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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 of Communications. You may need to sign in or register with individual websites to view some of the following news articles. 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. ________________________________ 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 _______________________________________ 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/ _________________________ 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 __________________________ 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 .