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Posted: 26 Feb 2010 11:06:51
California Air Resources Board News Clips for February 26, 2010. This is a service of the California Air Resources Board’s Office of Communications. You may need to sign in or register with individual webites to view some of the following news articles. Calif. Moves To Mesh Vehicle Emission Rules With U.S. Rules. The California Air Resources Board voted yesterday to amend the state's vehicular emissions rules to combine them with the federal rules passed in May 2009. The amendments allow cars that meet the federal greenhouse gas standards for model years 2012 to 2016 to also comply with California's standards for each of those years. The federal standards are less stringent than California's from 2012 to 2015, but the two dovetail at 250 grams of carbon dioxide per mile in 2016. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2010/02/26/3 http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9E3RTT80.htm California Harmonizes Greenhouse Gas Standard for Cars With Federal Standard. Sacramento, California - California today fulfilled its commitment to establish the nation's first greenhouse gas standard for passenger vehicles by allowing federal greenhouse gas standards to fully comply with California's standards for model years 2012 to 2016. The regulation adopted unanimously today by the California Air Resources Board allows cars that comply with the federal greenhouse gas standards for model years 2012 to 2016 to also comply with California's standards for each of those years. The two standards differ slightly, but reach the same levels by 2016. Posted. http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/feb2010/2010-02-25-091.html Baby Steps To Stem Greenhouse Gases. The failure of the Copenhagen talks, a key Republican victory in the Senate and the recession have all hurt the prospects for serious cuts in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Where does that leave us? Sarah Gardner reports. Bob Moon: Today, President Obama asked a gathering of top CEOs to support his economic agenda. And high on his list is global warming. Obama said putting a price on carbon pollution is a critical part of moving toward clean energy. Posted. http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/02/24/pm-baby-steps/# Official: Climate Change Treaty Unlikely This Year. Bali, Indonesia -- Industrialized and developing countries are not likely to reach a treaty this year on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, which have sparked fears of weather-related disasters, the U.N. climate chief said Thursday. Yvo de Boer, who announced last week he would resign July 1, said there was not enough time to recover from the disappointing summit in December in Copenhagen, where world leaders failed to agree on a legally binding climate pact. Posted. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/25/AR2010022501762_pf.html 2 Key House Dems Move To Block EPA Regulatory Authority. Two top House Democrats introduced a measure yesterday aimed at blocking U.S. EPA's authority to regulate greenhouse gases, mirroring the controversial effort launched on the Senate side by Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski.The measure from Agriculture Chairman Collin Peterson (Minn.) and Missouri's Ike Skelton was also co-sponsored by Missouri Republican Jo Ann Emerson. Their resolution aims to use the Congressional Review Act to effectively veto EPA's finding that greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/2010/02/26/1 Incentives To Rise For Home Solar Arrays. A new law will double the cap on how much energy customers can sell back to utilities. At least 10 times a day Andrew Kin clicks onto the Internet for the pure joy of watching his electricity meter run backward. The 30-year-old business consultant placed an array of rooftop solar panels on his Westwood duplex last fall, and thanks to a website provided by his installer he has watched his monthly electricity bills drop, in real time, from $50 to about $10. http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-fi-solar-metering26-2010feb26,0,7775863.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fnews%2Fscience%2Fenvironment+%28L.A.+Times+-+Environment%29&utm_content=Google+Reader Clearing the Air at American Ports. The Teamsters union and environmental activists have formed an unlikely and outspoken alliance aiming to clear the air in American ports, and perhaps bolster the Teamsters’ ranks in the process. The labor-green alliance is getting under the trucking industry’s skin by asserting that short-haul trucking companies working in ports — and not the truck drivers, who are often considered independent contractors — should spend the billions needed to buy new, low-emission rigs that can cost $100,000 to $175,000 each. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/26/business/26ports.html?adxnnl=1&ref=todayspaper&adxnnlx=1267207565-3WE97sF6yP7zu8PohaUMpQ Port Truckers Get New Rig-Fix Deadline. Oakland — There was a mad rush last fall to order and install new diesel filters in trucks that haul cargo at the Port of Oakland to comply with changes in air-quality rules that took effect Jan. 1. Now, another frantic race is expected to begin next week as air-quality officials issue new grant contracts and give several hundred drivers the chance to order and install filters by April 30 — the extension allowed by the state Air Resources Board. Posted. http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_14473545 Common Sense At Last / Bipartisan State Push For Job-Creating Regulatory Relief Is Welcome. For years, complaints about the state’s hostile business climate have gone unheeded by the Democrats who control the Legislature, who inexplicably disregard the fact that the vast majority of California jobs are in the private sector. Democratic lawmakers in America’s other megastates – Texas, New York and Florida – have a long record of joining in bipartisan efforts to spur growth, but not in the Golden State. Posted. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/feb/26/common-sense-at-last/ Will "Going Green" Backfire? With nearly every politician - from city councils to state legislators, governors and congress - embracing green technology as the cause du jour, they don't realize that with every bill signed, they may be actually killing the industry. It's kind of like reverse psychology. Politicians will kill green jobs, businesses and technology because they are ramming it down the publics' throat, just like nationalized health care. And look at how great nationalized health care is being received... Posted. http://www.calwatchdog.com/2010/02/26/will-going-green-backfire/ Workshop On Diesel Pollution. San Andreas - The Calaveras County Farm Bureau and the California Air Resources Board are teaming up to offer a free workshop on rules intended to reduce pollution from diesel-powered trucks, buses and farm equipment. The workshop will be at 1 p.m. Monday in the Calaveras County Public Library, 1299 Gold Hunter Road, San Andreas. The Air Resources Board is reaching out to the owners of fleets of agricultural vehicles. Posted. http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100226/A_NEWS/100229907/-1/NEWSMAP Pesticide Regs Clean Valley's Air. Pesticide emissions that contribute to smog in California dropped significantly in 2008, the first year restrictions on agricultural fumigant applications specifically targeting air quality were in effect. In fact, the volatile organic compound pesticide emissions declined by an impressive 30 percent from 1990 levels in the San Joaquin Valley areas that do not meet federal air quality standards — all of Fresno, Kings, Madera, Merced, San Joaquin, Stanislaus and Tulare counties and part of Kern. Posted. http://www.modbee.com/2010/02/25/v-print/1064637/pesticide-regs-clean-valleys-air.html Gustafson: Was EPA's Recent Ruling That Great For Corn Ethanol? On Feb. 2, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized its regulations for the national Renewable Fuel Standard. The bottom line is that the EPA determined that corn grain ethanol reduces greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 20 percent and qualifies it as a conventional biofuel. The ethanol industry hailed this finding as a significant victory and a new market opportunity, while the livestock sectors stated that not much was new. Turns out both are partially correct. Posted. http://www.farmforum.net/node/18088 Blogs Air in California Can Be Deadly. It’s not a question of whether people are dying from a type of air pollution known as fine particulate exposure, but how many. Those attacking the science behind the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) epic rulemakings on toxic diesels, however, won’t let the facts get in the way of a good story. Like climate change deniers, these groups continue to attack science with trumped up charges that defy the consensus of experts in the field. Posted. http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/dbailey/air_in_california_can_be_deadl.html KQED: On the Road to a National GHG Auto Standard. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced Thursday that the state has fulfilled its part of the May 2009 agreement set between auto manufacturers and two federal agencies that will establish the nation's first greenhouse gas emissions standard for cars...AB 1493 would not be affected by a suspension of AB 32, an issue Californians may be voting on soon. Posted. http://blogs.kqed.org/climatewatch/2010/02/25/on-the-road-to-a-national-ghg-auto-standard/ I Guess The Chicken Littles Didn't Get The Memo. ...We've Got our own Weather Wombats calling out for you to attend a conference to further scam you out of your money and your job. They are on the move to stop the "California Jobs Initiative," the state anti-cap-and-trade ballot initiative. The ballot initiative would rollback the California cap-and-trade law (AB 32) pending a decline in state unemployment. Posted. http://vote29.com/newmyblog/?p=3358