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California Air Resources Board News Clips for November 4, 2009. 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 Levies $700,000 Total In Diesel Fines To Two CA Companies. The California Air Resources Board recently hit two in-state businesses with heavy fines for their alleged failure to comply with state diesel rules. CARB fined EDCO, a Southern California-based trash-hauling company, $219,500 for failing to perform annual smoke inspections on some of its diesel trucks. The company has facilities in Agua Mansa, Armour, Buena Park, Escondido, Fallbrook, Federal, Long Beach, Ramona and San Marcos. Posted. http://www.landlinemag.com/todays_news/Daily/2009/Nov09/110209/110309-04.htm Cancer Risk In San Bernardino Neighborhood Triggers Medical Study At BNSF Rail Yard. Researchers and regulators are focusing what some say is unprecedented attention on a low-income, predominately Hispanic community of about 7,000 people living with pollution from a west San Bernardino rail yard. Alarmed by an analysis that found an unacceptable cancer risk in the neighborhood, the state is considering new air pollution rules for the rail yard. Posted. http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_rail04.40d864f.html# Warming Will Displace 150M People By 2050 – Report. Global warming will force 150 million people to become "climate refugees" in the next 40 years, according to a new report from the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF). Climate-related natural disasters displaced more than 20 million people in 2008, the foundation said. The EJF reports that nearly 10 percent of the world's population is at risk of displacement by climate change. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2009/11/04/6 State Energy Commission To Vote On TV Power Standards. State energy officials are nearing a decision on a ban on new energy-hogging televisions. The first-in-the-nation regulations would phase in starting in 2011 and would set a cap on the amount of power a TV can draw. Large sets would be allowed to use more power than small ones. All models larger than 58 inches would be exempt from the regulations, though they may be covered in the future. Posted. http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/v-print/story/2303689.html Energy Dept. Awards Money for Electric Cars. The federal government and some states are plugging into the future of electric cars with subsidies to develop charging stations. But their plans are generating opposition. The U.S. Department of Energy awarded $2.4 billion in stimulus money in August to build electric vehicles and support them with charging stations. Posted. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-11-03-electric-cars_N.htm Obama Administration Weighs The Costs Of Doing Nothing. Economists have sparred for years over what price tag to put on the societal danger of carbon dioxide emissions. Now the Obama administration is quietly struggling to reach its own conclusion. The answer promises to weigh heavily on a slew of future regulations that directly and indirectly combat climate change. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2009/11/04/1 UN Climate Talks Focus On How To Cut Emissions. Barcelona, Spain — African nations pushed wealthy countries at U.N. climate talks on Wednesday to explain how they intend to cut their greenhouse emissions under the landmark global warming agreement being negotiated. Yet as delegates from 192 nations retreated behind closed doors in Spain, fears arose over just what will be accomplished this year on fighting climate change. Posted. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i9u9GMQj8IuTIkIKDmsiGSXq4KuAD9BOPEJ80 http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE5A11Q720091104 Honeywell's UOP and China National Petroleum Corp. to Collaborate on Biofuels Projects in China. Companies will evaluate Chinese feedstocks for the production of green diesel and green jet fuels, evaluate installation of units to produce renewable fuels and improve ethanol energy efficiency. Posted. http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS147286+04-Nov-2009+PRN20091104 Editorial: ARB's Cool-Car Scheme Deserves To Be Put On Ice. Sacramento can be a caricature of bumbling, well-intentioned, paternalistic nonsense. The problem is, when government agencies like the state Air Resources Board stumble ahead with hare-brained schemes, it creates real-life costs and harm. Posted. http://www.ocregister.com/articles/air-board-one-2634385-sacramento-new Truckers Scrambling After Grant Money Dries Up. Ramon Cerdas makes a modest living for his family as a trucker hauling cargo in and out of the Port of Oakland. He sometimes waits hours in line to enter the gates, and hours at a terminal to pick up or drop off a load. After paying taxes, gas, insurance and other expenses, he's left with enough to pay the rent and necessities, but not much more. Posted. http://www.insidebayarea.com/top-stories/ci_13705593 Study Links Children to Air Pollution. Research produced by Summer Undergraduate Research Fund students has won a top honor from the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers. Competing against more than a dozen universities, the geography students took home the association’s President’s Award for Outstanding Student Poster Presentation. Posted. http://uscnews.usc.edu/health/study_links_children_to_air_pollution.html Atlanta Named Most Toxic U.S. City, Las Vegas is Least Toxic. Las Vegas has far from a clean reputation, but in Forbes' list of America's Most Toxic Cities, Las Vegas is named the least toxic of 40 major metropolitan areas. Forbes ranked the cities based on the number of Superfund sites in the principal city, number of facilities that release toxic chemicals, amount of toxic chemicals released in the area and air quality ranking. Following Las Vegas as the top 10 least toxic cities are Sacramento, Riverside, Austin, Seattle, San Diego, Virginia Beach, San Jose, New York and Phoenix. Posted. http://www.greenbiz.com/print/28432 Climate Change On The Back Burner? Climate change has slipped so far down on the agenda that at least one key committee chairman has suggested it might have to wait until after the 2010 elections. A number of factors are conspiring against the Senate version of the bill: a Republican boycott on the Environment and Public Works Committee, a new EPA analysis that could take at least five weeks and wide-ranging disagreements among six competing Senate committee leaders who have jurisdiction. Posted. http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=BC86C808-18FE-70B2-A863046BCFDBB1DB Senate Republicans Boycott Climate Meeting. Their move, shortly before German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Congress to act on the issue, underscores the difficulty of negotiating legislation on global warming. German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Congress on Tuesday to take dramatic action to stop climate change, but the political difficulties were evident as Republicans boycotted a Senate committee meeting on a global warming bill. Posted. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-climate4-2009nov04,0,6435485,print.story TIMELINE-How The World Found Out About Global Warming. A U.N. conference in Copenhagen next month is due to agree a new pact to combat global warming after mounting evidence that human activity is disrupting the climate. The following is a timeline of the discovery of global warming. 300 BC - Theophrastus, a student of Greek philosopher Aristotle, documents that human activity can affect climate. He observes that drainage of marshes cools an area around Thessaly and that clearing of forests near Philippi warms the climate. Posted. http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL3445896 Stunts And Stalling Mark Senate Climate Odyssey. There was frustration, there was pleading, there was accusation of bad faith. And at the end of the day, there was a stark answer: empty chairs on the Republican side of the room. So went the first day Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) hoped to mark up her climate bill, S. 1733, in an episode that could presage a long game of chicken. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2009/11/04/2 Most Economists Give 'Clear Endorsement' For U.S. Emission Curbs – Survey. Most economists say the United States should commit to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions regardless of other countries' actions, according to a survey released today. New York University's Institute for Policy Integrity queried nearly 300 economists who have published articles on climate change and got responses from 144 of them. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2009/11/04/6 EPA Sets Hearing Schedule On GHG 'Tailoring Rule' U.S. EPA will hold two public hearings this month over its proposed rule "tailoring" greenhouse gas regulations to affect only the biggest emission sources. EPA will hold hearings Wednesday, Nov. 18, in Arlington, Va., and another Thursday, Nov. 19, in Rosemont, Ill., the agency said in a Federal Register notice today. The draft rule issued in September would require facilities that release more than 25,000 tons of greenhouse gases a year to install "best available control technology" (BACT) to limit their greenhouse gas releases. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2009/11/04/7 Groups Press U.S. and China on Carbon. Beijing - Three prominent American research organizations that are pushing for greater cooperation between the Obama administration and China on the issue of climate change say the two governments should make a priority of supporting the use of carbon capture technology and the creation of a market for carbon. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/science/earth/04carbon.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print UN Climate Talks Focus on How to Cut Emissions. African nations pushed wealthy countries at U.N. climate talks on Wednesday to explain how they intend to cut their greenhouse emissions under the landmark global warming agreement being negotiated. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/11/04/world/AP-Climate-Talks.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=carbon%20emission&st=cse Climate Debate Has Rocky Start For US Senate Panel. European leaders pressed Congress and the White House on Tuesday to unite on a plan to combat global warming, even as a Republican boycott forced a delay of votes in a key Senate committee, demonstrating the deep partisan rift. Posted. http://www.modbee.com/business/story/919111.html#ixzz0VudYZmSL Diesel Truck Regulations Delayed Until 2010. Owners of heavy-duty diesel trucks working on New York state projects just got a little breathing room. They won't have to comply with a new state law that requires filters to reduce harmful air emissions on older vehicles until 2010. The state Department of Environmental Conservation has put off enforcing the law until next year because doing so now would be a “hardship” on contractors and material suppliers that use the diesel vehicles on state-sponsored construction projects, said Deputy Commissioner Alison H. Crocker. Posted. http://albany.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/2009/11/02/daily23.html?t=printable Navistar Opposes Request For Delay In Diesel-Exhaust Case. Chicago - Navistar International Corp. (NAV) said it's opposed to delaying its court challenge of federal guidelines for complying with new, tougher standards for diesel-engine exhaust. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency late last month asked a federal appeals court to postpone proceedings on Navistar's case for 60 days while the agency reconsiders its compliance guidelines. Posted. http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20091104-712429.html Opinion: Clean Air Or Cheap Energy? We should be raising the prices of oil products instead of trying to lower them (currently through a foolish and ineffective price control edict), if we were at all serious about cleaning up the polluted air we breathe (particularly in Metro Manila) and reducing the country’s emissions of noxious gases. We should be raising taxes on gasoline, diesel, and other oil products, and on electricity produced by coal plants, if we wanted to discourage the use of fossil fuels and encourage the use of "clean" fuels. Posted. http://beta.bworldonline.com/main/content.php?id=899 Why the Hydrogen Feud Needs to End: Analysis. Hydrogen fuel cell research is in the midst of a tumultuous debate. Proponents of the fuel continue to sink money into research and marketing—citing promising statistics and lab-grown developments. Opponents refute optimistic claims with their own numbers, asking that researchers shift time and money to more promising technologies, like batteries. So what exactly is the state of hydrogen fuel cell research? Unfortunately, that depends on whom you ask. Posted. http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4335827.html?nav=RSS20&src=syn&dom=yah_buzz&mag=pop Obama's EPA Is a Regulator Reborn. To appreciate the extent to which the Environmental Protection Agency under President Obama is a regulator reborn, consider this: EPA officials have begun to cut air pollution by invoking the Clean Water Act. Posted. http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/04/epa-uses-water-act-to-fight-dirty-air/ Disney Co. Spending $7M On Conservation Projects. Seeking to help fight climate change, the Walt Disney Co. says it will spend $7 million in partnership with three conservation groups to protect tens of thousands of acres of forest lands in the Congo basin, the Amazon basin and in two regions of the United States. Posted. http://www.modbee.com/business/story/918955.html#ixzz0VuWp3oOg http://www.vcstar.com/news/2009/nov/03/disney-co-spending-7m-on-conservation-projects/ http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/disney-invests-4-million-to-save-forests/ Tech Group Looking Backward On Efficiency Rules. For an organization that prides itself on representing one of America's most forward-looking industries, the Consumer Electronics Association has sounded more like the stodgy old Chamber of Commerce lately. A case in point is the tech trade group's response to California's proposal to make televisions more energy-efficient, scheduled for final approval this week. Posted. http://www.modbee.com/opinion/world/story/919750.html#ixzz0VuYZYyXN Green Screens May Be Future. Californians are nearly outnumbered by their televisions. Thirty-five million sets entertain us five hours a day. Add the numbers up, and TVs probably account for a large portion of your household energy use - up to 10 percent, including accessories such as DVD players, game consoles and digital recorders. Posted. http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091104/A_NEWS/911040334/-1/a_news14#STS=g1mceaqs.fyh More Wineries Focus on Going Green. Rodney Strong Wine Estates announced last month that it is now "carbon neutral." The Sonoma County winery joins several in California, South America and New Zealand that, through conservation and investment in clean energy (by buying carbon credits), have reduced their carbon emissions enough to essentially zero out their contribution to greenhouse gases. Posted. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/11/03/ST2009110301548.html GUEST OPINION: There's Nothing Green about Measure A; Vote No. The proponents of Measure A and their hired gun “environmentalist,” Patrick Moore, are deceiving the public about the potential impacts of Measure A. Careful evaluation of Moore and the proposed development demonstrate that Measure A is anything but “green.” Posted. http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20091030/OPINION/910309938 Environmental Groups Turn In Paperwork For DMV Fee To Fund California State Parks. Hoping to break the recent cycle of proposed state parks closures, a coalition of California environmental groups took the first major step Tuesday toward qualifying a measure for next November's ballot that would roughly double the state parks budget by imposing a new annual fee on vehicle registration. Posted. http://www.insidebayarea.com/green-living/ci_13705417 Blogs California's Climate Future, Part Two. In my last two blogs I have been offering a glimpse into our collective climate future based on the work of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) and its report, Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States. But since this report is nearly 200 pages long, and my blogs are somewhat shorter than this, I am not quite finished with it. Posted. http://blogs.redding.com/dcraig/archives/2009/11/californias-cli-1.html Of China, Texas and Green Jobs. Bloomberg Readers complained about green jobs associated with a proposed Texas wind farm going to China.When a coalition of investors and wind developers from the United States and China announced plans for a large-scale wind project in West Texas last week, many of our readers expressed outrage that a portion of the financing might well come from the $22 billion set aside in the economic stimulus package for clean energy projects — and green jobs. Posted. http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/of-china-texas-and-green-jobs/?pagemode=print Groups Push U.S. and China on Carbon Capture and Storage Technology. Three prominent American research organizations that are pushing for greater cooperation between the Obama administration and China on the issue of climate change say the two governments should make a priority of supporting the use of carbon capture technology and the creation of a market for carbon. Posted. http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/groups-push-us-and-china-on-carbon-capture-and-storage-technology/