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ARB Newsclips for November 17, 2016. 

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AIR POLLUTION

Britain seeks to curb pollution by small-scale power plants.
Britain plans to curb health damaging air pollution with
emissions standards for small-scale power plants used to generate
back-up electricity at short notice and to stem the rising use of
diesel generators. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural
Affairs (DEFRA) suggests plants producing 1-50 megawatts (MW) of
electricity should be…
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-pollution-standards-idUKKBN13C1ZW?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

This stunning world map shows the awful state of air pollution.
It is a shocking real-time visualization of the damage we are
doing to the planet — and to ourselves. According to the most
recent estimates from the World Health Organization, 7 million
people died in 2012 from breathing polluted air, either outdoors
or inside their homes. But sometimes it is hard to get your head
around those kinds of numbers.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/11/17/this-stunning-world-map-shows-the-awful-state-of-air-pollution/


EPA publishes proposed ozone implementation strategy. U.S. EPA is
setting a Jan. 17 deadline for public comment on a proposed
strategy for implementing the more stringent 70-parts-per-billion
ozone standard put in place late last year. The agency will also
hold a public hearing if requested by Dec. 2, according to a
Federal Register notice published today.
http://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2016/11/17/stories/1060045922 

CLIMATE CHANGE

China Tells Trump That Climate Change Is No Hoax It Invented.
China couldn’t have invented global warming as a hoax to harm
U.S. competitiveness because it was Donald Trump’s Republican
predecessors who started climate negotiations in the 1980s,
China’s Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin said. U.S. Presidents
Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush supported the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change…
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-16/china-tells-trump-that-climate-change-is-no-hoax-it-invented?utm_source=Inside+Climate+News&utm_campaign=ce8962f2f3-Today_s_Climate12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-ce8962f2f3-327747457

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/china-trump-didn-invent-climate-change-no-hoax-article-1.2876574


Supermoon-spiked king tide offers sneak preview of sea-level rise
along East Coast. This week’s supermoon was more than a
spectacular sight in the night sky. It nudged up sea levels,
leading to areas of coastal flooding along the East Coast. Such
inundation offered a glimpse of the new normal in certain
low-lying areas as sea levels rise because of climate change.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/11/15/supermoon-spiked-king-tide-offers-sneak-preview-of-sea-level-rise-along-east-coast/?utm_campaign=ce8962f2f3-Today_s_Climate12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Inside
Climate News 

White House Releases Wishful Climate Change Plan Before Trump
Takes Office. At COP 22, U.S. climate envoys lay out a vision to
'deeply decarbonize' the economy by 2050, just as a Trump
presidency threatens to reverse climate progress. The White House
released an optimistic but somewhat wishful strategy for
long-term climate action on Wednesday, outlining options
envisioned by the lame-duck Obama administration to…
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16112016/climate-change-cop-22-marrakech-global-warming-john-kerry-donald-trump?utm_source=Inside+Climate+News&utm_campaign=ce8962f2f3-Today_s_Climate12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-ce8962f2f3-327747457


Obama Presses Ahead with Plans for Deep Emissions Cuts. The
administration released its strategy at the UN climate talks for
cutting U.S. emissions more than 80 percent by mid-century. The
Obama administration fulfilled what is probably its final major
contribution to the Paris Agreement yesterday, releasing an
outline for how the United States can act in the long term to
help the world keep warming to a safe level.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/obama-presses-ahead-with-plans-for-deep-emissions-cuts/


Climate Advocates Get a Huge Donation Trump Bump.  Much of
President-elect’s Donald Trump’s policy preferences remain opaque
and can only be inferred from vague campaign statements. While
specifics are forthcoming, a number of organizations are already
gearing up to do battle on a host of issues, including climate
change. And if the early sign are any indication it looks like
they may have more public support than ever.
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/climate-advocates-donations-donald-trump-20885?utm_source=Inside+Climate+News&utm_campaign=ce8962f2f3-Today_s_Climate12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-ce8962f2f3-327747457


Acting on Climate Change Is Actually Where the Money Is. In
March, Donald Trump, then just one of many GOP presidential
candidates, told the Washington Post Editorial Board: “I’m not a
big believer in man-made climate change.” This was consistent
with Trump’s longstanding tendency to dismiss global warming as a
“fictional” problem. Since 2011, he’s rattled off a litany of
tweets mocking concern for the issue.
http://time.com/4574740/donald-trump-climate-change-consensus/ 

Does Calif. become leader or an island on climate change?
California is building a bulwark to defend its work on climate
change as President-elect Donald Trump, who called global warming
"a hoax," readies his transition to office. The Golden State
voted a deep shade of blue on Election Day, picking Democratic
nominee Hillary Clinton over Trump by a nearly 29-point margin.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/11/17/stories/1060045918 

FUELS

China's flurry of gas measures to lift investment, third-party
access. Sweeping moves by China to boost transparency in the
natural gas sector will encourage private investment in pipelines
and terminals, industry experts say, as part of Beijing's drive
to nearly triple the fuel's role in China's energy mix. The
world's top energy user is planning to boost the use of natural
gas since it emits just half of the greenhouse gases that burning
coal produces.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-gas-reform-idUSKBN13B0D3


USGS Announces Largest Oil And Gas Deposit Ever Assessed In U.S.
The U.S. Geological Survey says a deposit in West Texas is the
largest continuous oil and gas deposit ever discovered in the
United States. On Tuesday, the USGS announced that an area known
as the Wolfcamp shale contains 20 billion barrels of oil and 16
trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/16/502337471/usgs-announces-its-largest-oil-and-gas-discovery-ever?utm_source=Inside+Climate+News&utm_campaign=ce8962f2f3-Today_s_Climate12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-ce8962f2f3-327747457


CARB Vs. Trump: Who Wins? The Trumpster has made it clear he
plans to take a wrecking ball to the Environmental Protection
Agency, which he blames for imposing a welter of regulations that
make American businesses unable to compete in the global economy.
One part of those regulations involves CAFE, or Corporate Average
Fuel Economy, rules that have been in place since the time of the
first Arab oil embargo in 1973.
http://gas2.org/2016/11/16/carb-vs-trump-wins/ 

LOS ANGELES AUTO SHOW

Carmakers show their caution on electric cars at Los Angeles Auto
Show. Electric cars are taking a back seat to more profitable
trucks and sport utility vehicles at this year's Los Angeles Auto
Show, a venue that recently has been a showcase for green cars.
Despite Tesla Motors' (TSLA.O) bold bet on consumer demand for
all-electric vehicles, traditional automakers at the show are
pushing the trucks and SUVs…
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-autoshow-trucks-idUSKBN13C28X

http://www.businessinsider.com/r-carmakers-show-their-caution-on-electric-cars-at-los-angeles-auto-show-2016-11


Volkswagen boosts range of e-Golf electric car. As the
competition for electric cars heats up, Volkswagen is presenting
a new longer-range version of its e-Golf at the Los Angeles Auto
Show. The range has been boosted almost 50% — from 83 miles a
charge in the current version to 124 miles in new one. But it
still pales next to Chevrolet's Bolt, which is about to go on
sale with a rating at 238 miles a charge…
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2016/11/17/volkswagen-boosts-range-e-golf-electric-car/94016336/


VEHICLES

Mazda CEO Says Electric Cars Coming in 2019. CEO Masamichi Kogai
said the company would introduce zero-emission vehicles as
standards tighten in the U.S. The chief executive of Mazda Motor
Corp. said the company plans to start selling electric vehicles
in 2019, joining rivals at home that face tightening emission
standards abroad.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/mazda-ceo-says-electric-cars-coming-in-2019-1479330903


FCA sued over emissions of 2007-2012 Dodge Ram diesel pickups
with Cummins engines. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) and engine
supplier Cummins are the latest companies to be accused of hiding
excess diesel-exhaust emissions. A class-action lawsuit filed
against the two companies Monday accuses them of conspiring to
conceal illegally-high levels of emissions in Dodge Ram 2500 and
3500 diesel pickup trucks manufactured between 2007 and 2012.
http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1107333_fca-sued-over-emissions-of-2007-2012-dodge-ram-diesel-pickups-with-cummins-engines


Study: Battery EVs Better For Emissions Reductions Than Hydrogen
Fuel Cell Vehicles.  A new study from Stanford University has
corroborated what should really be common sense by this point,
that battery electric vehicles are a better choice for the
reduction of greenhouse gas emissions than hydrogen fuel cell
vehicles are. News to no one that isn’t a hydrogen ideologue, but
still good to see things quantified in detail.
https://cleantechnica.com/2016/11/17/study-battery-evs-better-emissions-reductions-hydrogen-fuel-cell-vehicles/


VW RECALL

VW’s Chief Faces Long Road to Overhaul Auto Maker. Contentious
labor talks may hurt the chances of auto maker’s board signing
off on CEO Matthias Mueller’s investment plan. When Matthias
Müller took the wheel at the world’s biggest car company last
year, he pledged to steer Volkswagen AG out of its worst-ever
crisis, improve the company’s corporate culture and set the
namesake VW passenger-car brand on the road to recovery.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/vws-chief-faces-long-road-to-overhaul-auto-maker-1479378601?mod=yahoo_hs


Volkswagen to hold press conference on VW brand overhaul on
Friday. Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) will hold a press conference on
Friday attended by Chief Executive Matthias Mueller, among
others, to discuss the revamp of its core VW brand, the German
carmaker said on Thursday. Management and labor leaders have been
in talks for months over cost cuts and strategy…
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/volkswagen-hold-press-conference-vw-184205302.html;_ylt=AwrT6VmwAS5YKPkA7TMnnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTByZDNzZTI1BGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMyBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzYw--


GREEN ENERGY

Tesla, SolarCity shareholders prepare to vote on merger. Tesla
Motors CEO Elon Musk will learn Thursday if shareholders support
his plan to merge with SolarCity Corp. after a lengthy debate
over the merits of the deal. Musk says the combination will
create a one-stop shop for solar panels and electric cars.
Shareholders of both companies are scheduled to vote…
http://www.timesunion.com/business/technology/article/Tesla-SolarCity-shareholders-prepare-to-vote-on-10620093.php

 
 U.S. election casts shadow on IEA energy outlook. Natural gas,
wind and solar energy are poised to dominate the world energy
story over the next 25 years, according to a new international
assessment, with the caveat, "Government policies will determine
where we go from here." In its latest World Energy Outlook, the
Paris-based International Energy Agency sees a fallback in the
share of energy produced…
http://www.eenews.net/energywire/2016/11/17/stories/1060045904 

Coal in control as Wyo. senators ascend to top slots. Coal-state
senators are poised to assume several of the most prominent
leadership positions in Congress, promising to roll back a series
of environmental regulations and offering a modicum of support to
an industry badly in need of a lifeline. The ascension of
coal-field lawmakers sets the stage for a pitched battle over the
future of U.S. environmental policy.
http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060045921 

OPINIONS

New Delhi’s Air Pollution. To the Editor: Re “Thick Smog in
India’s Capital Leaves Residents ‘Cowering’ by Air Purifiers”
(news article, Nov. 8): New Delhi’s air pollution emergency is a
problem with a solution. New York City found it after decades of
pollution rivaling that of the Indian city and other global
metropolises through staunch local controls and the Clean Air Act
of 1970.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/17/opinion/new-delhis-air-pollution.html?_r=0


California agencies must shift flood management approach to work
with nature. It’s hard to think about floods after five years of
drought. But in Sacramento, we don’t have a choice. Scientists
tell us that climate change will bring drier years and more
severe storms. Recent history shows this threat, as California
has bounced between drought and flood.
http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/soapbox/article114823878.html#storylink=cpy


Build America, then Buy American. When President Obama signed the
stimulus spending package in 2009 in an effort to revive the
recession-slowed economy, high-speed rail projects were a big
winner. Congress appropriated $10 billion to build new bullet
train corridors and to upgrade existing rail lines to accommodate
faster trains. The goal was to build a modern, energy-efficient
rail system…
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-high-speed-rail-20161117-story.html


BLOGS

Maryland asks EPA to crack down on pollution from Midwest coal
plants. Maryland environmental regulators are asking their
federal counterparts to crack down on 19 coal plants in five
other states whose emissions — carried hundreds of miles by the
wind — make the air here unhealthy to breathe on hot summer days.
The plants have spent billions of dollars on technology to reduce
pollution…
http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/green/blog/bs-md-upwind-air-pollution-20161116-story.html


Ontario, Quebec and California hold “linked carbon market”
meeting at COP22. The governments of Ontario, Quebec and
California held a tri-lateral meeting on Wednesday to further
efforts to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions while boosting
economic growth by linking cap-and-trade programs and expanding
carbon markets.
http://www.canadianunderwriter.ca/insurance/ontario-quebec-california-hold-linked-carbon-market-meeting-cop22-1004103708/




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