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Posted: 15 Mar 2010 10:09:29
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. Cool-Car Rules May Affect GPS. New Rules Require Special Windshield Coatings On New Cars. Sacramento, Calif. -- Some new so-called cool-car rules from the state are making law enforcement hot under the collar. There are worries that the rules will hurt global positioning system technology. GPS is used extensively by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to monitor parolees statewide. GPS ankle bracelet technology has been in the news since the arrest of parolee and accused kidnapper Phillip Garrido. Questions center on whether those devices could be compromised, resulting in a threat to public safety. Posted. http://www.kcra.com/news/22805469/detail.html Editorial: Landmark California Clean-Air Measure Deserves Fair Chance to Succeed. THERE IS a major battle brewing over whether to delay full implementation of Assembly Bill 32. That's the 2006 measure that requires California to limit its greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, or about 30 percent below the level that would exist 10 years from now without AB 32. The California Air Resources Board, which will implement the measure, developed a plan in December 2008 to achieve emissions reductions. It is scheduled to take effect by 2012. Posted. http://www.contracostatimes.com/opinion/ci_14651643?nclick_check=1 Editorial: Repealing AB 32 Would Be a Disaster for California. It's bad enough that state leaders who claim to represent the best interests of Californians are backing an attempt to suspend the state's landmark global warming law. Now, we've learned that a signature-gathering campaign for the effort is being financed by hundreds of thousands of dollars from two Texas oil companies. Posted. http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_14675072 Editorial: AB 32 Foes Are Slick – And Predictable. Looking for hot air about global warming? You don't have to look very far. You can find it in columns by George Will and other pundits who dismiss the preponderance of scientific literature that global climate change is happening, and that human activities are contributing to it. Posted. http://www.sacbee.com/2010/03/14/2603820/ab-32-foes-are-slick-and-predictable.html#ixzz0iGUIQwYt Our View: ‘Green' Could Worsen State Job Climate. Putting his best foot forward, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proclaimed, "I'm absolutely convinced that AB32 will create more jobs than kill jobs." It may be the governor's first acknowledgement that his legacy legislation, Assembly Bill 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act, will, in fact, "kill jobs." Posted. http://www.appeal-democrat.com/articles/jobs-92699-governor-create.html Dust in the Wind. Opponents of off-roading in the Oceano Dunes are hailing a recent study as more ammunition in their campaign to shut down the off-highway vehicle park because it’s harming the health of Nipomo Mesa residents. But off-roaders are questioning the science of the study, saying the report is incomplete and ignores certain facts. The report is the second phase of a study of particulate air pollution on the Nipomo Mesa conducted for the San Luis Obispo County Air Pollution Control District. Posted. http://www.santamariatimes.com/news/local/article_069191da-2e6f-11df-ab48-001cc4c002e0.html EPA Rules on Bay Area Air. Bay Area transit planners have a new challenge after the region was found out of compliance with federal clean air standards. KCBS reports future highway and transportation projects will be affected. It has to do with particulate matter. Tiny particles that pose a significant health risk. Posted. http://www.kcbs.com/bayareanews/EPA-Rules-on-Bay-Area-Air/6568003 EPA Scientists Recommend Tougher Soot Standards. The latest science supports substantially tightening U.S. EPA's air quality standards for soot in order to safeguard public health and the environment, according to a draft report from agency scientists. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/03/12/12greenwire-epa-scientists-recommend-tougher-soot-standard-26448.html Group: Polluters Use Offsets To Avoid Carbon Cuts. Major European polluters are buying their way out of making big cuts to greenhouse gas emissions by purchasing carbon offsets that pay for environmental programs in developing nations, a nonprofit group said Friday. To avoid the high cost of becoming greener, power companies and steel makers are using offsets to meet emissions-reduction requirements, and thus undermining the EU's cap-and-trade program that would otherwise punish them financially for not cleaning up their operations, the group Sandbag said. Posted. http://www.modbee.com/2010/03/11/1084294/group-polluters-use-offsets-to.html#ixzz0iGDlLyhF Agency Gives Electric Trucks the Green Light. Electrifying the delivery of strawberries, bread, packages and other items, a major state agency has approved zero-emission electric trucks made by a Stockton company. The California Air Resources Board on Thursday approved Electric Vehicles International's fully electric return-to-base trucks. The term refers to trucks that start out at a warehouse, deliver items and then return to the starting point, which electric trucks need to do so they can plug in and charge up overnight. Posted. http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_14657872 http://www.insidebayarea.com/california/ci_14657872 http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?ID=14612 http://www.tirebusiness.com/subscriber/headlines2.phtml?cat=1204552929&headline=California+approves+electric+trucks+as+ZEVs&id=1268340217 Two Importers Of Motorcycles, Atvs Arrested. Two top executives at Ontario importer Goldenvale Inc. on Thursday were arrested and charged with illegally importing motorcycles, ATVs and related vehicles from China. Authorities arrested Goldenvale President and owner Kening N. Ma, 49, and vice President Shirley Hyunae Ji, 44, on a 70-count criminal complaint that alleges they profited from false certificates of origin. Posted. http://www.sbsun.com/ci_14659123?source=most_viewed High Desert Residents Struggle With Wind Turbine Regulations. Oak Hills - When Gus Sansone decided to invest in a wind turbine for his home in 2001, he had no idea just how much money, and energy, he would be saving in the long run. He said he paid about $36,000 to have the 80-foot-tall turbine installed, but with state and federal rebates, the cost came out to just over $16,000. After six years, the turbine paid for itself, expedited by Southern California Edison rate increases and Sansone's switching over to an electric dryer and an electric baseboard heating system in his home. Posted. http://www.sbsun.com/ci_14676339 AP Interview: Kerry: Energy Bill More about Jobs. Sen. John Kerry, hoping to win over wavering senators, said he is pushing environmental reforms to create jobs and spark energy independence, with climate benefits along "for the ride." In an interview with The Associated Press, the Massachusetts Democrat said legislation he's crafting with Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., will differ from a House-passed bill that embraces a so-called "cap and trade" approach to reduce pollution blamed for global warming. Posted. http://www.modbee.com/2010/03/12/1085482/ap-interview-kerry-energy-bill.html#ixzz0iGC3XqLV Green Team Certifies First S.J. Business. About two years ago, Green Team San Joaquin began voluntary audits of about 400 county businesses to help make their practices environmentally sustainable. On Thursday, the team announced the first business to be officially certified: Stockton-based Premier Finishing. Posted. http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100312/A_NEWS/3120318/-1/a_news14 Blogs Health Costs of California Air Pollution. Filthy air in California cost federal, state and private health insurers $193 million in hospital costs, according to a RAND Corporation study released last week. The report is the first to show how California’s failure to meet federal clean air quality standards is increasing hospital expenses and its impact on insurers, said John Romley, the study’s lead author and a RAND economist. Posted. http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/health-costs-of-california-air-pollution/ Water Vapor Causing Global Warming. Some have argued that humans cannot be responsible for global warming because water vapor, not carbon dioxide (CO2) is a much more important greenhouse gas. These climate change doubters could correctly point out that CO2 "accounts for only one in every 4000 molecules in the air" while "water vapor accounts for one in every 20." They could also correctly state that CO2 "absorbs only a quarter as much energy from sunlight as water vapor, molecule for molecule" and conclude from this that "water vapor is responsible for the majority of atmospheric heating." Posted. http://blogs.redding.com/dcraig/archives/2010/03/water-vapor-cau.html