the past when considering future environmental
policy direction and regulatory language. That was essentially
the message delivered by Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA)
President Stephen Laskowski…
http://www.todaystrucking.com/trucking-alliance-cautions-ottawa-on-carbon-strategy


FUELS

VEHICLES

Race Is on to Mine Metal Powering Electric Vehicles. The race is
on to supply more of the cobalt needed for batteries in the
fast-growing market for electric vehicles -- and that means fresh
competition for the big players Glencore Plc and the Democratic
Republic of Congo. A pipeline of projects is looming in places
including Australia, the U.S. and Canada after cobalt prices more
than doubled in the past year.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-08/cobalt-upstarts-eye-glencore-s-turf-for-244-billion-ev-spoils


Porsche Cayenne diesel emissions exceed legal limits – Spiegel.
Diesel models of Volkswagen's sports car maker Porsche have much
higher emissions than is legally allowed, German weekly Der
Spiegel reported on Friday, citing test results. The magazine
asked German test institute TUV Nord to check emission levels for
the Porsche Cayenne V6 TDI, an SUV model, under normal driving
conditions.
http://www.reuters.com/article/volkswagen-emissions-porsche-idUSL8N1J65BE?feedType=RSS&virtualBrandChannel=11563

https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2017/06/09/business/09reuters-volkswagen-emissions-porsche.html?_r=0


VW RECALL

Bosch software enabled emissions cheating by VW, FCA, study says.
A study alleges that Robert Bosch Gmbh created the software that
enabled Volkswagen AG to evade diesel emissions standards for
years. Technical documents also indicate Bosch code was used in a
so-called defeat device for a Fiat Chrysler Automobiles model…
http://www.autonews.com/article/20170609/OEM11/170609775/bosch-software-enabled-emissions-cheating-by-vw-fca-study-says


GREEN ENERGY

The Energy 202: What the Dodd-Frank rollback could mean for
energy companies. While everyone was watching James B. Comey's
testimony in the Senate on Thursday, the other side of the
Capitol was more quietly (but also consequentially) passing a
piece of legislation that would have far-reaching financial
implications if it becomes law.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-energy-202/2017/06/09/the-energy-202-what-the-dodd-frank-rollback-could-mean-for-energy-companies/5939899be9b69b2fb981dcb1/?utm_term=.8f6d386beaed


Can California really hit a 100% renewable energy target?
California takes pride in its clean energy credentials, but the
state may be poised to take an even more dramatic next step:
deriving 100 percent of its electrical power from renewable
energy sources by the end of 2045. “I don’t think it’s a big
stretch, politically,” said Senate President pro tem Kevin de
León (D-Los Angeles), who introduced a bill in Sacramento that
would lay down the zero-carbon sources threshold.
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/energy-green/sd-fi-california-100percent-20170601-story.html


Renewables provide more than half UK electricity for first time.
National Grid reported that, on Wednesday lunchtime, power from
wind, solar, hydro and wood pellet burning supplied 50.7% of UK
energy. Add in nuclear, and by 2pm low carbon sources were
producing 72.1% of electricity in Great Britain. Wednesday
lunchtime was perfect for renewables being both sunny and windy.
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-40198567 

MISCELLANEOUS

OPINIONS

Ramesh Ponnuru on Climate Change (Audio). Bloomberg View
columnist Ramesh Ponnuru presents a column explaining that
President Donald Trump has been defending his plan to withdraw
from the Paris climate-change accord on nationalist grounds. The
fact that almost all the other governments of the world favor the
accord should not keep us from pursuing our interests.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2017-06-08/ramesh-ponnuru-on-climate-change-audio


In assessing global warming, look beyond the stranded polar
bears. The iconic photograph of polar bears stranded on floating
ice often appears when the Globe runs a story on climate change.
This is unfortunate, not only because it’s lazy journalism, but
because it sends the wrong message. Climate change is destroying
coral reefs.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/letters/2017/06/08/assessing-global-warming-look-beyond-stranded-polar-bears/Gn7S6xW0vTaPOjw3KAsaRI/story.html


Paris Agreement: President Trump’s Mystery Math. By this time,
your eyes may have glazed over from reading the myriad of fact
checks and rebuttals of President Trump’s speech announcing the
United States’ withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement. There
were so many dizzying falsehoods in his comments that it is
nearly impossible to find any truth in the rhetorical fog.
http://www.theenergycollective.com/edfclimate411/2406415/paris-agreement-president-trumps-mystery-math


Trump’s climate change sociopathy. President Donald Trump’s
withdrawal of the United States from the Paris climate agreement
is not just dangerous for the world; it is also sociopathic.
Without remorse, Trump is willfully inflicting harm on others.
The declaration by Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United
Nations, that Trump believes in climate change makes matters
worse, not better.
http://jordantimes.com/opinion/jeffrey-d-sachs/trump’s-climate-change-sociopathy


President, EPA wrong on climate change. It is troubling that the
president of the United States and the administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency have abdicated our nation’s
leadership in the world-wide effort to mitigate climate change. 
The Trump Administration’s withdrawal from the Paris Accord
reflects the triumph of money driven ideological politics over
science.
http://www.commercialappeal.com/story/opinion/readers/2017/06/09/letters-editor-june-9-2017/381076001/

Letter to the editor: Global warming according to Trump. On the
Hugh Hewitt show (Sept. 21, 2015), Donald Trump said, "Global
warming ... it's a hoax ... it's a hoax. I'm not a believer in
global warming. I'm not a believer in man-made global warming. I
believe there's weather. I believe there's change ... and I
believe it goes up, and it goes down, and it goes up again ...
but I am not a believer…
http://www.tehachapinews.com/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-global-warming-according-to-trump/article_3e0b035c-4af6-11e7-be56-d3da5560f9cb.html


BLOGS

The Other Reason to Shift away from Coal: Air Pollution That
Kills Thousands Every Year. Shifting coal-fired power plants in
the U.S. to natural gas would have tremendous positive effects on
human health in America. When President Donald Trump announced on
June 1 that he had decided to withdraw the United States from the
Paris climate accord…
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-other-reason-to-shift-away-from-coal-air-pollution-that-kills-thousands-every-year/


Climate Change Is Literally Making You Lose Sleep. Sleep
deprivation is miserable, but it’s more than a mere
inconvenience. Climate change caused by human emissions of
greenhouse gases is wreaking havoc on our planet — from heat
waves to heavy rainstorms to higher sea levels, the consequences
of global warming are far-reaching.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/climate-change-is-literally-making-you-lose-sleep_us_59397ccae4b0b65670e5684f?section=us_healthy-living


Trump’s War on Oceans. In 2008, when President George W. Bush
issued the traditional proclamation declaring June to be National
Ocean Month, it was peppered with platitudes about America’s
“precious waters” and included a shoutout to the newly minted
Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument he had
established two years earlier.
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/news/2017/06/08/433823/trumps-war-oceans/


Corporate America Is Committing To Carbon Cuts Through
Science-Based Targets. Kellogg Company is on a mission to
increase its share of world markets while also keeping its
greenhouse gas emissions in check. And the cereal maker says that
it will use science-based targets that are accredited and
verified by third parties.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2017/06/08/corporate-america-is-committing-to-carbon-cuts-through-science-based-targets/#7ecb141b3ea8


California’s Delta Poised to Become Massive Carbon Bank. A newly
certified carbon trading protocol could help solve a number of
problems in the West’s largest estuary, including flood risk,
water pollution, habitat loss and threats to a critical
freshwater supply.
https://www.newsdeeply.com/water/community/2017/06/09/californias-delta-poised-to-become-massive-carbon-bank


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