What's New List Serve Post Display
Below is the List Serve Post you selected to display.
newsclips -- ARB Newsclips for October 21, 2016.
Posted: 21 Oct 2016 14:26:35
ARB Newsclips for October 21, 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 California Air Resources Board: CARB approves $363 million plan that includes putting more clean vehicles in disadvantaged communities. Today the California Air Resources Board adopted a revised funding plan for proceeds from the cap-and-trade program that includes putting more clean vehicles in disadvantaged communities. The investments range from supporting increased numbers of zero-emission heavy-duty trucks and buses to rebates for low- and zero-emission passenger vehicles. http://www.4-traders.com/news/California-Air-Resources-Board-CARB-approves-363-million-plan-that-includes-putting-more-clean-ve--23250407/ The carbon tax that Clinton decided not to use: $42. Hillary Clinton was examining an aggressive carbon tax as a central pillar of her campaign's climate agenda, according to internal emails leaked yesterday that show closely held details about her thinking at the outset of the presidential race. Clinton asked several advisers to specify how a $42 "GHG pollution fee" applied to every ton of carbon dioxide would affect Americans financially and how the tax would work. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/10/21/stories/1060044632 AIR POLLUTION Air pollution more deadly in Africa than malnutrition or dirty water, study warns. Annual human and economic cost of tainted air runs to 712,000 lost lives and £364bn, finds Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Africa’s air pollution is causing more premature deaths than unsafe water or childhood malnutrition, and could develop into a health and climate crisis reminiscent of those seen in China and India… https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/oct/20/air-pollution-deadlier-africa-than-dirty-water-or-malnutrition-oecd CLIMATE CHANGE UN approves plans for new IPCC global warming report. Top climate scientists have just under two years to deliver assessment of dangers and avoiding strategies for warming of 1.5C. Governments have approved plans for a new UN report to explore the impacts of warming of 1.5C above pre-industrial levels at a meeting in Bangkok, Thailand. http://www.climatechangenews.com/2016/10/20/un-approves-plans-for-new-global-warming-report/ DIESEL ACTIVITIES Maritime Nations Near Big Cut to Pollution-Causing Sulfur in Ships’ Fuel. Reducing sulfur in 2020 would improve human health, officials say, but cost shipping companies billions of dollars. The world’s leading maritime nations are leaning toward setting rules next week to cut the sulfur in oceangoing vessels’ fuel by more than 85% in 2020, people familiar with the matter say. http://www.wsj.com/articles/maritime-nations-near-big-cut-to-pollution-causing-sulfur-in-ships-fuel-1477058581 FUELS Tereos starts talks with Petrobras to buy rest of Brazil sugar business. France's Tereos [TEREO.UL] has started talks to acquire Petroleo Brasileiro SA's 45.9 percent minority stake in their joint venture Guarani, as Brazil's state-owned oil firm proceeds with plans to quit its biofuel activities. Petrobras last month announced a 25 percent cut in planned investments to reduce its debts and revive investor confidence… http://www.reuters.com/article/us-petrobras-m-a-tereos-sa-idUSKCN12L1UB http://www.wsj.com/articles/brazils-petrobras-in-talks-to-sell-stake-in-sugar-ethanol-producer-1477052288 Oil company pays $26 million for half-billion-dollar ethanol plant. The failure of cellulosic ethanol may prove beneficial to oil giant Royal Dutch Shell. Cellulosic ethanol was seen as an important component of mass ethanol adoption because it is made from non-edible plants. But despite the hopes of ethanol advocates and policymakers, cellulosic sources never materialized in significant quantities. http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1106799_oil-company-pays-26-million-for-half-billion-dollar-ethanol-plant Shell’s Latest Biofuels Strategy Includes $26M Bid on Cellulosic Ethanol Plant. Shell has offered more than $26 million to buy Abengoa’s cellulosic ethanol plant in Kansas, Reuters reports. “This move is in line with Shell’s strategy to develop biofuels” that use sustainable feedstocks, Shell spokeswoman Natalie Mazey told Reuters. http://www.environmentalleader.com/2016/10/21/shells-latest-biofuels-strategy-includes-26m-bid-on-cellulosic-ethanol-plant/ Automakers Lobby to Ease MPG Standards Despite Success in Improving Fuel. Since embracing tough new fuel economy standards in 2012, automakers have spent billions to develop more fuel-efficient vehicles and have been so successful at meeting tougher regulations they’ve become victims of their own success. Over the past four years, automakers deployed new cars and trucks with gasoline… http://www.tnj.com/lifestyle/auto/automakers-lobby-to-ease-mpg-standards-despite-success-improving-fuel-economy Scientists turn CO2 into Ethanol. Scientists at the US Department of Energy Oak Ridge, were trying to a conduct an experiment of turning carbon dioxide – a gas we absolutely do not need – into a cleaner fuel ethanol, but in the process stumbled upon something new altogether all while trying to essentially reverse the combustion process. The process was supposed to be long and complicated often accomplished by the use of expensive catalyst… http://www.brecorder.com/arts-a-leisure/arts/324116-scientists-turn-co2-into-ethanol.html VEHICLES We just got a first look at what could be Volkswagen's electric sports car. New renderings of a Volkswagen sports car are giving us a glimpse at what could be an addition to the automaker's electric car line. The design patent, found on the World Intellectual Property Organization website, was first posted on a Volkswagen forum called VWvortex. http://www.businessinsider.com/volkswagen-electric-sports-car-photos-2016-10 OPINIONS California's Dire Drought Message Wanes, Conservation Levels Drop. Remember the California drought? It was all over the news a year ago, when the state took the unprecedented step of mandating statewide water cutbacks. The Sierra Nevada snowpack was at its lowest recorded level. Rivers and reservoirs were getting shallower and shallower. Wells in rural towns were literally running dry. http://www.npr.org/2016/10/20/498592329/california-s-dire-drought-message-wanes-conservation-levels-drop Global warming continues; 2016 will be the hottest year ever recorded. We will soon see a three-peat of record hot annual global temperatures. We know the world is warming – no factor can explain it aside from human emissions of greenhouse gases. Despite this, people who deny the basic facts of climate change have tried to argue that the Earth is either not warming or is only slowly heating. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/oct/21/global-warming-continues-2016-will-be-the-hottest-year-ever-recorded BLOGS California Clean Vehicle Rebate Project Initiates New Eligibility Requirements. In order to make clean vehicles more accessible to a greater number of California drivers, especially in communities that are highly impacted by air pollution, the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project (CVRP) is implementing increased incentive levels for lower-income consumers and new high-income eligibility caps. http://electriccarsreport.com/2016/10/california-clean-vehicle-rebate-project-initiates-new-eligibility-requirements/ VW's $10-billion settlement could eliminate any need for a TDI fix. VW's settlement with dealers could add more than $1 billion to the tab. When it comes to addressing Volkswagen's diesel-emissions scandal that broke last September, some would say Europe's largest automaker has proposed to merely throw money at the problem. http://www.autoblog.com/2016/10/20/vw-10-billion-settlement-eliminate-tdi-fix/ EPFL Chemists Use Formaldehyde to Convert Biofuel Waste into Wealth. Lignin is a bulky chain of molecules present in wood and is usually discarded in the biofuel production process. However, in a recent technique developed by EPFL chemists, by just adding formaldehyde to the process, lignin can be changed into the main area of focus. Using more of plant-derived chemicals and biofuels implies the reduced dependence on fossil fuels. http://www.azocleantech.com/news.aspx?newsID=23781 Aliso Canyon Disaster One Year Later: Some Progress, But More Action Needed. When the gusher of methane pouring out of the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage field was discovered last October 23, it almost instantly transformed the sleepy Los Angeles suburb of Porter Ranch into the site of one of the biggest environmental disasters in recent history. It would ultimately take four months to stop the massive underground leak. http://blogs.edf.org/energyexchange/2016/10/21/aliso-canyon-disaster-one-year-later-some-progress-but-more-action-needed/ California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips.