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newsclips -- CARB Newsclips for May 24, 2017.

Posted: 24 May 2017 14:58:21
CARB Newsclips for May 24, 2017. 

This is a service of the California Air Resources Board’s Office
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CARB BUSINESS

Meeting Notice and Agenda 
Promoting On-Farm Composting
Insights and Analysis on Regulatory Safeguards and Sector
Development

May 24, 2017
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM
CalEPA Building
1001 I St.
Byron Sher Auditorium
Sacramento, CA

This meeting will be webcast live for those not able to attend.
https://video.calepa.ca.gov/

The "Audio" and "Video" links should be live about 10 minutes
prior to the beginning of the meeting.

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The California Air Resources Board (ARB) staff invites you to
participate in the third meeting in an ongoing series of public
working meetings to discuss Co-processing of biogenic feedstocks
at conventional petroleum refineries. Topics include (1) pathway
application and evaluation of the carbon intensity of renewable
fractions, (2) quantifying and reporting the renewable fuel
volumes, and (3) monitoring and verification under the Low Carbon
Fuel Standard (LCFS).
The next meeting will be held at the following time and
location:

DATE: Friday, June 2, 2017
TIME: 9:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.
LOCATION: Sierra Hearing Room, 2nd Floor
ADDRESS: California Environmental Protection Agency Headquarters
Building
1001 “I” Street
Sacramento, California 95814

Today’s notice is intended to confirm the date, time and
location, and supply instructions on how to participate
(in-person, over the phone, or webcast). This information along
with a discussion paper and other materials for review will be
posted at
http://www.arb.ca.gov/fuels/lcfs/lcfs_meetings/lcfs_meetings.htm 
  

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Staff from the California Department of Transportation, the
California Air Resources Board, the California Energy Commission,
and the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development
invite you to participate in workshops to discuss implementation
of the California Sustainable Freight Action Plan (Action Plan).

The workshops will be held at the locations and on the dates
noted below.  The agencies will follow the same format and show
the same presentation at each of the workshop locations.    

LOS ANGELES:  May 30, 2017

SAN DIEGO:       May 31, 2017 

For more information on the California Sustainable Freight Action
Plan including upcoming workshops, please visit the webpage at
http://www.casustainablefreight.org/          
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The California Air Resources Board in collaboration with the
South Coast Air Quality Management District and the Los Angeles
Department of Water and Power, is holding a free professional wet
cleaning demonstration workshop.   

The free workshop will be held on Sunday, June 11, 2017 from
2:00PM - 4:00PM in
Los Angeles.  Doors open at 1:45 PM.

Venue: London Cleaners, 1073 Gayley Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90024. 

Space is limited.  Register early at
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-professional-wet-cleaning-demonstration-workshop-for-dry-cleaners-tickets-33498967313
       
 
or by searching for "wet cleaning workshop" on Eventbrite at:
http://www.eventbrite.com  

For more details about the workshop, please visit ARB's Non-Toxic
Dry Cleaning Incentive Program (AB998) website at:
http://www.arb.ca.gov/toxics/dryclean/ab998.htm       

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AIR POLLUTION

Tackling Air Pollution in China.  A recent study estimates that
about 1.6 million people in China die each year — roughly 4,000 a
day — from heart, lung, and stroke disorders due to poor air
quality. Most of the nation’s lethal air pollution, including
headline-grabbing toxins such as fine particulate matter (PM2.5)
and ground-level ozone (O3), is produced in its coal-dominated
energy and industrial sectors.
http://www.theenergycollective.com/energyatmit/2405107/tackling-air-pollution-china


Trump budget envisions deep cuts to major programs. A big whack
to a popular program for curbing diesel engine emissions, reduced
air quality monitoring, and less money to help states meet
federal air pollution standards — those are items among the fine
print in which the Trump administration is seeking to carve
hundreds…
https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2017/05/24/stories/1060055081 

CLIMATE CHANGE

Merkel to Confront Climate-Change ‘Doubters’ Among G-20 Peers.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she won’t give up trying to
persuade doubters among her global peers that climate change is
real, signaling her message for a Group of Seven summit starting
Friday. Merkel called on countries to uphold the Paris Agreement
to combat climate change and limit the rise of global
temperatures…
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-23/merkel-to-confront-climate-change-doubters-among-g-20-peers


Trump's Delay Opens Door for European Lobbying on Paris Pact.
President Donald Trump hasn’t decided if the U.S. will remain a
part of the Paris climate accord, Secretary of State Rex
Tillerson said, as pressure mounts from Pope Francis, European
leaders and Democratic lawmakers at home to remain in the
historic pact to address global warming.
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-05-24/tillerson-says-decision-on-climate-deal-won-t-come-during-trip

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/24/donald-trump-paris-climate-decision-238770

https://news.google.com/news/url?sr=1&sa=t&ct2=us%2F0_0_s_9_0_t&usg=AFQjCNGel02ZAby29x5afDFAeQEuHc7kww&did=eb870f805b54afa5&cid=52779505522736&ei=ReUlWcCvBaXqhQGzgbiQBg&rt=STORY&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fpolicy%2Fenergy-environment%2F334963-trump-still-deciding-on-paris-climate-agreement


Pope Francis presents Trump with a ‘politically loaded gift’: His
encyclical on climate change. On Wednesday, Pope Francis appeared
to make his point with a gift. During an initially awkward
meeting in Vatican City, Francis presented President Trump with a
signed copy of “Laudato Si” — the pontiff’s 192-page work calling
for a new partnership between science and religion to combat
human-driven climate change.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/05/24/pope-francis-presents-trump-with-a-politically-loaded-gift-his-encyclical-on-climate-change/?utm_term=.68833c5f9a58


Scientists just published an entire study refuting Scott Pruitt
on climate change. In a sign of growing tensions between
scientists and the Trump administration, researchers published a
scientific paper Wednesday that was conceived and written as an
explicit refutation to an assertion by Environmental Protection
Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt about climate change.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/24/scientists-just-published-an-entire-study-refuting-scott-pruitt-on-climate-change/?utm_term=.7e09796fd49d


Interior Department agency removes climate change language from
news release. On Thursday, a group of scientists, including three
working for the U.S. Geological Survey, published a paper that
highlighted the link between sea-level rise and global climate
change, arguing that previously studies may have underestimated
the risk flooding poses to coastal communities.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/interior-department-agency-removes-climate-change-language-from-news-release/2017/05/22/774c122a-3f23-11e7-adba-394ee67a7582_story.html?utm_term=.7bf3b1e883e8


U.S. Forests Shifting With Climate Change.  A warmer, wetter
climate may be pushing tree species into new ranges on the East
Coast. The Eastern white pine is going west, while the Eastern
cottonwood is headed north, researchers reported last week. The
scarlet oak is appearing more frequently in regions northwest of
the Appalachians…
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/science/shifting-forests-climate-change.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0


More people heading to court to spur action on climate change,
study finds. Governments around the world are increasingly being
challenged in court to do more to combat the threat of climate
change, with litigation ranging from a group’s attempt to stop an
airport runway in Austria to a Pakistani farmer suing his
government over its failure to adapt to rising temperatures, a
new study has found.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/23/climate-change-government-court-cases-study


Climate Policies Could Boost Economic Growth by 5%, OECD Says.
While economists add up the value of lowering emissions and
boosting resilience to climate change, Donald Trump is taking the
U.S. in the opposite direction. The world's major economies could
boost their long-term economic growth by 2.8 percent with
policies that lower greenhouse gas emissions…
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24052017/economic-growth-climate-change-policies-oecd-donald-trump


Climate change research targeted at multiple agencies. Scientific
organizations yesterday decried the White House budget proposal
for slashing hundreds of millions of dollars in federal climate
change and educational programs. Democrats called the $4.1
trillion budget plan so unrealistic that they expect support from
Republican colleagues in rolling back some of the science cuts.
https://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2017/05/24/stories/1060055052


'Elimination of climate change activities' is its own
justification. The Trump administration did not mince words in
targeting activities at the Department of Energy in its fiscal
2018 budget proposal. From a shave of DOE's environmental health
and safety budget to an $831,000 cut in international negotiating
expertise from 2016 levels, the White House has a single
rationale: "elimination of climate change activities."
https://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2017/05/24/stories/1060055056


FUELS

Trump EPA Gives Landfills a Pass on Climate-Warming Methane. EPA
Administrator Scott Pruitt quietly gave the nation’s largest
waste management companies a heads-up nearly three weeks earlier
that a reprieve would be coming. The Environmental Protection
Agency has announced it will delay rules aimed at cutting methane
emissions from landfills…
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23052017/methane-rules-trump-epa-obama-clean-power-plan-waste-management-delay

Budget hits fuel economy testing in wake of scandals. Some
greenhouse gas emissions requirements for vehicles will still be
funded in fiscal 2018 under President Trump's proposed budget.
But the work does not escape completely unscathed from the budget
knife that sliced through most federal climate programs in the
president's plan. The administration anticipates EPA "will
continue to implement" the fuel economy…
https://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2017/05/24/stories/1060055055


GREEN ENERGY

Trade officials, and Trump, will consider tariffs. It is now
likely that President Trump will have a say in the trajectory of
the U.S. solar industry, after trade officials yesterday set in
motion a proposal for steep duties on imports. The U.S.
International Trade Commission (ITC) gave notice that it will
consider a petition by Suniva Inc., a bankrupt solar manufacturer
in Georgia…
https://www.eenews.net/energywire/2017/05/24/stories/1060055049 

Nearly 10M worldwide employed in clean energy sectors — study.
Nearly 10 million people worldwide are employed in the renewable
energy sector, with roughly 43 percent of all jobs tied to the
solar and wind power booms, according to data released by the
International Renewable Energy Agency. China remains the world's
largest employer in the renewable energy industry, with 3.6
million…
https://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2017/05/24/stories/1060055057


MISCELLANEOUS

New regs for Wednesday: Emissions, efficiency, financial. The
regulations in Wednesday’s edition of the Federal Register affect
emissions standards for wood and efficiency standards for ceiling
fans. Here’s what is happening: Emissions: The Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) is delaying emission standards for
composite wood products. The EPA issued the Obama-era
formaldehyde emission standards...
http://thehill.com/regulation/334699-new-regs-for-wednesday-emissions-efficiency-financial


Alone on the Open Road: Truckers Feel Like ‘Throwaway People’.
President Trump ignited a national discussion of blue-collar
jobs. Truck driving, once a road to the middle class, is now
low-paying, grinding, unhealthy work. We talked with drivers
about why they do it. The vast Petro truck stop here is a
neon-lit, blacktop oasis at the crossroads of America. It beckons
big-rig drivers with showers, laundry machines, a barber shop,
even a knife store.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/us/trucking-jobs.html?_r=0 

OPINIONS

China and India Make Big Strides on Climate Change. Until
recently, China and India have been cast as obstacles, at the
very least reluctant conscripts, in the battle against climate
change. That reputation looks very much out-of-date now that both
countries have greatly accelerated their investments in
cost-effective renewable energy sources — and reduced their
reliance on fossil fuels.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/opinion/paris-agreement-climate-china-india.html?_r=0


California climate change program has struggled. Why did it
suddenly rebound? California’s market-based program for fighting
climate change had struggled badly over the past year. On
Wednesday, it bounced back sharply. Industrial companies spent
more than $1 billion in the latest state-run auction of
carbon-pollution credits, state officials announced Wednesday.
More than 90 percent of the available credits…
http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article152407344.html#storylink=cpy


Climate scientists are 21st century prophets; will we listen?
(Your letters). To the Editor: As both a Christian and someone
with direct experience using the output of climate models, Bryan
Roberts' May 23, 2017, letter arguing that the pope is wrong on
climate change is deeply disturbing. After all, the Bible and
Catholic tradition both emphasize truth, humility…
http://www.syracuse.com/opinion/index.ssf/2017/05/climate_scientists_are_21st_century_prophets_will_we_listen_your_letters.html


Tax carbon emissions, but do it right. The Sun Herald on May 19
(page 2C) published two interesting opinion pieces on carbon tax,
but both articles got it wrong. What was really disappointing is
Antung Liu, professor at the Indiana University School of Public
and Environmental Affairs, is arguing for a “carbon tax” but
totally misses the point with regard to what type of carbon tax
Congress is considering.
http://www.sunherald.com/opinion/other-voices/article152201382.html#storylink=cpy


BLOGS

How to break the political logjam on climate change.
"Conservation" and “conservative” share the root "conserve," and
four key sectors have made the connection with climate change.
Religious conservatives cite an obligation of stewardship over
unbridled exploitation of God-given resources. Hunters and
anglers see disrupted breeding, migration and other threats to
wildlife.
https://www.greenbiz.com/article/how-break-political-logjam-climate-change


When Some U.S. Firms Move Production Overseas, They Also Offshore
Their Pollution. On April 22, as protesters swelled Earth Day
rallies in U.S. cities and around the world, President Trump
tweeted that he was “committed to keeping our air and water clean
but always remember that economic growth enhances environmental
protection.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/when-some-us-firms-move-production-overseas-they-also_us_592461a9e4b07617ae4cbfdd


Climate Change Is Turning Antarctica Green. Rising temperatures
have prompted “unprecedented” ecological change across the
Antarctic Peninsula. Antarctica, the desolate southernmost
continent boasting the coldest climate on Earth, usually brings
to mind visions of ice, snow and penguins. But global warming is
transforming Antarctica’s icy expanses…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/antarctica-green-climate-change-moss_us_5923df2ae4b034684b0f492d
 

A Momentous Month for Tackling Climate Change. Now let’s look at
the U.S. Last week, a new report came out showing the remarkable
growth of clean energy in states across the country. Back in
2010, just three states received 10 percent or more of their
electricity from non-hydro renewable energy. Today, 17 states
have eclipsed the 10 percent mark and three of those states…
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mindylubber/2017/05/22/a-momentous-month-for-tackling-climate-change/2/#1c8c211565df


Global warming helped increase US growing season by 13 frost-free
days. Global warming, changes to cloud cover and wind patterns
are driving the trend. The number of frost-free days in the
northern United States has increased by more than 13 days in the
past 100 years, according to new research. The other main areas
of the mainland US also saw significant increases in the number
of days…
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/global-warming-us-growing-season-climate-change-frost-free-days-13-us-geological-survey-utah-a7753461.html

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