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