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Posted: 29 Mar 2010 11:23:01
California Air Resources Board News Clips for March 29, 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. California's 'Cool Car' Rules Are Shelved. The state Air Resources Board halts a plan to require a clear, reflective glaze on windows amid complaints that it would interfere with monitoring of ankle bracelets and degrade cellphone signals. California officials Thursday abruptly halted a controversial effort to slash the carbon footprint of automobile air conditioning. “Cool car” rules would have required a clear, reflective glaze on vehicle windows as a way to block excessive sunlight and heat. Posted. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/26/local/la-me-cool-cars26-2010mar26 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ju6-tyPeiebb9-XT8dAZC0YcbnZAD9EMH4NO0 http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-03-25/bay-area/18970424_1_greenhouse-gases-ab32-energy http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14764492?nclick_check=1 http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-03-25/carbon-auctions-should-be-very-small-schwarzenegger-says.html http://www.environmentalleader.com/2010/03/26/carb-halts-cool-car-rule/ http://www.modbee.com/2010/03/26/1103395/calif-nixes-rule-mandating-reflective.html http://www.vcstar.com/news/2010/mar/26/calif-reverses-rule-mandating-reflecting-windows/ http://www.autoblog.com/2010/03/26/report-california-scraps-cool-cars-legislation-automakers-l/ http://rumors.automobilemag.com/6626446/green/california-scraps-cool-cars-legislation-push-for-reflective-glass/index.html http://gas2.org/2010/03/26/california-drops-cool-cars-legislation-entirely-will-start-process-anew/ Sen. Collins Suggests Pairing 'Cap And Dividend' Bill With Energy-Only Measure. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said last week that a climate bill she co-sponsored with Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) could be paired with energy-only legislation on the Senate floor. Collins told Clean Skies News on Friday that one way to move her "cap and dividend" climate measure forward would be to add it to the energy legislation approved last year by Sen. Jeff Bingaman's (D-N.M.) Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/03/29/2 State Legislators Ramp Up Campaigns Against EPA Rules. Illinois state Rep. Dan Reitz, a Democrat and a former coal miner, is worried that pending federal climate change rules will cripple the economy, and he wants Congress to step in and stop it. Reitz, who represents the 116th District in southern Illinois, launched his own assault against U.S. EPA climate rules when he introduced a resolution urging Congress to postpone greenhouse gas regulations for factories, power plants and other so-called stationary emission sources. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/03/29/1 Ships In U.S., Canadian Waters To Face Stricter Pollution Controls. To curb air pollution, large tankers, container ships and cruise boats will have to use low-sulfur fuels when passing through U.S. and Canadian coastal waters, under a proposal adopted by a United Nations rulemaking body Friday. Posted. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/26/AR2010032603735.html http://www.modbee.com/2010/03/26/1103755/new-rule-cuts-ship-pollution-around.html http://www.montereyherald.com/state/ci_14764548?nclick_check=1 http://www.fresnobee.com/2010/03/26/1874233/new-rule-cuts-ship-pollution-around.html?storylink=misearch Tractor Regs Sow Seeds of Uncertainty. Regulations meant to reduce air pollution, the new engine-efficiency standards for diesel engines, have created a cloud of confusion among those responsible for following and those helping to implement the guidelines. The rules for farmers and truckers who operate on-road vehicles are put forth in a set of 2008 regulations. Posted. http://www.uniondemocrat.com/2010032699531/News/Local-News/Tractor-regs-sow-seeds-of-uncertainty http://www.uniondemocrat.com/2010032499502/News/Business/Truckers-farmers-faced-with-regulations Antioch Seeks Residential Input on Emission Planning. Communities throughout the state are taking steps to cut their greenhouse gas emissions, and this city is no exception. Antioch, though, may have more wiggle room to get green than most. A recently completed assessment of Antioch's greenhouse gas emissions shows that residential and commercial emissions comprised 44 percent of the city's 301,179 metric tons of pollutants, with the rest mainly from transportation, industrial and waste. Posted. http://www.insidebayarea.com/green-living/ci_14767880 Cluster of Birth Defects Brings Tests. A list of 28 chemicals known to cause birth defects was given by state officials to residents concerned about a rash of such defects here, and the officials said they would test for the chemicals in local air, water and soil. But residents attending a public meeting last week on the issue said they want the state to put a moratorium on processing an application to expand the Waste Management hazardous waste landfill near the town, which they suspect is the source of chemical contamination causing birth defects. Posted. http://www.modbee.com/2010/03/28/1105223/cluster-of-birth-defects-brings.html#ixzz0ja2S0RNd Green Alternative Takes Toxins Out of Dry Cleaning. Susanna Ko has a personal reason for being the owner of the GreenEarth Cleaning dry-cleaning business in Solana Beach on Coast Highway. She is a breast cancer survivor. “I wanted to find something that would help me and the environment,” Ko said. Ten years ago, Ko and her husband, Thomas, owned a dry-cleaning business in Vista. Using the industry standard at the time, Ko was exposed daily to the solvent perchloroethylene, commonly known as perc. Now identified as a carcinogen, perc has been used by dry cleaners for 30 years. Posted. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/mar/28/green-alternative-takes-toxins-out-of-dry-cleaning/ Southern California Faces Sanctions for Failing to Meet Federal Ozone Standard. Southern California is facing federal sanctions for failing to meet an air-pollution health standard that was repealed by the Bush administration in 2004. The sanctions are expected to cost the region's largest industries and utilities millions of dollars in new fees every year until the standard is met. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is requiring the regional air-quality agency to impose the fees beginning next year on the 400-plus top-polluting industries and utilities. Posted. http://www.pe.com/localnews/environment/stories/PE_News_Local_W_pollutionfees27.482777e.html Roadside Attraction. It wasn't quite "The British are coming!" but the town crier (the guy on the phone) sounded the alarm: "The Green Police are out there and alive!" They'd set up a checkpoint near La Sierra High. Put cars on a "scale-looking device" to check emissions. If they were too high? He wasn't sure, but what happens to "failed" cars at other checkpoints? Impounded! Posted. http://www.pe.com/columns/danbernstein/stories/PE_News_Local_W_dan28.4798e14.html War of the Job-Killing Studies. The California Air Resources Board, to no one’s surprise, the other day unveiled its own “study” of the economic effects of the sweeping Assembly Bill 32, the 2006 Global Warming Solutions Act. The state’s air-pollution police contend that the sweeping crackdown on carbon-dioxide emissions actually will add 10,000 new jobs to the state by 2020. The ARB’s bottom line: implementing these regulations “won’t hurt” California. Posted. http://www.desertdispatch.com/opinion/one-8165-air-resources.html Suspend AB 32 for the Sake of California’s Economy. Would you be willing to bet everything you have on a single roll of the dice? Would you bet everything that everyone in California has? The state is about to roll the dice, on global warming regulation. The Governor could stop this gamble, but will he? The gamble is California’s ambitious global warming law, AB 32, passed in 2006. The law has a safety valve that allows the Governor to suspend emissions caps if economic conditions warrant it. Posted. http://www.turlockjournal.com/news/article/3457/ Other Voices: Logue, Mcclintock Want to Gut Key Clean Air Standards. Why are our elected representatives attacking our health in Nevada County? This is probably the first question you have to ask yourself to understand why our Assemblyman, Dan Logue, and our Congressman, Tom McClintock, are behind the fight against California's Assembly Bill 32 (passed in 2006). Assembly Bill 32, signed by Governor Schwarzenegger, is a major initiative by the Air Resources Board for reducing California's greenhouse gasses by 30 percent to 1990 levels by 2020 and 80 percent below that by 2050. Posted. http://www.theunion.com/article/20100327/OPINION/100329806/1024 Our View: Governor Can't Back Down on AB32. Now is no time for Gov. Arnold Schwar-zenegger to go all wobbly on his landmark achievement -- the Assembly Bill 32 law that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. The centerpiece is creation of a cap-and-trade program that would allow power plants, industries and other major producers of greenhouse gases to purchase permits for carbon emissions. Companies that reduce emissions below their allotment (the cap) can sell them on the open market (the trade). Posted. http://www.mercedsunstar.com/2010/03/27/1364709/our-view-governor-cant-back-down.html#ixzz0ja3HZXTt San Jose May Tout Itself as "Green Capital," But $2M Bid for Huge Airport Solar Project Goes to Canadian Firm. To many Silicon Valley solar companies, the chance to bid on San Jose's largest municipal solar installation might seem a welcome opportunity, especially during a slow economy. San Jose, after all, is the place Mayor Chuck Reed has pitched as the "world center of clean-tech innovation.'' Since he became mayor in 2007, at least eight solar companies have moved or expanded here. Posted. http://www.insidebayarea.com/green-living/ci_14770887 San Ramon Body Shop Goes Green, Saves Green. Geoff Johnson was far from delighted when a federal mandate came down in the 1990s forcing his auto body shop to recycle paint. But once he was dragged kicking and screaming into environmentally friendly practices, he embraced them — to the point that he won the Chamber of Commerce's first Green Business Award in 2009. Posted. http://www.contracostatimes.com/environment/ci_14760508?nclick_check=1 Blogs !!! Arnold Rips Air Board's AB 32 Proposal, Stresses Need for National Approach To Global Warming. The gov's letter to Mary Nichols of the air board on the occasion of the release of another preposterous study minimizing AB 32's economic fallout is jaw-dropping. It starts with his usual claptrap about green jobs -- but then it reverses course from so much other stuff he's said. He says it's crucial that AB 32 meshes "as seamlessly as possible into a comprehensive national strategy." This acknowledges the obvious point that California's economy is at risk if it has much higher energy costs. Posted. http://www.signonsandiego.com/weblogs/americas-finest/2010/mar/25/arnold-disavows-air-boards-ab-32-plan-stresses-nee/ Geoengineering 'Fixes' Help Us View Climate Change. Here's a question for you (assuming that you are open to the evidence that recent climate change is largely manmade): How confident are you that humanity will take the necessary steps to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and limit global climate change to the lower end of the current projections? Posted. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitalweathergang/2010/03/one_merit_of_geoengineering_a.html California Climate Law Would Add Jobs, Study Suggests. The California Air Resources board estimates in a new study that the state’s climate law would create 10,000 new jobs. California’s climate change law won’t decimate the state’s economy and will help increase job growth modestly over the next 10 years, according to a state air control group study released this week. The California Air Resources Board, tasked with monitoring state air pollution levels, projects the law will add 10,000 new jobs to the state by 2020. Posted. http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/california-climate-law-would-add-jobs-study-suggests/?pagemode=print