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California Air Resources Board News Clips for April 29, 2010. 

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Obama Administration Oks First U.S. Offshore Wind Farm. Interior
Secretary Ken Salazar on Wednesday approved the nation's first
offshore wind farm, the 130-turbine Cape Wind project off Cape
Cod, Mass., and said that the power of strong winds over the
Atlantic Ocean would be an important part of the U.S. drive to
reduce dependence on fossil fuels. European countries have been
building offshore wind farms for 20 years, and China is building
its first, off Shanghai. Other U.S. states along the Atlantic
Coast and the Great Lakes also are looking into building wind
farms to produce large amounts of electricity. Posted.
http://www.modbee.com/2010/04/28/1146243/obama-administration-oks-first.html#ixzz0mVUWnObw
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/04/29/29climatewire-obama-administration-advances-cape-wind-but-32153.html?scp=8&sq=carbon%20emissions&st=cse
http://www.latimes.com/business/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-us-cape-wind,0,5702078.story
http://www.fresnobee.com/2010/04/28/1914154/obama-administration-oks-first.html

U.N. Advisers Push Annual $35B-$40B Global Plan To Expand Energy
Use And Reduce Carbon. United Nations -- At least $35 billion to
$40 billion of annual investments will be required to link all
people in the world with modern forms of energy by 2030, a goal
that must be reached while reducing heat-trapping carbon dioxide
emissions, a U.N. advisory group recommended yesterday. Fifteen
billion dollars of this should be in the form of annual grants
donated by rich nations to expand electricity access to the poor.
And the world should not only achieve universal access to energy
by 2030, but it should do so while increasing efficiency by 40
percent overall, or 2.5 percent per year. Such steps will be
necessary to not only reduce extreme poverty but also combat
climate change. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/04/29/1

Climate Change Bill Hits A Roadblock. Climate change has taken a
back seat to the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The
climate change debate in Congress is both fluid and frac¬tured.
As with the recent debate around health care, climate change
reform appears to be some where between in evitable and
impossible. What’s different now is that the GOP seems much more
willing to play ball than they did during health care reform. Of
course, Republican leadership has hardly been supportive of
Democratic 
efforts recently, but some law makers, including the infamous
Scott Brown, may be persuadable. Posted.
http://www.examiner.com/x-43343-Energy-Policy-Examiner~y2010m4d29-Climate-change-bill-hits-a-road-block

Could Reconciliation Work For The Climate Bill? The contretemps
between Lindsey Graham and Harry Reid derailed the planned
roll-out of the climate bill, but that doesn't mean the
legislation is any less done. And so behind the scenes, it's been
sent to the EPA to be modeled. If and when Graham and Reid work
things out, the bill's supporters are hoping they won't have lost
too much time. Posted.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/04/could_reconciliation_work_for.html

True Impact on Working People of AB 32 Is No Mere Numbers Game.
It’s time for an honest discussion about how California’s global
warming law (AB 32) will impact jobs in California.  Working
people in this state are suffering and they need real answers
about its job impact, not theories, legacy politics and empty
promises. Consider a few grim statistics: The state’s
unemployment rate is still above 12 percent.  More than 119,000
manufacturing jobs were lost last year. More than 600,000
manufacturing jobs have been lost in this state since 2000. 
Posted.
http://www.capitolweekly.net/article.php?_c=ysyz4c7wwttpo8&xid=ysyfvwdfms9ynb&done=.ysyz4c7wwugpo8


SF Hits Goal for Carbon Emissions. San Francisco has
significantly reduced its carbon footprint during the last two
years, meeting the standards set by the Kyoto Protocol. Mayor
Gavin Newsom this week announced that The City is 7 percent below
the 1990 emissions levels. That includes analysis of data through
2008, the latest information on local emissions available.
Posted.
http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/SF-hits-goal-for-carbon-emissions--92382069.html#ixzz0mVLnXOlF

Ice Loss Accelerates Warming In The Arctic – Study. Melting sea
ice has accelerated warming in the Arctic, which in recent
decades has warmed twice as quickly as the global average,
according to a new study. "The findings reinforce suggestions
that strong positive ice-temperature feedbacks have emerged in
the Arctic, increasing the changes of further rapid warming and
sea ice loss," concludes the research published yesterday by the
journal Nature. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/04/29/3

Santa Cruz County Air Is Among The Cleanest In The Nation. Santa
Cruz — The air in Santa Cruz County is among the cleanest in the
nation, according to a report released Wednesday by the American
Lung Association. That's good news for thousands of residents
with asthma, bronchitis and cardiovascular disease whose health
can be put at risk due to air pollution. Posted.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_14978736
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_14977250?source=most_emailed&nclick_check=1

Air in Long Beach, Los Angeles gets F. Despite modest gains in
recent years, most of the Long Beach-Los Angeles metropolis
continues suffering from the nation's poorest air quality,
putting millions at risk for respiratory disease, cancer and
early death, according to a new study. Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_14977692

Letters: Mistakes About Green Energy Myths. First, the fact that
it takes relatively more space to generate wind or solar energy
is irrelevant. A large solar farm has exponentially less
environmental impact than the same land allocated to an oil or
gas refinery. Posted.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/28/AR2010042805354.html

New Study Halves Land-Use Impacts Of Corn Ethanol. A new
estimate of corn ethanol's effect on land-use decisions has
entered the fray, and ethanol producers are brandishing it as
evidence that California's low-carbon fuel standard unfairly
penalizes their product. Using an updated economic model, the new
study, led by Purdue University agricultural economics professor
Wallace Tyner, found that the effect of switching forests and
cropland to producing corn for ethanol would result in 13.9 grams
of excess carbon dioxide per megajoule of energy produced, over
30 years of production from a given area. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/04/29/7

Transalta Prepares For Emissions Restrictions In Canada, U.S.
TransAlta Corp., Canada's largest publicly traded electricity
generator, is studying ways to clean up coal-fired plants or
incorporate new fuels in advance of new emissions regulations."
We have sites that would be excellent to permit for potential gas
plants. We have plants at various ages, some of which are
excellent candidates for life extension with new technologies,"
said CEO Steve Snyder. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/04/29/11

U.N. Advisers Push Annual $35b-$40b Global Plan to Expand Energy
Use and Reduce Carbon. At least $35 billion to $40 billion of
annual investments will be required to link all people in the
world with modern forms of energy by 2030, a goal that must be
reached while reducing heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions, a
U.N. advisory group recommended yesterday. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/04/29/29climatewire-un-advisers-push-annual-35b-40b-global-plan-42862.html


CSFA Urges Governor to Sign SB 183. The California State
Firefighters Association (CSFA) is asking everyone to urge
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to sign Senate Bill 183, which
will help prevent accidental carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning by
requiring the installation of CO alarms in all California homes,
including rental properties. Carbon monoxide is the leading cause
of accidental poisoning deaths in the United States. The Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention reports that accidental carbon
monoxide poisoning kills 400 people in the U.S. every year, with
most of those deaths occurring in a residential setting. Posted.
http://fdnntv.com/CSFA-urges-governor-sign-SB-183. Posted.
http://fdnntv.com/CSFA-urges-governor-sign-SB-183

Blogs

California Dominates Most-Polluted Cities List. Despite some
gains, more than half of the United States' population lives in
cities where pollution levels make the air unhealthy to breathe,
an annual report says. Cities in California dominated the
most-polluted list in the American Lung Association's "State of
the Air 2010" report released Wednesday. The organization rates
communities on three criteria: ozone, short-term particle spikes
and long-term particle averages. Posted.
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/04/29/california-dominates-most-polluted-cities-list/


Cap-and-Trade in California. When I turn on my TV these days,
I'm usually assaulted by ads from the two candidates trying to
win the Republican primary for governor of California this year.
Both of them are Silicon Valley moderates who are desperately
trying to convince the GOP faithful that they're actually stone
cold reactionaries, and the ads have gotten pretty ugly. And not
just toward each other.  Posted.
http://motherjones.com/print/57021

L.A. Tops List of 'Most Polluted Cities'. Old timers will tell
you it's not like it used to be, when Los Angeles would be socked
in for weeks at a time by dense smog that ringed the foothills
and capped the basin. It has been a long time. Still,
comparatively speaking, L.A. is still tops when it comes to air
pollution. The American Lung Association on Wednesday released
its annual "State of the Air" list of "Most Polluted Cities," and
L.A.-Long Beach-Riverside ranked number one for ozone, number
three for year-round particle pollution (diesel particulates and
the like) and number four for short-term particle pollution. 
Posted.
http://blogs.laweekly.com/ladaily/city-news/la-tops-pollution-list/


Carbon Emissions From Soil-Dwelling Microbes Will Fall With
Warming: UC Irvine Study. Courtesy of Watts Up With That?, here’s
a study pertaining to global warming that doesn’t fit the usual
template. It says carbon emissions from underground microbes will
decline from warming. In other words, the climate change
temperature feedback from the soil-dwelling microbes is negative,
not positive. The study, “Soil-Carbon Response to Warming
Dependent on Microbial Physiology,” was led by Steven Allison,
assistant professor of ecology & evolutionary biology. Posted.
http://www.nctimes.com/app/blogs/wp/?p=8961 

Global Warming Retreat – Except For California’s Government. A
little-reported, little-noticed big deal has been going on as the
wheels fall off the global warming party bus. The state air board
in its wisdom continues to advance a cap-and-trade scheme to
siphon money out of the private sector while coercing businesses
to turn green, whether it profits or benefits them, let alone the
rest of the world. The control scam will cost private businesses
up to $143 billion, but that’s to be expected when the government
sets out to do good.  Posted.
http://orangepunch.freedomblogging.com/2010/04/28/global-warming-retreat-except-for-californias-government/25341/

Kerry-Graham-Lieberman Climate Bill Sent To EPA, Buying Time In
The Senate. The architects of the Senate energy and climate bill
showed no signs Wednesday morning of being close to unveiling
their plan publicly, amid a still-unresolved political dispute
with Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). But behind the scenes,
the senators moved quietly to make sure the climate bill stays on
track for a possible early summer vote if the situation is
resolved.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/04/john-kerry-lindsey-graham-joseph-lieberman-climate-epa-senate.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GreenspaceEnvironmentBlog+%28Greenspace%29