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California Air Resources Board News Clips for August 3, 2010.  

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AB 32

Climate Initiative Biggest Draw Among Ballot Props. Sacramento,
Calif.—An initiative seeking to suspend California's landmark
global warming law is attracting more money than any other
proposition on the November ballot, according to campaign-finance
reports filed Monday. Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_15662079
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/08/02/politics/p182900D30.DTL&type=printable
http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_15661727

George Shultz Challenges California To Lead. Voters should
defeat Proposition 23 and fight global warming, the former
secretary of State says. Former U.S. secretary of State George P.
Shultz believes it's crucial to fight global warming to protect
national security. Global warming is created by burning fossil
fuel, he says, and payments for foreign oil sometimes wind up
financing terrorism. Posted.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-cap-20100802,0,948457,print.column

CLIMATE CHANGE/GHG’S

US Says It's Committed To Cutting Greenhouse Gases.
Amsterdam—The United States assured international negotiators
Monday it remains committed to reducing carbon emissions over the
next 10 years, despite the collapse of efforts to legislate a
climate bill. U.S. delegate Jonathan Pershing told a climate
conference in Bonn, Germany, Washington is not backing away from
President Barack Obama's pledge to cut emissions 17 percent from
2005 levels. Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/traffic/ci_15658700

Sierra Club, States File Challenges To EPA 'Tailoring' Rule. The
Sierra Club is challenging U.S. EPA's "tailoring" rule for
greenhouse gases in a federal appeals court, asking judges to
review the agency's determination about when greenhouse gases
ought to be regulated under the Clean Air Act. The group, along
with a host of states and industry groups, wants the U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to review the EPA
rule, which would limit greenhouse gas permitting rules to only
the largest emitters. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/08/03/1

Overseas Frustration Grows Over U.S. Domestic Impasse On Climate
Policy. Top climate change leaders from Europe to Africa are
wondering if it's time to give up on the United States.
Frustrated by the U.S. Senate's recent abandonment of climate
legislation and baffled by Congress' seeming inability to cut
emissions, several officials told ClimateWire that countries are
uncertain about America's role in upcoming treaty negotiations.
Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/08/03/1

Stern Says U.S. Bargaining Position For Cancun Remains
Unchanged. The United States still stands by its promise to slash
global warming pollution despite the Senate's decision to abandon
climate legislation this year, U.S. Special Envoy for Climate
Change Todd Stern said yesterday. In an interview with
ClimateWire, Stern said the Obama administration is "not backing
away" from its Copenhagen pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions
17 percent below 2005 levels in the coming decade and more than
80 percent by mid-century. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/08/03/2

People Care Less About The Environment As Unemployment Rises –
Study. Confirming conventional wisdom, a new study from the
University of California has found that as unemployment rises,
interest in the environment and climate change in particular,
drops. The study [subscription required] authors, Matthew Kahn of
the University of California, Los Angeles, and Matthew Kotchen of
the University of California, Santa Barbara, used three
independent data sets: ..Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/08/03/6

CARBON EMISSIONS

US Tells Climate Negotiators It Will Stick To Carbon Emissions
Reduction Pledge. Amsterdam - The United States assured
international negotiators Monday it remains committed to reducing
carbon emissions over the next 10 years, despite the collapse of
efforts to legislate a climate bill. U.S. delegate Jonathan
Pershing told a climate conference in Bonn, Germany, Washington
is not backing away from President Barack Obama's pledge to cut
emissions 17 percent from 2005 levels. Posted.
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/wire/sns-ap-climate-change,0,6240271,print.story
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/08/02/2930770/us-says-its-committed-to-cutting.html

DIESEL EMISSIONS

UC Riverside Researchers Measure Diesel Emissions on the
Freeway. Research could help set the framework for strengthing
standards for diesel particulates. The 53-foot-long tractor
trailer that houses UC Riverside’s mobile emissions laboratory
was back on the road Friday and Monday on Interstate 10 between
Redlands and Beaumont testing ways to better measure particulates
from diesel trucks and buses. Posted.
http://newsroom.ucr.edu/news_item.html?action=page&id=2400

ENERGY/GREEN ENERGY

Stanford Claims A 'Breakthrough' That Could Harness Lost Heat.
Engineers at Stanford University may have developed a way to
double or triple the efficiency of solar power, in a potential
breakthrough that could drop the price of solar-generated
electricity to a level more competitive with fossil fuels.
Stanford's Department of Materials Science and Engineering
published a paper in the journal Nature Materials yesterday that
claimed researchers there have managed to prove in laboratory
tests that heat usually lost in the solar generation process can
be saved by improving semiconductors. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/08/03/5

After Years Of Delay, Green Chemistry Rules Take Center Stage.
Environmentalists and industry representatives will square off at
a three-hour hearing Tuesday over Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s
long-delayed Green Chemistry regulations. Schwarzenegger first
announced his Green Chemistry initiative back in 2007. It got
under way the next year. Since then, a growing number of
environmental groups have criticized the process as being too
friendly to industry. Posted.
http://www.capitolweekly.net/article.php?xid=z14dttegpwxs31#

Clean Energy Too Popular in Marin. Demand for renewable power
outstripped new program's supply. Marin can’t get enough clean
energy—literally. Marin Clean Energy — a brand-new program that
gives people a greener alternative to PG&E — didn’t buy enough
power to keep up with Marinites who wanted to switch to 100
percent renewable energy in June. Posted.
http://www.baycitizen.org/environment/story/clean-energy-too-popular-marin/print/

VEHICLES

Feds Push Efficiency, But SUV Sales Rising. Even as the auto
industry tests low-emission and electric cars, full-size SUVs are
experiencing a jump in sales. According to Autodata, which tracks
car sales, the rise in sales of full-size SUVs outpaced the
increase in the rest of the auto market during the first half of
this year. Small cars still outsell their large counterparts --
by 974,000 to 121,000 in the first half of 2010. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/08/03/7

OIL SPILL

EPA Says Gulf Dispersants Not More Toxic Than Oil. Washington --
A new federal study of chemical dispersants used to break up oil
in the Gulf of Mexico shows that when mixed with oil, the
dispersant is no more toxic to aquatic life than oil alone.
Posted.
http://www.fresnobee.com/2010/08/02/2026985/epa-says-gulf-dispersants-not.html

BLOGS

Clean-Tech Investment Booms To $1.5 Billion In Second Quarter
2010. There aren’t that many clean-tech deals being made in the
U.S., but the ones that are making it through just came off a
mighty fine quarter. Electric car manufacturers and support
companies especially. The big winner of the quarter was Palo Alto
EV infrastructure firm Better Place, which landed $350 million in
funding. Posted.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/08/cleantech-investment-q2-2010.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheTechnologyBlog+%28Los+Angeles+Times+Technology+Blog%29

First U.S. Battery Recycling Facility in 20 Years Gets Green
Light. It's the first air permit issued in almost 20 years for a
new, fully-integrated battery recycling facility in the U.S.,
says Johnson Controls Inc. The company secured the permit from
South Carolina environmental regulators. And they did it in
cooperation with local and national groups including the Coastal
Conservation League and League of Women Voters of South Carolina.
Posted.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/08/first-us-battery-recycling-facility-in-20-years.php?campaign=th_rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+treehuggersite+%28Treehugger%29