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California Air Resources Board News Clips for October 30, 2009. 
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Cleaner-Trucks Mandate Will Create Hardships at Port of Oakland.
Ablelom Zerfiel sat in the cab of his 1992 Freightliner, waiting
in a long line to drop off his empty cargo container at the Port
of Oakland. After driving for 12 years, Mr. Zerfiel is used to
delays, low pay, grueling hours and the fickleness of the
dispatch company that arranges his jobs. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/30/us/30sftruckers.html 

Boxer, Republicans Spar Over Climate Bill Timing, Economic
Studies. Senate Democrats are still aiming for a committee markup
on global warming legislation next week despite Republican calls
for a slower pace on the sweeping measure. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/10/29/29greenwire-boxer-republicans-spar-over-climate-bill-timin-70389.html


Will U.S. Go Empty-Handed To World Climate Talks? Without a new
law requiring cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, the U.S. could
end up going empty-handed to the international climate talks in
December. Many nations are watching to see whether the Senate
will make progress on a climate and energy bill that would spell
out the U.S. national emissions-reduction plan. Posted.
http://www.sacbee.com/702/story/2292702.html
http://www.modbee.com/politics/story/913217.html#ixzz0VQsNmVRo

Republicans May Stall Climate Change Bill. Senate Environment 
and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer said late
Thursday that she wants to hold drafting sessions as early as
Tuesday on the climate change bill pending before her committee,
but the meetings could be delayed by Republican stalling tactics.
Posted.
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/30/boxer-pushes-ahead-on-climate-measure/


Refiners Warn of 'Staggering' Costs, Job Losses From Senate
Climate Bill. The CEO of refining giant Valero Energy Corp.
warned today that the Senate climate legislation would give a
competitive advantage to foreign refiners and cost U.S. jobs.
Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/10/28/28greenwire-refiners-warn-of-staggering-costs-job-losses-fro-487.html
 

British Launch Ad Campaign to Raise Fading Climate Concerns. The
U.K. government has launched a guilt-laden advertising campaign
after a series of opinion polls showed that the majority of the
public has not bought into climate change despite years of
political haranguing and millions of pounds spent on information
and advertising. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/10/30/30climatewire-british-launch-ad-campaign-to-raise-fading-c-28845.html


Senate Climate Markup Set for Tuesday but Will Any Republicans
Show? The Senate global warming debate appears headed for a
partisan standoff early next week with Republicans threatening to
boycott a key committee vote and Democrats weighing their options
on an alternative route to advance the bill to the floor. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/10/30/30climatewire-senate-climate-markup-set-for-tuesday-but-wi-24178.html?scp=5&sq=air%20pollution&st=cse


EU Split Over Climate Change Goal. The European Union fought
Thursday to live up to its self-proclaimed leadership on
combating climate change, with the 27 EU leaders at odds over how
much to offer poorer nations to join the global battle. Posted.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-belgium30-2009oct30,0,466943.story


Editorial: Climate Zealots Likely To Be Told To Cool Their
Heels. The world can breathe a sigh of relief. Unnecessary
economic destruction at the hands of climate zealots is likely to
be averted at least another year. An international treaty to
combat global warming almost certainly won't be reached this
year, despite U.N. and climate change extremists' insistence that
agreement on worldwide greenhouse gas-emission limits must be
reached at December's 190-nation climate summit in Copenhagen,
Denmark. Posted.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/nations-climate-global-2628801-warming-emission


Ask AP: Geo-Engineering, Bernard Madoff's Assets. Purposely
polluting the upper atmosphere? Reflecting sunlight with giant
space mirrors? These aren't the tactics of a Hollywood
supervillain — they're controversial "geo-engineering" ideas that
some say would help combat global warming. Posted.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/10/30/national/a030039D15.DTL#ixzz0VR1S6nd5
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/30/AR2009103000708.html


The Earth Cools, and Fight Over Warming Heats Up. Two years ago,
a United Nations scientific panel won the Nobel Peace Prize after
concluding that global warming is "unequivocal" and is "very
likely" caused by man. Then came a development unforeseen by the
U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC: Data
suggested that Earth's temperature was beginning to drop. Posted.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125686509223717691.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories


PRUDEN: Great Pumpkin Soon Upon Us. The Senate is losing its
grip on unreality, so it may be up to whoever can teach manners
to cows and pigs to save us from the consequences of global
warming. (We're supposed to call it "climate change" now, but
some of us, being strict constructionists, remain faithful to the
original text as set down by the founding father, Al Gore.)
Posted.
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/30/pruden-great-pumpkin-soon-upon-us/


Methane's Role In Global Warming Underestimated. Greenhouse gas
calculations blame carbon dioxide too much for global warming,
and methane too little, suggest researchers Thursday. Posted.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/environment/2009-10-29-methane-global-warming_N.htm


Washington's Carbon Rules Need Refining. Wall Street gets
shouted at, but Washington at least doles out financial support.
Oil refiners don't even get that. Bill Klesse, chief executive of
Valero Energy, visited the Senate this week warning about the
damage climate-change legislation could do to the U.S. refining
sector. Posted.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125682675875515995.html 

PG&E's Climatesmart Program Draws Little Interest. A 2-year-old
PG&E program to help customers offset the size of their carbon
footprint has drawn little interest and consumer advocates are
arguing it should be allowed to expire at the end of the year.
Only 30,000 households and businesses have enrolled in
"ClimateSmart," which allows residential and commercial customers
of the San Francisco-based utility to add a tax-deductible
"donation" to their monthly bill that allows PG&E to buy carbon
offsets. Posted. http://www.mercurynews.com/valley/ci_13670571
http://www.insidebayarea.com/green-living/ci_13670571 

Winter Spare the Air Season Begins Sunday, November 1. In an
effort to protect public health, the Bay Area Air Quality
Management District will open the Winter Spare the Air season on
Sunday, November 1, and begin enforcing a regulation that
restricts wood burning in the Bay Area through February 28, 2010.
Posted.
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS248841+29-Oct-2009+PRN20091029


Fire Control Season Begins. Starting Sunday, people who plan to
light their fireplaces should check first with the San Joaquin
Valley Air Pollution Control District. It is resuming the Check
Before You Burn program, which tells valley residents whether
fireplace use is allowed each day. Posted.
http://www.modbee.com/2384/story/913544.html#ixzz0VQrIPYTE
http://www.fresnobee.com/local/story/1692363.html 

Our Green-Energy Future. The October issue of The Atlantic
magazine includes an interesting article, “The California
Experiment,” by Ronald Brownstein. The title refers to what the
author sees—in the midst of “busted budgets, failing schools,
overcrowded prisons, gridlocked government”—as the state’s
singular success: tackling climate change and, in doing so,
creating a new energy economy. Posted.
http://www.newsreview.com/chico/content?oid=1309968 

Blogs

Boxer Aims for Tuesday Markup on Climate Bill. Senate
Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer
(D-Calif.) plans to take up climate legislation in her committee
Tuesday, according to a senior aide -- if the Republicans don't
stand in her way. Posted.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/2009/10/by_juliet_eilperin_senate_envi.html


California Wins Lawsuit For More Water/Energy-Efficient Clothes

Washers. Washing machines account for 20% of an average
household’s water use in California, but that may change now that
the California Energy Commission has prevailed in a years-long
lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Energy, which had
prevented the commission from adopting a more water- and
energy-efficient standard for clothes washers. Posted.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2009/10/california-wins-lawsuit-for-more-water-energyefficient-clothes-washes.html