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newsclips -- Newsclips for October 15, 2009.

Posted: 15 Oct 2009 11:18:01
California Air Resources Board News Clips for October 15, 2009.


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Capitol Weekly, Letters to the Editor, October 15, 2009. Dear
Editor: Dorothy Rothrock (Capitol Weekly, Oct. 1) claims that she
can’t find how the California Air Resources Board spent $47
million dollars to pay for administration of AB 32 from 2007 to
2009. Ms. Rothrock and her trade association attack ARB’s
credibility as a way to deflect the legislative requirement that
they pay their fair share of the cost of implementing AB32.  She
could have saved thousands in legal fees by reading the documents
posted on ARB’s website explaining exactly where and how the
money was spent. Posted.
http://www.capitolweekly.net/features/lettersToTheEditor.php?_c=ycazwdpo0v5gzm

Highway Contractors, Enviros Strike Deal On Clean Diesel. The
construction industry urged Congress today to let states mandate
the use of clean-diesel equipment for federally funded highway
construction. The Associated General Contractors of America
joined the Clean Air Task Force in urging lawmakers to include
the change in the next highway and transit bill that will serve
as the de facto national transportation strategy for several
years. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2009/10/15/4

White House Eyes Bilateral Deals With China, India. The White
House is aiming to garner fresh commitments to combat global
warming from China and India during back-to-back summits in
November. On the eve of a December meeting in Copenhagen, the
Obama administration is attempting to hammer out which action
each country will take."China and India are both critically
important to achieving our international goals on carbon
reduction. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2009/10/15/6

Curbing Climate Change by Sealing Gas Leaks. To the naked eye,
there was nothing to be seen at a natural gas well in eastern
Texas but beige pipes and tanks baking in the sun. But in the
viewfinder of Terry Gosney’s infrared camera, three black plumes
of gas gushed through leaks that were otherwise invisible. “Holy
smoke, it’s blowing like mad,” said Mr. Gosney, an environmental
field coordinator for EnCana, the Canadian gas producer that
operates the year-old well near Franklin, Tex. “It does look
nasty.” Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/business/energy-environment/15degrees.html?_r=2&hp=&adxnnl=1&pagewanted=print&adxnnlx=1255626386-6zrz8ZLq2KkVfkI8grvZBA

Biggest Obstacle to Global Climate Deal May Be How to Pay for
It. As world leaders struggle to hash out a new global climate
deal by December, they face a hurdle perhaps more formidable than
getting big polluters like the United States and China to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions: how to pay for the new accord. The
price tag for a new climate agreement will be a staggering $100
billion a year by 2020, many economists estimate; some put the
cost at closer to $1 trillion. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/science/earth/15climate.html?pagewanted=print

Editorial: Time For Truce On Renewables. Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger and the Democrats who control the Legislature have
plenty to disagree about. So it's a shame they can't even get
together on an important issue on which they say they agree.
California has long been a leader in pushing the electricity
industry to use renewable sources of energy to power the state's
grid. Current law calls for the utilities to use renewables for
20 percent of their electricity production by 2010. Posted.
http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/v-print/story/2254311.html

Energy Agency to Deepen Links With Emerging Giants. Paris — The
International Energy Agency, a forum for developed economies,
announced a series of steps Wednesday to deepen cooperation with
three nations of growing importance to global energy markets:
Russia, China and India. The initiatives were made at the
semi-annual meeting here of energy ministers, where officials
also took stock of progress in negotiations on reducing carbon
emissions before a climate change summit in Copenhagen in
December, as well as trends in energy prices. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/business/energy-environment/15iea.html?_r=1&sq=environment&st=cse&scp=10&pagewanted=print

Youths Attend Governors’ Global Climate Summit. As part of the
California Climate Champions program, I was one of a dozen young
people chosen to represent the youth perspective at the
Governors’ Global Climate Summit 2 in Los Angeles last week. The
international political conference, co-hosted by Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger and six other state governors, included
representatives from all over the world, eager to hear of the
views of young people during presentations and in one-on-one
conversations. Posted.
http://www.toacorn.com/news/2009-10-15/Community/Youths_attend_Governors_Global_Climate_Summit.html

Not All Alaska Ports Support Limits On Cruise Ship Emissions.
Washington -- Some Alaska ports of call have asked the
Environmental Protection Agency to rethink - or at least slow
down - its plans to impose stricter air quality requirements for
cruise ships and other large oceangoing vessels. The EPA wants
all large vessels to stop using so-called bunker fuel within 200
nautical miles of U.S. shorelines, saying that reducing air
pollution from the dirty fuel could save the lives of 8,300
people each year, help an additional 3 million people avoid
respiratory problems and clear hazy skies as far inland as the
Grand Canyon. Posted.
http://www.sacbee.com/702/v-print/story/2254375.html

BLOGS

A Greenhouse Gas That Is Already a Commodity. For years, many
environmental groups and experts on the growing human
contribution to the planet’s heat-trapping greenhouse effect have
sought to turn carbon dioxide into a commodity by giving it a
rising price. Through a so-called cap and trading system, those
making extra-deep cuts in emissions can profit by selling what
amounts to their extra credit to those who cannot afford to cut
their own gas releases so deeply or quickly. Posted.
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/a-greenhouse-gas-thats-already-a-commodity/?pagemode=print

Farm Bureau Aims to Kill Climate Bill. American Farm Bureau The
American Farm Bureau, a large agricultural lobby, is gearing up a
campaign to defeat climate legislation now pending in Congress.
The politically influential American Farm Bureau, the
self-described “national voice of agriculture,” has outlined a
new campaign effort to derail Congressional bills to combat
climate change. Posted.
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/farm-bureau-targets-cap-and-trade/?pagemode=print

Study Says China Is Ripe for Carbon Storage.  Researchers have
identified a number of potential geologic formations that could
be used to store CO2 emitted by China’s coal power plants and
other industries. (Click to enlarge.) China has vast underground
repositories that could store more than a century’s worth of
carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants and industrial
facilities, according to a report to be released by the United
States Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory. Posted.
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/study-says-china-is-ripe-for-carbon-storage/?pagemode=print

Business Leaders Talk Copenhagen. At a meeting in Washington
yesterday, top executives of several multinational companies
emphasized the importance of climate negotiations — and of a
constructive role from China. Tony Cenicola/The New York Times “I
don’t think there’s any question that we want Copenhagen to be a
success,” said Jim Rogers, the chief executive of Duke Energy. “I
don’t think there’s any question that we want Copenhagen to be a
success,” said Jim Rogers, the chairman and chief executive of
Duke Energy, a major Southern utility. Posted.
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/business-leaders-talk-copenhagen/?pagemode=print

A Headline That Will Make Global-Warming Activists Apoplectic.
The BBC is responsible. The article, by the climate correspondent
Paul Hudson, is called “What Happened to Global Warming?”
Highlights: For the last 11 years we have not observed any
increase in global temperatures. And our climate models did not
forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought
to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.
Posted.
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/a-headline-that-will-make-global-warming-activists-apoplectic/?pagemode=print

Branson on the Power of Biofuels and Elders. Sir Richard
Branson, the entrepreneur, balloonist, spaceflight booster and
social-environmental campaigner, held forth in a conversation
with Alan Murray of The Wall Street Journal today, touching on a
host of ways to make and lose money and try to build a better
planet. Mr. Branson spoke excitedly about the planned December
rollout of his commercial spacecraft and plans for his family,
including his parents, to be the first to take a suborbital ride.
Posted.
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/branson-on-space-climate-biofuel-elders/?pagemode=print


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