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Posted: 03 Mar 2010 10:00:59
California Air Resources Board News Clips for March 3, 2010. 
This is a service of the California Air Resources Board’s Office
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Texas Refiners Mum About Funding Push To Halt Calif. Climate
Law. The money behind a campaign to suspend California's landmark
climate law and place the proposed delay before voters in
November is coming from a pair of refiners based in San Antonio,
Texas, according to several well-placed sources in Sacramento.
These sources said two refiners based in San Antonio -- Valero
Energy Corp. and Tesoro Corp. -- are the sole funders so far
behind a proposed ballot initiative that would bring a temporary
halt to A.B. 32, which would cut greenhouse gases across
California's economy to 1990 levels by 2020, starting in two
years. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/03/03/1http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/03/03/03climatewire-texas-refiners-mum-about-funding-push-to-hal-73127.html


Calif. To Link GHGs, Criteria Pollutants In New Exhaust
Standards. California air regulators are combining tailpipe and
greenhouse gas emissions standards in hopes of spurring the "car
of the future." The California Air Resources Board is proposing
to combine the state's low-emission vehicle (LEV) standards,
zero-emissions vehicle standards and greenhouse gas standards
known as Pavley II. (Pavley I is the 2002 tailpipe emissions rule
that the federal government adopted in May 2009; Pavley II will
cover vehicles after the 2016 model year). Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/03/03/2

Professor Honored for Environmental Leadership. John M. Peters,
the Hastings Professor of Preventive Medicine at the Keck School
of Medicine of USC, has been honored for his leadership in
environmental health research that has influenced California
public policy. At a luncheon held March 1 in the Edmondson
Faculty Center, Peters received the 2009 Haagen-Smit Clean Air
Award from the California Air Resources Board. Posted.
http://uscnews.usc.edu/health/professor_honored_for_environmental_leadership.html

A Split Among Utilities Could Doom Renewed Climate Bill Effort.
With a bipartisan group of senators driving for a climate bill
compromise, chief executive officers from two large power
companies in the Southeast yesterday shed some light on a split
among utilities that publicly advocate for national emissions
limits. Southern Co. CEO David Ratcliffe urged utilities to stand
by an economy wide cap-and-trade approach that appears nearly
dead in the Senate. The other CEO, James Rogers of Duke Energy,
urged a significant change in direction on legislative strategy
and public messaging to enable passage of a climate bill by next
year. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/03/03/3

EPA Authority Could Become A Pawn In A Larger Game. Some
lawmakers want to bar U.S. EPA from writing any climate
regulations -- even if Congress' own efforts fail. Others want
the agency to push forward -- even if Congress is successful.
Somewhere in the middle of this confusing situation, EPA's exact
path forward could become a bargaining chip in a bigger game as a
trio of senators tries to write a bipartisan climate bill with a
hope for passage. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/03/03/4

IPCC Leaders Say Conclusions Were Not Undermined By
'Climategate' New York -- In spite of the spate of attacks in
recent weeks challenging the conclusions of the reports by the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the scientists behind
the reports remain undeterred, three prominent IPCC report
authors told reporters yesterday. The scientists confirmed that
they and their colleagues have been personally attacked by
climate skeptics for one error recently found in the report,
regarding the timeline for glacier melt-off in the Himalayas.
Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/03/03/6

California Limits SF6, World's Most Potent Greenhouse Gas. The
California Air Resources Board has adopted a measure developed
with representatives of the electrical utilities that will limit
and monitor the emissions of the greenhouse gas sulfur
hexafluoride, SF6, from high-voltage electrical applications.
Posted.
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/mar2010/2010-03-02-091.html 

Editorial: Getting Global Warming Right. Widely publicized
errors in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's report
on global warming prompt the organization to tighten its
standards. In its 2007 report on the effects of global warming,
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated that
glaciers could vanish from the Himalayas by 2035. As has since
been widely reported, with ill-disguised glee by many blogs and
right-wing news outlets, this was a blunder. Posted.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-ipcc3-2010mar03,0,6601995.story

Scientists Taking Steps to Defend Work on Climate. For months,
climate scientists have taken a vicious beating in the media and
on the Internet, accused of hiding data, covering up errors and
suppressing alternate views. Their response until now has been
largely to assert the legitimacy of the vast body of climate
science and to mock their critics as cranks and know-nothings.
Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/03/science/earth/03climate.html

Global Warming Debate. There have been several interesting
climate-change articles published by The Californian recently,
including Eric Holst's Feb. 23 "Why global warming should concern
us all, Central Valley folk in particular." Posted.
http://www.bakersfield.com/opinion/letters/x379808702/Global-warming-debate

Utilities Willing to Go First -- but Not Alone -- on Emission
Limits. The heads of several prominent utilities say they would
not necessarily object to the power sector being the first
industry subject to carbon emission limits under proposed climate
change legislation. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/03/03/03climatewire-utilities-willing-to-go-first----but-not-alo-10220.html

Alameda County Gets Funding For Recharging Stations. Oakland —
When the next generation of electric cars hits the market later
this year, Alameda County officials are hoping to be fully
charged. The county recently received an $84,760 grant from the
Bay Area Air Quality Management District for 40 electric vehicle
charging stations in Oakland, San Leandro, Hayward and Dublin.
Posted.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_14499353

Solano County Supervisors Put Solar Project On Hold. County
leaders put on hold -- for now -- a planned $1 million solar
project in Fairfield. The Solano County Board of Supervisors on
Tuesday pulled from its agenda a proposal to transfer $1.45
million from a heating and ventilation fund to pay for the
project. Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_14503625

At Geneva Auto Show, The Hybrids Keep Rolling In. Geneva —
Hybrid or hype? More automakers rolled out their newest hybrids,
or announced plans to do so, at the Geneva Auto Show on Tuesday,
presenting the question: Is the future now, or is this just
attention-grabbing while the real powerhouse of the automotive
world remains king combustion? Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_14501730

France's Crumbling Sea Walls No Match For Ocean.
L'aiguillon-Sur-Mer, France—The moon was full, the wind roared,
the tide was high and people died by the dozens. After a wall of
ocean water engulfed picturesque towns along France's Atlantic
coast, residents, officials and experts are all asking why. Was
it due to climate change? Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/science/ci_14504479

Senate Trio Hopes to Hit Pay Dirt With Carbon 'Fee' on Fuels.
Key senators are weighing a request from Big Oil to levy a carbon
fee on the industry rather than wrap it into a sweeping
cap-and-trade system that covers most of the U.S. economy. If
accepted, the approach -- supported by ConocoPhillips, BP America
and Exxon Mobil Corp. -- could rearrange the politics of the
Senate climate debate and potentially open up votes that may not
be there otherwise. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/03/03/03climatewire-senate-trio-hopes-to-hit-pay-dirt-with-carbo-56291.html?pagewanted=print

District Says No-Burn Days Improved Air Quality. The annual
"Check Before You Burn" wood-burning season ended Sunday in Kern
County with fewer no-burn days than last year and continued
improvement in the valley's winter air quality, according to data
released Tuesday by the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control
District. Posted.
http://www.bakersfield.com/news/local/x99322969/District-says-no-burn-days-improved-air-quality

 
Smog-Check Crackdown Is a Healthy Development. In a state that
has done such a remarkable job in recent decades cleaning its air
of choking smog, it's disheartening to hear of widespread fraud
in the smog check process. Last week, a report on California's
smog-test program found that up to a third of older cars that
have passed mandated pollution checks actually fail them when
re-tested at random on the streets. Posted.
http://www.dailybreeze.com/ci_14501271 

Lawsuit Says Fish Oil Supplements Contain PCB. Lawsuit says fish
oil supplements contain PCB. An environmental group filed a
lawsuit in San Francisco on Tuesday alleging that 10 types of
fish oil or shark oil supplements contain a toxic industrial
compound, and that manufacturers and sellers need to warn
consumers. The lawsuit, filed in San Francisco Superior Court by
the Oregon group Mateel Environmental Justice Foundation and two
individuals, claims that under California's Proposition 65, the
makers and sellers of fish oil supplements are required to tell
consumers that the pills contain the compound polychlorinated
biphenyl, or PCB.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/03/BARO1C9RD3.DTL


California Proposes First Renewable Energy Storage Requirements.
Yesterday Attorney General Jerry Brown  announced a completely
new kind of renewable energy legislation, introduced by State
Assembly member Nancy Skinner (D) – designed to add more
renewable energy storage to the grid. Posted.
http://cleantechnica.com/2010/03/02/california-proposes-first-renewable-energy-storage-requirements/


Senate Trio Hopes to Hit Pay Dirt With Carbon 'Fee' on Fuels.
Key senators are weighing a request from Big Oil to levy a carbon
fee on the industry rather than wrap it into a sweeping
cap-and-trade system that covers most of the U.S. economy.
Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/03/03/03climatewire-senate-trio-hopes-to-hit-pay-dirt-with-carbo-56291.html?scp=4&sq=greenhouse%20gas&st=cse


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Study: High Heat, Higher Hospital Admissions. Register file
photo of high temperature reading at a Fullerton bank by Bruce
Chambers. Higher temperatures bring a spike in hospital
admissions for a variety of diseases in California, a new state
study says — an effect that holds true even without heat waves,
and one that could grow worse with global warming. Posted.
http://greenoc.freedomblogging.com/2010/03/02/study-high-heat-higher-hospital-admissions/20625/

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