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Posted: 15 Jun 2015 12:16:21
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CAP AND TRADE

Emissions cap-and-trade program is working well in California.
The climate change debate may seem mostly to be about science,
but it's really driven by dollars and cents — what will it take
to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and how much will that cost?
Of all U.S. states, California has taken the most direct approach
to settling those questions through a pioneering cap-and-trade
program.
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-20150613-column.html#page=1


'New blood' boosts California carbon market.
New participants in the secondary market for California carbon
allowances have helped boost liquidity in recent days, providing
a shot of life after weeks of stagnation, traders said on Friday.
California carbon allowances for June delivery were last seen at
$12.55 a tonne in the over-the-counter market, up 4 cents from
Thursday's close after two straight days of above-average trading
volumes, carbon brokers said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/12/carbon-market-california-idUSL1N0YY27R20150612


CLIMATE CHANGE

Pope Francis May Find Wariness Among U.S. Bishops on Climate
Change.
The church bulletin inserts are nearly ready to go. So are the
emails to every Roman Catholic parish in the United States with
preaching suggestions for the first Sunday after Pope Francis
releases his encyclical on the environment. A week after that, on
June 28, churches worldwide are being asked to ring their bells
at noon to commemorate a “Thank you, Pope Francis” march in Rome
being held that day.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/14/us/pope-francis-may-find-wariness-among-us-bishops-on-climate-change.html


Pope, GOP collide on climate change.
Climate change -- long the subject of a divisive political debate
-- is getting a boost of fresh attention heading into the 2016
presidential campaign thanks to an unlikely public figure: the
Pope. The Vatican is set to release Pope Francis' highly
anticipated encyclical -- an official document delivering
teachings from the Pope -- on the environment and climate change
this week. 
http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/15/politics/climate-change-2016-presidential-campaign/


Weak climate plans mean world set to overshoot temperature goal –
IEA.
Countries' current pledges for greenhouse gas cuts will fail to
achieve a peak in energy-related emissions by 2030 and likely
result in a temperature rise of 2.6 degrees Celsius by the end of
the century, the International Energy Agency said on Monday. An
international deal to combat climate change is meant to be agreed
in December but a meeting in Bonn, Germany, last week ended with
little progress toward an agreement to keep average temperature
rises within 2C.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/14/us-iea-climatechange-idUSKBN0OU13C20150614?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews


AIR POLLUTION

California air quality rules to tighten after cancer risk
estimate triples.  Factories and oil refineries in southern
California face a new crackdown on their emissions of air toxins,
after experts in the state reported that breathing in pollution
carries almost three times the risk of causing cancer than was
previously thought, especially for children and babies.
http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Environment/2015/06/15/California-air-quality-rules-to-tighten-after-cancer-risk-estimate-triples/


Supreme Court won't review Volvo appeal of $62M penalty 
The Supreme Court declined today to review an effort by Volvo
Powertrain Corp. to overturn a $62 million penalty for truck
engines that allegedly cheated federal air pollution limits. EPA
penalized the Swedish car and truck maker 10 years ago for
violating an earlier legal settlement mandating that non-road
engines meet stringent emissions standards for nitrogen oxides,
or NOx.
http://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2015/06/15/stories/1060020245 

DROUGHT

L.A. water department will drain Silver Lake Reservoir this
summer.
The Silver Lake Reservoir is about to go dry. The reservoir will
be temporarily drained this summer as part of a Los Angeles
Department of Water and Power project to build a new water
pipeline beneath it. After more than a century of service, the
Silver Lake Reservoir — the scenic centerpiece of the hilly
neighborhood — was disconnected in December 2013 from the city's
drinking-water system as part of a federal mandate to phase out
open-air drinking-water reservoirs.
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-silver-lake-reservoir-20150615-story.html


Water market best hope to ease drought.
As California’s drought enters its fourth year, policy makers
here mostly argue over two alternatives – stepping up
conservation and water-use enforcement or building new dams and
other water-storage facilities. But the solution to the water
crisis is more likely to be found on an application that can be
downloaded onto our cellphones.
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2015/jun/12/drought-solution-freer-water-markets-california/


VEHICLES

Tesla takes on industry in California.
First Tesla Motors Inc. went up against car dealers, waging a
state-by-state campaign to protect its factory-owned showrooms
from franchise laws. Now it's ready for another statehouse
scuffle -- this time, against other car companies.
http://www.autonews.com/article/20150615/OEM11/306159943/tesla-takes-on-industry-in-california


GREEN ENERGY

Want to fix the world? Start by making clean energy a default
setting.
In recent years, psychologists and behavioral scientists have
begun to decipher why we make the choices that we do when it
comes to using energy. And the bottom line is that it’s hard to
characterize those choices as fully “rational.”  Rather than
acting like perfect homo economicuses, they’ve found, we’re
highly swayed by the energy use of our neighbors and friends —
peer pressure, basically. At the same time, we’re also heavily
biased by the status quo — we delay in switching to new energy
choices, even when they make a great deal of economic sense.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/06/15/want-to-fix-the-world-start-by-making-clean-energy-a-default-setting/


How much will solar dim after tax credits expire?
California has been basking in a solar energy boom, as companies
and homeowners scramble to install solar panels by the end of
2016. That’s when a hefty tax credit is due to fade away. Right
now, the federal solar investment tax credit saves businesses and
homeowners 30 percent off the price of solar installations. That
credit is slated to disappear completely for residential
installations at the end of 2016.
www.sacbee.com/news/business/article23701057.html#storylink=cpy 

MISCELLANEOUS

This Plane Runs on Sun and Is About to Smash Some Records.  
The flight into Chongqing, China, happened at night. No moon.
Pilot Bertrand Piccard nosed his plane into strong headwinds, and
the turbulence was bad—not knock-you-up-and-down bad, but
blow-you-off-the-runway bad. At one point the wind was so strong
the plane was actually moving backward.    
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-06-15/solar-impulse-sun-powered-plane-is-about-to-smash-some-records




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