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CAP AND TRADE

Extension of cap and trade recommended to hit 2030 GHG goal. An
extension of California's economywide cap-and-trade program for
carbon emissions is needed to hit the state's ambitious target
for cutting greenhouse gas pollution by 2030, a proposal from the
state's air board said Friday. The California Air Resources
Board's "2030 Target Scoping Plan" recommended using cap and
trade as the main mechanism…
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/12/05/stories/1060046633 


AIR POLLUTION

China sets 2020 target for clean air in big cities. China aims to
provide clean air in its largest cities for 80 percent of each
year, or more than 9-1/2 months, by 2020, up from a figure of
76.7 percent last year, the country's cabinet said on Monday.
Amid concern that pollution was stirring social unrest, China
launched a campaign in 2014 to revitalize its tainted air…
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-environment-idUSKBN13U0ZG?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=Inside+Climate+News&utm_campaign=8063796d11-Today_s_Climate12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-8063796d11-327747457


Carnival Princess to pay record $40 million for pollution
cover-up. Carnival Corp's Princess Cruise Lines will plead guilty
to seven felony charges for polluting the seas and deliberate
acts to cover it up, and pay a record $40 million criminal
penalty, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday. The
charges against Carnival's Santa Clarita, California-based
Princess unit stem from "illegal dumping of oil contaminated
waste from the Caribbean Princess cruise ship,"…
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-carnival-usa-pollution-idUSKBN13Q4YB


UK health body proposes redesign of speed bumps to cut air
pollution. Variable speed limits, redesign of speed bumps and ‘no
idling’ zones near schools among Nice recommendations. Speed
bumps should be redesigned, speed limits made variable on
England’s motorways, sometimes dropping as low as 50mph, and a
congestion charge considered in more cities to cut air pollution
and save lives, health experts have said.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/dec/01/nice-proposes-smooth-driving-measures-to-cut-pollution-and-save-lives


Agencies were urged to address Paramount metal emissions years
before air toxics scare. he recent discovery of high levels of a
cancer-causing pollutant in Paramount has alarmed residents and
led authorities to crack down on dangerous emissions from two
metal-processing plants. But the interventions last week by air
regulators and health officials followed years of slow and
sporadic steps by several agencies in response to health
concerns, say residents and activists in the small city southeast
of Los Angeles.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-paramount-pollution-history-20161130-story.html


Environmental groups suing to stop air watchdog agency’s rollback
of air pollution rules. A recent court filing by the nation’s
most powerful environmental groups has grown from support for
ridding Southern California’s air of lung-damaging particles to a
shot across the bow of a Trump administration purportedly set on
weakening federal clean air laws.
http://www.sgvtribune.com/environment-and-nature/20161202/environmental-groups-suing-to-stop-air-watchdog-agencys-rollback-of-air-pollution-rules


EPA seeks court remand of regional haze rule. U.S. EPA wants to
rethink its decision to impose new pollution control requirements
on Texas power plants, according to agency attorneys seeking an
appellate court's permission to remand the regional haze rule,
currently at the center of a legal dispute the agency is poised
to lose. "A voluntary remand would allow the agency to take a
second look at the final rule to determine…
http://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2016/12/05/stories/1060046663 

EPA to release particulate matter review plan. EPA is set to
release a final integrated review plan as soon as today for its
recently launched review of air quality standards for particulate
matter. The plan would lay out the agency's approach and expected
schedule for the review, according to a Federal Register notice
set for publication tomorrow.
http://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2016/12/05/stories/1060046670

CLIMATE CHANGE

Trump, Gore Meet on Climate as Talk Opens With Ivanka. Donald
Trump met in New York Monday with Al Gore to discuss an issue the
Republican president-elect has long scoffed at: Global warming.
The meeting at Trump Tower was initially scheduled with the
president-elect’s daughter, Ivanka Trump.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-05/ivanka-trump-gore-discuss-topic-her-father-calls-bunk-climate

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/05/us/politics/donald-trump-transition.html?_r=0

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/12/05/ivanka-trump-to-meet-with-al-gore-to-discuss-climate-issues/?utm_term=.e70aad4a9bb1

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-ivanka-trump-al-gore-climate-20161205-story.html


During last period of global warming, Antarctica warmed 2 to 3
times more than planet average. Following Earth’s last ice age,
which peaked 20,000 years ago, the Antarctic warmed between two
and three times the average temperature increase worldwide,
according to a new study by a team of American geophysicists.The
disparity – Antarctica warmed about 11 degrees Celsius, nearly 20
degrees Fahrenheit, between about 20,000 and 10,000 years ago…
http://news.berkeley.edu/2016/12/05/during-last-period-of-global-warming-antarctica-warmed-2-to-3-times-more-than-planet-average/


Governor Brown Issues Statement on California Air Resources
Board's Draft Plan to Achieve 2030 Climate Goals. Governor Edmund
G. Brown Jr. today issued the following statement on the
California Air Resources Board's initial draft plan to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030
- the most ambitious target in North America.
https://www.gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=19615 

Fake news tries to blame human-caused global warming on El Niño.
Climate scientists and real science journalists pushed back,
holding the post-truth crowd accountable. Human carbon pollution
is heating the Earth incredibly fast. On top of that long-term
human-caused global warming trend, there are fluctuations caused
by various natural factors. One of these is the El Niño/La Niña
cycle.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/dec/05/fake-news-tries-to-blame-human-caused-global-warming-on-el-nino


Australia is blowing its carbon budget, projections reveal.
Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions are rising despite global
reduction efforts, according to detailed projections made by the
consultants NDEVR Environmental. Australia’s emissions jumped by
2.56m tonnes in the three months to September, putting them 1.55m
tonnes off-track compared with commitments made in Paris…
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/dec/05/australia-is-blowing-its-carbon-budget-projections-reveal?utm_source=Inside+Climate+News&utm_campaign=8063796d11-Today_s_Climate12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-8063796d11-327747457


Climate Change Refugees: Military Officials Warn Of 'Unimaginable
Scale' Of Displacement With Global Warming. Barring a shift from
current trends, the growing threat of climate change will cause a
refugee crisis of “unimaginable scale” and could prove to be the
greatest security threat in the 21st century, according to senior
military officials interviewed by the Guardian. Rising greenhouse
gas levels in the atmosphere which trap heat and lead to global
warming…
http://www.ibtimes.com/climate-change-refugees-military-officials-warn-unimaginable-scale-displacement-2455171


Climate change and the 'fake news' problem. Last week, the House
Committee on Science, Space and Technology tweeted out a climate
change news story that annoyed a lot of climate scientists. The
story was published on Breitbart News Network, whose former
executive chairman, Steve Bannon, is now President-elect Donald
Trump's chief strategist.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/12/05/stories/1060046634 

FUELS

Girls turn poo to clean power in Cameroon biogas push.  An
initiative by youth organizations in Cameroon to turn human waste
into biogas is reducing pollution and providing cheap, renewable
energy to the growing populations of the university towns of Buea
and Bamenda. Bioenergy-Cameroon, a non-governmental organization
run by young people, installs equipment that converts waste from
septic tanks and pit latrines into biogas…
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-cameroon-energy-biogas-idUSKBN13U0MO


Enviros move to defend BLM methane rule. Environmental groups
will not let the Obama administration's latest methane-slashing
rule go down without a fight. The Center for Biological
Diversity, the Sierra Club, WildEarth Guardians, the
Environmental Defense Fund and an army of other groups on Friday
entered the legal fray over the Bureau of Land Management's new
methane rule.
http://www.eenews.net/energywire/2016/12/05/stories/1060046619 

GREEN ENERGY

Trump brings Koch network's anti-green-energy stance from the
fringe to the center of power. When an obscure nonprofit group
attacked one of California’s signature green-energy projects this
summer — warning a congressional panel that the embrace of solar
energy would lead to crippling hikes in electricity bills —
officials in the state shrugged off the testimony as noise from
the fringe.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-kochs-climate-20161205-story.html?utm_source=Inside+Climate+News&utm_campaign=8063796d11-Today_s_Climate12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-8063796d11-327747457


MISCELLANEOUS

EU blames China for WTO environmental trade talks collapse.
Europe's trade negotiator blamed China on Sunday for scuppering a
global environmental trade deal by submitting impossible late
demands at World Trade Organization talks aimed at scrapping
import tariffs on exports worth more than $1 trillion. "China
came in with their list, bringing in totally new elements of
perspective…
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-trade-environment-idUSKBN13T0MX


Air board taps former industry consultant as head. Former
industry consultant Wayne Nastri accepted a formal appointment
Friday to serve as executive officer of Southern California's air
quality board. Republicans looking for a more business-friendly
approach hired Nastri as interim head of the South Coast Air
Quality Management District about eight months ago.
http://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2016/12/05/stories/1060046641 

OPINIONS

Cashing In on Climate Change. You’ve saved your money and amassed
a surplus. You’ve read a few books on investing and gleaned the
basics — the importance of diversification, of investing for the
long term, and of buying and holding rather than trying to beat
the market. But you also know that human-caused climate change
will (if it hasn’t already) start eroding economic output.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/03/opinion/sunday/cashing-in-on-climate-change.html


Through climate change denial, we're ceding global leadership to
China. Remember when China was the climate-action outcast, the
obstacle standing in the way of progress in the global fight
against a warming planet? What a difference a few years — and an
election — can make. Over the past few weeks, world leaders,
delegates to the climate change conference in Marrakech and
activists everywhere…
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-gardner-china-climate-leadership-20161204-story.html


BLOGS

Can You Rely on DIY Air Pollution Sensors? The Conversation US
Independent source of news and analysis, from experts in the
academic community. Until recently, measuring air pollution was a
task that could be performed only by trained scientists using
very sophisticated - and very expensive - equipment. That has
changed with the rapid growth of small, inexpensive sensors that
can be assembled by almost anyone.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-conversation-us/can-you-rely-on-diy-air-p_b_13430412.html




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