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Posted: 10 Nov 2009 10:59:15
California Air Resources Board News Clips for November 10, 2009.


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Violations At Salinas Terminal Result In $21,675 Fine. Santa
Maria-based Rancho Harvest has been fined $21,675 for failing to
inspect its diesel trucks at a Salinas fleet center for
compliance with the state's smoke emissions standards, the
California Air Resources Board said today. Investigators said the
company failed to conduct diesel truck smoke tests in 2006 and
2007 at the Salinas facility, as required by state law. The fine
was levied last month. Posted.
http://www.thecalifornian.com/article/20091109/NEWS01/91109019/1002/Violations+at+Salinas+terminal+result+in++21+675+fine

Betraying Its Once-Proud Legacy: CARB Enters The Theater Of The
Absurd With Its "Cool Cars" Regulations. Only in California. The
former golden land has turned into a bankrupt state, where tax
authorities have just sneaked in a 10% increase in withholding,
giving them a neat interest-free loan until next April. Numerous
actual tax increases have also been imposed this year. Still, the
state controller recently noted that revenue in the budget year
had already fallen more than $1 billion short of assumptions.
Posted.  
http://www.healthnewsdigest.com/news/Environment_380/Betraying_Its_Once-Proud_Legacy_CARB_Enters_The_Theater_Of_The_Absurd_With_Its_Cool_Cars_Regulations.shtml

Britain Unveils Plans For New Nuclear Power Stations. The
British government on Monday unveiled plans to launch one of the
world's most ambitious expansions of nuclear power capacity,
calling for the construction of 10 new plants in the coming years
to help meet surging energy demands in the era of global warming.
After years of resisting construction of new nuclear plants, the
British plan underscored how nations around the world are
scrambling to find ways to generate more energy while also
slashing the emissions that cause climate change. Posted.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/09/AR2009110902195_pf.html

Climate-Change Panic Down Under. Kevin Rudd's attack on
'skeptics' is instructive-and bodes poorly for Copenhagen. Tough
economic times have a way of clarifying political priorities and
forcing people to distinguish among needs, wishes—and fantasies.
So you might think a politician as canny as Australian Prime
Minister Kevin Rudd would know better than to blame his country's
new-found skepticism about the risks of global warming on
something other than an evil conspiracy. Posted.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704402404574525031879821944.html?mod=googlenews_wsj#printMode

Your Neighbor's Saving Energy; Why Aren't You? We all know
carpooling is good for the Earth. So highway departments build
high-occupancy vehicle lanes and companies offer prime parking
spaces for employees who share rides. But carpooling is unlikely
to save the environment. It's too hard. So say scientists who
have studied how people confront environmental and energy
challenges. Carpooling, they say, has low "plasticity" -- that
is, people are unwilling to do it -- so its "reasonably
achievable emissions reductions" are low, as well. Unfortunately,
that is not how U.S. policymakers see it. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2009/11/10/1

UN and INTERNATIONAL

UN's Ban To Lobby US Congress On Climate Change. United Nations
- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit Washington on
Tuesday to lobby U.S. congressional leaders and government
officials over next month's climate change summit in Copenhagen,
U.N. officials said. The world body wants to clinch a deal at
Copenhagen to set new greenhouse gas emissions goals but hopes
are fading that a legally binding treaty among all U.N. members
can be finalized at the Dec. 7-18 U.N. summit in the Danish
capital. Posted.
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN09271643

Texas Gov. Perry: Cap-And-Trade Would Harm State. Austin,
Texas—Texas Gov. Rick Perry told renewable energy industry
officials that a cap-and-trade climate bill in Congress would
increase taxes and devastate the state's energy sector. Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/business/ci_13748373

A Parley Between The Globe's 2 Largest Emitters. Climate change
will claim center stage when President Obama travels next week to
China and throughout Asia, administration officials said
yesterday. But experts both in the United States and China
cautioned that the two countries are unlikely to announce
agreements on greenhouse gas mitigation targets or money to help
spark a low-carbon economy. Those issues loom over the
international climate talks set to begin next month in Copenhagen
and by most accounts are not going to be resolved quickly.
Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2009/11/10/4

IEA Issues Warning On Global Warming, Energy Investment Needs.
Nations must invest $37 trillion in energy technologies by 2030
to stabilize greenhouse gas emissions at sustainable levels and
meet energy needs, the International Energy Agency warned today.
IEA's "World Energy Outlook" raises the stakes for U.N. climate
talks in Copenhagen, Denmark. Delaying the shift to low-carbon
energy by just a few years, it says, will make it impossible to
avert catastrophic temperature rises. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2009/11/10/2

Heavyweight Corporate Coalition Urges Senate To Boost Int'l
Offsets. A coalition of corporate heavyweights urged key senators
today to boost international offsets in pending climate
legislation. Eighteen companies -- ranging from major utilities
and mining companies to technology groups and chemical businesses
-- urged lawmakers to ensure that climate legislation includes
major roles for offsets to reduce the costs imposed by a
cap-and-trade program for greenhouse gas emissions. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2009/11/10/3

Merkel Wants Climate Action From US, China, India. Berlin—German
Chancellor Angela Merkel called Tuesday for the U.S., China and
India to make substantive pledges of action against global
warming in order to prevent the failure of next month's climate
summit in Copenhagen. Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_13753418

Energy Agency Warns Of Falling Investment. Paris—The global
financial crisis has led to a dangerous drop in energy investment
around the world which could choke off the nascent economic
recovery, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday. Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/business/ci_13753433

Carbon Storage? Not Under My House! Barendrecht, Netherlands—The
people of this small Dutch town are not against pumping tons of
carbon dioxide into the ground to fight global warming. They just
wish it wasn't right beneath their houses. "Who wants to live in
Barendrecht if one of these CO2 things is built?" said retiree
Marianne van Heugten. Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/nation-world/ci_13753892

Gore Skeptical Of 'Clean Coal' In Dominican Address. Former Vice
President Al Gore voiced support Monday for the Obama
Administration's plan to build a "supergrid" that could carry the
electricity generated by solar, wind and other renewable
resources from remote parts of the nation to America's cities.
Posted. http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_13751818

Report: Extreme Weather Will Be Seen On Yangtze.
Beijing—Increased droughts, floods and storms will hit China's
Yangtze River Basin over the next few decades, the result of
rising temperatures globally, according to a report released
Tuesday. Climate change will trigger extreme weather conditions
along the country's longest river, but strategies can be taken to
control it, said the report, issued by the environmental group
WWF-China. Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/nation-world/ci_13750581

Planet Panel. Excerpts from comments by The Post's panel of
experts (William O'Keefe, chief executive of the George C.
Marshall Institute, and a former chief operating officer the
American Petroleum Institute and Bernard Finel is a senior fellow
at the American Security Project.) on climate change. Posted.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/06/AR2009110603538.html

Obama Willing To Go To Copenhagen For Climate Deal. Washington
-- President Barack Obama said Monday that he'd be willing to
attend an international climate summit in Copenhagen next month
if it appears a deal is in the offing and his presence there
would help clinch it. Posted.
http://www.modbee.com/politics/story/926883.html

Agency Reduces Forecast for Oil Consumption. The International
Energy Agency has reduced its long-term forecast for global oil
consumption as countries increase the use of alternative energy
sources and as the economic crisis slows demand. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/business/energy-environment/11oil.html

Carbon Markets Struggling to Emerge From Communism's Rubble. A
surplus of U.N. carbon emission credits piling up across Central
and Eastern Europe is threatening to destabilize nascent carbon
markets across the world and dampen efforts to curb global
warming, market experts and politicians say. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/11/09/09greenwire-carbon-markets-struggling-to-emerge-from-commun-7546.html

Afloat in the Ocean, Expanding Islands of Trash. ABOARD THE
ALGUITA, 1,000 miles northeast of Hawaii — In this remote patch
of the Pacific Ocean, hundreds of miles from any national
boundary, the detritus of human life is collecting in a swirling
current so large that it defies precise measurement. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/science/10patch.html

Blogs

Pay Up, Prosperous Nations. Global Warming Bill Is Due. A top
Nigerian climate change official (yeah, they have officials for
this stuff these days), said today that developed countries -
that’s us - must pledge cash - that’s yours - to help his country
deal with the effects of global warming. Posted.
http://orangepunch.freedomblogging.com/2009/11/09/pay-up-prosperous-nations-global-warming-bill-is-due/14041/

Fresh Demands From ‘Front-Line States’ in Climate Fight. The
“climate divide” between countries that are rich and poor,
insulated from climate impacts and vulnerable to them, was on
vivid display in the Maldives over the last few days. Posted.
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/fresh-demands-from-front-line-states-in-climate-fight/

Universities Look for Heat Underground. In an effort to cut
their carbon footprints, a handful of universities around the
country are turning to ground-source heat exchangers and
geothermal heating — sometimes with the help of federal
financing. Posted.
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/universities-turn-to-geothermal/

Climate Fight: EPA Sends Global Warming Finding to White House.
Congress might be a long way from passing legislation to fight
climate change, but the Obama administration appears one step
closer to creating its own regime for controlling greenhouse
gases. On Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced
it sent the White House Office of Management and Budget its
proposed finding that greenhouse gases endanger human health and
welfare. Adoption of that endangerment finding is the legal
precursor to regulating such gases under the Clean Air Act.
Posted.
http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2009/11/09/climate-fight-epa-sends-global-warming-finding-to-white-house/tab/print/

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