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Posted: 10 Nov 2015 09:51:05
ARB Newsclips for November 9, 2015. 

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CAP AND TRADE

Top EU court set for view on legality of free carbon permit
rules. A top EU court adviser will on Thursday deliver an opinion
on whether the European Commission's calculations to decide free
carbon allowances are legal, in a case brought by refiners OMV,
Esso Italiana and big chemical firms. Analysts say the case is
unlikely to affect prices on the EU Emissions Trading System
(ETS)…
http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL8N12X4BY20151109


AIR POLLUTION

Heavy smog shrouds northeastern China as winter begins. Air
quality reached extremely hazardous levels in the northeastern
Chinese city of Shenyang, as northern China began to burn coal to
heat homes for winter. Real-time data released by the Shenyang
Environmental Protection Agency Sunday showed the density of the
poisonous tiny airborne matters known as PM2.5…
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_CHINA_POLLUTION?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT


Even Moderate Air Pollution Could Trigger Severe Heart Attacks:
Study. New findings link modest particulate pollution to heart
risks in people with coronary disease. Even moderate levels of
air pollution have now been linked to increased risk of heart
attacks in people with heart disease.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-09/even-moderate-air-pollution-could-trigger-severe-heart-attacks-study

http://health.usnews.com/health-news/articles/2015/11/08/smoggy-days-linked-to-most-severe-type-of-heart-attack


Marathon meeting over waste transfer facility in Huntington Beach
ends without resolution. Residents of the Oak View neighborhood
finally had their chance to tell officials from the South Coast
Air Quality Management District and an independent hearing board
how they feel and what they think should be done about pollution
from a nearby dump…
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/rainbow-691142-facility-residents.html


Airpocalypse now: China pollution reaching record levels. In some
areas level of harmful particles in the air were 56 times the
levels considered safe by the World Health Organisation.
Residents of north-eastern China donned gas masks and locked
themselves indoors on Sunday after their homes were enveloped by
some of the worst levels of smog on record.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/09/airpocalypse-now-china-pollution-reaching-record-levels



Judges blast EPA's 'wrong' language in Calif. diesel case. A
panel of Washington, D.C.-based federal judges appears inclined
to reject U.S. EPA's argument that a California air pollution
case belongs in their court. Judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia Circuit sharply criticized EPA's
arguments today that their court is the correct venue for
industry groups' challenges to EPA's approval of California rules
to cut pollution from nonroad diesel engines…
http://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2015/11/09/stories/1060027711 

CLIMATE CHANGE

New York finds Peabody climate statements misleading. Peabody
Energy, the world's biggest private-sector coal company, violated
New York laws with misleading statements to investors and the
public about the financial risks from climate change and
potential regulatory responses, New York's attorney general said
Monday.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CLIMATE_CHANGE_INVESTIGATIONS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT


UK: In 1st, global temps average could be 1 degree C higher. This
year is on track to be a record 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees
Fahrenheit) hotter than the 19th-century average, hitting a
symbolic milestone in the temperature rise that scientists blame
mostly on human activities, Britain's weather service said
Monday.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CLIMATE_COUNTDOWN_GREENHOUSE_GASES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

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http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFL8N1342G720151109

Senegal: Saloum Delta islands on frontline of climate change. The
place where Fatou Faye's kitchen once stood is now outlined with
short branches of mangroves, a small and perhaps futile attempt
to prevent the sea from destroying the rest of her house.
The rising sea levels pushing into the waters of...
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AF_SENEGAL_DISAPPEARING_ISLANDS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT


China promises action on climate ahead of Paris talks. China has
changed course and emerged as a leader in curbing greenhouse gas
emissions six years after it was accused of obstructing the last
high-level climate talks in Copenhagen. Heading into this month's
Paris meeting, the world's biggest source of climate-changing
gases has yet to accept binding limits.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_CHINA_CLIMATE_TALKS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

World Bank: Climate change could result in 100 million poor.
Climate change could push more than 100 million people into
extreme poverty by 2030 by disrupting agriculture and fueling the
spread of malaria and other diseases, the World Bank said in a
report Sunday. Released just weeks ahead of a U.N. climate summit
in Paris, the report highlighted how the impact of global warming
is borne unevenly…
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CLIMATE_COUNTDOWN_POVERTY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT


White House says Obama will press ambitious climate targets in
Paris. The White House said on Monday that President Barack Obama
will press for an agreement at the Paris climate talks that
reflects ambitious climate targets. Obama and other world leaders
will meet in Paris later this month to work on a plan to reduce
the effects of climate change.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/09/us-usa-climate-obama-idUSKCN0SY27920151109


The unbearable lightness of Chinese emissions data. To get a
sense of how hard it is to measure greenhouse gas emissions in
China, it pays to visit the Deqingyuan poultry farm on the
outskirts of Beijing, where streams of chicken manure are piped
from wooden sheds to an industrial gas digester that rises above
the ground like a tethered balloon.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/08/us-china-climatechange-insight-idUSKCN0SX0WS20151108#WSbbFaz7aqCcJgEW.99


U.N. climate fund approves first projects ahead of Paris summit.
A multi-billion dollar fund set up by the United Nations to help
poor countries tackle climate change approved its first eight
projects on Friday, a key step before a global climate summit
starts on Nov. 30. The Green Climate Fund (GCF), which approved
its first $168 million in aid…
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/06/us-un-climatechange-finance-idUSKCN0SV1F020151106#HeLbByzAE3zCwTJi.99


Greenhouse gases hit new milestone, fueling worries about climate
change. Greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere reached
another grim milestone earlier this year as carbon dioxide levels
surpassed the symbolic threshold of 400 parts per million across
much of the planet…
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/report-691250-carbon-gases.html

http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/world/2015/11/09/greenhouse-gases-reach-record-high/75441504/
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/environment/2015/11/09/climate-countdown-greenhouse-gases/75442166/

http://www.ivpressonline.com/news/science/un-agency-carbon-dioxide-levels-hit-record-high-in/article_e6a0e466-4046-50c5-b412-5f71ab3b738c.html


Climate change a likely culprit for declines in ocean fish. Fish
populations off California’s coast have plummeted more than 70
percent in the last four decades, and scientists’ best guess is
that climate change is to blame. The precipitous decline has
occurred ecosystemwide in the California current, a stretch of
the Pacific that runs from the Pacific Northwest to Baja
California…
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/fish-691164-ocean-water.html
 
Climate Change May Put Over 100 Million Into Poverty By 2030 –
Report. Climate change could drive more than 100 million people
into poverty by 2030 largely due to difficulties producing crops,
according to a new World Bank report. Around the world, climate
change could lead to a 5% decline in crop yields by 2030 and 30%
by 2080.
http://fortune.com/2015/11/09/climate-change-world-bank-poverty-report/


Images Show Impact of Sea Level Rise on Global Icons. Long-term
sea level rise set in motion by near-term carbon emissions
threatens major coastal cities across the world. Here we present
paired images showing how iconic locations — in London, Shanghai,
Mumbai, Sydney, Rio de Janeiro…
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/global-icons-at-risk-from-sea-level-rise-pictures-19633?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climatecentral%2FdjOO+Climate+Central+-+Full+Feed

Green Climate Fund Must Fight Corruption Before It Can Beat
Global Warming. Over the past five years, wealthy countries have
been contributing billions of dollars to a fund designed to
rescue the poorest countries from the effects of climate change.
It’s like a complicated, politically charged Kickstarter campaign
in which the reward is saving the planet.
http://www.newsweek.com/green-climate-fund-must-fight-corruption-it-can-beat-global-warming-391771?piano_d=1


Climate impacts threaten to expand poverty worldwide. Without
policies to protect the world's most vulnerable from crop
failure, natural disasters, waterborne diseases and other impacts
of climate change, 100 million more people could sink into
poverty by 2030, the World Bank said. The report unveiled
yesterday is one of a growing number of high-level studies
linking poverty to climate change.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2015/11/09/stories/1060027680 

Companies became more valuable under emissions law. Standing
before banking professionals at an investment forum, Philipp
Krüger, a Swiss finance professor from the University of Geneva,
reversed the message of conservative politicians on regulation:
Climate policies can benefit, not hamstring, the firms they
directly affect.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2015/11/09/stories/1060027681 

Gas pumps might carry warnings of planetary warming. Some cities
in the metropolitan Vancouver, British Columbia, region are
considering placing dire warnings about the consequences of
climate change on local gas pumps.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2015/11/09/stories/1060027666 

DROUGHT

Drought drives bears into California town in search of food.
Tourists and animal lovers hoping to see a bear in Sequoia
National Park this fall probably stand a better chance of
spotting one in this tiny town at the park's entrance. Three
Rivers is literally crawling with hungry bears driven down from
the mountains by drought in search of food to fatten up for
winter.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CALIFORNIA_DROUGHT_BEARS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT


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http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/11/09/drought-drives-bear-into-california-town-in-search-of-food/


California drought shrinks winter digs for migratory birds. With
their red heads, 7-foot (2.13 m) wingspan and a trilling call,
migrating Sandhill Cranes provide a dramatic sunset spectacle as
they land by the thousands in wetlands near Sacramento each night
during the fall and winter. But the state's ongoing drought has
left the cranes…
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/07/us-california-drought-birds-idUSKCN0SW0H720151107#omyvMkHpKEysuRRM.97


This map of climate change attitudes around the world might
surprise you. The Pew Research Center is out with a survey of
climate change attitudes from around the world. What caught our
eye? A map showing relative concern about climate change from
country to country.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/11/09/this-map-of-climate-change-attitudes-around-the-world-might-surprise-you/


Dueling drought relief bills reveal stark differences. As
California enters the fifth consecutive year of unprecedented
drought, Congress is debating two competing bills designed to
provide federal drought relief to California agriculture. The
proposals reveal stark differences in proposed federal water and
environmental policy.
http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/soapbox/article43480272.html#storylink=cpy


LA County governments limits car washes to once a month. In the
wake of criticism over wasted water, the Los Angeles County
government has cut its car washing to once a month. In August it
was reported that some county supervisors wash their cars two or
three times a week despite calls for county residents to limit
water use during California's drought.
http://www.fresnobee.com/news/state/california/article43721064.html#storylink=cpy


Drought believed to be hastening tree deaths in Los Angeles.
Thousands of trees in the city of Los Angeles are at risk of
dying because of an infestation that appears to be worsened by
the punishing statewide drought. A Los Angeles Bureau of Street
Services report warns the Xylella fastidiosa infestation is
affecting trees across…
http://www.dailynews.com/general-news/20151107/drought-believed-to-be-hastening-tree-deaths-in-los-angeles


Relief from the drought found in the Los Angeles County Museum of
Art. For Southern Californians struggling through the worst
drought in the history of the state, relief may finally be here —
or at least a sprinkle of relief. Rain has arrived, but it is
confined to a 2,500-square-foot windowless room in a museum
exhibition on the Miracle Mile, open to a handful of people who
are let in…
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/water-691109-people-rain.html

DIESEL ACTIVITIES

Frost & Sullivan forecasts Gasoline Particulate Filters to climb
from 50,335 units now to 4.2-4.6 million units by 2020. Gasoline
direct injection (GDI) is a strategy to improve fuel efficiency
that is rapidly gaining market acceptance. However, unlike
conventional gasoline engines, gasoline direct injection engines
produce particulate matter, as do diesels, and emission controls
will become an issue…
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2015/11/20151108-pf.html 

FUELS

Analysis: Polarized politics dictated Obama Keystone call.
President Barack Obama's decision to block the Keystone XL oil
pipeline has exposed an endlessly polarized Washington, and
likely hardened its divides. Obama is now being praised to the
skies by environmentalists and most Democrats, and denounced in
apocalyptic terms by Republicans and the business community.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_KEYSTONE_POLITICS_ANALYSIS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
 

Keystone off the table, but back East, pipeline fight builds.
Carolyn and Ian Reilly and their four children left Florida's
sprawl in 2010 to farm 58 acres in rural Virginia, raising beef
cattle, chicken and hogs. Then a year ago, they learned a natural
gas pipeline would slice through part of their farm and their
lives took another dramatic turn.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_PIPELINE_TO_PROTESTS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT


Showa Shell’s 49 MW Biomass Power Plant Starts Operations. Showa
Shell Sekiyu K.K., a Japanese refiner, said it has completed a
49-megawatt biomass power plant south of Tokyo. The plant in
Kanagawa prefecture began commercial operations earlier this
month, the company said in a statement Monday. It’s Showa Shell’s
first biomass power project.
http://washpost.bloomberg.com/Story?docId=1376-NXJDOW6JIJUY01-0O0J97GLSFM8HODLCP07H0BUIE


Survey: US gasoline prices up a penny over past 2 weeks. The
average price of gasoline rose a penny over the past two weeks,
to $2.25 a gallon. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg reports
Sunday that the slight increase comes after prices previously
fell 63 cents over 19 weeks. Lundberg says the end of the price
decline comes as crude costs jumped a bit.
http://www.chicoer.com/business/20151108/survey-us-gasoline-prices-up-a-penny-over-past-2-weeks


Another day, another setback for Canada's producers. The Obama
administration's rejection of TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone XL oil
pipeline project Friday is only the latest setback for Canadian
oil producers. Its oil and gas industry has suffered blow after
blow this year, and more pain is in store as companies there
struggle to cope with an unexpected economic and political storm
that has sunk their fortunes.
http://www.eenews.net/energywire/2015/11/09/stories/1060027669 

Pipeline's defeat could translate to rail gains. President
Obama's decision to reject the Keystone XL pipeline Friday could
come with a heavy side of tank cars. Canadian energy companies
need about a dozen crude-laden trains each day to replace the
volume of oil that could have been transported through KXL.
http://www.eenews.net/energywire/2015/11/09/stories/1060027677 

How a 2012 book helped two teams of journalists probe Exxon's
changing view of climate risks. With the launch of an
investigation into Exxon Mobil Corp.'s climate stance by New
York's attorney general, talk of wide-ranging tobacco-style
litigation against Exxon and other oil and gas companies has
amplified. But if the Exxon inquiry does blow up into a battle
against civil and criminal charges…
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2015/11/09/stories/1060027682 

VEHICLES

Electric-Car Drivers Will Pay For DC Fast-Charging 12-To-1 Over
Level 2. A growing fleet of electric cars will need a
comprehensive network of public charging stations, but those who
build and maintain those stations have some choices to make. They
have to provide charging infrastructure that will be useful to
the public, but is also financially sustainable.
http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1100804_electric-car-drivers-will-pay-for-dc-fast-charging-12-to-1-over-level-2


Electric-Car Drivers Don't Pay Their Share? Actually, No One
Does. The annual registration fees for electric cars implemented
by several states have been the subject of much controversy.
Electric-car advocates view the fees as a form of harassment, and
a hindrance to electric-car sales.
http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1100816_electric-car-drivers-dont-pay-their-share-actually-no-one-does


2016 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid Price To Start At $29,270. The 2016
Toyota RAV4 Hybrid will start at $29,270, and will be offered in
only two of the four trim levels available for its gasoline
counterpart. That base price--which includes a $900 destination
charge--buys a RAV4 Hybrid XLE, one step up from the base LE trim
level offered on gasoline models.
http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1100825_2016-toyota-rav4-hybrid-price-to-start-at-29270


Report: Hyundai launching new brand of electrified vehicles in
January: hybrid first, then PHEV and EV. The Korea Times reports
that Korea-based Hyundai Motor will launch its new brand of
electric vehicles scheduled for January. The first model of
Hyundai’s new car brand—tentatively named “AE”—will be first
introduced as a hybrid electric vehicle, followed by PHEV and
full-EV editions…
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2015/11/20151109-hyundai.html 

VW RECALL

VW offers diesel owners $1,000 in gift cards and vouchers.
Volkswagen is offering $1,000 in gift cards and vouchers as a
goodwill gesture to owners of small diesel-powered cars involved
in an emissions cheating scandal. The offer announced Monday goes
to owners of 482,000 cars in the U.S., many who are angry at the
company because they paid extra for the cars to be
environmentally sensitive without losing peppy acceleration.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_VOLKSWAGEN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
 

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http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2015/11/09/vw-offers-diesel-owners-1000-in-gift-cards-and-vouchers/
 
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/diesel-691287-owners-volkswagen.html
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http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/In-Gear/2015/1109/Volkswagen-diesel-owners-to-get-1-000-in-gift-cards

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/foreign/2015/11/09/volkswagen/75447976/

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/11/08/455248618/report-says-volkswagen-will-attempt-to-compensate-defrauded-diesel-owners
   

Details of Volkswagen's offer for diesel owners. Volkswagen said
Monday it's offering a goodwill package to current owners of its
2.0-liter diesels in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Volkswagen
acknowledged in September that the vehicles don't meet U.S.
emissions standards and contain software that allowed them to
cheat on emissions tests.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_VOLKSWAGEN_GLANCE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT


Greenpeace targets Volkswagen over emissions scandal.
Environmental activists protested outside the main entrance to
Volkswagen headquarters in Wolfsburg, unfurling a banner reading
"Das Problem" - a play on the carmaker's marketing slogan "Das
Auto." The Greenpeace protest Monday comes after Volkswagen
announced last week that it had "understated" the carbon dioxide
emissions on 800,000 vehicles.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_GERMANY_VOLKSWAGEN_PROTEST?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT


Volkswagen managers afraid to travel to the U.S.: paper.
Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) managers are worried about traveling to
the United States, a German newspaper reported on Saturday,
saying U.S. investigators have confiscated the passport of an
employee who is there on a visit. Citing company sources, the
Suddeutsche Zeitung said Volkswagen believes…
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/07/us-volkswagen-emissions-idUSKCN0SW0QB20151107#ksM40LF72yXkiLY7.99


EU Asks Volkswagen For Emissions Details Within 10 Days. In
letter, the EU seeks for ‘further clarifications’ on emissions of
VW cars. The European Union’s climate commissioner is asking
Volkswagen AG to supply within 10 days details on recently
revealed “irregularities” related to carbon-dioxide emissions
from its vehicles, according to a letter sent to VW’s chief
executive on Monday.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/eu-asks-volkswagen-for-emissions-details-within-10-days-1447096891?mod=pls_whats_news_us_business_f&alg=y


VW Board Meets After Employees Flagged Latest Emissions Faults.
Volkswagen AG will need to perform significant engine repairs on
540,000 cars in Germany, highlighting the complicated task the
company faces as its top executives met after disclosing further
emissions irregularities last week. The recall is still planned
to start by early next year, the Federal Motor Transport
Authority said Monday.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-08/volkswagen-says-its-employees-flagged-latest-emissions-faults


Volkswagen Seeks to Rebuild Trust With U.S. Initiative. German
auto maker looks to appeal to customers, dealers following
emissions scandal. Volkswagen AG, struggling to get out in front
of its emissions-cheating scandal, is trying to overcome missteps
in its crisis-fighting strategy and plans to announce a new sales
initiative in the U.S…
http://www.wsj.com/articles/volkswagen-seeks-to-rebuild-trust-with-u-s-initiative-1446995472


Galvanized by VW Scandal, E.P.A. Expands On-Road Emissions
Testing. Concerned that cheating on vehicle emissions could be
prevalent across the automobile industry, regulators in the
United States and Canada are significantly expanding their
on-the-road emissions tests to cover all makes and models of
diesel cars. The tests, which come in the wake of Volkswagen’s
admission that it…
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/09/business/energy-environment/epa-expands-on-road-emissions-testing-to-all-diesel-models.html?ref=energy-environment&_r=2

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/road-348868-ocprint-tests-testing.html


VW doubles down on electric vehicles, hoping to move beyond the
diesel scandal. Volkswagen’s renewed focus on hybrid and electric
vehicles may be its last great hope of containing the fallout
from a rapidly spreading diesel emissions scandal that has
engulfed its Porsche and Audi brands – and, most recently, even
some of its gasoline-powered cars.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/diesel-691041-vehicles-electric.html


What emissions scandal? Volkswagen still sees sales growth in US.
Despite an emissions-cheating scandal, Volkswagen’s brand appears
to have weathered the storm: at least one model experienced its
best month on record. American consumers appear to have at least
one virtue: they’re forgiving. Despite an emissions-cheating
scheme that scientists estimate will result in…
http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/In-Gear/2015/1109/What-emissions-scandal-Volkswagen-still-sees-sales-growth-in-US


Volkswagen investor Nordea to sue over emissions fixing. The
€190bn Scandinavian fund manager is the first major investor in
the carmaker to signal such legal moves. Nordea, the €190bn
(£135.6bn) Scandinavian fund manager, has become the first major
investor to signal it is preparing to sue Volkswagen over the
carmaker’s manipulation of emissions tests.
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/nov/08/nordea-will-sue-volkswagen-vw-emission-fixing


GREEN ENERGY

Newfangled Energy Stocks Disappoint. Renewable-energy ‘yieldcos’
soared, then fizzled. Will they reinvent themselves When they
were first launched, “yieldcos” lit up the stock market like
fireworks with their impressive dividends and the prospect of
even higher yields to come. But these new renewable-energy stocks
flamed out as dramatically as they appeared… 
http://www.wsj.com/articles/newfangled-energy-stocks-disappoint-1447038121


Final desert renewable energy plan coming Tuesday. The
long-awaited day has finally arrived. State and federal officials
plan to release part one of the Desert Renewable Energy
Conservation Plan on Tuesday, nearly seven years to the day after
then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called for such a plan. The
document will designate clean energy development zones and
conservation areas across 10 million acres…
http://www.desertsun.com/story/tech/science/energy/2015/11/09/final-desert-renewable-energy-plan-coming-tuesday/75467484/


Energy minister expects UK to miss renewables target, leaked
letter shows. Letter from Amber Rudd revealing UK is forecast to
fall 3.5 percentage points short of target exposes ‘dark side of
government energy policy’, says Greenpeace. The energy secretary,
Amber Rudd, has been accused of misleading the public after a
leaked letter revealed that the UK is predicted to fall short of
its European Union…
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/nov/09/energy-minister-expects-uk-to-miss-renewables-target-leaked-letter-shows
 
Renewable Energy Supply to Double in Major Economies. Renewable
energy supply in eight major economies will collectively more
than double by 2030 due to new national climate and energy plans,
according to a study by the think tank World Resources Institute
(WRI).  Wind turbine generators are pictured in Desert Hot
Springs, California on July 11, 2011.
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/renewable-energy-supply-to-double-19650?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climatecentral%2FdjOO+Climate+Central+-+Full+Feed

Barrier-breaking physicist clears path for solar power. The
leader of the Department of Energy effort to drive down the cost
of solar power enjoys a big challenge. When Lidija Sekaric was
recruited for the SunShot initiative in 2010, she turned up her
nose at the program's goal -- lowering the installed cost of
solar from $2 a watt to 50 cents by 2020.
http://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2015/11/09/stories/1060027624 

MISCELLANEOUS

GOP takes control of AQMD.  A concerted, back-channels effort by
Republican leaders has succeeded in gaining a board majority at
the South Coast Air Quality Management District, which oversees
the regulation and compliance of everything from power plants to
gas stations. The selection of Republican Dwight Robinson, a Lake
Forest councilman, will give the GOP a 7-6 edge that could result
in less stringent air quality policies. LOCAL 1
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/air-348850-ocprint-block-gop.html


OPINIONS

Airpocalypse, again. With winter coming, China hit by ‘doomsday’
smog. "Fairyland or doomsday?" Sure looks like doomsday. China's
state-backed news agency asked Monday. Walking the line between
cluelessness and dark comedy, Xinhua's English-language Twitter
account on Monday called global attention to what may be the
worst air pollution…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/11/09/airpocalypse-again-with-winter-coming-china-hit-by-doomsday-smog/


The war against Exxon Mobil. If you care about free speech, you
should pay attention to the campaign now being waged against
Exxon Mobil. More than 50 environmental and civil rights groups
have written Attorney General Loretta Lynch urging her to open a
“federal probe” of the giant energy firm. Bernie Sanders and
Hillary Clinton have also joined the chorus.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-war-against-exxon-mobil/2015/11/08/094ff978-84a6-11e5-8ba6-cec48b74b2a7_story.html


Dueling drought relief bills reveal stark differences. As
California enters the fifth consecutive year of unprecedented
drought, Congress is debating two competing bills designed to
provide federal drought relief to California agriculture. The
proposals reveal stark differences in proposed federal water and
environmental policy.
http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/soapbox/article43480272.html#storylink=cpy


California needs to rid the Valley of cancer-causing pesticide.
Ten million pounds. It’s hard to wrap your head around that
number, but that was the amount of glyphosate, commonly known by
its brand name Roundup, used in California in 2013. As a result,
when state officials add glyphosate to the list of known
cancer-causing chemicals, as they’re expected to do soon, they
will be unmasking a 5 million…
http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/soapbox/article43617405.html#storylink=cpy


Timely reminder of an El Niño's havoc. Central and Southern
California are in the midst of a four-year drought, and any talk
about an above-average rainy season this fall and winter is
welcome news. Two months ago, I wrote about a “Godzilla El Niño”
being forecasted by Bill Patzert, a climatologist with NASA’s Jet
Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/nino-690966-rain-super.html 

Expect global warming rhetoric to heat up. Let’s be blunt. Forty
years of global warming hysteria never has been about the globe
getting warmer, or saving the planet. It’s always been about
control and money. Their control. Your money. If you need to be
told who “they” are, you haven’t been paying attention.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/emissions-690952-gore-control.html


Letter: End subsidies for fossil fuel industry, too. End
subsidies for fossil fuel industry, too. Joseph Neff’s letter
Tuesday (“End subsidies for solar and wind power”) ignores the
fossil industry’s tax breaks that rob our public treasury. The
biggest fossil fuel subsidy we all pay is for the economic damage
from climate change. Ask farmers and their laid-off employees if
the 1,000-year drought has hurt them.
http://www.chicoer.com/opinion/20151107/letter-end-subsidies-for-fossil-fuel-industry-too


Climate Change: Don’t Forget the Warming Oceans. As the Paris
climate meeting rapidly approaches, the preparatory discussions
have been remarkably silent on the crucial links between global
warming and the health of the world’s oceans. This is a missed
opportunity to galvanize global political will behind significant
reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
http://www.newsweek.com/climate-change-dont-forget-warming-oceans-391678?piano_d=1


BLOGS

The Reality Gap in the Push to Close the Global Warming
‘Emissions Gap’ in Paris. Year by year, the great transition away
from the world’s risky carbon-based path to progress is said to
be just around the corner. This year’s Emissions Gap report from
the United Nations Environment Program, aiming to energize Paris
climate talks next month, was released today with this headline…
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/06/the-reality-gap-in-the-push-to-close-the-global-warming-emissions-gap-in-paris/?_r=0


Symbolic Politics, the Keystone Pipeline, and Climate Policy in
the Real World. From burying a car at the first Earth Day to the
campaign to ban the Keystone Pipeline, U.S. environmentalists
have long demonstrated an affinity for symbolic politics. We
obviously knew that one buried car wouldn't stop air pollution,
and any reasoned analysis would acknowledge that stopping one
pipeline would not eliminate global warming.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-cohen/symbolic-politics-the-key_b_8509482.html




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

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