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Posted: 24 Mar 2010 11:35:53
California Air Resources Board News Clips for March 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. Climate Law Won't Hurt California Economy, Report Says. Many sectors will prosper under the greenhouse gas limits, an analysis by the state air board finds. A business group disputes the findings. California's overall economy will not suffer, and many parts of it will prosper under the state's landmark global warming law, according to an analysis by the California Air Resources Board that rebuts an industry-led ballot effort to suspend the regulations. Posted. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-climate24-2010mar24,0,3412638,print.story Opinion: A Flawed Cost/Benefit Study Of A Greener California. The Varshney/Tootelian analysis, often cited by foes of AB 32, overestimates the law's costs by a factor of 10. It also excludes the value of energy savings and neglects the effects of innovation. The stakes are huge when it comes to regulating the use of fossil fuels in California. We need serious, credible analyses in order to understand the economic effects of new laws and proposed legislation. Unfortunately, in California, one highly flawed estimate of costs to consumers and small businesses is distorting the debate. Posted. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-sweeney24-2010mar24,0,1112095,print.story Sanjay Varshney Responds to Criticism. Sanjay Varshney, dean of the College of Business Administration, and Dennis Tootelian, business administration professor, released a statement today defending their report on Assembly Bill 32. Varshney and Tootelian have been highly criticized for their report titled "Cost of AB 32 on Small Businesses." According to the report, AB 32 would cost California small businesses $182.6 billion in gross state output and $1.1 million in jobs. Posted. http://www.statehornet.com/news/sanjay-varshney-responds-to-criticism-1.1277279 CA Air District to CARB: Suspend Truck Rules, Other Climate Change Regs. A California air quality management district is asking the California Air Resources Board to suspend trucking and other regulations tied to the state’s 2006 climate change law. The Mojave Desert Air Quality Management District voted Monday, March 22, to formally request that CARB suspend several regulations developed under California Assembly Bill 32 – a 2006 law aimed at cutting the state’s greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2020. Posted. http://www.landlinemag.com/todays_news/Daily/2010/Mar10/032210/032310-01.htm Opinion: Take A Global View Of Climate Change. The Senate is due to unveil a bipartisan climate and energy package soon. As lawmakers consider it, they must not lose sight of the vital connection between people and nature. Numerous studies — including last month’s Quadrennial Defense Review by the Penatgon — have detailed how the changing climate could affect people around the world, wreaking havoc on developing nations and punishing the poorest communities. Posted. http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=8C7F6840-18FE-70B2-A814176476D07C7F California's Tire Pressure Law Expected To Save 75 Million Gallons Of Gas A Year. New laws governing accurate tire pressure are being introduced in California in a bid to increase fuel efficiency and road safety. The impending legislation gives weight to Obama’s claim during the elections that maintaining the right tire pressure could prevent the expansion of offshore drilling. Posted. http://motorage.search-autoparts.com/motorage/Industry+News/Californias-tire-pressure-law-expected-to-save-75-/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/662352?contextCategoryId=43145 Greenhouse Gas Workshop Set. Local government leaders from Southern California will gather at California Lutheran University Thursday for a workshop on the state’s new greenhouse gas regulations. The meeting will be the first step in drawing up the region’s response to Senate Bill 375, a law that aims to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change. Members of the Ventura County Transportation Commission, the Ventura Council of Governments and the Southern California Association of Governments — all drawn from city councils and other local government bodies — will attend. Posted. http://www.vcstar.com/news/2010/mar/23/greenhouse-gas-workshop-set/ Senate Climate Bill Details Still Unfinished. Washington (Reuters) - Senators negotiating a bill to address global warming fears and encourage the use of more alternative energy in the United States struggled over details on Tuesday as lawmakers approached a two-week break without a full legislative proposal yet in hand. Posted. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/23/AR2010032303247.html EPA Sharpens Corporate Carbon Disclosures. Corporations and industries can expect greater scrutiny of their carbon footprints under changes U.S. EPA proposed to its mandatory greenhouse gas registry yesterday. Beginning this year, companies must detail emissions from about 10,000 facilities representing some 85 percent of the nation's total carbon output, according to the greenhouse gas reporting regulation EPA completed in September. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/03/24/6 Refiner Warns Of Setbacks Under GHG Regulations. The U.S. refining industry will freeze investment in anything outside of maintaining operations if U.S. EPA regulates carbon pollution, warns the chief executive of Valero Energy Corp. Bill Klesse said regulation would increase costs for an industry already dealing with low margins and sinking demand due to the economic downturn. "Expansions will disappear. Improvements will disappear. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/03/24/7 'Climategate' Investigator's Green Business Ties Questioned. Climate skeptics have trained their sights on a member of the British House of Lords appointed to investigate the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, saying his work for the low-carbon technology industry creates a conflict of interest. Lord Ronald Oxburgh, who will chair the panel examining allegations of faulty science within the climate center, also serves as chairman of the Carbon Capture and Storage Association and the wind energy company Falck Renewables. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/03/24/9 Senate Trio Launches Climate Push, With Some Empty Seats. As some senators were being sworn to secrecy about the details of an emerging climate bill, other lawmakers who could be key to passing the carbon-cutting measure attended other meetings -- and one walked his dog. The briefing marked one of the first presentations by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) on a legislative outline for their anticipated bill that would price carbon emissions. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/03/24/3 E.P.A. to Seek More Data on Emissions. The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed adding the oil and gas sector and facilities that inject carbon dioxide into the ground to the greenhouse gas sources that are required to report their annual emissions to the government. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/24/science/earth/24epa.html Ships From Polluting Mothball Fleet In Suisun May Go To South Pacific. Mothballed ships polluting Suisun Bay soon could be towed and scrapped at a South Pacific island once notorious for its sweatshops and inexpensive labor, according to a business plan filed there. A company in the Northern Mariana Islands has announced plans to bid on ship disposal contracts and, if successful, tow the aged vessels to the islands' biggest city, Saipan, for scrapping. Posted. http://www.insidebayarea.com/top-stories/ci_14735685 Don't Risk 'Clean Energy' Future To Save Coal Jobs -- BP's CEO. The United States isn't going to get "beyond petroleum" anytime soon, but the chief executive of oil giant BP says it's time for the nation to start thinking beyond coal. The nation should not be trying to save coal jobs at the expense of cleaner fuel industries, Tony Hayward, head of BP PLC, told a Washington think tank audience yesterday, adding that there is no reason to keep building coal-burning power plants here. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/03/24/1 Nuclear-Energy Developer Has Eyes on Valley. Nuclear energy may not come to the San Joaquin Valley for years, but a French nuclear executive wants her company to be involved in making it happen. "I can see California will be among the first of many states to establish a clean energy park with both renewable [energy] and nuclear," said Areva CEO Anne Lauvergeon, whose company is one of the leading developers of nuclear power plants in the world. Posted. http://www.fresnobee.com/2010/03/23/1870244/nuclear-developer-has-eyes-on.html#ixzz0j6qBhtHi Schwarzenegger Announces Actions to Preserve State Lands and Habitats, Renewable Energy Projects. New Program to Help Projects Capture Federal Stimulus Funds and Create Jobs, Clean Power and Green Investment in California. At the world’s largest operating solar plant, the NextEra Harper Lake Solar Electric Generating System (SEGS) facility in Hinkley, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger joined by U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced a new joint program to make it easier to conserve land for endangered species and for developers to build renewable energy projects in California. Posted. http://www.imperialvalleynews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6939&Itemid=1 Capital Ranks No. 16 In Green Buildings. Sacramento ranks 16th on a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency list of U.S. metropolitan areas with the largest number of energy-efficient buildings. The list released Tuesday said Sacramento had 61 buildings with the EPA's Energy Star designation in 2009. Sacramento ranked just ahead of San Diego (58 buildings) and just behind Detroit (62). Sacramento ranked third among California cities. Posted. http://www.sacbee.com/2010/03/24/v-print/2629223/capital-ranks-no-16-in-green-buildings.html Marin Buildings Among Top Energy Savers. The San Francisco area, including Marin, ranked third among U.S. metropolitan areas with the most buildings that have earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star designation, the EPA announced Tuesday. Posted. http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_14741988 DOE Probing Alleged Violations Of Lamp Standard. The Energy Department launched an investigation yesterday into alleged violations of lighting efficiency rules by issuing subpoenas to three companies suspected of selling floor lamps that failed to meet federal standards. DOE has subpoenaed Target Corp., Adesso Inc. and Habitex Corp. for detailed information about the design, marketing and U.S. sales of torchiere lamps. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/03/24/5 Park Advocates Call For Tougher Smog Standards. Conservation groups are urging U.S. EPA to substantially toughen its smog standards to protect national parks as the agency prepares to finalize its reconsideration of the George W. Bush administration's policies. The Obama EPA in January proposed to tighten its health-based "primary" standard for ozone, or smog, and adopt a new "secondary" standard aimed at protecting vegetation and ecosystems (Greenwire, Jan. 7). Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/03/24/3 GM To Unveil Prototype Of Segway-Powered Electric Vehicle. General Motors Co. will unveil a prototype pod-shaped electric vehicle at May's World Expo in Shanghai that it says will combat urban congestion, traffic accidents and pollution. The Electric Networked Vehicle, or EN-V, is an upright, two-wheeled pod powered by a Segway Personal Transporter. The vehicles are designed to be small and clean enough to solve growing problems of congestion, parking availability, air quality and affordability. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/03/24/9 Daryl Hannah And Her Ethanol-Powered 'Kill Bill' Car Appear In Downtown Santa Cruz. SANTA CRUZ — Daryl Hannah stopped downtown Tuesday at the community television studio, bringing with her the 1979 Pontiac Trans Am she drove in 'Kill Bill.' The actress and environmental activist appeared live with local ecologist David Blume on Community TV's live call-in show "Eco-Review" to promote ethanol as an alternative energy source. Posted. http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_14745579 Carbon Monoxide Suspected In 3 Deaths On NY Boat. Huntington, N.Y.—Police on Long Island say carbon monoxide poisoning is suspected in the deaths of two men and a woman found unconscious on a houseboat about 200 feet offshore. A Suffolk County Police spokesman says the three were found about 9 p.m. Tuesday in Huntington Harbor and taken to Huntington Hospital, where they were pronounced dead. Posted. http://www.contracostatimes.com/nation-world/ci_14745853?nclick_check=1 http://www.fresnobee.com/2010/03/23/1870566/carbon-monoxide-suspected-in-3.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/24/AR2010032400024.html Disputed Isle In Bay Of Bengal Disappears Into Sea. New Delhi—For nearly 30 years, India and Bangladesh have argued over control of a tiny rock island in the Bay of Bengal. Now rising sea levels have resolved the dispute for them: the island's gone. Posted. http://www.contracostatimes.com/science/ci_14747107 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/24/AR2010032400394.html Garbage Firms Clash Over Unrecycled S.F. Trash. The big-bucks matter of who gets to dispose of San Francisco's unrecycled trash five years from now boiled over unexpectedly Tuesday night when two garbage companies accused each other of misleading the city, citizens weighed in angrily and everyone pledged a fierce fight in the weeks or even years to come. Posted. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/23/BAFO1CKG3T.DTL#ixzz0j6tFaGP0 Clothing Makers Expand Recycling Efforts. Companies are reclaiming discarded materials and turning them into threads that are made into clothing. Most people wouldn't be caught dead wearing a shower curtain in public. Few would cover themselves in spent coffee grounds, or wrap their bodies in old fishing nets - at least knowingly. Posted. http://www.fresnobee.com/2010/03/24/1870720/clothing-makers-expand-recycling.html Small California Town Fears Birth Defects Linked to Toxic Waste. Spring in California's San Joaquin Valley is seemingly idyllic, with rolling hills and miles of fruit orchards. But what's happening in the small town of Kettleman City has people scared. Posted. http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/03/22/toxic.injustice/ Blogs Meg Whitman's Incoherent Stand on AB 32. When Meg Whitman came on my KOGO 600 AM radio show a few weeks back, she was conversant with and in agreement with the critique of AB 32 that I and lots of other people have offered for years. This critique starts with the point that forcing a switch to cleaner-but-costlier energy to reduce the emissions that are believed to contribue to global warming may make sense as a broad national or global strategy, but that it is economic suicide for a single state to pursue such policies. Posted. http://www.signonsandiego.com/weblogs/americas-finest/2010/mar/23/meg-whitmans-incoherent-stand-ab-32/ Ranking Cities on Building Efficiency. Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. took the top spots in the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s ranking of cities with the most energy efficient buildings. Los Angeles was the star of the Energy Star rankings, with 293 buildings achieving the E.P.A. designation, according to the Top 25 list released Tuesday. The agency awards the Energy Star label to commercial buildings that rank among the top 25 percent in energy efficiency compared to similar structures. Posted. http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/24/ranking-cities-on-building-efficiency/