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newsclips -- ARB Newsclips for June 30, 2016.
Posted: 30 Jun 2016 13:56:33
ARB Newsclips for June 30, 2016. 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. AIR POLLUTION White House reviewing oil and gas emission guidelines. U.S. EPA has sent the final version of proposed guidelines to aid local air pollution regulators in overseeing the oil and gas industry to the White House Office of Management and Budget. In a draft of the "control technique guidelines" released in September, EPA officials said they were seeking to furnish state, local and tribal air agencies… http://www.eenews.net/eenewspm/2016/06/29/stories/1060039629 EPA adopting toxics policy ideas from advisory panel – official. U.S. EPA is pursuing the bulk of an advisory panel's recommendations for strengthening the agency's air toxics program, a senior official said yesterday. "We have been doing a lot of thinking, and we have been walking through a lot of our existing programs," Bill Harnett told the Clean Air Act Advisory Committee… http://www.eenews.net/greenwire/stories/1060039677/search?keyword=california CLIMATE CHANGE U.S. Virgin Islands to withdraw subpoena in climate probe into Exxon. The U.S. Virgin Islands' attorney general on Wednesday agreed to withdraw a sweeping subpoena issued against Exxon Mobil Corp as part of a push by a coalition of state prosecutors to try to investigate whether the world's largest publicly traded oil company misled the public about climate change risks. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-exxon-mobil-climatechange-idUSKCN0ZF2ZP?utm_source=Inside+Climate+News&utm_campaign=f6dd98cf4a-Today_s_Climate12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-f6dd98cf4a-327747457 UPDATE 2-UK sets 2032 climate goal, allays ambition fears. Britain on Thursday set a target to reduce emissions by 57 percent by 2032, allaying fears the country's climate ambitions would become one of the first casualties of last week's Brexit vote. The target, based on 1990 levels, was suggested last year by a government advisory body, the Committee on Climate Change, as a part of Britain's fifth carbon budget (2028-2032). http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFL8N19M2HE Brexit spells end to EU leadership in climate diplomacy. Britain's exit dashes the European Union's leadership ambitions on efforts to slow climate change, leaving the bloc on the sidelines while others endorse the global pact it championed to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Last week, EU environment ministers jointly called for action "as soon as possible" to avoid being absent… http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFL8N19M2B0 VEHICLES Merkel Weighs Pollution Goal That Would Spur More Electric Cars. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government is working on targets to cut pollution on Germany’s roads that may effectively force carmakers to switch most of their sales to electric vehicles by the end of the next decade. Merkel’s chancellery is reviewing a draft of her coalition’s Climate Protection Plan 2050… http://washpost.bloomberg.com/Story?docId=1376-O9JCX26S973301-6DJ2JG58HTCH3VK9RPU60J7OLE Canada, US and Mexico commit to align light- and heavy-duty fuel efficiency and GHG standards out to 2025 and 2027, respectively. As one of the outcomes of the “Three Amigos” meeting in Ottawa, Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, US President Barack Obama, and Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto committed to an “ambitious and enduring” North American Climate, Clean Energy, and Environment Partnership. http://www.greencarcongress.com/2016/06/20160630-3amigos.html GREEN ENERGY Why the popularity of solar in the Inland Empire is good news for green energy’s future. California is easily the top state in the country in developing its clean-energy industry, leading all other states in solar energy production, electric and plug-in hybrid vehicle sales and the number of clean-energy patents issued… http://www.dailynews.com/environment-and-nature/20160629/why-the-popularity-of-solar-in-the-inland-empire-is-good-news-for-green-energys-future OPINIONS California is headed toward a decision it will regret. Even as new research from Stanford University suggests drought-stricken California has a bonanza of underground water in areas where oil companies operate, state regulators are planning to ask the Environmental Protection Agency to exempt a substantial number of aquifers from rules meant to prevent oil industry pollution [“Study: California sitting on vast water reserve,” Politics & the Nation, June 28]. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/california-is-headed-toward-a-decision-it-will-regret/2016/06/29/afcb432a-3d33-11e6-9e16-4cf01a41decb_story.html China is leading the way on climate change, and the US should be ashamed. China will soon surpass the U.S. to become the world's largest economy. And now it is poised to overtake this country by yet another metric: environmental protection. In an unexpected development, China - known for its choking urban pollution and notorious Three Gorges Dam… http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/environment/article86823087.html#storylink=cpy VW’s settlement could spawn innovation. Its reputation in tatters, Volkswagen is seeking to move past its lies by paying $14.7 billion in a nationwide settlement of civil claims over defeat devices it installed so its dirty diesel-powered cars would pass smog tests. Attorney General Kamala Harris and California Air Resources Board chairwoman Mary Nichols held a news conference Tuesday and rightly took credit… http://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/editorials/article86695327.html#storylink=cpy Gov. Brown a budget hawk, except for high-speed rail. The Vallejo Times Herald published this editorial on June 27: The backers of California's high-speed rail continue to perpetuate the myth that if they build it, the money will come. When voters in 2008 approved state bonds for part of the project, we were promised a $45 billion system stretching from San Diego to Sacramento. http://www.desertsun.com/story/opinion/editorials/2016/06/29/other-voices-vallejo-times-herald-high-speed-rail/86531082/ BLOGS EPA should support American biodiesel industry. At the end of July, the Environmental Protection Agency will close public comments on the proposed Renewable Fuel Standard – known as the RFS – a federal policy that determines how much biofuel must be blended into the nation’s transportation fuel supply. While much of the debate around RFS is focused on corn ethanol… http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/energy-environment/286050-epa-should-support-american-biodiesel-industry Climate Change’s Growing Impact On People Experiencing Homelessness. The seemingly unending and sometimes fatal heat waves gripping large portions of the United States this month can be bad for those who are able to find shelter indoors. It is even worse for those experiencing homelessness. The impacts of climate change are already being felt by people across the planet… http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/06/29/3793278/climate-change-air-pollution-homelessness/?utm_source=Inside+Climate+News&utm_campaign=f6dd98cf4a-Today_s_Climate12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-f6dd98cf4a-327747457 California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips.