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newsclips -- Newsclips for August 24, 2010.
Posted: 24 Aug 2010 10:51:30
California Air Resources Board News Clips for August 24, 2010. This is a service of the California Air Resources Board’s Office of Communications. You may need to sign in or register with individual websites to view some of the following news articles. CLIMATE CHANGE/GHG’S Cap And Trade Gets Environmental Analysis. No regulation escapes environmental review in California -- even cap and trade. The upcoming program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will undergo an environmental assessment, including comparing it to a carbon tax, according to the California Air Resources Board (ARB). The analysis, known as a Functional Equivalent Document, is scheduled to be released along with the actual cap-and-trade regulations in October. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/08/24/4 Are Chemical Companies Gaming the Carbon Credit System? A controversy is brewing over whether some chemical companies are abusing a program that gives them carbon credit revenues for destroying a potent greenhouse gas created as a by-product in their operations. At issue is whether some companies are intentionally overproducing trifluoromethane (HFC-23) in order to destroy it and generate certified emissions reduction (CER) units under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). HFC-23 projects account for more than half of all CDM carbon credits sold to date. Posted. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS271914704820100824 GAS NOZZLES 3,000 Gas Stations Must Take Latch Off Nozzle. Life just got a little more inconvenient for Californians who like to wash their windshields or grab a snack at the mini mart while filling up the tank. The state fire marshal ordered about 3,000 gas stations - about one third of all the stations in California - to remove the latches that allow patrons to fill up their gas tanks hands free. Posted. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/24/BAO11F28BC.DTL&type=printable http://www.sacbee.com/2010/08/24/2979289/calif-orders-removal-of-gas-nozzle.html http://www.10news.com/news/24737971/detail.html http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?ID=16089 http://www.ocregister.com/news/fire-263353-gas-nozzle.html ENERGY Power Plants' Cooling Heats Up In Capitol. A sharp dispute is brewing in the Capitol over a plan pushed by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power to ease new state rules over the way power plants use ocean water to cool their engines. Three plants affected by the new rules – Harbor, Haynes and Scattergood – provide nearly 40 percent of Los Angeles’ available power generation and are critical to the stability of the grid, according to the DWP. Posted. http://www.capitolweekly.net/article.php?xid=z2wjmxrnji1vxn# Factories Shuttered En Masse To Keep Up With Emissions Deadline. China has shut down 2,087 highly polluting factories, fearing that it will otherwise miss a high-profile environmental deadline set for 2010. The government had pledged to reduce China's energy consumption per unit of gross domestic product by 20 percent before the end of 2010. Official data has suggested that the country will miss its mark despite top leaders' efforts to curb emissions growth and develop renewable energy. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/08/24/6 VEHICLES Bay Area Officials Push To Build Chargers For Electric Cars. The Bay Area is expected to soon become one of America's hottest markets for the first mass-produced electric cars, the Nissan Leaf and the Chevy Volt. But in the rush to drive electric, one thing is missing -- places to charge up. Concerned that the next generation of green drivers not be left stalled by the roadside, air officials have approved a $5 million plan to install 5,000 electric car chargers around the nine-county Bay Area in the next five years at homes, apartments, office buildings, parking garages and other locations from San Jose to Santa Rosa. Posted. http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_15872290 http://www.contracostatimes.com/environment/ci_15872292?nclick_check=1 EPA, CARB to Review SCR Policies. The Environmental Protection Agency and California Air Resources Board have agreed to begin a “thorough review” of their policies regarding the operation of selective catalytic reduction-equipped heavy-duty diesel engines when diesel engine fluid tanks run dry. The review outlined in legal settlements disclosed in federal and state court documents filed earlier this month, are the result of lawsuits filed last year against EPA and CARB by engine maker Navistar Inc. Posted. http://www.ttnews.com/articles/basetemplate.aspx?storyid=25053 DIESELS CARB Recommends Compliance Extension. The California Air Resources Board staff is recommending an extension of the compliance deadlines for the state’s emission-reduction rule for 2003 transport refrigeration units. The “reduced in scope” recommendations call for an extension of the deadline for model year 2003 ultra-low-emission TRUs to the end of 2017. Low-emission reefers must be in compliance by Dec. 31. CARB officials outlined their suggested amendments to the rule at an Aug. 18 workshop. Posted. http://www.ttnews.com/articles/printnews.aspx?storyid=25055 MISCELLANEOUS Green Groups Backing City's America's Cup Bid. San Francisco officials backed off from plans Monday to seek a legislative exemption to state environmental law for facilities to host the next America's Cup after some environmentalists pledged to support the city's bid for sailing's premier race. The moves defuse a potentially embarrassing showdown between green-credentialed Mayor Gavin Newsom and environmental groups worried that the city's efforts would create a road map for wealthy interests to circumvent state environmental law on big projects. Posted. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/24/BA161F26LI.DTL&type=printable BLOGS Unemployment Vs. Global Warming. Is “thinking green” an economic luxury? Intuition implies that it may be, but so far there’s been little empirical evidence on the subject. Two economists recently changed that: using data from Google keyword searches between 2004 and 2010, Matthew E. Kahn and Matthew J. Kotchen found that “higher unemployment rates within a state decrease internet search activity for global warming, but increase search activity for unemployment. Based on this revealed preference for interest in global warming, therefore, it appears that recessions crowd out concern for the environment…” Posted. http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/24/unemployment-vs-global-warming/?pagemode=print