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newsclips -- ARB Newsclips for December 29, 2016.
Posted: 29 Dec 2016 12:08:25
ARB Newsclips for December 29, 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 Ontario's cap-and-trade program comes into effect Jan. 1. Ontarians will start paying for the Liberal government's ambitious cap-and-trade program almost immediately after it comes into effect Jan. 1 with higher prices for gasoline and natural gas. The plan, which is aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 15 per cent below 1990 levels within four years, will drive the price of gasoline up 4.3 cents per litre… http://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/ontario-s-cap-and-trade-program-comes-into-effect-jan-1-1.3220682 http://www.metronews.ca/news/canada/2016/12/29/ontario-s-cap-and-trade-plan-raises-cost-of-gasoline-and-home-heating-on-jan-1.html Carbon cutters on edge, hoping California’s cap-and-trade program survives. Salmon — made possible by the rivers they run in and the forest canopy above them — are the lifeblood of the Yurok Tribe. The native word for salmon, Ney-puy, means “that which is eaten” and the iconic fish and its habitat sustain California’s largest tribe in ways that are both literal and metaphorical. http://www.davisenterprise.com/local-news/carbon-cutters-on-edge-hoping-californias-cap-and-trade-program-survives/ https://calmatters.org/articles/carbon-cutters-on-edge-hoping-californias-cap-and-trade-program-survives/ AIR POLLUTION How To Stop Pollution: Madrid Announces Car Restrictions To Tackle Air Pollution. Madrid announced a limit on the number of vehicles out on the city’s streets on Thursday in an effort to curb its worsening pollution rate. The city, home to 3.2 million people and 1.8 million cars, often suffers from bad bouts of pollution. The city council said vehicles with license plates ending in even numbers would not be allowed to circulate between 6:30 a.m. and 9 p.m... http://www.ibtimes.com/how-stop-pollution-madrid-announces-car-restrictions-tackle-air-pollution-2466767 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/29/madrid-bans-half-of-cars-from-roads-to-fight-air-pollution CLIMATE CHANGE The U.S. isn’t the only big country at risk of falling behind on climate change. Meet Brazil. Environmental advocates are worried that President-elect Donald Trump will try to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement — and a recent scientific analysis says that if he does and other major countries follow suit, the consequence could be dire, tipping the world toward a dangerous level of global warming. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/12/29/the-u-s-isnt-the-only-big-country-at-risk-of-backsliding-on-climate-change/?utm_term=.7bc448ebe346 Tillerson Led Exxon’s Shift on Climate Change; Some Say ‘It Was All P.R.’. In January 2009, Rex W. Tillerson, the chief executive of Exxon Mobil, gave a speech in Washington that might have seemed impossible even a few years before. He announced that his company supported a carbon tax to help fight climate change. Carbon taxes are a fee on fuel use, based on how much carbon dioxide that fuel puts into the atmosphere. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/28/business/energy-environment/rex-tillerson-secretary-of-state-exxon.html?_r=0 Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources: Climate change cause debatable. The state Department of Natural Resources has quietly removed language from its website that said humans and greenhouse gases are the main cause of climate change. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports (http://bit.ly/2il6UkM) the website now states the cause of climate change is debatable. http://www.sfgate.com/news/education/article/DNR-removes-wording-saying-humans-cause-climate-10824432.php 4 Critical Energy Issues to Watch in 2017. The president-elect will likely start rolling back eight years of Obama administration climate regulations and restrictions on coal, oil and gas development. The U.S. may be on the cusp of a stark turning point in energy and climate policy with the election of Donald Trump, who has stocked his cabinet with a majority of people who doubt or reject established climate science. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/4-critical-energy-issues-to-watch-in-2017/ Climate Change 2016: The Year the Future Arrived. Our planet's systems have a tremendous capacity to absorb punishment before they begin to show signs of degradation. Earth's ecology self-heals like a cut on a finger. It assimilates pollution by chemical, physical and biological means -- it changes pollutants into non-hazardous materials and proceeds upon its merry way as if there had been no pollution at all. http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/38905-climate-change-2016-the-year-the-future-arrived More Companies Willing to Pay for Carbon Reductions, Reports Carbon Disclosure Project. It’s one thing for a company make proclamations saying that they are pro-environment. It’s quite another to actually pay for the technologies to become cleaner and more efficient. The Carbon Disclosure Project is out with a new a report say that the number of companies it tracks that are willing to spend money on this endeavor has tripled over the last four years. http://www.environmentalleader.com/2016/12/companies-willing-pay-carbon-reductions-reports-carbon-disclosure-project/ FUELS Eight Universities to Split $7 Million in Energy Department Grants. Cornell University, the University of Michigan and the University of Alabama are among eight schools that will share $7 million in grants from the Department of Energy, the department announced Dec. 29. The grants are aimed at boosting projects that produce affordable, sustainable high-performance fuels for low-emission engines. http://www.ttnews.com/articles/basetemplate.aspx?storyid=44374 VEHICLES Carmakers Are Learning Japan’s Tech Talent Doesn’t Come Cheap. Headhunter Casey Abel spent four months trying to hire a data-center architect for a Japanese automaker, including five meetings with the client -- one with the top executive. In the end, the IT specialist joined an e-commerce company abroad for significantly more money. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-29/japan-s-once-dominant-carmakers-face-big-pay-hikes-to-lure-geeks Lamborghini confirms Urus SUV will be its only plug-in hybrid. The supercar engines will reportedly stay naturally aspirated and unassisted. According to Autocar, we'll be seeing the first production hybrid Lamborghini soon. The publication reports that Lamborghini's research and development chief, Maurizio Reggiani, confirmed that the Urus SUV will be offered with a plug-in hybrid powertrain. http://www.autoblog.com/2016/12/29/lamborghini-urus-suv-plug-in-hybrid-confirmed/ Toyota hybrid bet pays off as emissions scandal ignites demand in Europe. For years, Toyota Motor Corp. focused on pushing its hybrid models in Europe, avoiding a diesel-for-diesel competition with market leaders including Volkswagen AG. The carmaker’s strategy is finally paying off. In the first full year since Volkswagen’s emissions scandal threw the German giant into disarray… http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/12/29/business/corporate-business/toyota-hybrid-bet-pays-off-emissions-scandal-ignites-demand-europe/#.WGVMi_nQhKU MISCELLANEOUS Republican control of Southern California air board may be brief. Republicans are expected to lose control of the South Coast Air Quality Management board when an outspoken liberal Democrat is sworn in next week to serve on panel. Supervisor Sheila Kuehl of Santa Monica will serve as Los Angeles County’s representative, replacing conservative Republican Michael Antonovich, who served on the air board since 1988. http://www.pe.com/articles/air-821921-board-year.html OPINIONS 2016: Canada's Oil Sands Downturn Hints at Ominous Future. Low oil prices that caused project cancellations, as well as new climate policies, have activists seeing the beginning of the end in Canada's oil patch. It was a dark year for Canada's tar sands. Plunging oil prices caused companies to cancel or delay nearly three dozen projects. Extensive wildfires forced producers to shut down operations for weeks. And after a decade that saw little action on climate change policy… https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22122016/canada-tar-sands-oil-exxon-climate-change-justin-trudeau?utm_source=Inside+Climate+News&utm_campaign=c28327c727-InsideClimate_News12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-c28327c727-327494049 BLOGS Carbon emissions in 2016 expected to be lowest since 1992. Carbon emissions from U.S energy sources in 2016 are expected to be the lowest in nearly 25 years, according to an analysis from the U.S. Department of Energy. Carbon emissions for the first six months of 2016 hit a record low — emissions were 2,530 million metric tons, which was the lowest for the first half of a year since 1991. http://fuelfix.com/blog/2016/12/29/carbon-emissions-in-2016-expected-to-be-lowest-since-1992/ Environmentally-Friendly Refrigerants to Help Reduce Global Warming. Masdar Institute Research Supports UAE’s Goal to Freeze the Use of Dangerous Greenhouse Gas-Emitting Refrigerants in Air Conditioners. This year the UAE has joined more than 100 countries in committing to limit and mitigate climate change by ratifying the Paris Agreement, which is the first universal climate change agreement. http://www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com/environmentally-friendly-refrigerants-to-help-reduce-global-warming/ Global warming is causing birds to migrate too soon: Early flight may mean some avians miss out on food. Migrating birds are arriving at their breeding grounds earlier as global temperatures rise, a study has found. Birds have reached their summer breeding grounds on average about one day earlier per degree of increasing global temperatures, according to the research, which looked at hundreds of species across five continents. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4072818/Global-warming-causing-birds-migrate-soon-Early-flight-mean-avians-miss-food.html#ixzz4UFdQ4Mzj California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips.