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newsclips -- ARB Newsclips for February 10, 2015

Posted: 10 Feb 2015 15:22:01
ARB Newsclips for February 10, 2015. 

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AIR POLLUTION

Fresno hopes bikes will save students money and clean the air
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will help Fresno,
Calif., plan a bike-share system to improve air quality and offer
an inexpensive method of transportation as part of the Building
Blocks for Sustainable Communities program.  Besides Fresno, the
program awarded grants to 21 other communities – including cities
and towns in Mississippi, Texas, North Carolina and Florida – out
of more than 100 applicants, to help them develop programs that
address local needs.
http://www.mercedsunstar.com/news/nation-world/national/article9287768.html


Paris to ban the most polluting diesel vehicles by 2020
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has presented a plan to ban most diesel
vehicles from the city by 2020 in order to lower air pollution.
By July, diesel buses and trucks will be banned during the
daytime from entering the city but not from the ring road around
Paris, Hidalgo explained Monday in a plan to members of the Paris
Council. 
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_FRANCE_PARIS_BANNING_DIESEL?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT


http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/paris-to-ban-the-most-polluting-diesel-vehicles-by-2020/2015/02/09/0fbd540c-b08c-11e4-bf39-5560f3918d4b_story.html


CLIMATE CHANGE
	
Senate Democrats unveil legislation to fight climate change
With Gov. Jerry Brown pushing for further reductions in
greenhouse gas emissions and other sweeping environmental goals
in his fourth term, state Senate Democrats will unveil a package
of clean energy and climate change legislation today. Senate
President Pro Tem Kevin de León will join senators Ben Hueso,
D-San Diego, Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, Fran Pavley, D-Agoura
Hills, and Bob Wieckowski, D-Fremont, for the announcement at
1:30 p.m. on the east lawn of the Capitol.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article9645650.html#storylink=cpy


Obama Seeks $2 Billion in Private Dollars for Clean Energy  
President Barack Obama is setting a goal of raising $2 billion
from the private sector for investments in clean energy. The
White House says it's launching a Clean Energy Investment
Initiative as part of the Obama administration's effort to
address climate change. The Energy Department will solicit
investments from philanthropists and investors concerned about
climate change. 
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/02/10/us/politics/ap-us-obama-climate-change.html


Turning Carbon Dioxide Into Rock, and Burying It  
In a cramped work trailer not far from Iceland’s largest
geothermal power plant, a researcher pored over a box of core
samples — cylinders of rock that a drilling rig had pulled from
deep underground just a few minutes before. In a test that began
in 2012, scientists had injected hundreds of tons of water and
carbon dioxide gas 1,500 feet down into layers of porous basaltic
rock, the product of ancient lava flows from the nearby Hengill
volcano. 
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/10/science/burying-a-mountain-of-co2.html?_r=0


Fed Report: Time to Examine Purposely Cooling Planet Idea
A federal science report says it is time to study and maybe even
test the idea of cooling the Earth by injecting sulfur pollution
high in the air to reflect the sun's heat. The idea was once
considered fringe — to purposely re-engineering the planet's
climate as a last ditch effort to battle global warming with an
artificial cloud. No longer.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SCI_CLIMATE_ENGINEERING?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT


http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/02/10/science/ap-us-sci-climate-engineering.html

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-climate-technology-20150210-story.html


Scientific Pros Weigh The Cons Of Messing With Earth's
Thermostat
Before anyone tries to cool the Earth with technologies that
could counteract global warming, there needs to be a lot more
research into the benefits and risks. That's the conclusion
announced Tuesday by a scientific panel convened by the
prestigious National Research Council to assess "climate
geoengineering" — deliberate attempts to alter the global
climate. 
http://www.capradio.org/news/npr/story?storyid=385065816 

Climate Is Big Issue for Hispanics, and Personal
Alfredo Padilla grew up in Texas as a migrant farmworker who
followed the harvest with his parents to pick sugar beets in
Minnesota each summer. He has not forgotten the aches of labor or
how much the weather — too little rain, or too much — affected
the family livelihood. Now an insurance lawyer in Carrizo
Springs, Tex., he said he was concerned about global warming.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/10/us/politics/climate-change-is-of-growing-personal-concern-to-us-hispanics-poll-finds.html


Save the trees: New campaign against deforestation launched
Since the money raised by governments and corporations hasn't
managed to halt the destruction of the world's rainforests — an
area the size of Alabama or Greece is lost every year — a new
U.S. campaign is now inviting individuals to chip in. The U.S.
Agency for International Development and Code REDD, a
California-based advocacy group, on Tuesday announced the launch
of an online store for carbon offsets, certificates that will
fund forest conservation projects in tropical countries.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_CLIMATE_FORESTS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT


http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/02/10/world/europe/ap-eu-climate-forests-.html

http://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/Save-the-trees-New-campaign-against-6072733.php


Panel Urges More Research on Geoengineering as a Tool Against
Climate Change. 
With the planet facing potentially severe impacts from global
warming in coming decades, a government-sponsored scientific
panel on Tuesday called for more research on geoengineering —
technologies to deliberately intervene in nature to counter
climate change.The panel said the research could include
small-scale outdoor experiments, which many scientists say are
necessary to better understand whether and how geoengineering
would work.Some environmental groups and others say that such
projects could have unintended damaging effects, and could set
society on an unstoppable path to full-scale deployment of the
technologies.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/11/science/panel-urges-more-research-on-geoengineering-as-a-tool-against-climate-change.html




DIESEL ACTIVITIES

Aging and potentially dangerous school buses in the Valley
Thousands of kids in the Central Valley are exposed to dangerous
chemicals every morning as they ride school buses. Some are on
buses that shouldn't even be on the road. That was the big
surprise in an Action News investigation: Buses illegally taking
kids to school. We collected information on more than 1100 school
buses in the Valley. Hundreds are giving out dangerous pollution.
Many might be even more dangerous.
http://abc30.com/news/aging-and-potentially-dangerous-school-buses-in-the-valley/510888/


CARB Hosting Diesel Regulation and Compliance Event
The California Air Resources Board is hosting its Diesel Truck
Regulation Information Session and Conference in Los Angeles to
inform fleets about current rules on diesel engines and explain
how to maintain compliance. The event takes place on Feb. 24 from
9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Los Angeles Trade Tech College near downtown
Los Angeles.
http://www.truckinginfo.com/news/story/2015/02/carb-hosting-diesel-regulation-and-compliance-event.aspx


DROUGHT

California drought: Northern California getting much more rain
than Southern
Lots of issues divide Southern and Northern California: The
Dodgers vs. the Giants. Hollywood vs. Silicon Valley. Southern
Californians say "the" before naming a freeway; northerners
don't. Now, after this past weekend's soaking storms, there's a
new difference emerging: the drought.
http://www.mercurynews.com/drought/ci_27494057/california-drought-divide-emerging-northern-california-getting-much?source=rss


FUELS

A Biofuel Debate: Will Cutting Trees Cut Carbon? 
Does combating climate change require burning the world’s forests
and crops for fuel? It certainly looks that way, judging from the
aggressive mandates governments across the globe have set to
incorporate bioenergy into their transportation fuels in the hope
of limiting the world’s overwhelming dependence on gasoline and
diesel to move people and goods.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/11/business/economy/a-biofuel-debate-will-cutting-trees-cut-carbon.html


GREEN ENERGY

California formally opens large solar plant
One of the nation's largest solar projects was dedicated Monday
in the Riverside County desert, as California rushes to expand
its use of green power to meet the state's renewable energy
requirements. The dedication of the Desert Sunlight Solar Farm
comes about a month after Gov. Jerry Brown called on the state to
increase renewable electricity use to 50 percent by 2030, up from
the current goal of 33 percent by 2020.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SOLAR_PLANT_KICKOFF?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/article9594422.html 


California Utility Aims To Quadruple The State's EV Charging
Stations
Pacific Gas and Electric on Monday applied for regulatory
approval to build and own 25,000 electric car charging stations,
a proposal that would roughly quadruple the number of public
charging stations in the state. The San Francisco-based utility
wants to build those stations on commercial and public
properties, including shopping centers and multi-family housing.
The plan is to complete the build-out five years after gaining
approval from the California Public Utilities Commission.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/uciliawang/2015/02/09/california-utility-aims-to-quadruple-the-states-ev-charging-stations/


MISCELLANEOUS

Peruvian Ice Cap Harbors Evidence of Conquistadors' Avarice
After vanquishing the Inca Empire with superior weapons and a
touch of treachery, the Spanish conquistadors sought to satisfy
their lust for riches by forcing multitudes of native people to
toil in silver mines in dire conditions that claimed many lives.

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2015/02/10/world/americas/10reuters-science-conquistadors.html


New Roots for City Trees
When Kemba Shakur lived in San Francisco's Bayview-Hunters Point
neighborhood as a young kid in the 1970s, the area was plagued by
blight and violence. "It was like a warzone," recalled Shakur,
who now lives in North Oakland. "I hated that place. It was scary
and dangerous." When she returned decades later, she was stunned
to see the improvements. 
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/new-roots-for-city-trees/Content?oid=4185304


BLOGS

In Geoengineering Study, Science Academy Sees Merit in CO2
Removal, Risk in Reflecting Sunlight
Experts convened by the National Academy of Sciences have weighed
in with valuable reports on the two main “geoengineering”
strategies for countering global warming driving by the buildup
of greenhouse gases: Climate Intervention: Carbon Dioxide Removal
and Reliable Sequestration Climate Intervention: Reflecting
Sunlight to Cool Earth The panels’ overarching bottom line is
straightforward:There is no substitute for dramatic reductions in
the emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases to mitigate the
negative consequences of climate change, and concurrently to
reduce ocean acidification.
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/10/in-geoengineering-study-science-academy-sees-merit-in-co2-removal-risk-in-reflecting-sunlight/?_r=0


It's Time to Fix the Climate -- Why Do We Delay?  In his recent
State of the Union address, President Obama said: "No challenge
poses a greater threat to future generations than climate
change." Yet worsening climate data prove we're not doing enough.
Why do we delay action? People are daunted by the gradual nature,
incomprehensible consequences and global scope of the problem. 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellen-moyer-phd/its-time-to-fix-the-climate-why-do-we-delay_b_6603254.html

Worried You’re Breathing Polluted Air? There’s An App For That
We have smartphone apps to tell us where our friends are checking
in for drinks, the best restaurant within walking distance, and
even the quickest route to the nearest bathroom. But did you ever
expect you’d be checking your phone to figure out the best place
to take a deep breath?
http://magazine.good.is/articles/breezometer-air-quality-app 



California is in a drought emergency.
Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips.

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