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newsclips -- ARB Newsclips for December 8, 2016.
Posted: 08 Dec 2016 11:55:20
ARB Newsclips for December 8, 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 Canada set to agree carbon price, marking climate split with Trump. Canada's government and 10 provinces are set to agree a national carbon price on Friday, doubling down on a bid to cut greenhouse gas emissions just weeks before avowed climate change skeptic Donald Trump becomes U.S. President. Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the carbon price - the first of its kind in Canada… http://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-environment-idUSKBN13W2RS AIR POLLUTION Paris curbs car use as air pollution chokes city. Air pollution in Paris has hit dangerous levels prompting city officials to curb car use and make public transport free of charge until Friday. The city's Metro and bus services have been free since Tuesday and set days of travel have been allocated for cars with odd and even numbers, in an attempt bring down levels of PM10, a fine particulate matter, in the air. http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/08/europe/paris-air-pollution-free-metro-rides/index.html http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2016/12/08/Paris-imposes-travel-restriction-for-third-day-to-combat-air-pollution/1661481209213/ https://www.yahoo.com/tech/m/898362d7-a1dd-3588-a118-cd2c86aab749/undefined CLIMATE CHANGE As Trump Knocks Obama on Climate, Firms Recommit to Carbon Reduction. Cheaper natural gas and wind power are keeping corporations on the lower-emissions path. Many big corporations continue to support efforts to reduce carbon emissions, vowing to stay the course despite the election of Donald Trump, who has promised to dismantle the Obama administration’s climate agenda and this week chose a global-warming skeptic to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. http://www.wsj.com/articles/as-trump-knocks-obama-on-climate-firms-recommit-to-carbon-reduction-1481218505 Trump names Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma attorney general suing EPA on climate change, to head the EPA. President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday nominated Scott Pruitt, the attorney general of the oil and gas-intensive state of Oklahoma, to head the Environmental Protection Agency, a move signaling an assault on President Obama’s climate change and environmental legacy. Pruitt has spent much of his energy as attorney general fighting the very agency he is being nominated to lead. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/12/07/trump-names-scott-pruitt-oklahoma-attorney-general-suing-epa-on-climate-change-to-head-the-epa/?utm_term=.1d2edf6b9d65 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/07/us/politics/scott-pruitt-epa-trump.html?_r=1&utm_source=Inside+Climate+News&utm_campaign=8c1a75aa04-Today_s_Climate12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-8c1a75aa04-327747457 How Trump Can Influence Climate Change. If the United States continues to create greenhouse gases at the so-called business as usual level, net emissions could reach 6.9 gigatons by 2025. But the country is poised for big reductions. Last year, when 195 nations agreed to reduce emissions together, the United States pledged to lower its share to 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/08/us/trump-climate-change.html?_r=0 Amid fears of Trump cutback, NASA announces long-term climate mission. Could this be push-back from an agency anticipating cuts? Could the Trump administration dismantle GeoCARB? Soon, NASA will be observing plants from a space-bound satellite. That is, unless the Trump administration puts a stop to it. http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/1207/Amid-fears-of-Trump-cutback-NASA-announces-long-term-climate-mission?utm_source=Inside+Climate+News&utm_campaign=8c1a75aa04-Today_s_Climate12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-8c1a75aa04-327747457 Exxon, Chevron face Philippines climate change probe. Exxon Mobil, Chevron and Conoco Phillips are among the top targets of an inquiry by the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines into the links between fossil fuel production, climate change and people losing homes and livelihoods to weird weather. Public hearings will start in April 2017, Commissioner Roberto Cadiz revealed in an English language press conference on Thursday. http://www.climatechangenews.com/2016/12/08/exxon-chevron-face-philippines-climate-change-probe/?utm_source=Inside+Climate+News&utm_campaign=8c1a75aa04-Today_s_Climate12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-8c1a75aa04-327747457 Global Warming Update: Smithfield Foods, Major Pork Producer, Plans To Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions. One of the largest pork processors in the United States has planned to take a lead role in reducing emissions from its farms and livestock supply. The announcement came amid concerns that American livestock production creates a dangerous amount of greenhouse gases. http://www.ibtimes.com/global-warming-update-smithfield-foods-major-pork-producer-plans-cut-greenhouse-gas-2457147 Zero ice? 'If it happened in the past, it could happen again'. Even though the ice sheet that covers Greenland has increased and shrunk in response to climate change for millions of years, the rapid melting now occurring may have no known precedent. The melting of the Greenland ice sheet, four times bigger than California, is a major contributor to global sea-level rise and potentially has catastrophic consequences for the planet. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/12/08/stories/1060046841 Electric aircraft maps sea ice to protect polar bears. A group of scientists recently flew up to the Arctic to test a new technology that they think might make measuring the ice pack — and tracking the polar bears that occupy it — easier and faster. The researchers were experimenting with a new kind of autonomous flight technology, which they hoped would give them more localized and immediate information about the region. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/12/08/stories/1060046840 What does Scott Pruitt believe about climate science? Environmental groups yesterday sounded off against Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt (R) leading U.S. EPA, calling him a climate denier with deep fossil fuel ties who has relentlessly aimed to thwart greenhouse gas standards. Pruitt is among the chief attorneys general leading a 28-state fight against the agency's carbon regulations for power plants… http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/stories/1060046869 DROUGHT Drought persisting across Maryland despite recent rain. A burst of wet weather to end November did not ease a drought that continues to develop across Maryland. About 42 percent of the state is in a moderate drought, according to an update posted Thursday by the U.S. Drought Monitor. The drought stretches from Prince George's County to the south, Washington County to the west and Cecil County to the east. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/weather/weather-blog/bal-wx-drought-persisting-across-maryland-despite-recent-rain-20161208-story.html FUELS Science binds Orange County family's experience. There’s some pretty impressive brain power being flexed in the Fountain Valley home of Nicola and Chad Weiss. It’s a good bet theirs is the only home on the block with a backyard shed converted into a science lab. True, it may have started as a cool place from which to launch dry ice bombs and a space where the family didn’t have to share the pungent side effects of some of 15-year-old Sean Weiss’ experiments with methane extraction from feces. http://www.ocregister.com/articles/weiss-737590-sean-science.html VW RECALL South Korea to File Criminal Complaints Against Volkswagen Over Emissions Claims. Trade watchdog said it will also levy a $32 million fine on the auto maker. South Korea’s trade regulator will file criminal complaints against five current or former Volkswagen AG executives and impose a record fine, as the German auto maker’s world-wide emissions-cheating woes continue. Volkswagen advertising falsely claimed that its cars… http://www.wsj.com/articles/south-korea-to-file-criminal-charges-against-volkswagen-over-emissions-claims-1481079766 EU takes action against UK, Germany over VW emissions scandal – sources. The European Union will take action on Thursday against seven nations including Germany and Britain for failing to police car emissions rules, EU sources said, after the Volkswagen cheating scandal showed suspicious behavior in the industry. Amid frustration in Brussels over nations' responses to diesel vehicles flouting pollution limits… http://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-emissions-eu-idUSKBN13W2UG Nitrogen Oxide (NOx) pollution from diesel engines, which power half of all cars in Europe, lead to respiratory illness and the premature death of 72,000 people per year, European Environmental Agency data shows. GREEN ENERGY 5 Major Businesses Powered By Renewable Energy. Major businesses are embracing renewable energy in a big way – and discovering there’s an awful lot of green to be made in a clean energy-powered economy. More and more businesses in the US and abroad are embracing sustainable practices as they begin to feel the impacts of the climate crisis where it matters most: their bottom lines. https://cleantechnica.com/2016/12/08/5-major-businesses-powered-renewable-energy/ Supercapacitor energy density could soar using contact-lens polymer. Engineers are nothing if not creative. Significant research is going into improved ways of storing electricity, including alternatives to the currently dominant lithium-ion battery-cell chemistry in electric cars. That includes using supercapacitors to substitute for storage batteries in some circumstances. http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1107665_supercapacitor-energy-density-could-soar-using-contact-lens-polymer Cuomo announces funding for low-income solar. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) announced $3.6 million to spur the development of solar in low-income communities this week. The move is part of a wider attempt by the Cuomo administration to overhaul the Empire State's electric grid, and represents an attempt to solve a conundrum that has long bedeviled greens: how to make residential solar more accessible to low- and moderate-income families. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/12/08/stories/1060046837 OPINIONS Earnest: 'Reality' could intrude on Trump's climate change views. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest suggested on Thursday that President-elect Donald Trump — who has waffled on whether or not he believes in the widely-accepted science of climate change — might change his tune once he takes office. "The president has himself observed that it’s one thing to make grand pronouncements on the campaign trail but once you enter the oval office and you’re responsible for managing the affairs… http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/white-house-trump-climate-change-232374 Report helps scientists communicate how global warming is worsening natural disasters. A new article helps scientists communicate how humans are intensifying extreme weather clearly and accurately. Climate scientists have done a great job winning the scientific arguments about climate change. To be clear about what I mean, we have done a very good job investigating whether or not the Earth’s climate… https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/dec/08/report-helps-scientists-communicate-how-global-warming-is-worsening-natural-disasters BLOGS 500-year-old clam reveals 'hugely worrying' evidence of climate change and its effects. Quahog clam shells allow scientists to measure chemical make-up of the oceans more precisely than ever before. A worrying effect of climate change has been discovered by scientists studying the world’s longest-living animal, the quahog clam. Researchers examined growth rings on the shell of the edible mollusk… http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/climate-change-clam-effects-500-years-old-quahog-global-warming-oceans-atmosphere-cardiff-a7460376.html Hundreds of Methane Vents Discovered Off Coast of Pacific Northwest. Deep beneath the ocean, off the coast of Washington, Oregon, and northern California, scientists have discovered roughly 500 bubbling vents spewing methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Underwater methane vents were first discovered in the 1980s and have since been identified all over the world. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/earth/hundreds-of-methane-vents-discovered-off-coast-of-pacific-northwest/ California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips.