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Posted: 15 Oct 2009 11:18:01
California Air Resources Board News Clips for October 15, 2009. 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. Capitol Weekly, Letters to the Editor, October 15, 2009. Dear Editor: Dorothy Rothrock (Capitol Weekly, Oct. 1) claims that she can’t find how the California Air Resources Board spent $47 million dollars to pay for administration of AB 32 from 2007 to 2009. Ms. Rothrock and her trade association attack ARB’s credibility as a way to deflect the legislative requirement that they pay their fair share of the cost of implementing AB32. She could have saved thousands in legal fees by reading the documents posted on ARB’s website explaining exactly where and how the money was spent. Posted. http://www.capitolweekly.net/features/lettersToTheEditor.php?_c=ycazwdpo0v5gzm Highway Contractors, Enviros Strike Deal On Clean Diesel. The construction industry urged Congress today to let states mandate the use of clean-diesel equipment for federally funded highway construction. The Associated General Contractors of America joined the Clean Air Task Force in urging lawmakers to include the change in the next highway and transit bill that will serve as the de facto national transportation strategy for several years. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2009/10/15/4 White House Eyes Bilateral Deals With China, India. The White House is aiming to garner fresh commitments to combat global warming from China and India during back-to-back summits in November. On the eve of a December meeting in Copenhagen, the Obama administration is attempting to hammer out which action each country will take."China and India are both critically important to achieving our international goals on carbon reduction. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2009/10/15/6 Curbing Climate Change by Sealing Gas Leaks. To the naked eye, there was nothing to be seen at a natural gas well in eastern Texas but beige pipes and tanks baking in the sun. But in the viewfinder of Terry Gosney’s infrared camera, three black plumes of gas gushed through leaks that were otherwise invisible. “Holy smoke, it’s blowing like mad,” said Mr. Gosney, an environmental field coordinator for EnCana, the Canadian gas producer that operates the year-old well near Franklin, Tex. “It does look nasty.” Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/business/energy-environment/15degrees.html?_r=2&hp=&adxnnl=1&pagewanted=print&adxnnlx=1255626386-6zrz8ZLq2KkVfkI8grvZBA Biggest Obstacle to Global Climate Deal May Be How to Pay for It. As world leaders struggle to hash out a new global climate deal by December, they face a hurdle perhaps more formidable than getting big polluters like the United States and China to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: how to pay for the new accord. The price tag for a new climate agreement will be a staggering $100 billion a year by 2020, many economists estimate; some put the cost at closer to $1 trillion. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/science/earth/15climate.html?pagewanted=print Editorial: Time For Truce On Renewables. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Democrats who control the Legislature have plenty to disagree about. So it's a shame they can't even get together on an important issue on which they say they agree. California has long been a leader in pushing the electricity industry to use renewable sources of energy to power the state's grid. Current law calls for the utilities to use renewables for 20 percent of their electricity production by 2010. Posted. http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/v-print/story/2254311.html Energy Agency to Deepen Links With Emerging Giants. Paris — The International Energy Agency, a forum for developed economies, announced a series of steps Wednesday to deepen cooperation with three nations of growing importance to global energy markets: Russia, China and India. The initiatives were made at the semi-annual meeting here of energy ministers, where officials also took stock of progress in negotiations on reducing carbon emissions before a climate change summit in Copenhagen in December, as well as trends in energy prices. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/business/energy-environment/15iea.html?_r=1&sq=environment&st=cse&scp=10&pagewanted=print Youths Attend Governors’ Global Climate Summit. As part of the California Climate Champions program, I was one of a dozen young people chosen to represent the youth perspective at the Governors’ Global Climate Summit 2 in Los Angeles last week. The international political conference, co-hosted by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and six other state governors, included representatives from all over the world, eager to hear of the views of young people during presentations and in one-on-one conversations. Posted. http://www.toacorn.com/news/2009-10-15/Community/Youths_attend_Governors_Global_Climate_Summit.html Not All Alaska Ports Support Limits On Cruise Ship Emissions. Washington -- Some Alaska ports of call have asked the Environmental Protection Agency to rethink - or at least slow down - its plans to impose stricter air quality requirements for cruise ships and other large oceangoing vessels. The EPA wants all large vessels to stop using so-called bunker fuel within 200 nautical miles of U.S. shorelines, saying that reducing air pollution from the dirty fuel could save the lives of 8,300 people each year, help an additional 3 million people avoid respiratory problems and clear hazy skies as far inland as the Grand Canyon. Posted. http://www.sacbee.com/702/v-print/story/2254375.html BLOGS A Greenhouse Gas That Is Already a Commodity. For years, many environmental groups and experts on the growing human contribution to the planet’s heat-trapping greenhouse effect have sought to turn carbon dioxide into a commodity by giving it a rising price. Through a so-called cap and trading system, those making extra-deep cuts in emissions can profit by selling what amounts to their extra credit to those who cannot afford to cut their own gas releases so deeply or quickly. Posted. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/a-greenhouse-gas-thats-already-a-commodity/?pagemode=print Farm Bureau Aims to Kill Climate Bill. American Farm Bureau The American Farm Bureau, a large agricultural lobby, is gearing up a campaign to defeat climate legislation now pending in Congress. The politically influential American Farm Bureau, the self-described “national voice of agriculture,” has outlined a new campaign effort to derail Congressional bills to combat climate change. Posted. http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/farm-bureau-targets-cap-and-trade/?pagemode=print Study Says China Is Ripe for Carbon Storage. Researchers have identified a number of potential geologic formations that could be used to store CO2 emitted by China’s coal power plants and other industries. (Click to enlarge.) China has vast underground repositories that could store more than a century’s worth of carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants and industrial facilities, according to a report to be released by the United States Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Posted. http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/study-says-china-is-ripe-for-carbon-storage/?pagemode=print Business Leaders Talk Copenhagen. At a meeting in Washington yesterday, top executives of several multinational companies emphasized the importance of climate negotiations — and of a constructive role from China. Tony Cenicola/The New York Times “I don’t think there’s any question that we want Copenhagen to be a success,” said Jim Rogers, the chief executive of Duke Energy. “I don’t think there’s any question that we want Copenhagen to be a success,” said Jim Rogers, the chairman and chief executive of Duke Energy, a major Southern utility. Posted. http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/business-leaders-talk-copenhagen/?pagemode=print A Headline That Will Make Global-Warming Activists Apoplectic. The BBC is responsible. The article, by the climate correspondent Paul Hudson, is called “What Happened to Global Warming?” Highlights: For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures. And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise. Posted. http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/a-headline-that-will-make-global-warming-activists-apoplectic/?pagemode=print Branson on the Power of Biofuels and Elders. Sir Richard Branson, the entrepreneur, balloonist, spaceflight booster and social-environmental campaigner, held forth in a conversation with Alan Murray of The Wall Street Journal today, touching on a host of ways to make and lose money and try to build a better planet. Mr. Branson spoke excitedly about the planned December rollout of his commercial spacecraft and plans for his family, including his parents, to be the first to take a suborbital ride. Posted. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/branson-on-space-climate-biofuel-elders/?pagemode=print