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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 of Communications. You may need to sign in or register with individual websites to view some of the following news articles. 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 Blog 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/