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California Air Resources Board News Clips for November 19, 2009.


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A Carbon Target For Copenhagen. It's time for the Obama
administration to make a commitment on emissions reductions.
CLIMATE CHANGE was at the top of President Obama's agenda in
China Tuesday, just three weeks before representatives from 192
countries meet in Copenhagen for a much-anticipated international
climate conference. And he came tantalizingly close to saying
what the rest of the world has been waiting years to hear: that
next month the United States, the largest per capita emitter of
greenhouse gases, will finally come to the table with a specific
carbon reduction target. Posted.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/18/AR2009111803318.html

U.S. And China Reach Accord On Data Collection. The United
States and China have agreed to cooperate on developing an
inventory of China's greenhouse gas emissions, the Environmental
Protection Agency announced Wednesday, an initiative that appears
be a response to criticism of Beijing's data collection. Posted.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/18/AR2009111803058.html
http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2009/11/19/7

Companies Ranked On Efforts To Cut Emissions. Even as they
struggle through a withering recession, a growing number of
companies are taking action to fight climate change, according to
an annual survey released Wednesday. Compiled by the nonprofit
group Climate Counts, the survey of 90 big American companies
found that most were addressing the issue, either by cutting
their energy use, measuring their output of greenhouse gases,
adopting policies to reduce emissions or pushing for federal
legislation to do the same. Posted.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/19/BU2S1AMM81.DTL&type=printable
http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2009/11/19/8

Regional Workshop In Ontario Discusses Reducing Greenhouse
Emissions. Ontario - It was just the beginning, the start of
discussions on a new state law that targets reducing greenhouse
gas emissions from passenger vehicles for 2020 and 2035. Local
government and planning officials on Wednesday gathered at the
Ontario Convention Center to talk about how future growth will
impact the progress of implementing Senate Bill 375. That bill,
which went into effect on Jan. 1, requires cities and counties to
work together to reduce vehicle greenhouse emissions to 1990
levels by 2020. Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_13818398

Study: Oceans Less Efficient At Absorbing CO{-2}. The Earth's
oceans, which have absorbed carbon dioxide from fuel emissions
since the dawn of the industrial era, have recently grown less
efficient at sopping it up, new research suggests. Emissions from
the burning of fossil fuels began soaring in the 1950s, and
oceans largely kept up, scientists say. But the growth in the
intake rate has slowed since the 1980s, and markedly so since
2000, the authors of a study write in a report in today's issue
of Nature. Posted.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/19/MNCC1AMS6P.DTL&type=printable

Canada Won't Set Climate Regulations Until Global Deal Is
Reached. Canada will not set firm government regulations to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions until global and North American
climate change deals have been reached, Environment Minister Jim
Prentice said yesterday. "I think it's fair to say that this all
needs to knit together," Prentice said during a teleconference
call from Copenhagen, where he was meeting with other environment
ministers ahead of next month's major U.N. climate conference.
Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2009/11/19/11

Calif. Senate Hopeful Hedges On Climate Change. Republican
California Senate hopeful Carly Fiorina received a boost
yesterday from Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the ranking member of
the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, who endorsed
her bid to challenge Chairwoman Barbara Boxer. But Fiorina's
spokeswoman tried to distance the candidate from Inhofe's stated
skepticism about climate change. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2009/11/19/6

Colo. Local Leaders Urge Action On Climate Change. Breckenridge,
Colo. -- Ski officials at one of the nation's most-visited
resorts are calling on Congress to finish work on a
climate-change bill. Summit County officials joined
representatives from the Breckenridge Ski Resort for a slopeside
announcement Wednesday calling on the U.S. Senate to pass a
climate change bill. The House has voted to create a
cap-and-trade system to reduce carbon emissions. The measure is
still pending in the Senate. Posted.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/19/AR2009111901869_pf.html

A Climate Threat, Rising From The Soil. Degraded peatlands in
Indonesia unleash vast amounts of carbon.Taruna Jaya, INDONESIA
-- Across a patch of pineapples shrouded in smoke, Idris
Hadrianyani battled a menace that has left his family sleepless
and sick -- and has wrought as much damage on the planet as has
exhaust from all the cars and trucks in the United States.
Against the advancing flames, he waved a hose with a handmade
nozzle confected from a plastic soda bottle. Posted.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/18/AR2009111804162_pf.html

Meteorologists' Climate Change Survey. Published in the October
2009 issue of “Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society”
(BAMS), a new survey indicates that a significant number of
professional meteorologists doubt that manmade sources of
greenhouse gases are the cause of global warming.  The survey was
vetted by an advi¬sory board of climate experts, including
representatives from NOAA, the NWS, UCAR, the Environmental
Protection Agency, the Pew Center for Global Climate Change, and
many members of the AMS. Posted.
http://www.examiner.com/x-3089-LA-Ecopolitics-Examiner~y2009m11d19-Meteorologists-Climate-Change-Survey#

Televisions Must Use Less Energy, California Regulators Tell
Makers. The California Energy Commission on Wednesday approved
the nation's first mandatory energy-efficiency standards for
televisions. The rules phase in starting in 2011 and set a cap on
the power a TV can draw. Large sets can draw more power than
small ones. All models larger than 58 inches are exempt from the
regulations, though they may be covered in the future. Posted.
http://www.sacbee.com/business/v-print/story/2334618.html 
http://www.sacbee.com/702/story/2333141.html
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-big-screen-tvs19-2009nov19,0,4027697.story?track=rss
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/11/18/financial/f011205S05.DTL&type=green

Former USC Intern Fights for Cleaner Air. Fifteen-year-old Otana
Jakpor’s essay on how she spent her time with USC would include
leading demonstrations on how to map demographic data and
conducting research on diesel emissions from locomotives and
other rail yard equipment. The high school senior recently
interned at the Southern California Environmental Health Sciences
Center directed by Frank Gilliland at the Keck School of Medicine
of USC, where she focused on using U.S. Census Bureau information
to map and study the demographics of populations living near rail
yards. Posted.
http://uscnews.usc.edu/health/former_usc_intern_fights_for_cleaner_air.html

Companies To Probe 'Symbiotic' Link Between Algae, Coal-Fired
Power Plants. An algae-based biofuels startup and an industrial
gas company announced a partnership yesterday aimed at developing
a symbiotic relationship between coal-fired power plants and
algae biofuel production. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2009/11/19/10


BLOGS

California's Biggest Carbon Emitters. Carbon addiction is the
same as any other in at least one respect: the first step to
recovery is admitting you have a problem. For greenhouse gases,
reducing emissions requires knowing what you're putting out to
begin with. It was toward this end that this week the California
Air Resources Board released the first comprehensive data on
large-scale industrial carbon emissions in the state. Not
surprisingly, the top emitters tend to fall into two categories:
power plants and oil refineries, with cement manufacturers not
far behind. Posted.
http://blogs.kqed.org/climatewatch/2009/11/18/californias-biggest-carbon-emitters/

Global Warming: California Pushes Ahead. While Congress dithers
over federal climate change legislation, and nations squabble
over a global treaty, the nation's most populous state is
doggedly pushing ahead with its own regulations to control the
greenhouse gas emissions that are heating up the Earth's
atmosphere. Posted.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2009/11/global-warming-california-pushes-ahead.html

New Study: Climate Bill Would Boost Economy by $111 Billion,
Create 1.9 Million Jobs. Looks like I spoke too soon about the
words 'new report' always being a sign of bad news these
days--because this new study reveals some pretty encouraging
information. It's an analysis of clean energy reform by
researchers at Yale, Berkley, and the University of Illinois
which reveals that if its provisions are kept strong, a climate
bill will expand the economy by over $111 billion by 2020, and
create nearly 2 million jobs in the process. Posted.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/11/new-study-climate-bill-boost-economy-create-jobs.php?dcitc=th_rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+treehuggersite+(Treehugger)