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Posted: 04 Nov 2009 11:33:47
California Air Resources Board News Clips for November 4, 2009. 

This is a service of the California Air Resources Board’s Office
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individual websites to view some of the following news articles.

CARB Levies $700,000 Total In Diesel Fines To Two CA Companies.
The California Air Resources Board recently hit two in-state
businesses with heavy fines for their alleged failure to comply
with state diesel rules. CARB fined EDCO, a Southern
California-based trash-hauling company, $219,500 for failing to
perform annual smoke inspections on some of its diesel trucks.
The company has facilities in Agua Mansa, Armour, Buena Park,
Escondido, Fallbrook, Federal, Long Beach, Ramona and San Marcos.
Posted.
http://www.landlinemag.com/todays_news/Daily/2009/Nov09/110209/110309-04.htm

Cancer Risk In San Bernardino Neighborhood Triggers Medical
Study At BNSF Rail Yard. Researchers and regulators are focusing
what some say is unprecedented attention on a low-income,
predominately Hispanic community of about 7,000 people living
with pollution from a west San Bernardino rail yard. Alarmed by
an analysis that found an unacceptable cancer risk in the
neighborhood, the state is considering new air pollution rules
for the rail yard. Posted.
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_rail04.40d864f.html#

Warming Will Displace 150M People By 2050 – Report. Global
warming will force 150 million people to become "climate
refugees" in the next 40 years, according to a new report from
the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF). Climate-related
natural disasters displaced more than 20 million people in 2008,
the foundation said. The EJF reports that nearly 10 percent of
the world's population is at risk of displacement by climate
change. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2009/11/04/6

State Energy Commission To Vote On TV Power Standards. State
energy officials are nearing a decision on a ban on new
energy-hogging televisions. The first-in-the-nation regulations
would phase in starting in 2011 and would set a cap on the amount
of power a TV can draw. Large sets would be allowed to use more
power than small ones. All models larger than 58 inches would be
exempt from the regulations, though they may be covered in the
future. Posted.
http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/v-print/story/2303689.html

Energy Dept. Awards Money for Electric Cars. The federal
government and some states are plugging into the future of
electric cars with subsidies to develop charging stations. But
their plans are generating opposition. The U.S. Department of
Energy awarded $2.4 billion in stimulus money in August to build
electric vehicles and support them with charging stations.
Posted.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-11-03-electric-cars_N.htm

Obama Administration Weighs The Costs Of Doing Nothing.
Economists have sparred for years over what price tag to put on
the societal danger of carbon dioxide emissions. Now the Obama
administration is quietly struggling to reach its own conclusion.
The answer promises to weigh heavily on a slew of future
regulations that directly and indirectly combat climate change.
Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2009/11/04/1

UN Climate Talks Focus On How To Cut Emissions. Barcelona, Spain
— African nations pushed wealthy countries at U.N. climate talks
on Wednesday to explain how they intend to cut their greenhouse
emissions under the landmark global warming agreement being
negotiated. Yet as delegates from 192 nations retreated behind
closed doors in Spain, fears arose over just what will be
accomplished this year on fighting climate change. Posted.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i9u9GMQj8IuTIkIKDmsiGSXq4KuAD9BOPEJ80
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE5A11Q720091104

Honeywell's UOP and China National Petroleum Corp. to
Collaborate on Biofuels Projects in China. Companies will
evaluate Chinese feedstocks for the production of green diesel
and green jet fuels, evaluate installation of units to produce
renewable fuels and improve ethanol energy efficiency. Posted.
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS147286+04-Nov-2009+PRN20091104

Editorial: ARB's Cool-Car Scheme Deserves To Be Put On Ice.
Sacramento can be a caricature of bumbling, well-intentioned,
paternalistic nonsense. The problem is, when government agencies
like the state Air Resources Board stumble ahead with
hare-brained schemes, it creates real-life costs and harm.
Posted.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/air-board-one-2634385-sacramento-new

Truckers Scrambling After Grant Money Dries Up. Ramon Cerdas
makes a modest living for his family as a trucker hauling cargo
in and out of the Port of Oakland. He sometimes waits hours in
line to enter the gates, and hours at a terminal to pick up or
drop off a load. After paying taxes, gas, insurance and other
expenses, he's left with enough to pay the rent and necessities,
but not much more. Posted.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/top-stories/ci_13705593 

Study Links Children to Air Pollution. Research produced by
Summer Undergraduate Research Fund students has won a top honor
from the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers. Competing
against more than a dozen universities, the geography students
took home the association’s President’s Award for Outstanding
Student Poster Presentation. Posted.
http://uscnews.usc.edu/health/study_links_children_to_air_pollution.html

Atlanta Named Most Toxic U.S. City, Las Vegas is Least Toxic.
Las Vegas has far from a clean reputation, but in Forbes' list of
America's Most Toxic Cities, Las Vegas is named the least toxic
of 40 major metropolitan areas. Forbes ranked the cities based on
the number of Superfund sites in the principal city, number of
facilities that release toxic chemicals, amount of toxic
chemicals released in the area and air quality ranking. Following
Las Vegas as the top 10 least toxic cities are Sacramento,
Riverside, Austin, Seattle, San Diego, Virginia Beach, San Jose,
New York and Phoenix. Posted.
http://www.greenbiz.com/print/28432

Climate Change On The Back Burner? Climate change has slipped so
far down on the agenda that at least one key committee chairman
has suggested it might have to wait until after the 2010
elections. A number of factors are conspiring against the Senate
version of the bill: a Republican boycott on the Environment and
Public Works Committee, a new EPA analysis that could take at
least five weeks and wide-ranging disagreements among six
competing Senate committee leaders who have jurisdiction.
Posted.
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=BC86C808-18FE-70B2-A863046BCFDBB1DB

Senate Republicans Boycott Climate Meeting. Their move, shortly
before German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Congress to act on
the issue, underscores the difficulty of negotiating legislation
on global warming. German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Congress
on Tuesday to take dramatic action to stop climate change, but
the political difficulties were evident as Republicans boycotted
a Senate committee meeting on a global warming bill. Posted.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-climate4-2009nov04,0,6435485,print.story

TIMELINE-How The World Found Out About Global Warming. A U.N.
conference in Copenhagen next month is due to agree a new pact to
combat global warming after mounting evidence that human activity
is disrupting the climate. The following is a timeline of the
discovery of global warming. 300 BC - Theophrastus, a student of
Greek philosopher Aristotle, documents that human activity can
affect climate. He observes that drainage of marshes cools an
area around Thessaly and that clearing of forests near Philippi
warms the climate. Posted.
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL3445896

Stunts And Stalling Mark Senate Climate Odyssey. There was
frustration, there was pleading, there was accusation of bad
faith. And at the end of the day, there was a stark answer: empty
chairs on the Republican side of the room. So went the first day
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara
Boxer (D-Calif.) hoped to mark up her climate bill, S. 1733, in
an episode that could presage a long game of chicken. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2009/11/04/2

Most Economists Give 'Clear Endorsement' For U.S. Emission Curbs
– Survey. Most economists say the United States should commit to
reducing its greenhouse gas emissions regardless of other
countries' actions, according to a survey released today. New
York University's Institute for Policy Integrity queried nearly
300 economists who have published articles on climate change and
got responses from 144 of them. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2009/11/04/6

EPA Sets Hearing Schedule On GHG 'Tailoring Rule' U.S. EPA will
hold two public hearings this month over its proposed rule
"tailoring" greenhouse gas regulations to affect only the biggest
emission sources. EPA will hold hearings Wednesday, Nov. 18, in
Arlington, Va., and another Thursday, Nov. 19, in Rosemont, Ill.,
the agency said in a Federal Register notice today. The draft
rule issued in September would require facilities that release
more than 25,000 tons of greenhouse gases a year to install "best
available control technology" (BACT) to limit their greenhouse
gas releases. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2009/11/04/7

Groups Press U.S. and China on Carbon. Beijing - Three prominent
American research organizations that are pushing for greater
cooperation between the Obama administration and China on the
issue of climate change say the two governments should make a
priority of supporting the use of carbon capture technology and
the creation of a market for carbon. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/science/earth/04carbon.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print

UN Climate Talks Focus on How to Cut Emissions. African nations
pushed wealthy countries at U.N. climate talks on Wednesday to
explain how they intend to cut their greenhouse emissions under
the landmark global warming agreement being negotiated. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/11/04/world/AP-Climate-Talks.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=carbon%20emission&st=cse


Climate Debate Has Rocky Start For US Senate Panel. European
leaders pressed Congress and the White House on Tuesday to unite
on a plan to combat global warming, even as a Republican boycott
forced a delay of votes in a key Senate committee, demonstrating
the deep partisan rift. Posted.
http://www.modbee.com/business/story/919111.html#ixzz0VudYZmSL

Diesel Truck Regulations Delayed Until 2010. Owners of
heavy-duty diesel trucks working on New York state projects just
got a little breathing room. They won't have to comply with a new
state law that requires filters to reduce harmful air emissions
on older vehicles until 2010. The state Department of
Environmental Conservation has put off enforcing the law until
next year because doing so now would be a “hardship” on
contractors and material suppliers that use the diesel vehicles
on state-sponsored construction projects, said Deputy
Commissioner Alison H. Crocker. Posted.
http://albany.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/2009/11/02/daily23.html?t=printable

Navistar Opposes Request For Delay In Diesel-Exhaust Case.
Chicago - Navistar International Corp. (NAV) said it's opposed to
delaying its court challenge of federal guidelines for complying
with new, tougher standards for diesel-engine exhaust. The U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency late last month asked a federal
appeals court to postpone proceedings on Navistar's case for 60
days while the agency reconsiders its compliance guidelines.
Posted. http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20091104-712429.html

Opinion: Clean Air Or Cheap Energy? We should be raising the
prices of oil products instead of trying to lower them (currently
through a foolish and ineffective price control edict), if we
were at all serious about cleaning up the polluted air we breathe
(particularly in Metro Manila) and reducing the country’s
emissions of noxious gases. We should be raising taxes on
gasoline, diesel, and other oil products, and on electricity
produced by coal plants, if we wanted to discourage the use of
fossil fuels and encourage the use of "clean" fuels. Posted.
http://beta.bworldonline.com/main/content.php?id=899

Why the Hydrogen Feud Needs to End: Analysis. Hydrogen fuel cell
research is in the midst of a tumultuous debate. Proponents of
the fuel continue to sink money into research and
marketing—citing promising statistics and lab-grown developments.
Opponents refute optimistic claims with their own numbers, asking
that researchers shift time and money to more promising
technologies, like batteries. So what exactly is the state of
hydrogen fuel cell research? Unfortunately, that depends on whom
you ask. Posted.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4335827.html?nav=RSS20&src=syn&dom=yah_buzz&mag=pop

Obama's EPA Is a Regulator Reborn. To appreciate the extent to
which the Environmental Protection Agency under President Obama
is a regulator reborn, consider this: EPA officials have begun to
cut air pollution by invoking the Clean Water Act. Posted.
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/04/epa-uses-water-act-to-fight-dirty-air/


Disney Co. Spending $7M On Conservation Projects. Seeking to
help fight climate change, the Walt Disney Co. says it will spend
$7 million in partnership with three conservation groups to
protect tens of thousands of acres of forest lands in the Congo
basin, the Amazon basin and in two regions of the United States.
Posted.
http://www.modbee.com/business/story/918955.html#ixzz0VuWp3oOg
http://www.vcstar.com/news/2009/nov/03/disney-co-spending-7m-on-conservation-projects/
          
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/disney-invests-4-million-to-save-forests/

 
Tech Group Looking Backward On Efficiency Rules. For an
organization that prides itself on representing one of America's
most forward-looking industries, the Consumer Electronics
Association has sounded more like the stodgy old Chamber of
Commerce lately. A case in point is the tech trade group's
response to California's proposal to make televisions more
energy-efficient, scheduled for final approval this week. Posted.
http://www.modbee.com/opinion/world/story/919750.html#ixzz0VuYZYyXN

Green Screens May Be Future. Californians are nearly outnumbered
by their televisions. Thirty-five million sets entertain us five
hours a day. Add the numbers up, and TVs probably account for a
large portion of your household energy use - up to 10 percent,
including accessories such as DVD players, game consoles and
digital recorders. Posted.
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091104/A_NEWS/911040334/-1/a_news14#STS=g1mceaqs.fyh
 
More Wineries Focus on Going Green. Rodney Strong Wine Estates
announced last month that it is now "carbon neutral." The Sonoma
County winery joins several in California, South America and New
Zealand that, through conservation and investment in clean energy
(by buying carbon credits), have reduced their carbon emissions
enough to essentially zero out their contribution to greenhouse
gases. Posted.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/11/03/ST2009110301548.html


GUEST OPINION: There's Nothing Green about Measure A; Vote No.
The proponents of Measure A and their hired gun
“environmentalist,” Patrick Moore, are deceiving the public about
the potential impacts of Measure A. Careful evaluation of Moore
and the proposed development demonstrate that Measure A is
anything but “green.” Posted.
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20091030/OPINION/910309938

Environmental Groups Turn In Paperwork For DMV Fee To Fund
California State Parks. Hoping to break the recent cycle of
proposed state parks closures, a coalition of California
environmental groups took the first major step Tuesday toward
qualifying a measure for next November's ballot that would
roughly double the state parks budget by imposing a new annual
fee on vehicle registration. Posted.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/green-living/ci_13705417 

Blogs

California's Climate Future, Part Two. In my last two blogs I
have been offering a glimpse into our collective climate future
based on the work of the U.S. Global Change Research Program
(USGCRP) and its report, Global Climate Change Impacts in the
United States. But since this report is nearly 200 pages long,
and my blogs are somewhat shorter than this, I am not quite
finished with it. Posted.
http://blogs.redding.com/dcraig/archives/2009/11/californias-cli-1.html


Of China, Texas and Green Jobs. Bloomberg Readers complained
about green jobs associated with a proposed Texas wind farm going
to China.When a coalition of investors and wind developers from
the United States and China announced plans for a large-scale
wind project in West Texas last week, many of our readers
expressed outrage that a portion of the financing might well come
from the $22 billion set aside in the economic stimulus package
for clean energy projects — and green jobs. Posted.
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/of-china-texas-and-green-jobs/?pagemode=print

Groups Push U.S. and China on Carbon Capture and Storage
Technology. Three prominent American research organizations that
are pushing for greater cooperation between the Obama
administration and China on the issue of climate change say the
two governments should make a priority of supporting the use of
carbon capture technology and the creation of a market for
carbon. Posted.
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/groups-push-us-and-china-on-carbon-capture-and-storage-technology/

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