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newsclips -- ARB Newsclips for August 16, 2016.
Posted: 16 Aug 2016 16:36:14
ARB Newsclips for August 16, 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. CAP AND TRADE Mexico announces launch of cap-and-trade pilot program. Mexico will launch a year-long simulation of a cap-and-trade program in November, Mexican officials said on Monday, in a test run for a national carbon market expected to launch in 2018. The pilot program will involve the voluntary participation of up to 60 companies, giving them a chance to adapt to a forthcoming carbon credit system… http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-environment-idUSKCN10R00B Jerry Brown moves to slip cap and trade into major climate bill. In a bid to preserve California’s cap-and-trade program beyond 2020, Gov. Jerry Brown has quietly proposed amending major environmental legislation to expressly authorize the regulation’s extension. The draft bill language, obtained by The Sacramento Bee… http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article95752577.html#storylink=cpy Lawmakers Question Effectiveness of Cap-And-Trade Program. California’s cap-and-trade program is under scrutiny from state lawmakers who are concerned revenue collected from the program isn’t finding its way to disadvantaged communities. The program, signed into law by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2006 as part of California s landmark environmental bill AB 32, is supposed to help lower harmful greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions… http://sacobserver.com/2016/08/lawmakers-question-effectiveness-of-cap-and-trade-program/ Legal Doubts Over California’s Cap-and-Trade. The opinion of lawyers working for California’s lawmakers became clear in the spring. Without new laws, the state’s prominent cap-and-trade program would be dead after 2020. Such a legal reality could put an end to the pollution reduction program, and with it billions in anticipated revenues and some of the Golden State’s vaunted global leadership on climate action. http://www.climatecentral.org/news/legal-doubts-over-californias-cap-and-trade-20607 AIR POLLUTION Court filing from 6 states supports EPA ozone standard. A coalition of six states and state air quality agencies have explicitly endorsed U.S. EPA's new primary ozone standard, saying in a court filing that the change was needed to protect public health and that potential compliance costs are essentially irrelevant to the agency's decision. In setting the new 70-parts-per-billion standard, EPA "cannot decide either how to… http://www.eenews.net/eenewspm/stories/1060041627/search?keyword=california CLIMATE CHANGE NASA: Last month was Earth's hottest in recorded history. Earth just broiled to its hottest month in recorded history, according to NASA. Even after the fading of a strong El Nino, which spikes global temperatures on top of man-made climate change, July burst global temperature records. NASA calculated that July 2016 was 1.51 degrees… http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SCI_HOTTEST_MONTH?SITE=MIDTN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&utm_source=Inside+Climate+News&utm_campaign=12060411f4-Today_s_Climate12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-12060411f4-327747457 Antarctica's sea ice said to be vulnerable to sudden retreat. Sea ice around Antarctica shrank in a warm period more than 100,000 years ago, an indication that man-made climate change could also trigger an abrupt retreat, a scientific report said Tuesday. A thaw would reverse a paradoxical expansion of the extent of floating ice on the ocean around the frozen continent in recent decades… http://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-antarctica-idUSKCN10R111 As Earth swelters, global warming target in danger of being missed. The Earth is so hot this year that a limit for global warming agreed by world leaders at a climate summit in Paris just a few months ago is in danger of being breached. In December, almost 200 nations agreed a radical shift away from fossil fuels with a goal of limiting a rise in average global temperatures to well below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above… http://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-temperatures-idUSKCN10N18J People would buy green products – if only e-commerce showed them how. Given the choice to go green when making purchases online, a lot of people would follow through, new research suggests. They just need companies to provide them with enough information to do so. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/08/15/people-would-buy-green-products-if-only-e-commerce-showed-them-how/?utm_term=.806f522d604d DROUGHT Drought costing California's farmers $600 million this year. Monday by UC California's drought is costing farmers an estimated $603 million this year, although the impact is far less than a year ago, according to a study released Davis. The latest annual survey by UC Davis researchers shows that the reasonably rainy winter has eased the effects of the drought, even though considerable shortages persist in crucial areas of the San Joaquin Valley. http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_30250073/drought-costing-californias-farmers-600-million-this-year As Drought Continues, Northern California Towns Run Out of Water. Pasenka, population 112, is an out-of-the-way place where rustic ranches grace grass-covered hills rolling west toward Mendocino Pass. Since the lumber mill closed in 1992, the Tehama County community 130 miles (210km) north of Sacramento has been settling into bucolic tranquility. A water crisis has triggered a rude awakening. Thomes Creek, the sole source of water for the Paskenta Community Services District, is dropping. https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/08/16/as-drought-continues-northern-california-towns-run-out-of-water/ DIESEL ACTIVITES U.S. regulators to unveil final rule on truck emissions limits: source. U.S. regulators on Tuesday will announce final regulations setting fuel efficiency standards on medium- and heavy-duty trucks through 2027 that will cut 1.1 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions, a source briefed on the matter told Reuters. The rule sets first-ever greenhouse gas emissions limits on heavy-duty combination tractors and requires up to 25 percent lower emissions by 2027 for tractors… http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-emissions-idUSKCN10R1KJ http://www.wsj.com/articles/obama-administration-issues-final-rules-on-emissions-from-big-trucks-1471363201 http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2016/08/16/trucks-required-slash-emissions-boost-fuel-economy/88832034/ http://www.businessinsider.com/r-us-regulators-to-unveil-final-rule-on-truck-emissions-limits-2016-8 FUELS NASA: Natural gas industry the source of massive methane 'hot spot' Scientists Monday attributed most of the methane emissions contributing to a "hot spot" the size of Delaware recorded over the Four Corners region almost two years ago to natural gas production equipment and infrastructure. Using data collected from air and land surveys covering about 1,200 square miles across the region in April 2015… http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/nation-now/2016/08/15/nasa-industry-source-methane-hot-spot/88812104/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3743571/Massive-methane-hot-spot-Southwest-caused-250-separate-leaks-gas-production-researchers-find.html#ixzz4HWMuHxxq http://www.eenews.net/energywire/2016/08/16/stories/1060041638 Greens move to defend methane rules. Six environmental groups are looking to defend new federal curbs or methane pollution at oil and natural gas sites. The groups filed a court motion late Monday to protect the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) methane rule from lawsuits brought by more than a dozen states and several oil and gas industry groups. http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/291560-greens-move-to-defend-methane-rules Could ethanol power the future for electric cars? The automotive industry is rushing to produce electric vehicles (EVs) as the world tries to move away from polluting hydrocarbons to greener, cleaner fuels. But EVs still only account for 1% of the total market. Some companies are betting that hydrogen fuel cells will be the power source of the future, but Nissan believes bio-ethanol produced from sugar cane or corn could also produce zero-emission electric energy. http://www.bbc.com/news/business-37083752 VEHICLES Elon Musk Sets Ambitious Goals at Tesla—and Often Falls Short. In past five years, Tesla failed to meet more than 20 of his projections, and missed 10 goals by nearly a year on average; Musk says he ‘doesn’t set targets that I know can’t be met’ In May, Elon Musk made another of the bold projections that have become commonplace for the Tesla Motors Inc. chief executive when he said the electric car maker expected… http://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-sets-ambitious-goals-at-teslaand-often-falls-short-1471275436 VW RECALL VW gets approval for another 460,000 diesel-car fixes. Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) has won German regulatory approval for technical fixes on another 460,000 diesel cars with illicit emissions control software, it said on Sunday, raising the number of vehicles cleared for repair to over 5 million. Approval by Germany's motor vehicle authority KBA is valid for countries throughout Europe where 8.5 million diesel cars… http://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-emissions-idUSKCN10P0BR US finds evidence Volkswagen acted criminally in emissions scandal – report. Prosecutors said to be considering whether company, which agreed to a multibillion-dollar settlement this summer, should face criminal charges. The US justice department is reported to have found evidence of Volkswagen acting criminally in connection with the emissions cheating scandal that plunged the German company into crisis. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/aug/16/volkswagen-emissions-scandal-criminal-evidence GREEN ENERGY Britain backs expansion of world’s largest wind farm. Britain on Tuesday approved plans to expand an offshore wind farm project that could ultimately have more than 600 turbines spread across an area of the North Sea more than twice the size of London. The Hornsea Two windfarm project, to be built by DONG Energy, is part of Britain's push to invest in new electricity generation… http://www.reuters.com/article/us-dong-energy-windfarm-approval-idUSKCN10R100 Renewable Energy Push Eases Financial Woes of Suzlon Energy. Suzlon Energy, once India’s largest (and the fourth largest globally) wind turbine manufacturer, expects to emerge from the darkest financial period since it was founded, by March of next year. Suzlon Energy chairman Tulsi Tanti recently told media personnel that his company is expected to exit debt restructuring by the end of the current financial year. http://cleantechnica.com/2016/08/16/renewable-energy-push-eases-financial-woes-suzlon-energy/ WILD FIRES Crews make progress against Northern California wildfire. Crews began to make headway on Tuesday against a Northern California wildfire that has destroyed more than 175 homes and businesses, a day after authorities arrested a man on suspicion of setting that blaze and numerous others in the area over the past year. The so-called Clayton Fire, named for the creek near where it broke out… http://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-fire-idUSKCN10R1PL OPINIONS Who owns the wind? We do, Wyoming says, and it's taxing those who use it. Not long after it became clear that the robust winds that blow down from the Rocky Mountains and across the sea of sagebrush here could produce plenty of profit in a world that wants more renewable energy, some of the more expansive minds in the Wyoming Legislature began entertaining a lofty question: Who owns all of that wind? http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-sej-wyoming-wind-tax-snap-story.html BLOGS For California’s Post –2020 Cap and Trade, Give Money To People. California’s Legislature is considering whether to continue the State’s Cap & Trade system meant to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fight global warming before it potentially expires in 2020. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-sandler/for-californias-post2020_b_11501416.html Fixing a major flaw in cap-and-trade. While many Californians are spending August burning fossil fuels to travel to vacation destinations, the state legislature is negotiating with Gov. Brown over whether and how to extend the California’s cap-and-trade program to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases (GHGs). The program, which began in 2013, is currently scheduled to run through 2020, so the state is… https://energyathaas.wordpress.com/2016/08/15/fixing-a-major-flaw-in-cap-and-trade/ Renewable electricity as a solution to Puerto Rico debt crisis? You must be kidding. The Beltway lobbying machine is nothing if not inventive. The latest evidence for this eternal truth is a new report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis arguing that the debt restructuring plan recently hammered out for the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) will not work as intended… http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/energy-environment/291582-renewable-electricity-as-a-solution-to-puerto-rico-debt Brian Cox dismantles arguments of Australian climate change denier with simple graph. The climate sceptic has recently been elected as part of Australia’s far-right One Nation party. Brian Cox has clashed with a newly elected senator of Australia’s far-right One Nation party who believes climate change is a global conspiracy. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/brian-cox-climate-change-video-watch-graphs-takedown-australia-malcolm-roberts-a7193806.html California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips.