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CAP AND TRADE

Calif. urged to delay cap-and-trade extension, changes
Farm groups want state leaders to hold off on a proposed
expansion of California’s cap-and-trade program, which they say
already has placed burdens on producers.
Representatives from groups including the California Farm Bureau
Federation and Western United Dairymen say Gov. Jerry Brown and
lawmakers should wait until closer to the program’s 2020 sunset
before considering whether to extend it.
http://www.capitalpress.com/California/20160720/calif-urged-to-delay-cap-and-trade-extension-changes

AIR POLLUTION

A 23-Foot-Tall Air Purifier Gets a Tryout in Smoggy Beijing
Rather than the screens, sensors, microchips and Big Data
typically employed by Smart City designers, Daan Roosegaarde
works with a more fanciful tool kit: smog-eating machines,
light-emitting plankton and solar-sensitive paint.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/21/us/a-23-foot-tall-air-purifier-gets-a-tryout-in-smoggy-beijing.html


CLIMATE CHANGE

How Markets Can Help Us Adapt to Climate Change
We are on course to set another record for the hottest year, the
third year in a row,  and 2016 may well have the most billion
dollar weather disasters. Adaptation to a changing climate looks
both necessary and inevitable.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/21/upshot/letting-markets-guide-adaptation-to-climate-change.html


UN: Shorter working hours may be needed to save environment
Saving the environment may require people to work shorter hours
in the future, according to a United Nations report released
Wednesday.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/UN_UNITED_NATIONS_RAW_MATERIALS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT


UN: 2016 on track to be hottest year on record
The first six months of this year have continued to shatter
global heat records, putting 2016 on track to be the Earth's
hottest year on record, the World Meteorological Organization
said Thursday.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/UN_UNITED_NATIONS_CLIMATE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT


Blazing Hot First Half of 2016 Sends Climate Records Tumbling
Halfway through, 2016 has been an exceptional year for climate
records, scientists say.
Scientists at NASA released their first-ever mid-year analysis of
climate trends on Tuesday, which revealed that every month
between January and June had the warmest average temperature on
record for that month.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20072016/2016-hot-climate-change-records-heat-wave-global-warming-noaa-nasa-alaska?utm_source=Inside+Climate+News&utm_campaign=17be1921d1-InsideClimate_News12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-17be1921d1-327494049


FUELS/REFINERY

Refinery pollution limits debated; vote delayed
A crowd of oil refinery representatives, neighbors and
environmentalists clashed Wednesday over a proposal to cap
greenhouse gases and other pollution from the Bay Area's five oil
refineries. Meanwhile, the region's air agency announced a
half-year delay in bringing the controversial limits to a vote of
its board.
http://www.eastbaytimes.com/breaking-news/ci_30150726/refinery-pollution-limits-debated-vote-delayed


Exclusive: Trump Considering Fracking Mogul Harold Hamm as Energy
Secretary-Sources
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is considering
nominating Oklahoma oil and gas mogul Harold Hamm as energy
secretary if elected to the White House on Nov. 8, according to
four sources close to Trump's campaign.
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2016/07/20/us/politics/20reuters-usa-election-trump-hamm-exclusive.html


Insurers Ignoring Risks of Oil, Gas Investments-Study
Only one percent of insurers globally are assessing the risk of
being left with investments in "stranded assets" -- oil and gas
reserves held by companies which may prove unviable as the world
moves to a low-carbon economy, a study showed on Thursday.
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2016/07/20/business/20reuters-insurance-investment-climatechange.html


VEHICLES

Tesla's stock falls after Elon Musk reveals his 'master plan' 
After more than a week of teasing about its existence, Elon Musk
revealed Part 2 of his “master product plan” for Tesla on
Wednesday evening. Or, as he calls it, “part deux.”
http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-musk-master-plan-20160714-snap-story.html


Daimler Accelerates Electric Car Plans, Sees Higher R&D Spending
Germany's Daimler which owns the Mercedes-Benz luxury brand, has
accelerated development of premium electric cars, Chief Executive
Dieter Zetsche said, adding he saw the vehicle segment gaining
market share.
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2016/07/21/business/21reuters-daimler-results-electriccars.html


VW RECALL

The Real Reason Audi Invented That VW Diesel Cheating Device. A
damning new lawsuit tracks the slippery slope that is VW's
now-infamous defeat device. It wasn't created for the reason you
think. A new complaint filed by the New York Supreme Court has
cast Volkswagen's diesel emissions cheating scandal in an all-new
light.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a21938/vw-audi-defeat-device/


For Volkswagen Chief, Toll of the Emissions Scandal Rises
Matthias Müller was supposed to be part of the cleanup crew at
Volkswagen. Named chief executive after its emissions deception,
Mr. Müller vowed to overhaul the carmaker’s culture by
decentralizing decision-making and encouraging employees to speak
their minds.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/21/business/volkswagen-profit-emissions-scandal.html


OPINIONS

As a Heat Wave Builds, Obama Wisely Presses for Community
Cohesion
Along with commander in chief, President Obama could justify
adding “chief resilience officer” as a new title, given how he
smartly used Twitter on Wednesday to amplify government warnings
about a dangerous heat wave spreading from the heartland to the
East Coast in the next few days.
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/07/21/as-a-heat-wave-builds-obama-wisely-presses-for-community-cohesion/


Pricing Carbon, Canada-Style
By the end of the year, Canada could demonstrate the power of
market forces to reduce greenhouse gases -- or the tendency of
politically expedient half-measures to turn even the most
promising schemes into mush. It all depends on the details of a
proposal to make people and companies pay more of the true cost
of carbon emissions.
http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-07-21/pricing-carbon-canada-style


Opinion The GOP platform would make America warmer and smoggier 

Extract and burn more coal. Open public space and the seas to oil
exploration. Turn federal lands and environmental regulation over
to the states and convert the federal Environmental Protection
Agency into “an independent bipartisan commission, similar to the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, with structural safeguards against
politicized science.”
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-gop-environment-global-warming-trumo-20160721-snap-story.html

Bike sharing: a push but no subsidy in San Diego, please
Here’s some deflating news for San Diego’s bike sharing program.
Its early struggles, documented in a new county grand jury
report, pose a serious challenge to the city’s Climate Action
Plan, which called for reducing carbon emissions in part, and
preposterously, by increasing the number of people who commute by
bike in San Diego from 1 percent now to 18 percent in 20 years.
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2016/jul/21/bad-news-bike-sharing-program/


BLOGS

A “Cool” Way to Combat Climate Change under the Montreal
Protocol. World climate leaders are meeting this week in Vienna
for the next stage of international discussions about a global
phase-down of climate-damaging hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). This
meeting should lay the foundation for a 2016 amendment to the
Montreal Protocol – a hugely successful global agreement that has
put Earth’s fragile ozone…
https://blog.epa.gov/blog/2016/07/a-cool-way-to-combat-climate-change/

http://www.energy.gov/articles/cool-way-combat-climate-change-under-montreal-protocol


Environmental Justice Committee Seeks Input on Climate Change
Plan 
California’s Global Warming Solutions Act, passed in 2006, opened
the door for cap and trade, which among other things collects
revenue to be invested in reducing emissions. The bill, A.B. 32,
also created an Environmental Justice Advisory Committee to help
the state spend those revenues equitably.
http://cal.streetsblog.org/2016/07/20/environmental-justice-committee-seeks-input-on-arb-climate-change-scoping-plan/



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