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newsclips -- Newsclips for January 14, 2010

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 12:29:16
California Air Resources Board News Clips for January 14, 2010.

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Editorial: Air Pollution a Regional Issue. Our view: Punishing
Butte County for bad air that drifts up from the south makes
little sense. It's hard to argue with the federal government's
desire for cleaner air. Who doesn't want cleaner air, especially
during the hot summer months? But the new guidelines being
considered by the Obama administration seem unrealistic to us —
especially when Butte County is being punished for a smog problem
that drifts up from the south. Posted.
http://www.chicoer.com/opinion/ci_14185501 

Emissions Rules Tightened For Bay Area Businesses. The Bay Area
Air Quality Management District announced yesterday it has
approved stricter emissions requirements for certain polluting
businesses that build, expand or modify facilities within the
nine-county district. To comply with the rules, some businesses
will need to cut their emissions by more than half, district
spokeswoman Ana Sandoval said. Among the businesses typically
subject to the requirements are gas stations, crematoriums,
refineries and dry cleaners. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/01/14/17

Fontana-Based Burrtec Fined For Emissions Violations. The
California Air Resources Board announced Wednesday that
Fontana-based Burrtec Waste Industries paid thousands of dollars
in fines for emissions violations in 2005 and 2006. The board
investigation showed that Burrtec failed to inspect its diesel
vehicles, according to a board news release. Posted.
http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_14182868

California Approves Standard ‘Crippling’ U.S. Ethanol (Update1).
California regulators approved a carbon fuel standard yesterday
that the U.S. ethanol industry says will bar domestic forms of
the fuel from being used in the nation’s largest fuel-consuming
state. The state’s Office of Administrative Law yesterday
approved the implementation of the Low Carbon Fuel Standard, or
LCFS, which aims to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions. Posted.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601072&sid=aA.cvSQfaoXs#

Insane Air Board's New Role: Tire Nazis. I read the proposed
rules and I think the concerns of the California New Car Dealers
Association are spot-on: CARB is proposing to require every
repair dealer to check the inflation of every tire during repair
to improve mpg for all vehicles which, in theory, is meritorious.
However (the) regs. CARB’s pushing through (released this week
and subject to a 15 day comment period) ... provides that the
only times that consumers may decline a check and inflate
service—Posted.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jan/13/insane-air-boards-new-role-tire-nazis/

Gas Industry Pressing Senate For Climate Concessions. Help for
coal and renewable power in climate legislation could hurt
natural gas, an industry official said yesterday as the fuel
continued its quest to gain political standing. Natural gas will
be caught in a "squeeze play" if there are subsidies for coal,
solar, wind and other green sources and natural gas is ignored,
Skip Horvath, president and CEO of the Natural Gas Supply
Association, said at the U.S. Energy Association's annual State
of the Energy Industry Forum. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/01/14/1

Not in Anyone’s Backyard. Protect the environment or create
renewable energy? A new bill shows they're far from the same
thing. You can't blame California for not being ambitious. In
2008, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger set the bold goal that by 2020,
a third of the state's power would come from renewable sources.
Not bad for the nation's most populous state and among the
world's top 10 largest economies. At the time, it was a target
miles ahead of any other state, and a fairly risky one at the
beginning of a would-be global recession that would drive the
Golden State deep into the red. Posted.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/230681/output/print

Stricter New Smog Limit Would Hit Rural Areas, Too. Washington -
Hundreds of communities far from congested highways and belching
smokestacks could soon join big cities and industrial corridors
in violation of stricter limits on lung-damaging smog proposed
Thursday by the Obama administration. Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/environment/ci_14187069

Commentary: Bad Science Could Trash Economy. Even if the economy
gets out of this recession and is not soon worsened again by the
federal government’s debt accumulation, don’t breathe easy
because here comes the Environmental Protection Agency with a
plan to strangle it with fresh annual costs that could ultimately
be as high as $90 billion. Posted.
http://www.news-herald.com/articles/2010/01/14/opinion/doc4b4eaf7690b4d955909157.txt

EPA Crackdown On Smog Could Hit Local Businesses, Like Surfboard
Makers. Santa Cruz - New smog standards proposed by the Obama
Administration could put surfboard makers, autobody shops and
other homespun businesses under the nose of regulators as the
Monterey Bay air district, not home to many big polluters, is
forced to squeeze smaller venues to win federal compliance.
Posted. http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_14183690

Air Regulators Give Break To Oakland Truckers. Oakland,
Calif.—State air regulators have granted another extension for
Port of Oakland truckers who are applying for grants to comply
with new diesel emissions standards. Stricter diesel rules, which
require expensive truck upgrades, went into effect Jan. 1.
Posted. http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_14182276

Colo. Federal Lab Gets Funds For Biofuels Work. Denver -- A
consortium led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory will
receive up to nearly $34 million in federal stimulus funds to
work on ways to make fuel from plant materials that can be used
in existing pipelines and refineries. Posted.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/13/AR2010011303789.html

Airing The Debate On New Ozone Rules. Napa County may have an
easier time meeting strict proposed regulations for ozone
pollution than other Bay Area counties. The Environmental
Protection Agency announced last week it wants the new standards
for acceptable amount of ozone, a form of oxygen that is a
pollutant, to be between 0.060 and 0.070 parts per million.
Posted.
http://www.napavalleyregister.com/news/local/article_65a97516-0020-11df-897c-001cc4c03286.html


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California Might Give Pollution Permit Cash Back to the People.
California is pushing ahead with a new system to regulate carbon
emissions. Come 2012, utilities, refineries, and other industrial
polluters won't be able to pollute for free. They'll have to have
permits. California is planning to auction those permits off, and
that will bring in somewhere between $2 billion and $22 billion
for the state between 2012 and 2020. Posted.
http://www.good.is/post/california-might-give-pollution-permit-cash-back-to-the-people


Small Firms Slam E.P.A. Clean Air Revisions. Small business
owners are claiming that the revised greenhouse gas regulations
proposedrecently by the Environmental Protection Agency to curb
emissions would be financially burdensome for them. The E.P.A.
has a rule known as the “tailoring rule,” meant to cushion the
financial impact of emissions control on small businesses,
primarily by excluding them from having to purchase Clear Air Act
operating permits. Posted.
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/small-firms-slam-epa-clean-air-revisions/



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