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California Air Resources Board News Clips for June 30, 2010. 

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CLIMATE CHANGE/GHG’S

English Teacher Treks With Antarctica Scientists, Journals About
Discoveries. Santa Cruz - When the science gets tough, Tina
Sander gets writing. The Cabrillo College and Santa Cruz Adult
School teacher is going on a three-month expedition to Antarctica
in October with the ICE AGED Project. The project is a group
venture between 10 scientists from the Moss Landing Marine
Laboratories, Scripps Institute of Oceanography and the Monterey
Bay Aquarium Research Institute. The scientists will study how
human activities affect the ocean climate, and Sander will be
journaling about what they find. Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_15403963?nclick_check=1

Newspapers Retract Faulty Climate Reporting. The reverberations
of the scandal many refer to as "climategate," which erupted last
December after personal emails between top climate scientists
were taken from a British University server and posted online,
continue... but they are taking some new twists and turns.
Posted.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitalweathergang/2010/06/newspapers_retract_faulty_clim.html

Obama, Senators Grapple With 'Cap And Trade,' Energy Bill.
President Obama and a bipartisan group of senators met today to
gear up for political battle over a "cap and trade" system to
address global warming -- a "polluter pays" provision in the view
of Democrats, an "energy tax" according to critical Republicans.
Posted.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2010/06/obama-senators-grapple-with-cap-and-trade-energy-bill/1

LCFS

Low Carbon Fuel Standard Could Result in Price Shock. A
nationwide low carbon fuel standard would significantly increase
the costs of transportation and fuel, according to a study
conducted by Charles River Associates. The study found that a
standard would result in a price shock, including an increase of
about 30 to 80 percent in the cost of transportation fuels within
five years of the standard being implemented. This would be
caused by the large increase in production of low carbon fuels
required to achieve the emissions reductions. Posted.
http://www.truckinginfo.com/news/news-detail.asp?news_id=70868

CARBON EMISSIONS

Sen. Snowe Is Working Quietly to Find 'Consensus' on Capping
Utility Emissions. Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe expressed
support yesterday for making electric utilities pay fees for
releasing carbon dioxide, giving Senate Democrats a critical
Republican supporter in their stalled pursuit of climate
legislation. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/06/30/30climatewire-sen-snowe-is-working-quietly-to-find-consens-81179.html

DIESEL
 
More Fleets Keeping an Eye on Emissions. Almost half of fleets
are measuring emissions, compared with 40 percent in 2009 and 28
percent in 2008, according to an annual survey conducted by PHH
Arval. The survey was designed to gauge fleet managers' insights
into environmental issues, how fleets are implementing solutions
that would reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and more. Of
those fleets that are measuring emissions, 65 percent are using
actual fuel data to measure, a more than 10 percent increase over
last year. Posted.
http://www.truckinginfo.com/news/news-detail.asp?news_id=70873

ENERGY

Energy Bill: Can Senators Reach Agreement? Even as the sense of
urgency to address the energy issue grows, momentum on the energy
and climate bill is still stalled. The idea of a cap on carbon
has become a central point of contention between Democrats and
Republicans. The death of Sen. Robert Byrd, who, despite hailing
from coal-producing West Virginia, became a proponent of
fostering clean energy and passing a comprehensive bill, has also
cast doubt on whether there will be enough Democratic votes to
pass a partisan bill. Posted.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/energy-climate-talks-stalled-cap-trade-debate/story?id=11045476

VEHICLES

Roush Takes Propane Vehicles on Tour in California. Roush is
taking its liquid propane vehicles to California, to give
customers there a first-hand test drive of its propane-powered
Ford F-Series pickups and E-Series vans. The 2010 California
Propane Road Show kicked off yesterday and continues today at
Meeder Equipment in Fresno, Calif. The show features a number of
companies involved in propane vehicles, including Roush. Each
stop on the tour will begin with a short presentation on the
benefits to using propane and end with a participant
ride-and-drive opportunity. Posted.
http://www.truckinginfo.com/news/news-detail.asp?news_id=70869

Shares of Tesla Increase 40% on First Day of Trading. Shares of
the electric carmaker Tesla Motors closed on Tuesday more than 40
percent above their initial public offering price. Tesla’s shares
closed at $23.89, up $6.89 from the initial offering price of
$17, despite weakness in the broad market and as other auto
stocks were hurt by concerns of a global slowdown, giving it a
market value of $2.22 billion. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/30/business/30tesla.html?ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print

2010 BMW 3-Series has diesel power. Germany's BMW car company is
known for its sporty cars and not for fuel efficiency. But buyers
of the 2010 BMW 335d get sporty performance and the best fuel
mileage of any mainstream BMW vehicle. Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/nation-world/ci_15410012

O'Brien: With the IPO behind it, let's look ahead to Tesla's
uphill battle. Tesla has the kind of romantic narrative that
makes us swoon in Silicon Valley. The electric vehicle is
potentially a disruptive force. The company reeks of innovation.
And it's tackling an enormous problem, global warming, with a
sleek and sexy product. Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_15404151

BLOGS

Sorting Myth and Reality in Climate Policy. The Energy
Collective is a valuable aggregator of views on one of the prime
challenges of our time — how to provide the energy required to
foster a smooth path beyond “peak us” while cutting the risks of
economic turmoil, resource conflicts or disruptive climate
change. In a fresh post, Darrene Hackler summarizes conclusions
from a new report she wrote with Robert D. Atkinson (they both
hail from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a
nonprofit research group) that rebuts 10 prominent strategies for
avoiding dangerous human-driven climate change. Posted.
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/30/sorting-myth-and-reality-in-climate-policy/