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ARB Newsclips for September 20, 2016. 

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CAP AND TRADE

Does cap and trade increase air pollution? It may be too soon to
tell. As California contemplates how to reduce greenhouse gases
through 2030, major questions still surround the state's choice
of policies to get it there. One is whether cap and trade, the
market-based system that California uses to ensure that it
reaches its existing target of cutting CO2 to 1990 levels by
2020, allows emissions of other pollutants to increase.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/09/20/stories/1060043097 

AIR POLLUTION

California governor backs rules on cow, landfill emissions. 
California will begin regulating greenhouse-gas emissions tied to
dairy cows and landfills under legislation signed Monday by Gov.
Jerry Brown, escalating state efforts to fight climate change
beyond carbon-based gases to include methane and other
pollutants. The law targets a category of gases known as
short-lived climate pollutants… 
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/5b1f0a6b25ee443b951ad61dd0334784/california-governor-backs-rules-cow-landfill-emissions

http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-sac-essential-politics-updates-vowing-to-protect-the-lungs-of-1474312163-htmlstory.html

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Brown-signs-into-law-strict-limits-on-super-9233131.php

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/sd-me-air-law-20160919-story.html

http://scvnews.com/2016/09/19/new-law-landfills-dairy-farms-must-cut-methane-emissions/

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/296670-california-governor-signs-new-super-pollutant-bill-into-law?utm_source=Inside+Climate+News&utm_campaign=6ccf9ca621-Today_s_Climate12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-6ccf9ca621-327747457

http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/09/20/stories/1060043095 

Governor compares fighting climate change to building Noah’s Ark.
Gov. Jerry Brown, likening efforts to reduce climate change to
the construction of Noah’s Ark, pressed forward Monday with an
expansion of the state’s increasingly stringent state climate
program, signing legislation requiring California to reduce
emissions of fluorinated gases, black carbon and methane.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article102749097.html#storylink=cpy


EPA keeps old lead standard against advice of health panel.  Meet
U.S. EPA's new standards for airborne lead, which are the same as
the agency's existing standards for the toxic metal. In a quiet
conclusion to a yearslong review, EPA opted to keep the primary
air quality threshold set in 2008 of 0.15 microgram per cubic
meter, according to a final rule signed Friday by Administrator
Gina McCarthy and then posted online with no official
announcement.
http://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2016/09/20/stories/1060043113 

Court tosses lawsuit over CAFO air emissions.  A federal court
yesterday tossed out a lawsuit by environmental and animal rights
groups over U.S. EPA's failure to respond to a petition for
regulations covering air emissions from livestock operations. The
advocates filed the lawsuit without giving EPA the required
notice, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
ruled. The Clean Air Act requires that "a prospective...
http://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2016/09/20/stories/1060043103 

CLIMATE CHANGE

Climate change means land use will need to change to keep up with
global food demand, researchers say. A team of researchers led by
the University of Birmingham warns that without significant
improvements in technology, global crop yields are likely to fall
in the areas currently used for production of the world's three
major cereal crops, forcing production to move to new areas. With
a worldwide population projected to top nine billion in the next
30 years…
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-climate-global-food-demand.html#jCp


New study examines where and how climate change is altering
species. Like a casino dealer shuffling the deck, climate change
is starting to reorder species from the grasslands of Argentina
to ice-free areas of Greenland. New research published Monday
(Sept. 19) in the journal Nature Climate Change by researchers at
Aarhus University in Denmark and the University of
Wisconsin–Madison illuminates where...
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-climate-species.html#jCp 

FUELS

L.A. taps Long Beach engineer as petroleum czar. Los Angeles
Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Monday that he was tapping a Long
Beach petroleum engineer to oversee oil and gas operations in the
city, filling a job that had not been held full time for decades.
Garcetti and his staff praised Uduak-Joe Ntuk, newly chosen as
petroleum administrator, as an expert with technical knowledge
who could also engage with the community.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-petroleum-administrator-20160918-snap-story.html


GREEN ENERGY

The 'tortuous and sordid history' of a state incentive for a
powerful energy upstart. Some victories in the final days of the
legislative session need momentum. Others need muscle. Bloom
Energy had both. Lawmakers agreed last month to extend a vital
subsidy for the Silicon Valley company, one that makes its pricey
power generators more attractive to buyers such as hospitals,
data centers and mega-retailers.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-bloom-energy-subsidy-20160919-snap-htmlstory.html


Top U.S. lenders pledge to go carbon neutral, 100% renewable. Two
American banks announced plans yesterday to become carbon neutral
and power their branches and offices entirely with renewable
energy in the next few years. Bank of America Corp. said it would
reach that goal by 2020, while Amalgamated Bank, a New York
company that calls itself the nation's "leading progressive
bank," said it would achieve that target in 2017.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/09/20/stories/1060043098 

MISCELLANEOUS

Protests filed over the details of proposed Diablo Canyon
shutdown. It's been less than three months since Pacific Gas &
Electric, along with an assortment of groups including
environmentalists, announced its intention to shut down the last
remaining nuclear power plant in California — Diablo Canyon. Now
the protests have been filed. And the groups complaining range
from backers of nuclear energy who want to keep the plant open to
green activists…
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/energy-green/sd-fi-diablo-filings-20160919-story.html


OPINIONS

California's latest climate change target? Cow flatulence.
California’s climate program has been called tough, unprecedented
and ambitious. What it could be called today? Gross. Which brings
us to cows. Monday, Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation requiring
the state to establish new restrictions on “super pollutants,
including black carbon, fluorinated gases and methane.”
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/the-conversation/sd-california-climate-change-cows-20160919-htmlstory.html


What Bankers Can Do To Tackle Climate Change. The decision by
China and the United States to jointly ratify the Paris Agreement
on climate change on the eve of the Chinese-hosted G20 Leaders
Summit earlier this month, was simply great news. It is a huge
signal from the world’s two largest economies that the low-carbon
transition is not just environmentally necessary, but now lies at
the heart of their future prosperity.
http://fortune.com/2016/09/20/paris-agreeement-un-climate-change/


BLOGS

A Key Moment for California Climate Policy. The past year has
been a crucial time in international climate negotiations.  In
December, 2015, in Paris, negotiators established an agreement on
the next round of targets and actions to succeed the Kyoto
Protocol, which was signed in 1997 and will effectively close
down in 2020.  In Paris, negotiators set up a new and meaningful
agreement for multinational action through individual country
“Intended Nationally Determined Contributions” (INDCs). 
http://www.robertstavinsblog.org/2016/09/20/a-key-moment-for-california-climate-policy/




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