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newsclips -- Newsclips for March 19-22, 2010.

Posted: 22 Mar 2010 16:58:34
California Air Resources Board News Clips for March 19-24, 2010.

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Ships Skirt Calif. Coast To Avoid Pollution Rules. Ventura,
Calif. -- Cargo ships are avoiding the California coast because
of tightened air pollution rules, causing problems for Navy
missile tests. California Air Resources Board rules that went
into effect last summer mandate that ships within 24 miles of the
coast burn cleaner fuel. As a result, ships are staying farther
at sea so they can burn dirtier, cheaper fuel. Posted.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/22/AR2010032201332_pf.html
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/03/22/2625039/ships-skirt-calif-coast-to-avoid.html
http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_14730443
http://www.fresnobee.com/2010/03/22/1868405/ships-skirt-calif-coast-to-avoid.html
http://www.vcstar.com/news/2010/mar/21/cargo-ships-skirting-channel-islands-creating/

Ex-Signal Reporter Dies. People: Richard Varenchik covered cops
beat and went on to work in public service. Former Signal crime
reporter Richard Varenchik died in his Valencia home Thursday
after an eight-month battle with skin cancer. He was 65 years
old. Varenchik covered some of the most infamous crimes in the
Santa Clarita Valley during the 1970s, including the so-called
Vampire Van Killer, a man who murdered a female hitchhiker in
July 1978. Posted.
http://www.the-signal.com/news/article/26222/print.html

Give Voters A Voice In Global Warming Policy. Voters should have
a voice in the decision on how to best implement AB32, the
state's global warming law. That's why the Howard Jarvis
Taxpayers Association is supporting the California Jobs
Initiative, a November ballot measure which will adjust the
timetable activating expensive AB32-related regulations. Moving
ahead with AB32 at this point in time will do nothing to slow
global warming, but it will cost Californians billions in higher
taxes and more expensive energy at a time of record-high
unemployment and a severe recession. Posted.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/22/EDME1CHAH4.DTL&type=printable

PD Editorial: Clear The Air. Oil companies hide behind jobs in
attack on climate change law. When it comes to climate change,
Sonoma County gets it. Five years ago, the Board of Supervisors
and all nine cities promised to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
to 25 percent below 1990 levels by 2015. It wasn't until a year
later that the Legislature passed and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
signed Assembly Bill 32, a less ambitious law requiring a 25
percent reduction statewide by 2020. Posted.
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100322/OPINION/100319331/1031/SPORTS07&Title=PD-Editorial-Clear-the-air&template=printart

GM Plans To Roll Out Hydrogen Vehicles. General Motors Co. hopes
to push more vehicles fueled by hydrogen, even as it plans to
launch a battery-powered car later this year. Charles Freese,
GM's executive director of global powertrain engineering, said
that even though U.S. policy has pushed lithium-ion packs,
hydrogen fuel cells are equally necessary to cut reliance on oil.
At a briefing in Burbank, Calif., he said GM's new fuel-cell
power system is lighter, smaller and cheaper than its previous
model used in the Equinox wagon. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/03/19/9

Tokyo To Debut Cap-And-Trade Program. The city of Tokyo plans to
launch Japan's first cap-and-trade program next month, requiring
1,400 businesses to reduce emissions by as much as 8 percent. The
Japanese parliament will soon consider a national cap-and-trade
bill after the Cabinet approved a draft proposal last week.
Though some details of the cap-and-trade regime remain unclear,
Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has pushed for the plan as part of
his pledge to reduce the country's emissions 25 percent from 1990
levels by 2020. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/03/19/8

Oakland Mayor Requests More Money For Truckers. A few hundred
truckers who haul cargo at the Port of Oakland and were among the
last to order new particulate filters for their rigs now have
until June 30 to comply with strict new state air quality
regulations that took effect Jan. 1. Posted.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_14703041

Drive Started For Ballot Measure To Suspend State's Greenhouse
Gas Law. A backlash against efforts in California and Congress to
rein in greenhouse gas emissions is brewing in hard economic
times. A coalition of businesses — including two Bay Area oil
refiners — and an anti-tax group has begun a signature drive for
a November ballot initiative that would suspend California's
pioneering law to combat global warming until the jobless rate
drops back to 2006 levels. Posted.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_14705239
http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_14698740

Bay Area Oil Companies Finance Initiative To Suspend Greenhouse
Gas Control Law. Oil companies, including one Contra Costa County
refiner, contributed the largest share of $966,000 raised for a
petition drive to suspend the state's law to limit greenhouse
gases. Posted.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_14705068

Verifying An International Climate Pact Will Take Years – Study.
Even if world leaders sign a new climate treaty and begin cutting
greenhouse gas emissions, it could be years before their progress
can be independently verified, says a new National Academy of
Sciences report. Current U.N. rules require countries to submit
national emissions inventories, but the data are self-reported,
not required regularly from all countries, and there are no
independent data to verify it. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/03/22/3

Uses Of Federal Lands To Reduce Carbon Emissions Require New
Policy – Study. A comprehensive public land management policy is
needed to decide the uses of millions of acres of federal land in
a future low-carbon economy, according to a paper released by
Duke University. Public lands can be used to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions from the atmosphere, but such efforts will require
a new coordinated effort between government agencies that own the
different parcels of land, according to the paper. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/03/22/4

Lawyers See U.S. Climate Trades Faltering Without A Federal Cap.
Salt Lake City -- Environmental lawyers are finding it
increasingly hard to advise clients on climate strategy in the
absence of federal guidance. At the American Bar Association's
Conference on Environmental Law last week, lawyers debated
whether they should advise clients to purchase offsets as part of
their sustainability plans or for trading purposes. Current low
prices for offsets reflect both the economic downturn and the
lack of federal greenhouse gas regulations. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/03/22/6

Valero Has Spent $500K So Far On Campaign Against Calif.
Emissions Law. It's official: Petroleum refiner Valero Energy
Corp. is the primary financier of a campaign to suspend
California's climate change law. In documents filed with the
California Secretary of State yesterday, the California Jobs
Initiative confirmed that San Antonio, Texas-based Valero has
contributed $500,000 to a budding drive that wants to ask voters
in November whether they support delaying the law. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/03/19/3

Lawn Mowers Going 'Green'. With springtime comes the urge to
garden, and the Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District is
sponsoring a mower exchange program that may help gardeners go a
bit more "green." Swap your gas mower for a rechargeable one that
reportedly produces no on-site emissions, which Yolo-Solano Air
Quality officials say helps reduce air pollution from gas-powered
mowers. Posted. http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_14708789

Water and Power Commissioners To Vote On Mayor's Carbon
Surcharge. The Los Angeles Board of Water and Power Commissioners
is expected to vote today on a carbon reduction surcharge
proposed by the mayor to help fast-track the city's transition to
clean, renewable energy. Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_14697223

Climate Change Cited As Mont. Leases Suspended. Billings,
Mont.—A federal judge has approved a first-of-its-kind settlement
requiring the government to suspend 38,000 acres of oil and gas
leases in Montana so it can gauge how oil field activities
contribute to climate change. Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/nation-world/ci_14701830

Report: Many Power Plants Emitting More Mercury. Washington --
Many of America's coal-fired power plants lack widely available
pollution controls for the highly toxic metal mercury, and
mercury emissions recently increased at more than half of the
country's 50 largest mercury-emitting power plants, according to
a report Wednesday. Posted.
http://www.fresnobee.com/2010/03/17/1862842/report-many-power-plants-emitting.html

Chevron Puts Solar Technologies To Test. Los Angeles -- On a
dirt plot near Bakersfield where a massive refinery once churned
out gasoline and asphalt, one of the world's largest oil
companies is looking for something more green. Posted.
http://www.fresnobee.com/2010/03/21/1867782/chevron-is-putting-solar-technologies.html

LA-Area Eco-Cruise Shows Tourists Pollution's Toll. Long Beach,
Calif. -- A new cruise off the Southern California coast has
sightseers trading whales and dolphins for smokestacks and oil.
The Urban Ocean Boat Cruise, run by the Aquarium of the Pacific
in Long Beach and Harbor Breeze Cruises, aims to show the
environmental effects on coasts and harbors of fishing, industry
and other human activities. Posted.
http://www.fresnobee.com/2010/03/21/1868064/la-area-eco-cruise-shows-tourists.html

Wales, The Greenest Place On Earth. For two decades I've been
exhausting my vocabulary seeking names for all the shades of
green in the Welsh countryside. Pastures are Crayola green;
windbreaks are jade; spring mosses are the chartreuse of an
avocado's innards. Posted.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/18/AR2010031804977.html

Public Support For Nuclear Power At New Peak. Washington
(Reuters) - The majority of Americans who favor nuclear-generated
electricity hit a new high this year, according to a poll on
Monday that suggests growing support for President Barack Obama's
aid to the nuclear industry. Posted.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/22/AR2010032201333.html

Arctic Animals Doing Better, But Not Close To Pole. Washington
-- The overall number of animals in the Arctic has increased over
the past 40 years ago, according to a new international study.
But critters who live closest to the North Pole are disappearing.
Posted.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/17/AR2010031702297.html

BLOGS

Some Good News On Climate Legislation? The details dribbling out
about the carbon bill that Lindsey Graham, John Kerry and Joe
Lieberman are working on are more encouraging than I would've
thought. That's partially a comment on the bill's potential
quality and partially a comment on my low expectations. Posted.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/03/some_good_news_on_climate_legi.html

California’s New $5,000 E.V. Rebates: Grab ‘Em Fast. The good
news for California residents is that they can get a rebate of up
to $5,000 if they buy a battery electric or plug-in hybrid car in
the next few months. The bad news is that there’s not a lot to
choose from because many of the  vehicles, like the Chevrolet
Volt, Nissan Leaf and Fisker Karma, won’t be available until the
end of the year. By then the $4.1 million allocated in the
innovative state program may be exhausted, but more cash is
probably on the way. Posted.
http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/19/californias-new-5000-e-v-rebates-grab-em-fast/?pagemode=print

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