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Posted: 17 Jun 2016 16:36:54
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AIR POLLUTION

China orders 255 Shanghai industrial facilities to shut for G20.
China ordered at least 255 Shanghai-based industrial facilities,
including part of a major oil refinery operated by Sinopec Corp,
to shut for 14 days to reduce pollution ahead of the G20 summit,
according to an official document reviewed by Reuters. The
document, issued by the Shanghai Environment Protection Bureau,
has ordered…
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-industry-pollution-idUSKCN0Z3145

DA’s Office buys air pollution monitor for Oroville. A pollution
monitor will be checking the health of Oroville’s air soon, paid
for from a source one might not expect: the District Attorney’s
Office. Under a memorandum of understanding approved by the Board
of Supervisors this week, the Air Quality Management District
will operate the monitor, but the District Attorney’s Office is
actually buying the $17,000 machine.
http://www.chicoer.com/general-news/20160616/das-office-buys-air-pollution-monitor-for-oroville


Rajshahi: the city that took on air pollution – and won. In
Bangladesh, one of the world’s most polluted cities has led the
way globally in ridding itself of harmful PM10 particles.  Once,
Rajshahi’s sweltering summers were made worse by a familiar
problem on the Asian subcontinent: windows would have to be shut,
not because of the wind or monsoon, but because of the smog.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/17/rajshahi-bangladesh-city-air-pollution-won


CLIMATE CHANGE

Obama heads to national parks with climate message in mind. U.S.
President Barack Obama is taking his family to two national parks
this weekend on a working vacation where he will spend some time
with his teenaged daughters while making the case for more
spending on conservation and curbing climate change.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-obama-parks-idUSKCN0Z310K?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=Inside+Climate+News&utm_campaign=dbbc0b5742-Today_s_Climate12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-dbbc0b5742-327747457


EU Carbon Has Biggest Drop in Six Weeks as Brexit Risk Seen.
European Union carbon allowances had their biggest weekly drop
since May 6 amid speculation that traders are unwilling to bet on
higher prices before next week’s Brexit referendum in the U.K.
Carbon allowances for December slipped 4.9 percent this week,
also tracking a decline in crude…
http://washpost.bloomberg.com/Story?docId=1376-O8X1SNSYF01S01-4JHKSSBA3HSS1L5H9S4H16A7S8


Environmental Groups Change Tune on Nuclear Power.  Focus on
climate change has raised profile of reactors, now viewed as
reliable, carbon-free source of energy. Some of the nation’s most
influential environmental groups are softening their longstanding
opposition to nuclear power, marking a significant shift in the
antinuclear movement as environmentalists’ priority shifts to
climate change.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/environmental-groups-change-tune-on-nuclear-power-1466100644


Exxon Mobil Fights Back at State Inquiries Into Climate Change
Research. In the eight months since the New York attorney
general, Eric T. Schneiderman, announced the first investigation
of Exxon Mobil over its past research statements about climate
change, nearly 20 other state attorneys general have voiced their
support.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/17/science/exxon-mobil-fights-back-at-state-inquiries-into-climate-change-research.html?_r=0

How Dell Saved $39.5 Million, Cut Carbon Pollution via
Telecommuting. Allowing US employees to telecommute has saved
Dell $39.5 million and avoided an estimated 25 million kWh of
energy and 13,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions since
fiscal year 2014.
https://www.environmentalleader.com/2016/06/17/how-dell-saved-39-5-million-cut-carbon-pollution-via-telecommuting/


Shattered records show climate change is an emergency today,
scientists warn. Unprecedented temperature levels mean more
heatwaves, flooding, wildfires and hurricanes as experts say
global warming is here and affecting us now. May was the 13th
month in a row to break temperature records according to figures
published this week that are the latest in 2016’s string of
incredible climate records…
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/17/shattered-records-climate-change-emergency-today-scientists-warn


EPA proposes climate rule incentives despite court hold. The
Obama administration is moving ahead with an incentive program
for its contentious climate change rule, despite the Supreme
Court’s action halting the regulation. Under the program, known
as the Clean Energy Incentive Program, the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) would give states compliance credits for
renewable energy…
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/283776-epa-proposes-climate-rule-incentives-despite-court-hold?utm_source=Inside+Climate+News&utm_campaign=dbbc0b5742-Today_s_Climate12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-dbbc0b5742-327747457


What would a global warming increase of 1.5C be like? The Paris
climate conference set the ambitious goal of finding ways to
limit global warming to 1.5C, rather than the previous threshold
of 2C. But what would be the difference? And how realistic is
such a target? Environment 360 reports. How ambitious is the
world? The Paris climate conference last December astounded many…
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/16/what-would-a-global-warming-increase-of-15c-be-like
 

Kerry's Arctic climate change adventure hits Greenland. U.S.
Secretary of State John Kerry has brought his tour of the Arctic
to Greenland, where he's visiting the Northern Hemisphere's
largest glacier to bring attention to the dangers of climate
change. A day after visiting an ice cap in Norway's extreme north
that has been significantly eroded by rising temperatures…
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/06/17/kerry-arctic-climate-change-adventure-hits-greenland.html


13 state AGs pen letter calling for end to climate change probe.
A campaign by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to end the
investigation into ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel companies
over false statements on climate change is gaining support among
other state law enforcement officials.
http://fuelfix.com/blog/2016/06/16/attorneys-general-pen-letter-calling-for-end-to-climate-change-probe/?utm_source=Inside+Climate+News&utm_campaign=dbbc0b5742-Today_s_Climate12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-dbbc0b5742-327747457


Northeastern boreal forests may escape worst consequences of
warming. To catch a glimpse of the future of the northeastern
boreal forest, look even farther north. There, new research
suggests, climate change may not be devastating for the
ecosystem's key species. A study published yesterday in the
journal Science finds forests north of the 49th parallel could
become a climate refuge for black spruce…
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/06/17/stories/1060038966 

DROUGHT

Water Supply A 'Concern' This Summer In California. The U.S.
Drought Monitor says a lack of rain in May and in early June has
caused the expansion of abnormally dry conditions in northwest
California. Remember that white area on the California state
graphic showing "no drought" along the northwest coast and
slightly east on the border with Oregon? It’s gone now.
http://www.capradio.org/articles/2016/06/16/water-supply-a-concern-this-summer-in-california/


Drought eased by winter rain, but here is why you should still
conserve water. The wet winter eased California’s drought
situation a great deal, but water resource agencies are saying
Southern Californians still need to conserve through the summer.
Here’s why. SNOW COVER The best news for the state is that the
Sierra Nevada snowpack, which provides roughly 30 percent of
California’s water supply…
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/jquery-719568-text-children.html


DIESEL ACTIVITIES

Heat wave could bring more diesel pollution from SoCal power
plants. A Death Valley-like heat wave expected to descend on
Southern California this weekend could bring new diesel pollution
from local power plants instead of rolling blackouts, air
regulators said Thursday. An air control district law panel this
week gave the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
permission to burn diesel fuel at power plants…
http://www.dailynews.com/general-news/20160616/heat-wave-could-bring-more-diesel-pollution-from-socal-power-plants


VEHICLES

Karma comes around again: California's newest car factory aims to
rival Tesla. A premium luxury sedan born from the ashes of the
Fisker Karma – a Tesla rival that wowed the automotive world
before collapsing into bankruptcy three years ago – will soon
begin rolling off a production line at California's newest car
factory.
http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-karma-car-factory-20160617-snap-story.html


State tax credit for third California electric car company. A
state board has approved $10 million in tax credits for an
electric vehicle company promising to add more than 900 jobs in
San Jose and San Francisco. The board of California Competes
considered the credit for NextEV USA among $47 million taken up
at its meeting Thursday to encourage job creation.
http://hosted2.ap.org/CAANR/CA/Article_2016-06-16-CA--California%20Economy-Tax%20Credits/id-749cace426a3435aaef87074588a2664


EVs could mean major grid challenges -- or opportunities.
Electric vehicles, specifically Tesla's vehicles, have far
exceeded car market expectations and are poised to transform the
entire industry if growth continues at this rate. While electric
vehicles sound great, think tank Rocky Mountain Institute found
one problem with such fast growth: EVs are energy hogs.
http://www.eenews.net/energywire/2016/06/17/stories/1060038952 

VW RECALL

After diesel scandal, Volkswagen bets the future on electric.
Volkswagen AG is betting big on electric, autonomous and
on-demand vehicles as the scandal-ridden company seeks to catch
up to other automakers investing in new technologies. CEO
Matthias Müller outlined the new investments and urged a change
in company culture in a sweeping restructuring plan yesterday.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/06/17/stories/1060038973 

GREEN ENERGY

Clean energy for poorest starved of investment: researchers. Only
a tiny fraction of climate change funding is going into
small-scale solar, biogas and other off-grid systems that may be
the best way to get power to the world's poorest, researchers
say. That problem, evident in new figures from the London-based
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)…
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-energy-renewables-aid-idUSKCN0Z30ZA


The huge flaw in how Congress is approaching burning wood for
energy. Along with 196 other countries around the world, the
United States has made a number of ambitious climate commitments
that experts say will depend heavily on the expansion of
renewable energy and the increasingly stringent regulation of
carbon output.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/06/16/the-huge-flaw-in-how-congress-is-approaching-burning-wood-for-energy/


California tries to capture offshore wind energy. While the
industry predicts a clean-energy bonanza from the West Coast's
steady and powerful breezes that may go a long way to help the
state meet its ambitious clean energy mandates, reaping the wind
must first overcome a whirlwind of technological, economic and
political challenges.
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2016/jun/16/offshore-floating-wind/


OPINONS

'Carbon to stone'? Fee and dividend is a better way to fight
climate change.  To the editor: In my opinion, “carbon to stone”
is utterly impractical as a method. (“How to capture carbon
dioxide from a power plant and turn it into stone,” June 9) You
still must separate carbon dioxide from other gases and pump
billions of tons underground, requiring an infrastructure as vast
as current oil pipelines.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-carbon-stone-climate-change-fee-and-dividend-20160615-snap-story.html
 

BLOGS

Republican Attorneys General Defend Big Oil Over Climate Fraud
Probe. A group of Republican state attorneys general is standing
up for oil giants over an investigation into whether companies
like Exxon Mobil misled the public about the risks of climate
change.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/republican-ag-letter-big-oil-climate-probe_us_5762f38ee4b0df4d586f8e09


Climate Change: Antarctica Carbon Dioxide Levels Cross 400 Parts
Per Million For First Time In 4 Million Years. In May 2013, the
carbon dioxide monitoring station at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, recorded
a major milestone — the concentration of atmospheric carbon
dioxide had crossed the symbolic “red line” of 400 parts per
million for the first time since record-keeping began.
http://www.ibtimes.com/climate-change-antarctica-carbon-dioxide-levels-cross-400-parts-million-first-time-4-2383269


California Climate Change Initiatives Fall Victim To Politics.
California is the leading state in the nation when it comes to
taking aggressive measures to combat climate change. Over the
past few years, it has operated a program that offers incentives
to low income families so they can get their dirty old clunkers
off the road and purchase a  low emissions car instead. To date,
the program has enabled 150,000 Californian’s to drive clean.
http://gas2.org/2016/06/17/climate-change-initiatives-fall-victim-politics/



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