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newsclips -- ARB Newsclips for August 27, 2015
Posted: 27 Aug 2015 15:15:59
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. CLIMATE CHANGE 10 Years Later, Obama Says New Orleans Is Reborn. President Barack Obama is marking 10 years since Hurricane Katrina by celebrating the revival of New Orleans, which suffered the worst of the storm's devastation. He's also using the occasion to press governments to start helping communities prepare for the stronger storms that climate change will cause. http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2015/08/27/obama-visiting-new-orleans-on-hurricanes-10th-anniversary Energy Commission Launches Application to Track Climate Change in California Deserts. The California Energy Commission on Tuesday announced a new application, the Climate Console, that utilizes geospatial data to show how climate change could impact the state’s desert regions and wildlife. Developed by the Conservation Biology Institute, the new tool allows scientists and planners to develop climate change models to predict such things as temperature and precipitation. https://www.techwire.net/energy-commission-launches-application-to-track-climate-change-in-california-deserts/ DROUGHT Flick a cigarette butt? Not in a drought, Cal Fire warns. Napa resident Dick Schaaf became concerned when he saw a motorist flick a lit cigarette out of a car window earlier this month, so he took down the license plate number and called the California Highway Patrol. To Schaaf’s surprise, the CHP said that they did take this issue seriously, especially during wildfire season. In fact, although this type of littering is common, it is illegal. http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/flick-a-cigarette-butt-not-in-a-drought-cal-fire/article_1aaa5ff2-96f9-5efe-8c95-66fe6389f257.html L.A. continues dramatic water savings; 21% in July. Los Angeles residents cut their water use by 21% in July, surpassing the mandatory conservation standard set by state regulators to combat the drought, Mayor Eric Garcetti said. The 21% reduction compared with July 2013 means that for the second straight month, Angelenos have met their state target and will avoid fines and other penalties for non-compliance. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-la-water-conservation-20150826-story.html Official: Californians Conserving Water In Drought. State officials say strong water conservation figures for July show Californians are beginning to understand the dire need to cut back in a fourth year of drought. Felicia Marcus, chair of the State Water Resources Control Board, says that regulators are now turning their focus to the communities failing to conserve. http://www.capradio.org/articles/2015/08/27/official-californians-conserving-water-in-drought/ DIESEL ACTIVITIES Fleet Managers Go Hands-On With Green Vehicles. Fleet managers drove a wide spectrum of green fleet vehicles including a diesel-electric hybrid cabover, battery-electric Class 8 rig, and plug-in hybrid SUV that's yet to reach the market at the Fleet Technology Expo's Aug. 25 ride and drive event. The fleet event, which is hosted by Bobit Business Media, ran from Aug. 24-26 at the Long Beach Convention Center in southern California. http://www.truckinginfo.com/news/story/2015/08/fleet-managers-go-hands-on-with-green-vehicles.aspx VEHICLES Event to offer some Fresno drivers free emissions testing. Certain drivers in Fresno will be able to get free vehicle emissions testing through a partnership between a regional pollution control agency and nonprofit clean air advocacy group. The Fresno Bee reports (http://bit.ly/1NWro9F) this year's annual tune-up event provided by the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District and Valley Clean Air Now is being held Aug. 29 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Fresno Fairgrounds. http://www.fresnobee.com/news/state/california/article32519028.html New electric car charging station opens in Richmond. Richmond's Main Street Station parking lot is now home to an electric car charging station. The Richmond Times-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1MPDcfa) reports that the city's first DC Fast Charging Electric Vehicle Charging Station has opened. http://www.fresnobee.com/news/business/technology/article32515776.html GREEN ENERGY Thinking small, South Africans develop affordable solar power prototype that stumped Google. By thinking small, a group of South African scientists may have pioneered solar technology that has stumped Internet giant Google. The Helio100 project, based at Stellenbosch University in the Western Cape province, is a cost-effective heliostat that harnesses solar power to generate electricity. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AF_SOUTH_AFRICA_SOLAR_INVENTION?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT Related articles: http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2015/08/27/south-african-prototype-may-solve-solar-power-problem http://www.ivpressonline.com/news/apgeneral/south-african-prototype-may-solve-solar-power-problem/article_ddf4e969-88f4-589d-8dfe-cf5e905c52c7.html http://www.insidebayarea.com/business/ci_28712588/has-south-african-team-solved-solar-tech-that MISCELLANEOUS New York City Might Get a Climate Change Museum. Climate change is an environmental issue. But it's civil rights issue, argues lawyer Miranda Massie. “If you don’t have the right to thrive as an organism, then everything else falls away,” she tells reporter Lisa W. Foderaro for The New York Times. “I came to see the environment as a civil rights issue.” The effects that Hurricane Sandy had on New York City helped spur her to this realization. And now, Massie is working hard to build the Climate Museum, a place where the public can gain a broader understanding of the effects of climate change. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-york-city-will-have-climate-change-museum-180956411/?no-ist OPINIONS California drought, wildfires aren't the only looming disasters. Gov. Jerry Brown says California's drought and the wildfires it has spawned are wake-up calls about the potentially cataclysmic effects of climate change. That may be true. But they are not the only indications of potential disaster that could devastate a state perched, however precariously, on the continent's western edge. California has been experiencing a series of moderate earthquakes this month -- coinciding, somewhat eerily, with the first anniversary of a temblor that severely damaged downtown Napa. http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_28712216/dan-walters-california-drought-wildfires-arent-only-looming BLOGS Why Big Corporations Like Gap And eBay Are Mobilizing Against Climate Change. This week, California legislators received a pair of letters signed by dozens of corporations in support of two bills that would require the state to further reduce its greenhouse gas emissions through 2050. In both letters, the firms say tackling climate change is "one of America’s greatest economic opportunities of the 21st century." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/california-corporations-are-on-board-with-climate-change-policy_55dde804e4b08cd3359e2704?kvcommref=mostpopular California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips.