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newsclips -- Newsclips for December 9, 2009.

Posted: 09 Dec 2009 11:17:52
California Air Resources Board News Clips for December 9, 2009.
 
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Researcher's Lie Could Threaten Diesel Rules. Sacramento - A
sweeping California regulation aimed at cutting hazardous
pollution from diesel engine exhaust could be derailed after a
key state researcher on the project was caught in a lie about his
academic credentials. The California Air Resources Board is
scheduled to meet today to discuss whether to delay the
implementation of the regulation because of the weak economy,
which some experts claim has led to a drop in diesel emissions.
But that discussion has been overshadowed by revelations about
the researcher's trumped-up resume. Posted.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/09/MNQR1B123E.DTL&type=printable

State Air Board Will Debate A Recession Break On Diesel Rules.
The California Air Resources Board must decide today whether the
bad economy justifies giving truckers and construction firms more
breathing room on the state's toughest-in-the-nation diesel
pollution regulations. By cutting diesel consumption, the
recession has likely improved the state's air quality, air board
staff say. Fleet owners hope to use that evidence to convince the
agency that it should delay mandated retrofits and upgrades they
say the recession has made them unable to afford. Posted.
http://www.sacbee.com/politics/v-print/story/2381292.html

California Diesel Rules Generate Debate In Wisconsin. Builders
nationwide are rallying against California’s rules requiring
diesel emission cuts in construction equipment. Although the fear
is that California’s rules will become the standard for other
states to adopt, regulators in Wisconsin are still content to
partner with builders, rather than police them. Rule makers at
the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources are not drafting or
considering any diesel emission rules, said Jessica Lawent, DNR
air management specialist. Posted.
http://dailyreporter.com/wp-content/plugins/dmc_sociable_toolbar/wp-print.php?p=36537

Letters To The Editor: Stolen E-Mails On Global Warming; Air
Board’s Deception. We’ll look past the misinformation conveyed by
your Dec. 3 editorial “Tainted science” and attempt to put the
matter in perspective. Since a hacker stole and publicized the
private e-mails of a handful of scientists, many of the
subsequent charges made have already fizzled. The most serious
charge by far against the e-mailing group is that they blocked
publication by scientists with whom they disagreed and prevented
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from
considering the findings of those scientists in its assessment
report. Posted.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/dec/09/stolen-e-mails-global-warming-air-boards-deception/

CARB Under Fire For Covering Up Scandal Involving Diesel Reg
Vote. The California Air Resources Board and specifically CARB’s
rules governing diesel emissions approved on Dec. 12 last year
have come under fire off and on, but some of the most noteworthy
criticism is from Dr. John G. Telles, an air board appointee who
said recently that the board’s staff failed to meet its “ethical
if not legal obligation” to provide all board members with
pertinent data before they voted on the emissions regulation.
Posted.
http://www.thetrucker.com/News/Stories/2009/12/8/CARBunderfireforcoveringupscandalinvolvingdieselregvote.aspx

Contractors Ask CARB To Retrofit Their Own Retrofit Rules. The
latest data on off-road construction equipment currently in use
in California indicates that the construction industry will
exceed state diesel emission targets for 2010, according to the
Associated General Contractors of America (AGC), making the
diesel retrofit regulations scheduled to go into effect next year
unnecessary to meet state emissions targets after all. Posted.
http://fleetowner.com/green/archive/contractors-carb-retrofit-1209/

CARB Reviews Truck Upgrade Rule. This week, the California Air
Resources Board will discuss economic factors affecting
implementation of major truck rules, but a scandal over a key
employee’s credentials related to these regulations will not be
among these considerations. On Dec. 4, a statement was published
from Ron Roberts, a longtime board member. He said he and fellow
board member Dr. John Telles, a Fresno cardiologist, would call
for suspension of the Statewide Truck and Bus
Rule.http://www.etrucker.com/apps/news/article.asp?id=83764

Central Valley A ‘Leader’ In Wind Power, Alternative Fuels. •
Green jobs and business growth outpace rest of state’s economy. •
‘Green sector businesses are taking root across every region of
California’. New data released Wednesday shows that California
green businesses have increased 45 percent in number and 36
percent in employment from 1995 to 2008 while total jobs in
California expanded only 13 percent. Posted.
http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?ID=13825

Job Growth In California Is Going Green. From January 2007 to
January 2008 green jobs increased 5% while total jobs declined
1%. Green businesses are blooming in California, creating jobs at
a faster pace than the broader economy, a new study has found.
The report from Next 10, a nonprofit research group in Palo Alto,
explores California's "core green economy," including areas such
as research and advocacy, finance and investment, energy
efficiency, recycling and building. Posted.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-green-jobs9-2009dec09,0,5169502,print.story

Pressure for a Climate Draft Accord Grows. Copenhagen —
Delegates to the international climate talks accelerated their
negotiations on Wednesday, racing among the booths and offices of
countries large and small, comparing competing “nonpapers” —
sections of the proposed text with no official existence — in the
quest to hash out a realistic draft of a new climate agreement by
the weekend. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/science/earth/10climate.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print

EPA Chief: Obama To Work With Congress On Climate.
Copenhagen—The top U.S. environmental official told a divided
U.N. climate conference Wednesday that the Obama administration's
moves to "make up for lost time" and cut greenhouse gases would
complement congressional action and wasn't intended to bypass
recalcitrant lawmakers. Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/science/ci_13958585

EPA Agrees To Review Oil, Gas Pollution Standards. Denver --
Federal officials have agreed to review air pollution standards
for oil and gas operations to decide if they need to be updated.
Posted.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/08/AR2009120803902.html

The Copenhagen Concoction. For months, the U.N. climate change
summit that began Monday in Copenhagen has been billed as the
world's last best hope to match the scientific consensus on
global warming with a policy consensus. But now it turns out
there is little of either, and Copenhagen looks like it will go
down as one of the more remarkable cases of political hubris in
recent memory. Posted.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB30001424052748704007804574574053846536712.html

Global Warming Is A Hot Topic. 2000-2009 is "on-track to become
the warmest decade on record", according to a statement issued by
Michael Jarraud, secretary-general of the World meteorological
Organization during the 192 nation climate conference in
Copenhagen this week. Posted.
http://www.examiner.com/x-11270-Hartford-Wellness-Examiner~y2009m12d9-Global-warming-is-a-hot-topic

Copenhagen's Political Science. With the publication of damaging
e-mails from a climate research center in Britain, the radical
environmental movement appears to face a tipping point. The
revelation of appalling actions by so-called climate change
experts allows the American public to finally understand the
concerns so many of us have articulated on this issue. Posted.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/08/AR2009120803402.html

EPA Chief: US Will Regulate CO2 With Common Sense. Copenhagen —
The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says she
will take commonsense steps to regulate carbon emissions to
protect the health of Americans. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson
said her newly declared power to regulate greenhouse gases will
be used to complement legislation pending in Congress, not
replace it. She said "this is not an either-or moment. It's a
both-and moment." EPA declared Monday that carbon emission could
endanger human health and would be subject to federal regulation.
Posted.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i9TuMrvrknh-ZXwqmZ2N-48kff3wD9CFPT500

Big Utility Turns Bullish on Carbon Capture. The head of
American Electric Power Co., the biggest emitter of carbon
dioxide in the U.S., said advances in technology would allow the
company to eliminate the emissions from its coal-fired power
plants by 2025. Mike Morris, chief executive of Ohio-based AEP,
said his company's early experience with a carbon capture and
storage project at its Mountaineer power plant in West Virginia
had exceeded expectations. Posted.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126032092489782773.html?mod=rss_Today's_Most_Popular

Climate Deal Likely to Bear Big Price Tag. If negotiators reach
an accord at the climate talks in Copenhagen it will entail
profound shifts in energy production, dislocations in how and
where people live, sweeping changes in agriculture and forestry
and the creation of complex new markets in global warming
pollution credits. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/09/science/earth/09cost.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=carbon%20emissions&st=cse


Lawmakers Reject Attempt to Handcuff EPA Greenhouse Gas Rules.
House and Senate conferees last night rejected an attempt to
block U.S. EPA's work on regulations to curb greenhouse gas
emissions. The vote came as part of the conference on a $446.8
billion omnibus spending bill that also sets the largest-ever
budget for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/12/09/09greenwire-lawmakers-reject-attempt-to-handcuff-epa-green-33097.html

Copenhagen Climate Summit a Wild Ride. The calls for climate
action begin at the airport, where the thousands of arriving
journalists, negotiators and observers are greeted by billboards
showcasing eco-friendly hotels, drowning polar bears and stern
warnings of impending climate catastrophe. One features a polar
bear alone on an ice floe. "The Arctic can’t wait: climate deal
now." Posted.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/09/copenhagen-climate-summiteers-face-wild-ride/

'Green Economy' Growing In California Despite Recession. With
California's unemployment rate at 12.3 percent, there's more job
loss than growth these days. But a new report cites a surge of
jobs being created in the state's young "green economy." Posted.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/business/ci_13957800

South San Francisco Biofuel Firm Awarded $22 Million Federal
Grant. South San Francisco — A bioproducts company has earned a
federal grant of nearly $22 million to build a refinery that will
produce alternative, algae-based fuel for vehicles on a
large-scale basis. Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/environment/ci_13946433

Tests Link Cancer To Snarled Freeway Air. In as little as three
months, the brains of laboratory rats begin to change after being
exposed to the air around congested Southern California freeways.
"The evidence we are clearly seeing is the molecular cascade that
can lead to the development of cancer," said Dr. Keith L. Black,
chairman of the department of neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai
Medical Center in Los Angeles. Black is a world-class surgeon who
pioneered research on ways to open the blood-brain barrier,
enabling medicines to be used in the fight against brain cancer.
Posted. http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_13955712?source=rss

The Earth Is Crying Out for Help. As national leaders and others
assemble in Copenhagen for the climate change negotiations, the
whole subject must seem a mystifying cloud of acronyms, numbers
and data. But as important as all these are in crafting an action
plan, they completely obscure the fact that the planet works as a
biological as well as a physical system. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/09/opinion/09iht-edlovejoy.html?sq=climate%20change&st=cse&adxnnl=1&scp=10&adxnnlx=1260378189-Qyj/lAha7uwdP7XfC+moqg

Larry Wilson: Cold Weather Heats Up Debate Over Global Warming.
SURE is cold here. Wednesday it was still just 2 degrees Celsius
- which system I'm trying to get a feel for, even though it is a
Commie plot - in my driveway at 8:30 a.m. The snow high on the
mountains seen through the clearest almost-winter air was, as
always, stunning to behold. Earlier, on a trail run, frost
glinted everywhere on the Arroyo Seco floor. Posted.
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/ci_13956918

Blogs

Using Fire to Reduce Carbon Emissions. That's what the people at
the Association of Fire Ecology believe. They are talking long
range forecasts and they also assume that all forests are
susceptible to stand replacing fires if left untreated which
would negate any carbon sequestration efforts. This association
has put out a "carbon position paper", based on this recent
Executive Order. Posted.
http://blogs.redding.com/lwinter/archives/2009/12/using-fire-to-r.html

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