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newsclips -- Newsclips for August 4, 2009

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 10:46:24
California Air Resources Board News Clips for August 4, 2009. 
This is a service of the California Air Resources Board’s Office
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Cost To Meet Emissions Goal Could Double. Without nuclear power
and "clean coal," the cost of cutting greenhouse gas emissions
from the electricity industry could almost double, according to a
study released Monday by a Bay Area think tank.
The study, by the Electric Power Research Institute, argues that
the kind of deep cuts sought by federal legislation are
achievable, for a reasonable price. But the price will soar
without nuclear energy and clean-coal power plants, which trap
their carbon dioxide emissions and store the gas underground.
Posted.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/04/BULF193ADP.DTL&type=printable

Calif. Becomes First To Release Adaptation Plan. California has
become the first state to issue an agency-level plan for adapting
to climate change, with the release yesterday of a draft report
directing government to prepare for rising sea levels, increased
wildfires and other expected changes. In addition to sea level
rise, the report deals with increased wildfires, "increased
average temperatures, more extreme hot days, fewer cold nights, a
lengthening of the growing season, shifts in the water cycle with
less winter precipitation falling as snow, and both snowmelt and
rainwater running off sooner in the year." Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2009/08/04/2

Conference: Manufacturing Is Where To Cut Greenhouse Gases. The
theme of the California Resource Recovery Association conference
in Rancho Mirage may be making zero waste a reality, but the
first thing the 450 recycling professionals heard on Monday is
that even that is not enough to reduce greenhouse gases. The
conference continues through Wednesday at the Rancho Las Palmas
Resort and Spa. Keynote speakers and other experts hammered home
the message that the recycling industry must re-invent itself as
“material managers,” focusing on the lifetime carbon footprint of
products. Posted.
http://www.mydesert.com/article/20090804/NEWS07/908040331/Conference++Manufacturing+is+where+to+cut+greenhouse+gases

State Prepares To Deal With Heat Waves, Flooding, Wildlife
Die-Offs And Other Expected Results Of Climate Change. The first
statewide plan in the country calls for adaptation and education.
Public comment is sought. Along with California's efforts to
crack down on its own greenhouse gas emissions, state officials
have begun preparing for the worst: heat waves, a rising sea
level, flooding, wildlife die-offs and other expected
consequences from what scientists predict will be a dramatic
temperature increase by the end of this century. Posted.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-climate4-2009aug04,0,1982358,print.story

Odds Are Against Climate Watchdog. Scientific panel can't force
action. Two years ago, an international scientific panel seized
worldwide attention by reporting that human activity was warming
the planet in ways that could greatly disrupt human affairs and
nature. The work of the group, the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change, shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former
Vice President Al Gore. The panel's contributors have included
about 20 scientists at the University of California San Diego's
Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla. Posted.
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/aug/04/1n4warn23277-odds-are-against-climate-watchdog/?uniontrib
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/science/earth/04clima.html?sq=carbon%20emissions&st=cse&scp=3&pagewanted=print


Report Calls For Climate Action Now. State urges curtailing
coastal development. Sacramento – Even if the world is successful
in cutting carbon emissions in the future, California needs to
start preparing for rising sea levels, hotter weather and other
effects of climate change, a new state report recommends. It
encourages local communities to rethink future development in
low-lying coastal areas, reinforce levees that protect
flood-prone areas and conserve already strapped water supplies.
Posted.
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/aug/04/1n4climate232657-report-calls-climate-action-now/?uniontrib

Global Warming Could Cause Evolution Explosion. Undoubtedly
you've seen dire predictions about the number of plant and animal
species which will be forced into extinction by global warming,
their habitat changing faster than they can either adapt to it or
move somewhere else. Well, a fascinating new article in Yale
Environment 360 by Carl Zimmer offers a glimmer of hope -- it
appears that at least some species may be able to rapidly evolve
to a changing climate: Posted.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/08/global-warming-could-cause-evolution-explosion.php?dcitc=th_rss

South Korea Unveils CO2 Target Plan. SEOUL (Reuters) - South
Korea pledged for the first time on Tuesday to set a 2020
emissions reduction target, as the OECD's fastest-growing carbon
polluter voluntarily joined richer nations in setting hard goals
to roll back climate change. By committing itself to one of three
options, all of which are relatively modest compared to the
cut-backs pledged by developed economies, Seoul is establishing a
precedent that might encourage much bigger emitters like China
and India to agree to targets of their own, although their
resistance is unlikely to bend soon. Posted. 
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSTRE5734VW20090804

Broad Action On Climate Needed To Achieve Cuts. If global
warming is to be addressed without breaking people's pocketbooks,
no single answer will do the job, a research group tied to the
electric utility industry says in a new study that concludes the
problem must be attacked from many directions. Posted.
http://www.modbee.com/2033/story/804114.html 

SAfrica: Rich Nations Must Pay For Climate Change. South Africa
says it and other developing countries won't consider the next
round of climate change talks successful unless rich nations pay
up. South African officials meeting Tuesday to discuss strategy
ahead of the December climate change talks in Copenhagen said at
least 1 percent of global GDP should be set aside by rich
nations. Posted. http://www.modbee.com/world/story/804970.html 
http://www.contracostatimes.com/nationandworld/ci_12988551

Salazar Again Urges Climate Action In Senate. Interior Secretary
Ken Salazar is talking climate change on a trip to a solar energy
factory in his home state of Colorado. While health care
dominates debate in Washington, President Barack Obama's top
environmental and energy officials continue to urge the Senate to
move on legislation to tackle global warming. Posted.
http://www.modbee.com/2033/story/805127.html 

World Bank: A Carbon Bigfoot. Though climate policy is shifting
from inertia to action, thanks in part to the commitment of a new
U.S. administration, recent G-8 and U.S. domestic efforts are
inadequate to address the threat of climate change. Any climate
framework that ignores the role of publicly funded institutions,
like the World Bank, will fall short. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/opinion/04iht-edlet.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=carbon%20emissions&st=cse

A Lawn Mower Awaits Winner. Someone in the crowd will win a free
electric lawn mower tonight as officials host a public meeting to
talk about air quality. The event runs from 6 to 8 p.m. at the
Arnold Rue Community Center, 5758 Lorraine Ave. Posted.
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090804/A_NEWS/908039978/-1/NEWSMAP


Granite Not Out To Do Area Favors With Quarry. Granite
Construction published a slick, supposedly truthful and
informative 12-page advertisement in last Sunday's paper. When a
company omits information, or glosses over the true facts, could
that be considered "lying by omission"? Granite's ad says: "There
will be reduced air pollution and traffic."
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2009/08/02/opinion/commentarycal/z5e3f9c751cdf1fed882576010082c1c0.txt


Trees Can Lower Cooling, Heating Energy Bills. Can shade trees
lower your energy bills? Yes, say the experts. A lot. Trees offer
many benefits, from reducing pollution, to adding beauty and
value to property, to creating wildlife habitat. Perhaps the most
tangible benefit is reducing energy bills. We talked with two
tree experts -- Dan Lambe, vice president of programs for the
Arbor Day Foundation, and Scott Maco, a research urban forester
with the Davey Tree Institute -- to learn more about this.
Posted.
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20090801/LIFESTYLE/908011000


Chopping Williamson Act Will Hurt Environment. It may not be the
unkindest cut and it may also not be the most inefficient or
deadly one Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made when he used his veto
pen to blue-pencil more than $500 million more from the state
budget than legislators had already done. But cutting $27.8
million from the Williamson Act program that preserves
agricultural lands and leaving it with a token $1,000 was surely
the brownest cut of all. Posted.
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/aug/04/chopping-williamson-act-will-hurt-environment/
 
Viewpoint: State Water Board Puts Biofuel Movement In Reverse.
IT WAS A fine June day in 2007 when a senator from Illinois, then
a long-shot for the presidency, stood beside the pumps at Conserv
Fuel in Los Angeles and congratulated the heroes of the biofuel
revolution. Conserv Fuel was one of the first fueling stations in
the country to offer biofuel at the pump, and Barack Obama was
looking to establish himself as an alternative-fuel-friendly
candidate. He railed against the Bush administration's
oil-centric energy policy. Posted.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/opinion/ci_12984788

`Clunkers' Drives Auto Sales. Detroit — Lured by the
government's cash for clunkers campaign, car and truck buyers
started returning to showrooms last month, as Ford Motor Co.
reported its first U.S. sales increase in nearly two years and
other major automakers said sales showed signs of stability.
Posted. http://www.insidebayarea.com/business/ci_12984233

Researchers Set Sail For The Pacific Garbage Patch. Hoping to
learn more about one of the most glaring examples of waste and
environmental pollution on the planet, a group of scientists will
set sail from San Francisco today to the "Great Pacific Garbage
Patch," a massive vortex of floating plastic trash estimated by
some scientists to be twice the size of Texas. Posted.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_12986585

Salazar Again Urges Climate Action In Senate. Longmont,
Colo.—Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is talking climate change on
a trip to a solar energy factory in his home state of Colorado.
While health care dominates debate in Washington, President
Barack Obama's top environmental and energy officials continue to
urge the Senate to move on legislation to tackle global warming.
Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/nationandworld/ci_12989160

Broad Action On Climate Needed To Achieve Cuts. Washington—If
global warming is to be addressed without breaking people's
pocketbooks, no single answer will do the job, a research group
tied to the electric utility industry says in a new study that
concludes the problem must be attacked from many directions.
Posted. http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_12983027

U.S. Climate Bill Seen Raising Household Energy Cost. Washington
(Reuters) - Climate change legislation passed by the U.S. House
of Representatives would increase the energy costs of the average
family by $142 a year in 2020 and by $583 in 2030, according to
the government's top energy forecasting agency. Posted.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/04/AR2009080401350.html

Letters: The Real Costs of Clean Energy. In their July 24 op-ed,
"What Palin Got Wrong About Energy," Sens. Barbara Boxer
(D-Calif.) and John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) said that clean energy
legislation "provides powerful incentives to pursue cutting-edge
clean energy technologies," arguing that it "doesn't make energy
scarcer or more expensive." Posted.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/03/AR2009080302788.html

For Senate, a Climate of Competing Interests. Environmentalists
want a tighter cap on emissions. Electric utilities want a looser
one. The nuclear industry wants loan guarantees for new reactors.
The AARP wants low electric bills for seniors. Posted.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/03/AR2009080302982.html

California Bus Co. Completes Transition to CNG. Omnitrans, the
public transit agency serving the San Bernardino Valley,
California, is completing its transition to a 100%
alternative-fuelled fleet. Delivery and commissioning of 27 new
40-foot low-floor CNG buses manufactured by New Flyer Inc. of
Canada will end the transition phase that commenced in 1997.
“Omnitrans embraced CNG bus engine technology early on as part of
our commitment to being environmentally friendly,” said
CEO/General Manager Durand L. Rall. Posted.
http://www.ngvglobal.com/california-bus-co-completes-transition-to-cng-0804

Worlds First Drag Race Of Gasoline Vehicle With Zero Exhaust
Emissions, CARB Approved Device Results In GREEN Racing Fun.
Irwindale California - The Worlds first Drag Race featuring the
HH2TM HYDROGEN WATER FUEL CELL CLEAN AIR COMBUSTION SYSTEM
debuted in HH2’s “BIG DOG” a heavy 7100 pound GREEN smog emission
free 2008 Toyota Sequoia burning 87 octane gasoline, NO Fossil
Fuel toxic emissions , totally Legal world wide usage. Posted.
http://www.1888pressrelease.com/worlds-first-drag-race-of-gasoline-vehicle-with-zero-exhaust-pr-138773.html

Shrimp Cocktail Helps To Make Biodiesel. Editor's Note: This
occasional series looks at powerful ideas - some existing, some
futuristic - for fueling and electrifying modern life. Shrimp
cocktails could help out fuel tanks, scientists now reveal. As
concerns over global warming and dwindling fossil fuel reserves
increase worldwide, more and more interest is growing in
renewable fuels such as biodiesel to fill energy demands.
However, biodiesel production techniques require catalysts to
speed up the chemical reactions that convert soybean, canola, and
other plant oils into diesel fuel, and so far catalysts both
cannot be reused and must be neutralized with large amounts of
water, leaving behind large amounts of polluted wastewater.
Posted. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,536701,00.html

BLOGS:

Can California Adapt To Global Warming? In 2006, California
adopted the nation's first comprehensive law to limit emissions
of carbon dioxide and other gases that scientists have found to
be heating the planet. Last year, state officials laid out a
detailed plan of how they plan to slash the state's emissions to
1990 levels in the next 11 years. And they began to adopt
regulations, such as the nation's first rule to mandate
low-carbon fuel. Posted.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2009/08/climate-change-adaptation-california.html

Can Climate Panel Have Climate Impact? I have  an article in
Tuesday’s Science Times assessing next steps for the 
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The panel, which
shared the  Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, was created in 1988 under
the United Nations Environment Program and World Meteorological
Organization to aid governments by periodically reviewing the
accumulated research on the causes and consequences of climate
change and possible responses. But it was proscribed from
recommending particular courses of action. Posted.
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/can-climate-panel-have-climate-impact/

Refrigerator Recycling Programs Take Off. Programs that allow
homeowners to trade in their old refrigerators and scoop up a
rebate — a sort of “cash for clunkers” system for the fridge —
are spreading quickly across the country. Posted.
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/refrigerator-recycling-programs-take-off/?scp=2&sq=carbon%20emissions&st=cse
 
Study Finds Rich U.S. Energy-Efficiency Potential. The potential
for energy-efficiency improvements throughout the U.S. economy is
huge and entirely within reach if annual investments increase
fivefold, according to a new McKinsey & Company report.  The
global consulting firm estimates that $520 billion in investments
would reduce U.S. non-transportation energy usage by 9.1
quadrillion BTUs by 2020 - roughly 23 percent of projected
demand. Posted.
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/010292.html

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