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CLIMATE CHANGE

CalNex Project Uses $20 M to Examine Air Pollution, Climate
Change. The California Air Resources Board and the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are taking to land, sea
and air to address the most challenging aspects of California’s
air quality problem: measuring greenhouse gases and air
pollutants. The $20 million CalNex project is employing an
unprecedented number of airplanes, ships and researchers to
examine the nexus between air pollution and climate change.
Posted.
http://eponline.com/Articles/2010/06/02/CalNex-Project-Uses-20-M-to-Examine-Air-Pollution-Climate-Change.aspx?p=1

Scientists Decry Attacks By Skeptics Of Climate Change. Walnut
Creek, Calif. -- A few years ago, Ben Santer, a climate scientist
with Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in Washington, answered a 10
p.m. doorbell ring at his home. After opening the door, he found
a dead rat on the doorstep and a man in a yellow Hummer speeding
away and shouting curses. Santer shared this story recently
before a congressional committee examining the increasing
harassment of climate scientists, and the state of climate
science. Posted.
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/06/01/v-print/2789937/scientists-decry-attacks-by-skeptics.html

US Projects 4 Percent Emissions Rise by 2012 to UN. In its first
major climate report to the United Nations in four years, the
United States projected Tuesday that its climate-warming
greenhouse gases will grow by 4 percent through 2020. The first
such report submitted under the Obama administration includes a
1.5 percent rise in carbon dioxide emissions, the main gas from
fossil fuel burning blamed for global warming. And CO2 from
fossil fuel burning still accounts for about four-fifths of all
U.S. global warming gases. Posted.
http://www.modbee.com/2010/06/01/1189765/us-projects-4-percent-emissions.html#ixzz0piBGhsbQ
http://www.contracostatimes.com/nation-world/ci_15203101?nclick_check=1

UC Davis Charts Course To Combat Climate Change. UC Davis has
released its first-ever Climate Action Plan that documents the
steps it has taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions so far and
outlines the university’s next steps to combat global climate
change. The University of California system has set a target for
all ten UC campuses to return to 2000 emission levels by 2014.
Posted.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=9522

Survey To Look At Climate Change Work Force Needs. Executive
search and staffing firm Sequence Staffing and the nonprofit
Greenhouse Gas Management Institute this week launch a second
annual international survey to determine work force needs of the
climate change industry. This year’s survey will ask more than
10,000 climate change professionals to assess the industry’s
projected growth, its training requirements and the ability to
meet the growing need for greenhouse gas monitoring. Posted.
http://sacramento.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2010/05/31/daily11.html

EPA 'Tailoring' Rule Creates Challenge For State Regulators.
State regulators are scrambling to figure out how they will
comply with a new U.S. EPA rule aimed at shielding small
facilities from looming greenhouse gas regulations. In Arkansas,
for example, where state legislators have imposed a rule blocking
the regulation of carbon dioxide as an air pollutant, regulators
anticipate challenges meeting EPA's January deadline for
compliance with the so-called "tailoring" rule. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/06/02/4

NYC Plans to Adapt to Climate Change. New York City published
its plans to adapt itself to a changing climate last week. The
report outlines recommendations by the New York City Panel on
Climate Change (NPCC) for the city government in order to prepare
the city for changing climatic conditions. The report cites
climate change as a key factor in several emergency situations
already facing the city, including the extreme weather that
disrupted public transportation in August 2007. Posted.
http://www.environmentalleader.com/2010/06/02/nyc-plans-to-adapt-to-climate-change/

DOE Aims To Make 'Low E' Windows A Must-Have For Home
Construction. Ten years ago, few people knew what a compact
fluorescent light bulb looked like, but today, the curly bulb is
the symbol of a "green" home. Could high-performance, insulating
windows be the next CFL, the next big thing in home energy
efficiency? Energy Department officials are trying to propel
so-called low-E -- for low-energy -- windows to popularity by
bringing down prices. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/06/02/14

LANDFILL

EPA Faults Calif. Hazardous-Waste Landfill's Testing Of
Contaminants. Fresno, Calif. - A hazardous-waste landfill
suspected by Kettleman City residents of causing birth defects
has been inaccurately testing treated contaminants for five
years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says. Officials
at the Waste Management site in Kettleman Hills said they
immediately began using an independent testing laboratory last
week when the EPA notified them of the problem with their own
laboratory. Posted.
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/06/01/v-print/2791723/epa-faults-calif-hazardous-waste.html

ENERGY

Converting CO2 Emissions Into Diesel Fuel Using Solar Energy. A
new effort to commercialize a process by which industrial-scale
carbon dioxide is converted into diesel fuel was announced
yesterday. In an attempt to reduce both American oil imports and
carbon emissions, the new coalition among government, academia
and private corporations aims to expand a technology that will
take on both issues. The major drawback is that, at the moment,
the method is prohibitively expensive for industry. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/06/02/5
http://www.truckinginfo.com/news/news-detail.asp?news_id=70579

New South African Coal Plant Seeks Emission Credits For
'Cleaner' Coal. A South African utility company that recently won
a $3.75 billion World Bank loan to build the world's
fourth-largest coal-fired power plant now is seeking
international carbon credits for making the plant more efficient.
Eskom Holdings Ltd. has confirmed it is conducting a feasibility
study to see if the 4,800-megawatt Medupi Power Station might be
eligible for credits under the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development
Mechanism. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/06/02/1

Wine: To Go Greener, Bottles Get Lighter. Wine is about to get
lighter. Well, maybe not wine itself; we'll save the issue of
overwrought, high-alcohol wines for another day. But there is
progress to report in the campaign against heavy wine bottles,
those broad-shouldered behemoths that seem to say more about the
ego of the winemaker than the quality of the wine. Posted.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2010/06/01/ST2010060101791.html

VEHICLES

Congress Ponders How To Push Electric Vehicles. Lawmakers have
floated a proposal to fast-track electric cars, but some in the
clean-car field are worried that the wheels may fall off. Last
week, House and Senate legislators released bipartisan plans to
speed up the deployment of electric vehicles. In each plan, the
centerpiece was a "targeted deployment" approach: Rather than
offer the same incentives nationwide, the government would award
federal funds to the regions that come up with the best
blueprints for rolling out tens of thousands of plug-in cars.
Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/06/02/2

FUELS

U.S. Injects Funds Into China's Jet Fuel Research With Home
Market In Mind. When the United States dashed off a $510,000
check last week to China backing the East Asian country's biofuel
aviation research, the driving force was the potential market for
U.S. jet equipment and jet engine biofuel technology. With
China's booming aviation market ranking second in size only after
the United States', Boeing Co. approached the U.S. Trade and
Development Agency about six months ago and asked it to help pave
the way for future deals by backing Chinese efforts to develop
biofuel technology, according to Jeff Jackson, USTDA's regional
director for East Asia. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/06/02/4

DRY CLEANERS

Bay Area May Let Perc Cleaners Buy Some Time. With a major
deadline looming in California’s perc phase-out schedule, one
regional air district is telling cleaners they can buy some time
— literally — for removing their perc equipment. Under the
state-mandated July 1 deadline, all perc machines manufactured
before July 1, 1995, are to be removed from service. The deadline
also applies to any perc machine with an unknown date of
manufacture, all machines located in co-residential facilities
and all perc machines that have been converted from vented to
closed-loop. Posted. http://www.natclo.com/1006/baaqmd.htm

BLOGS

Opinion: Organic Agriculture: A Solution to Global Warming? In
2008, the Rodale Institute—an organization dedicated to the
promotion of organic agriculture—published a widely noted report
entitled “Regenerative Organic Farming: A Solution to Global
Warming.” The takeaway was that organic agriculture, due to its
reliance on biological rather than chemical methods, could
substantially reduce carbon emissions generated by the
agricultural sector. Posted.
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/02/organic-agriculture-a-solution-to-global-warming/?pagemode=print

A Bullish View of Wind Power Out West. Wind energy has plenty
going for it: it is clean, unlimited in supply and the most
economical source of renewable power. Its clearest drawback is
unreliability: sometimes the wind just does not blow. But that
intermittency – long considered a major shortcoming – may have
little impact on the potential for wind to power much of the
electric grid in the western United States, according to a new
study by the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy
Lab. Posted.
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/01/a-sanguine-view-of-wind-power-out-west/?pagemode=print