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

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CLIMATE CHANGE/GHG’S

If You Can't Stand The Heat, New Research Suggests Moving Out Of
The City. Cities were already known to retain more heat than the
rural environments that surround them, but new modeling from
researchers in the United Kingdom now suggests that urban areas
are also more sensitive to changes in climate. Furthermore, they
will experience greater increases in average temperature with
rises in atmospheric carbon dioxide, and the cooling effects of
night will become more of a memory than a reality. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/06/29/1

Murkowski Facing Opponent With 'Serious' Questions About Climate
Science. There's at least one conservative man in Alaska who
might be hoping Sen. Lisa Murkowski leaves the White House today
as a supporter of pricing carbon dioxide. It's not because Joe
Miller is focused in fixing climate change. That's a liberal
theory based on "dubious science," he says, "at best." Rather, a
sharp reversal by Murkowski, a moderate Republican who has
rejected Democratic appeals to support capping carbon emissions
this year, might help him win an election. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/06/29/2
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/06/29/29climatewire-murkowski-facing-opponent-with-serious-quest-11961.html

Leading Climate Researchers See 'Tipping Point' To Irreversible
Change. There are better than even odds the Earth's climate will
undergo an irreversible change, according to a new survey of
climate scientists. The poll, which will be published this week
by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
sought the opinions of 14 leading climate researchers. The goal,
said the study's lead author, was to tap the scientists' hidden
knowledge. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/06/29/3

Australian Summit to Boost Global Defenses Against Climate
Change. Researchers from around the world have gathered for
Australia's first international conference focused entirely on
adapting to the impact of climate change. Organizers of the
meeting say the effects of a warming planet are already being
felt and that societies need to learn how to cope. Some 1,000
delegates at the International Climate Change Adaptation
Conference, south of Brisbane, will hear that the impact of
warming temperatures and rising sea levels is likely to increase
in severity. Posted.
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/environment/Australian-Summit-to-Boost-Global-Defenses-against-Climate-Change-97383239.html


ENERGY

U.S. Wind Industry Generates Some High-Hanging Fruit. The U.S.
wind industry is following a global trend: It's building more and
more of each wind turbine on its own soil. In 2005, turbines
built in the United States had 25 percent domestic content, as a
fraction of the turbine's total value. In 2009, that figure rose
to 50 percent, according to a report released yesterday by the
American Wind Energy Association, United Steelworkers and
BlueGreen Alliance. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/06/29/4

VEHICLES

Assembly Oks Expansion Of Carpool Perk. State lawmakers reached
a major compromise Monday that would allow up to 40,000 solo
drivers in electric and alternative fuel vehicles to use
California's carpool lanes through 2015. On a 64-8 vote, the
state Assembly approved legislation to allow electric vehicles,
plug-in hybrids and cars that run on alternative fuels such as
compressed natural gas to be driven in diamond lanes with just
the driver inside. Posted.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_15396794?source=rss

Carpool Toll Threatens Popular Practice. Oakland — Three days
before their free ride to work was scheduled to end, casual
carpoolers were unhappy but resigned about the new Bay Bridge
carpool toll, hoping it wouldn't destroy a long-standing practice
both drivers and riders said had benefited them greatly. "It's a
system that worked well. If the new toll breaks it, that will be
a shame," said Ellen Kaiser. Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/top-stories/ci_15395812?nclick_check=1

DIESELS

REGION: Study Estimates Surge Of Region's Freight Trucks By
2050. Trucks move 96 percent of region's freight. If you think
there are a lot of big rigs on the road now, wait until 2050. A
new study estimates that the number of freight trucks passing
through the region's border crossings ---- many of which then
travel through North County ---- will nearly quadruple to 4.4
million annually, up from 1.2 million in 2007. Those trucks will
carry a projected 39 million tons of goods, or three times as
many as in 2007, according to the report, titled the San Diego
and Imperial Valley Gateway Study.
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/sdcounty/article_d3867e66-1a01-54cd-b397-54bf43af21d5.html

BLOGS

Electric Car Maker Tesla Prices IPO At $17 A Share.  Tesla
Motors Inc., the Silicon Valley-based electric sports-car maker,
got a warm welcome from investors in the company’s initial public
stock offering late Monday. Tesla priced its IPO at $17 a share,
above the expected range of $14 to $16. The stock will begin
trading on Nasdaq on Tuesday under the symbol TSLA. The deal
marks the first IPO by an American car company since Ford Motor
Co. went public in 1956. Posted.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2010/06/tesla-ipo-price-17-electric-sports-car-musk.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MoneyCompany+%28Money+%26+Company%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Why Climate Stumps Even the Brightest Scientists. Working
climate scientists are almost unanimous in their view that the
earth is slowly warming up and that human activity, particularly
the combustion of fossil fuels, is the primary cause. But beneath
that surface unanimity, predictions vary about how much the
planet will warm in the future because of rising greenhouse
gases. Scientists’ best guesses range from mild warming, to which
the planet and its people might adapt easily, to temperature
increases so extreme that life on earth would be radically
altered.  Posted.
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/why-climate-stumps-even-the-brightest-scientists/?pagemode=print

Air Pollution A New Health Concern . Public outrage over the BP
oil spill fouling the Gulf of Mexico has focused on water
pollution. But an air pollution health threat may also be
serious, according to UCI researchers.  A team of UCI scientists,
including Nobel laureate F. Sherwood Rowland and Chemistry
department Chairman Donald Blake, has detected concentrations of
toxic chemicals such as alkyl nitrates, methane, hexane and
butane compounds that can irritate or burn skin and eyes or cause
dizziness, according to studies. Posted.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/06/gulf-oil-spill-air-pollution-health-workers.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GreenspaceEnvironmentBlog+%28Greenspace%29

U.S. Options and the Global Greenhouse. With President Obama and
23 senators meeting at the White House today to winnow provisions
that might add up to a viable energy (and climate) bill, it’s
useful to review the bidding a bit. A decent starting place is
“The Real Options for U.S. Climate Policy,” a column by the
economist Robert Stavins at Harvard University charting possible
paths to reducing American emissions of greenhouse gases. Posted.
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/u-s-options-and-the-global-greenhouse/?pagemode=print