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California Air Resources Board News Clips for April 23, 2010.

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Calif. Considers Delaying Diesel-Emission Rules. California air
regulators took steps Thursday to delay the nation's toughest
rules to slash emissions from diesel-powered construction
equipment, saying the poor economy has left many of the vehicles
sitting idle. Members of the California Air Resources Board said
they want to give companies more time to comply because
construction activity in the state is down about 50 percent since
the regulations were adopted three years ago, and that has
significantly reduced harmful emissions. Posted.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iwTbTcan4fd0JSo9iEeso3PgGX8gD9F8DJ781
http://www.pe.com/localnews/stories/PE_News_Local_W_diesel23.4818fd6.html

http://www.kcra.com/politics/23238367/detail.html
http://cbs13.com/wireapnewsca/Amid.poor.economy.2.1650610.html 
http://www.latimes.com/business/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-us-calif-diesel-rules,0,1364128.story
http://newstalk1290.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/ca-considers-delaying-diesel-emission-rules/

http://www.fresnobee.com/2010/04/22/1907517/trucks-may-get-a-break-on-air.html#ixzz0lw7mILz7
           
http://www.mercedsunstar.com/2010/04/23/1396647/air-regulators-may-back-off-changes.html
	
http://foxandhoundsdaily.com/blog/daniel-weintraub/6815-truck-rule-based-flawed-data-arb-staff-admits
http://www.todaystrucking.com/news.cfm?intDocID=23822

Cattle Feed May Be Cause of Air Woes. Feed for dairy cows
appears to be the biggest single source of a key ozone-making gas
in the smoggy San Joaquin Valley. The finding overturns a
suspicion experts had several years ago that dairy air pollution
mostly comes from manure and cow belching. Fermenting corn silage
and other feed create almost twice as much reactive organic gas
as cars do, says a study by the University of California at
Davis. Organic gases cook together with nitrogen oxides from cars
to make some of the worst ozone problems in the country. Posted.
http://www.modbee.com/2010/04/22/1139094/cattle-feed-may-be-cause-of-air.html#ixzz0lw9sdNBz
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ihAEWzvhO96iJcjG6tPYTaVBap1gD9F8CJKG0
 http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/business/6971421.html
http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2010/04/23/study-cow-feed-may-be-causing-air-problem.html

http://www.kmph.com/Global/story.asp?S=12358511
http://blog.taragana.com/science/2010/04/22/study-dairy-cow-feed-not-manure-may-be-to-blame-for-high-ozone-levels-in-central-california-11385/


Navistar Drops Suit Against CARB. Navistar International Corp.
said April 22 it had withdrawn a lawsuit it had lodged against
the California Air Resources Board (CARB) following an agreement
with the state agency to address issues raised in the litigation.
The truck and engine maker had asked the San Francisco Superior
Court to rule that CARB was improperly certifying 2010 diesel
engines equipped with selective catalytic reduction (SCR) after
treatment because the agency was applying U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency certification requirements that permitted
SCR-equipped trucks to operate for extended periods without
controlling NOx emissions. Posted.
http://www.etrucker.com/apps/news/article.asp?id=85070

Cities Back State's Emission-Cutting Law. A group representing
California's cities voted overwhelmingly Thursday to support the
state's landmark efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions,
rejecting efforts by some of the group's members to seek a delay
in implementing the law.  The proposal by a committee of the
League of California Cities to ask the state to consider moving
back deadlines for cutting emissions coincided with the 40th
anniversary of Earth Day, the world's largest celebration of
environmentalism. Posted.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/22/MNDP1D2DQG.DTL#ixzz0lwF8sjND

Solano Joins Bay Area Regional Effort To Reduce Greenhouse Gas
Emissions. With traffic on Interstate 80 a major source of air
pollution, Solano County has joined a regional effort to enact
transportation and land-use reforms in an effort to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions. Hundreds of Bay Area regional leaders
met Thursday in Oakland to launch the planning process for the
region's new Sustainable Communities Strategy. "We all know that
air pollution does not stop at the county borders and one of the
reasons we get dinged on air quality is I-80," said County
Supervisor Barbara Kondylis of Vallejo, who attended the summit.
Posted. http://www.timesheraldonline.com/news/ci_14943562 

Palm Desert Council Updated on Emissions Bill. Financial
incentives could be in the cards for six Southern California
counties — Riverside included — which must participate in
California's Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act.
Sharon Neely, deputy executive director of Policy Strategy and
Public Affairs with the Southern California Association of
Governments, which is directing the bill's implementation,
delivered the news Thursday to Palm Desert staff and City Council
members at a study session. Posted.
http://www.mydesert.com/article/20100423/NEWS01/4230304/1006/news01/Palm+Desert+council+updated+on+emissions+bill


Emissions Often Underestimated, EPA Standards Old. The nation's
oil and chemical plants are spewing a lot more pollution than
they report to the Environmental Protection Agency — and the EPA
knows it. But the federal agency has yet to adopt more accurate,
higher-tech measuring methods that have been available for years.
Significant changes will not be seen for at least two more years,
even though an internal EPA watchdog called for improvements in
2006 and some of the more sophisticated measuring devices have
been used in Europe since the 1990s. Posted.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g3llBP3CEiHasq4ztuAIMtM1_xugD9F8AGP82


Global Warming: Believe It. Your editorial on global warming
("Keeping the debate honest," April 20) was rather disingenuous.
The controversy or debate about global warming exists mostly in
the media, not among climatologists. The actual survey report --
"A National Survey of Television Meteorologists About Climate
Change: Preliminary Findings" -- can be found at
www.climatechangecommunication.org/resources_reports.cfm. This
Web-based survey was sent to 1408 TV meteorologists who were
members of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) or the
National Weather Association (NWA) offering them $30 to complete
a 51-item questionnaire. The findings are based on returned
surveys from just 571 recipients who completed at least some
portion of the survey. Posted.
http://www.timesheraldonline.com/opinion/ci_14934654

Senate Panel Clears Budget but Nips Climate Reconciliation. The
Senate Budget Committee yesterday hamstrung the chamber's ability
to move climate change legislation through the filibuster-proof
reconciliation process on its way to passing a budget resolution
that also freezes spending for most domestic programs. The panel
yesterday approved the fiscal 2011 budget blueprint by a 12-10
vote, with only Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) breaking from his
party to vote against the measure.. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/04/23/23greenwire-senate-panel-clears-budget-but-nips-climate-re-28143.html

OPINION; Combating Climate Change: Lessons From The World’s
Indigenous Peoples. Bolivia’s president says developing nations
must not be shut out of international negotiations for combating
the greatest environmental issue of our time. When I arrived at
the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen in late last
year, the first thing that struck me were environmental activists
braving the freezing weather to voice their disappointment at
being locked out of the largest ever international meeting on
climate change. Inside the conference, I realized that Bolivia
was in a position similar to that of the protesters outside.
Posted.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oew-0423-morales-20100423,0,6422441.story

Climate Change A Matter Of Science. A recent editorial (“Is
climate change happening?” April 18) said belief in climate
change was a matter of “faith.” But for scientists, it is
certainly not. Scientists see multiple lines of evidence that
conclusively demonstrate that burning fossil fuels and destroying
forests overloads the atmosphere with heat-trapping gases warming
our planet. Posted.
http://www.mydesert.com/article/20100423/OPINION02/4220395/-1/newsfront/Climate-change-a-matter-of-science

EEI, Three Oil Companies To Back Climate Bill; Top 10 Highlights
Of Kerry Proposal. The nation's largest electric utilities
association and three of the country's biggest oil companies will
endorse the climate proposal Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsey
O. Graham (R-S.C.) and Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) will
introduce Monday, Kerry told supporters in a private phone call
Thursday evening. Posted.
http://views.washingtonpost.com/climate-change/post-carbon/2010/04/by_juliet_eilperin_the_nations.html


Leaders Talk about Earth Day after 40 Years. Staff writer Peter
Fimrite asked leading environmentalists to discuss the
significance of Earth Day. Here are some excerpts.
Posted.http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/18/MNUT1CUA6C.DTL#ixzz0lw6ykjPA

Tokyo's Goal: Be the Greenest. Reporting from Tokyo on a
man-made island in Tokyo Bay, garbage is getting a makeover. Tons
of waste are trucked here daily to a large industrial building.
What can't be recycled is burned and filtered for toxins. The ash
is turned into building material, and the heat is converted into
electricity — enough to power 55,000 homes. Posted.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-green-tokyo-20100423,0,2676539.story

The 2 Biggest Carbon Emitters Find Common Ground in Clean Energy
Technology. America's relationship with China may be a swinging
pendulum, but energy cooperation between the two greenhouse
gas-spewing giants appears to be on a steady track, Energy
Department officials and others familiar with the programs say.
From Google's denunciation of China's Internet censors to the
White House decision to sell Taiwan $6.4 billion in new
armaments, relations with China appeared to be on a collision
course through early 2010. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/04/23/23climatewire-the-2-biggest-carbon-emitters-find-common-gr-53598.html


Chabot College "Teach-In" Against Hayward Power Plant. A
resounding "No!" The word was shouted and filled the Chabot
College Performing Arts Center on Thursday when attendees were
asked if they wanted a 600-megawatt natural gas-fired facility to
be built on the Hayward shoreline, about a mile from the campus.
College officials organized an Earth Day "teach-in" program to
inform and rally residents and students against Calpine's Russell
City Energy Center, which was approved by the air board in
February. The air board acts under the authority of the
Environmental Protection Agency. Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/environment/ci_14940352
http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_14940352 

Blogs

The Bay Area Governments' Earth Day Summit. On this Earth Day,
leaders from Bay Area city and county governments met to figure
out how they are going to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Hundreds of politicians and staffers shuffled into the cavernous
convention center at the Oakland Marriot. The cattle prod forcing
this herd of local officials to move in roughly the same
direction is one of California's new global warming laws, senate
bill 375.  Posted.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/kalw/detail?entry_id=61969#ixzz0lwFhTvCq

Earth Day Protest at an Oakland Gas Station. At 8 a.m. Thursday,
50 people gathered at the Valero gas station at the corner of
Telegraph and Grand Avenues near downtown Oakland. Their issue
was the role of the oil company Valero in the campaign for a
ballot measure to derail, at least temporarily, the 2006
California law designed to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions to
1990 levels by 2020. Posted.
http://bayarea.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/earth-day-protest-at-an-oakland-gas-station/
 
http://www.examiner.com/x-28442-LA-County-Political-Buzz-Examiner~y2010m4d22-Happy-Earth-Day-Occidental-Petroleum-joins-effort-to-kill-Californias-antiglobal-warming-law
 http://laist.com/2010/04/22/protesters_take_on_valero_over_init.php?gallery0Pic=2


Man-Made Carbon Dioxide Making Oceans More Acidic, Study Finds.
Oceans worldwide are turning increasingly acidic as they absorb
more carbon from the atmosphere, which could have negative
effects on many forms of marine life at the base of the oceanic
food chain, including plankton, coral and large mollusks such as
oysters, a National Research Council study has found. Oceans are
an important part of the planet's carbon cycle, and hold the
largest active pool of carbon near the surface of the Earth.
Posted.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/04/manmade-carbon-dioxide-making-oceans-more-acidic-study-finds.html