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newsclips -- Newsclips for October 13, 2009.

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 15:51:34
California Air Resources Board News Clips for October 13, 2009.


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Gov. Schwarzenegger and Secretary Salazar Sign MOU to Expedite
Renewable Energy Development in Calif. Sacramento /California
Newswire/ — Further laying the groundwork for California to reach
its environmental goals, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today
signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with U.S. Secretary of
the Interior Ken Salazar in order to expedite the siting of
California renewable energy projects. Posted.
http://californianewswire.com/2009/10/12/CNW5651_192812.php

Schwarzenegger Signs 2 Renewable Energy Bills, Vetoes Others.
California will require utilities to pay consumers for generating
more solar and wind power than they use and will boost the payoff
for certain solar facilities. The laws take effect Jan 1. Gov.
Arnold Schwarzenegger has approved two major initiatives that
will require utilities to pay consumers for generating extra
power and will boost the payoff for certain solar facilities.
Posted.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-solar13-2009oct13,0,2315712,print.story

Lesson from Cali Clean Power Veto: Transmission Still a Choke
Point for Energy Goals. Hundreds of bills escaped California Gov.
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s veto power last night ahead of a midnight
deadline to act on a mountain of legislation — but not a pair of
long-debated clean energy bills. As expected, the governor killed
two items, which would have required utilities in California to
get at least a third of their energy from renewable sources by
2020, but with limits for how much of that goal they could meet
with power generated out of state (at an Arizona solar farm, for
example). Posted.
http://www.reuters.com/article/earth2Tech/idUS333067385020091012

Governor Signs Bill Easing Rules For Small Polluters. Los
Angeles - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a bill expected
to reduce air quality regulations and costs on thousands of small
industrial polluters throughout much of the Southland - including
dozens of gas stations, restaurants and public agencies in Long
Beach and surrounding communities. The controversial bill,
authored by State Sen. Roderick Wright, whose district includes
Long Beach, was signed by the governor in the closing minutes of
this year's legislative session late Sunday. Posted.
http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_13545538?source=rss
http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_13545538

Figuring Out The True Cost Of Complying With California
Regulations. A study puts the tab for the state's economy at $492
billion a year. But critics say the study doesn't take into
account the benefits the regulations may have. Make no mistake,
small-business owner Jane Skeeter isn't happy about the heavy
burden she says government regulations put on her
architectural-glass manufacturing plant in Chatsworth. She knows
that plenty of other California businesses have left the state
for cheaper locales with fewer costly rules. Posted.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-smallbiz13-2009oct13,0,6051355,print.story

Don't Forget The Other GHGs, Scientists Say. When it comes to
climate change, carbon dioxide isn't the only target. That's the
message of a new analysis urging policymakers to consider
"fast-acting" climate policies for lesser-known greenhouse gases
and particles that contribute to warming. The paper, published
yesterday by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
focuses on four different strategies its authors say could
prevent abrupt climate change over the next few decades. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2009/10/13/6

Obama's Climate - Change Hopes Get A Boost. United
Nations/London (Reuters) - Official Washington sounded more
upbeat on Monday than it has for weeks in sizing up U.S.
President Barack Obama's chances of progress on a climate-change
bill in Congress this year. U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer predicted
the committee she leads would approve a bill before a U.N.
climate summit in Copenhagen in December while Obama's Energy
Secretary Steven Chu said he hoped all of Congress would pass a
law by then. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/10/12/world/international-uk-climate.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print

S.1733 Senate Climate Change Bill Gains Support Of Lindsey
Graham Of The GOP. Though the Senate’s version of climate change
legislation, S.1733, faces more time in committee, there appears
to be the blossoming of slight bipartisan support for this
legislation. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has come out in
support of this bill. In doing so, he has split with the general
consensus of his party. Posted.
http://www.examiner.com/x-11326-Liberal-Examiner~y2009m10d12-S1733-Senate-Climate-Change-bill-gains-support-of-Lindsey-Graham-of-the-GOP

The Global Warming Consensus Cools. "What happened to global
warming?" read the headline - on BBC News on Oct. 9, no less.
Consider it a cataclysmic event: Mainstream news organizations
have begun reporting on scientific research that suggests that
global warming may not be caused by man and may not be as dire
and eminent as alarmists suggest. Posted.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/13/ED7O1A4IQU.DTL&type=printable

EPA Air Chief Says GHG Registry Could Spur Emission Cuts. The
public release of data revealing top U.S. industrial sources of
greenhouse gases could spur companies to voluntarily slash their
emissions, according to U.S. EPA's top air official. Air chief
Gina McCarthy said EPA's new rule requiring large sources of
greenhouse gases to report emissions could have an impact similar
to that of the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), which since its
inception in 1987 has been credited with spurring substantial
reductions in toxic emissions. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2009/10/13/2

California Team Leads In Solar Decathlon. Students from Santa
Clara University and the California College of the Arts join
together to build a house that is energy-efficient but doesn't
scrimp on comfort. The village on the National Mall looks like
something out of science fiction: dozens of unusually shaped
buildings with solar panels protruding from their rooftops.
Posted.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-solar-decathlon13-2009oct13,0,3214846,print.story

Editorial: Deserting War On Warming. Political and economic
realities threaten the Obama administration and the European
Union's mutual quest to combat global warming. Temperatures
aren't helping much, either. Globally the warming trend
effectively ended more than a decade ago. Posted.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/nations-emissions-economic-2604528-warming-global

Solar Users To Feel Surge In Wallet. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
signed two solar energy bills that will make it possible for
consumers and businesses to actually make money if they generate
surplus electricity. The bills, long sought by California's
renewable energy industry and among hundreds signed by the
governor late Sunday night, could radically change the
relationship between businesses and homeowners and their local
utility company, making them paid producers and suppliers of
electricity. Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_13546308

BLOGS

Green job, Energy Bills Could Give A Jolt To Southern
California. A legal logjam that has stopped regional regulators
from issuing smog credits for a variety of projects could be
broken by new legislation signed into law by Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger – one in a stack of environmental bills signed by
the governor Sunday that could help stimulate the Southern
California economy. Posted.
http://greenoc.freedomblogging.com/2009/10/12/green-job-energy-bills-could-give-a-jolt-to-southern-california/14149/

Firms Announce Major Offsets Transaction. In what its
participants call the largest deal of its kind in the United
States, Goldman Sachs Group, Blue Source and CE2 Carbon Capital
are expected to announce on Monday that they have completed a $12
million carbon offsets transaction.The offsets originate from
several emissions-reducing projects managed by Blue Source, a
Salt Lake City company that also develops carbon capture and
storage projects. Posted.
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/firms-announce-major-offsets-transaction/?pagemode=print

Schwarzenegger Signs Solar Bills AB 920 And SB 32. Late last
night, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed two major solar
initiatives involving a feed-in tariff for utility companies and
surplus electricity generated by customers. It was the last day
to sign bills from this year’s legislative session. AB 920
requires utility companies to pay households or businesses for
any extra electricity produced by the customer’s solar power
system. Posted.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2009/10/schwarzenegger-signs-solar-bills-ab-920-and-sb-32.html
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/shopping_blog/2009/10/schwarzenegger-solar-california-ab-920-sb-32.html

Power Hub: Tres Amigas and the Future of Clean Energy. Clovis,
New Mexico, might just be the cornerstone of a clean-energy
revolution. It might also be the epicenter of a political battle
over how America embraces green energy. Clovis is the site chosen
for the Tres Amigas electricity-transmission project, as our
colleague Rebecca Smith reports today in The Wall Street Journal.
The idea is to build a powerful substation in New Mexico using
advanced supercondctors that could physically connect the three
otherwise isolated power grids—the Eastern, the Western, and
Texas grids. Posted.
http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2009/10/13/power-hub-tres-amigas-and-the-future-of-clean-energy/tab/print/


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