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AIR POLLUTION

Beijing to impose fee on emitters to curb pollution: Xinhua.
Manufacturers of furniture, petrochemicals, automobiles and
electronics in Beijing will start paying fees in October for
emitting volatile organic compounds (VOCs), a source of air
pollution, the Xinhua state news agency said on Tuesday.
Pollution has triggered increasing unease in China, where smog
blankets many major cities, including Beijing, home to 21 million
people.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/15/us-china-pollution-idUSKCN0RF1IR20150915


Poor air quality hampers buildup for Singapore GP. The Singapore
Grand Prix is already one of the most physically taxing races on
the Formula One calendar, and this year drivers will have to put
up with the additional strain of poor air quality. Smoke from
forest fires in Indonesia has choked Singapore in the days
leading up to the race, with the local government's Pollutant
Standards Index (PSI) wavering between "unhealthy" and "very
unhealthy."
http://af.reuters.com/article/investingNews/idAFKCN0RG16020150916


Study: More than 6 million could die early from air pollution
every year.  The air we breathe outdoors could be harming more
people than ever, a new study suggests. Globally, more than 3
million people die prematurely each year from prolonged exposure
to air pollution, according to the World Health Organization. By
2050, it could be 6.6 million premature deaths every year
worldwide, a new study predicts. Chronic exposure to air
pollution particles contributes to the risk of developing
cardiovascular and respiratory diseases as well as lung cancer,
WHO said.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/16/health/air-pollution-deaths-rising/


California’s Fire Problem Is Turning Into a Smoke Problem.  So
far this year, fires have destroyed hundreds of homes and tens of
thousands of acres in California. Thanks to the state’s
four-years-and-counting drought, those flames are spreading fast
and far. But what travels even faster are the billows of smoke
from those fires—which means a fire’s impact extends far beyond
its perimeter.
http://www.wired.com/2015/09/californias-fire-problem-becoming-smoke-problem/


CLIMATE CHANGE

Investigation Finds Exxon Ignored Its Own Early Climate Change
Warnings. Despite its efforts for nearly two decades to raise
doubts about the science of climate change, newly discovered
company documents show that as early as 1977, Exxon research
scientists warned company executives that carbon dioxide was
increasing in the atmosphere and that the burning of fossil fuels
was to blame. The internal records are detailed in a new
investigation published Wednesday by InsideClimate News, a
Pulitzer Prize-winning news organization covering energy and the
environment.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/environment/investigation-finds-exxon-ignored-its-own-early-climate-change-warnings/


Southland rain could be preview of the coming El Niño winter,
experts say. It swamped streets, spilled into buildings, sent mud
in motion and roiled rivers where rescue crews aided those swept
up in the water overflow. Then the downpour that stunned the
drought-weary Southland with its intensity slunk off in the sun.
But if experts are right, the deluge offered a preview for the
wet El Niño winter ahead.
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-0916-rain-20150916-story.html


Sierra Nevada snowpack at 500-year low.  The State of California
- while be warned that the coming El Nino will be a rough one
fraught with storms, secretly prays for a lot of water in the
forecast. It has been learned that the state's Sierra Nevada
snowpack is at a 500-year low, meaning little to no fresh water
for the state.
http://www.catholic.org/news/green/story.php?id=63849 

FUELS

Stems, Sticks Seen Driving Biofuel’s Next Expansion After 2020.
The next generation of biofuels that don’t use food crops as a
raw material are starting to take hold, with a big expansion of
the industry coming after 2020, one of the industry’s key
suppliers said. Novozymes A/S Chief Executive Officer Peder Holk
Nielsen said the industry is shifting slowly toward using more
cellulosic material -- the woody bits of plants -- instead of
food crops such as corn and sugar beets.
http://washpost.bloomberg.com/Story?docId=1376-NUPO516JIJUQ01-1M4I8USNFTRMQTC6RU7Q916R95

UK shale gas cash should pay for carbon capture projects –
report.  Britain should use revenues from the shale gas industry
to help fund the development of projects that capture carbon
dioxide emissions and store them underground, a shale gas
industry-funded task force said on Wednesday. Britain is
estimated to have substantial amounts of shale gas trapped in
underground rocks and Prime Minister David Cameron has promised
to go "all out for shale", hoping it will help reduce dependence
on energy imports and generate additional tax revenue.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/09/15/uk-britain-shale-report-idUKKCN0RF2VP20150915


Activists say ‘keep it in ground’; Jewell calls it simplistic. 
Hundreds of environmental groups are uniting under a new banner
to curtail greenhouse gas emissions. It’s called: “Keep it in the
ground.” They’re asking President Obama to stop new petroleum
leases on public lands. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell rejected
the idea in a meeting with reporters today. For decades, Alaska’s
congressional delegation has been clamoring for more oil and gas
leases on federal land. Now, in a letter to Obama, more than 400
green groups are saying exactly the opposite, that the president
should just stop fossil fuel lease sales.
http://www.alaskapublic.org/2015/09/15/activists-say-keep-it-in-ground-jewell-calls-it-simplistic/


VEHICLES

Survey: People can't imagine life without cars.  A majority of
people around the world could not imagine living their lives
without a car, according to a study released Wednesday at
theFrankfurt Motor Show. The findings by the International
Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers (OICA), a group that
defends the various interests of the car industry, revealed that
57% of people globally would find life harder or more challenging
without access to four wheels.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2015/09/16/survey-people-cant-imagine-life-without-cars/32489283/


GREEN ENERGY

Wind industry says could supply 25 percent of EU electricity by
2030. Wind farms could supply a quarter of the European Union’s
electricity needs by 2030 if member states come good on energy
and climate pledges, an industry report said on Wednesday. Wind
energy provides around 10 percent of the bloc’s electricity but
lobby group…
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/16/us-europe-windpower-report-idUSKCN0RG1F420150916?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews


Tenneco’s gasoline particulate filter technology ready to meet
Euro 6c. Tenneco introduced its oval-shaped gasoline particulate
filter design at the 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show . The filters are
designed for gasoline direct injection (GDI) engines to reduce
particulate emissions in compliance with the Euro 6c emissions
regulations, which take effect on 1 September 2017.
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2015/09/20150916-tenneco2.html 

Zambia to triple power generation in two years with solar. Zambia
expects to triple power output to 6,000 megawatts (MW) in 2 years
through expansion of solar energy by foreign investors, the head
of its investment agency said. Erratic electricity supplies have
hit mining in the continent's second biggest copper producer,
where the bulk of its generation capacity of 2,200 MW of power is
water-powered.
http://af.reuters.com/article/investingNews/idAFKCN0RG16020150916


MISCELLANEOUS

U.S. consumer prices post first decline in seven months. U.S.
consumer prices unexpectedly fell in August as gasoline prices
resumed their decline and a strong dollar curbed the cost of
other goods, pointing to tame inflation that complicates the
Federal Reserve's decision whether to hike interest rates. The
Labor Department said on Wednesday its Consumer Price Index
slipped 0.1 percent last month…
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/16/us-usa-economy-idUSKCN0RG1NB20150916?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

http://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/article35423220.html

http://www.modbee.com/news/politics-government/article35423220.html
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/percent-682863-prices-inflation.html
http://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2015/09/16/us-consumer-prices-fell-01-percent-in-august

http://www.ttnews.com/articles/basetemplate.aspx?storyid=39452 

One in three California homes prone to wildfires.  A third of
homes in California are located in areas prone to wildfires,
according to data from the U.S. Forest Service, a startling
statistic that helps explain the fires that destroyed hundreds of
homes in the state over the weekend. More such devastation is
likely as people continue to build houses close together in areas
vulnerable to wildfires and the blazes themselves become more
common as a result of prolonged droughts and higher temperatures
partly blamed on global warming, Forest Service and climate data
show.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2015/09/15/wildfire-risk-california/72315460/


OPINIONS

Climate change, fire, Jerry Brown, UC, etc. Bold action needed on
climate change. Re “Incinerated” (Page 1A, Sept. 14): Unusually
devastating wildfires are raging across California. The Bee
reports the fires have grown exponentially, been more explosive
and grown faster than forecast. The “mass destruction” is so much
worse because of the drought.
http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article35351745.html#storylink=cpy


Ignoring climate change will produce American refugees.  Earlier
this week, communities in Lake County, Calif., virtually
disappeared in minutes, gobbled up by a raging wildfire that
sprang up seemingly out of nowhere. Residents could do little
except run for their lives. Hundreds of homes and businesses were
gone in a few hours. Nineteen-thousand people, a third of the
county’s population, are displaced. This is the third devastating
fire in this county in the past six weeks, according to the local
Santa Rosa Press Democrat, one of a dozen fires currently burning
in California alone.
http://www.mtexpress.com/opinion/editorials/ignoring-climate-change-will-produce-american-refugees/article_6bf2911c-5bcf-11e5-b97e-e3259de441ba.html


BLOGS

Celebrating the Best Climate Treaty of All Time. Today is
international ozone day, a day when we traditionally celebrate
the Montreal Protocol treaty for its historic success solving the
first great threat to the global atmosphere--the threat to the
protective stratospheric ozone layer from chlorofluorocarbons,
CFCs. The treaty's success in phasing out CFCs and related
chemicals prevented millions of deaths from skin cancer…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/durwood-zaelke/celebrating-the-best-clim_b_8143502.html





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