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California Air Resources Board News Clips for November 10, 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. 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/