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newsclips -- Newsclips for October 15-18, 2010

Posted: 18 Oct 2010 13:02:52
California Air Resources Board News Clips for October 18, 2010. 


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AIR POLLUTION

New Tactic in California for Paying Pollution Bill. Stockton,
Calif. — Officials who have tried and failed to clean the air in
California’s smog-filled San Joaquin Valley have seized on a new
strategy: getting millions of drivers to shoulder more of the
cost. Faced with a fine of at least $29 million for exceeding
federal ozone limits, the San Joaquin Valley’s air quality
regulators are proposing an annual surcharge of $10 to $24 on
registration fees for the region’s 2.7 million cars and trucks
beginning next year.   Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/science/earth/18smog.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print

Calif. Drivers Could Pay Cleanup Fee. Officials in California's
smog-ridden San Joaquin Valley are hoping to force the region's
millions of drivers to chip in for some of the cleanup. Air
quality regulators are proposing a surcharge of between $10 and
$24 on registration fees for cars and trucks beginning next year.
The fee, which will be discussed at a governing board meeting on
Thursday, will not change based on the type of car. Experts say
the idea could become more popular as regulators are forced to
figure out ways to pay for the pollution caused largely by cars.
Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/10/18/20

CLIMATE CHANGE

Global Warming Issue Spans Two Ballot Items. As the campaign
slows down for Prop. 23, which would suspend the environmental
law, money pours in to promote Prop. 26, which could hobble it.
Fundraising for a ballot initiative to suspend California's
global warming law has flagged, but oil companies and other
business interests are pouring millions of dollars into a
separate ballot measure that could dry up funds to implement the
law. Posted.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-prop23-prop26-20101018,0,6369703,print.story

Scholars Suggest New Clean Air Act Approach to Curbing Greenhouse
Gases. Though the Obama administration will be challenged no
matter how it chooses to regulate greenhouse gases under the
Clean Air Act, the statute's New Source Performance Standards
(NSPS) would be a more practical way to reduce emissions under
existing law, three Duke University experts argue in a new paper.
Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/10/14/14greenwire-scholars-suggest-new-clean-air-act-approach-to-61330.html?sq=clean
air act&st=cse&scp=2&pagewanted=print

Filmmaker Joins Governor In Climate Fight. It's a clash of
big-money titans: Hollywood vs. Big Oil. Academy Award-winning
director James Cameron – whose movies have featured Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger – on Friday pledged $1 million to oppose
Proposition 23, a measure that would suspend the state's landmark
climate change law. Cameron joins environmental groups, green
tech advocates and financiers who already had lined up with
Schwarzenegger in opposing the measure. Posted.
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/10/16/v-print/3108451/green-energy-fuels-both-sides.html

Tea Party Activists Back Prop. 23 In Sacramento Protest. Local
tea party activists are throwing their support behind a ballot
measure to roll back the state's landmark global climate change
law. About 50 members of the Northern California Tea Party
Patriots protested at the California Air Resources Board offices
in downtown Sacramento on Thursday, saying the climate change law
amounts to a huge energy tax that will cost the state thousands
of jobs. "This energy tax is going to put a lot of people out of
work," said Elk Grove resident Mike Boyle. "The state of
California cannot afford this right now." Posted.
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/10/15/v-print/3105545/hed-here.html

Climate Talks Must Ensure Carbon Trading: WBank Official. Hanoi 
– Major talks on global warming next month must provide
reassurances for the future of the market in greenhouse-gas
emissions beyond 2012, the World Bank's environment chief said
Monday. "What they have to find out is how to ensure that carbon
trading does not collapse," Inger Andersen, the Bank's
vice-president for sustainable development, told AFP in an
interview. Posted.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101018/sc_afp/worldbankenvironmentclimatewarmingvietnam/print

GREEN ENERGY

China Denies Giving Unfair Clean-Energy Subsidies. Beijing -- A
senior Chinese official rejected a U.S. trade complaint about
Beijing's clean-energy policy and said Sunday that Washington
might be improperly supporting its own industry. The U.S.
government said Friday it would investigate complaints by a labor
union that Beijing unfairly subsidizes its producers of wind and
solar equipment. Posted.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/10/18/BUBU1FTVMM.DTL&type=printable

Energy-efficient home in the Wine Country. What's noticeable
about Cathy O'Neill's house is what you don't notice. There are
no traditional heating vents embedded in the baseboards. Hardly
any noise from lawn mowers or airplanes permeates the walls. No
air conditioner whooshes, despite a 96-degree afternoon in the
heart of Wine Country. And yet the home is a comfortable 76
degrees. Posted.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/10/16/MNQT1FSP67.DTL&type=printable

FIT Programs Bringing Clean Energy To Your Town. The sun shines
often on Florida, a fact that gave it bragging rights on license
plates with the nickname, the "Sunshine State." The northern
Florida city of Gainesville rubs it in even further with its
local newspaper, The Gainesville Sun. With all those sunny days,
solar energy seemed like a good idea to Ed Regan, who designed a
feed-in tariff program for the utility company. Posted.
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/10/18/v-print/3112640/fit-programs-bringing-clean-energy.html

San Francisco Bay Area Remains Epicenter Of Cleantech In The
United States. The San Francisco Bay Area remains the epicenter
of cleantech in the United States, according to a second annual
report set to be released by Clean Edge, a cleantech research and
publishing firm. An analysis of job listings, venture capital
investment and patent registration found that the Bay Area - for
the second year in a row - is the No. 1 metro region in the
country for cleantech jobs, followed by Los Angeles, Boston, New
York and Denver. Posted.
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/10/18/v-print/3112490/san-francisco-bay-area-remains.html

Calif. County Court Blocks Delivery Of $33M In Stimulus Grants. A
Southern California county court is holding delivery of $33
million in federal stimulus grants earmarked for energy
efficiency retrofits as state officials face a Thursday deadline
for distributing the cash. The Western Riverside County Council
of Governments filed suit over the state's planned distribution
of the money to support municipal loans for home energy retrofits
and solar installations. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/10/18/8

VEHICLES

Is The Chevy Volt Really Electric? Flame wars! The blogosphere
got incredibly heated up early last week by the incendiary charge
that General Motors "lied" about the Chevrolet Volt when it
claimed that the car, which is a mere month away from delivery to
customers, runs on electricity all of the time. In fact, it
doesn't - the gas motor partially drives the wheels at speeds
above 70 mph. But the difference is pretty technical. Posted.
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/10/18/v-print/3112593/is-the-chevy-volt-really-electric.html

Bumpy Road for Electrics. Boosters See Bright Future for Battery
Cars, but Some Say Drawbacks Too Severe. The auto industry is
about to embark on a multibillion-dollar gamble: that
battery-powered cars will become big sellers. More than 20
electric models are set to arrive at dealerships over the next
three years, led by the Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Volt due by
December. The Obama administration is spending more than $5
billion in tax credits to buyers and subsidized loans and grants
to auto makers … Posted.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704654004575517891616896222.html.html#printMode

Emissions Of Electric Cars Tough To Quantify. Although electric
cars may be seen as the way toward an emissions-free auto sector,
a series of studies has shown that the cars' power source may not
be as clean as some drivers hope. Separate studies from the
Department of Energy and the Electric Power Research Institute
show that hybrids and all-electric vehicles cut greenhouse gas
emissions by 30 percent compared with a traditional internal
combustion engine. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/10/18/15

OPINION

In Climate Denial, Again. Former Vice President Dick Cheney has
to be smiling. With one exception, none of the Republicans
running for the Senate — including the 20 or so with a serious
chance of winning — accept the scientific consensus that humans
are largely responsible for global warming.  The candidates are
not simply rejecting solutions, like putting a price on carbon,
though these, too, are demonized. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/opinion/18mon1.html?sq=climate
change&st=cse&scp=4&pagewanted=print

Do Your Part: Green Labels You Can Trust. Are you a green
shopper? Do you regularly seek out products that claim to better
for the planet? These days, it's getting harder and harder to
know which products are truly better for you and the environment.
Terms like "eco-friendly", "green", and even "natural" are not
regulated and have no clearly defined standards. Posted.
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/10/18/v-print/3112165/do-your-part-green-labels-you.html

BLOGS

EPA's "Environmental Justice" Tour Comes To California.
Environmental justice, a movement to focus attention on pollution
in low-income communities, is a burning cause for Lisa Jackson,
the first African American to head the U.S. Environmental
Protection agency.  Over the last several months, Jackson has
toured poor white, black and Latino communities with a message:
Eco-issues aren't just for rich folks. Posted.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/10/environmental-justice-oakland-epa-lisa-jackson.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GreenspaceEnvironmentBlog+%28Greenspace%29

Nation's Forests Help Offset Greenhouse Gas Emissions. U.S.
forests sequester enough carbon every year to offset roughly 11%
of the country's industrial greenhouse gas emissions, according
to a new federal report. The inventory ranks California among the
top states in forest carbon storage, not far behind its woodsy
neighbors to the North, Oregon and Washington. Posted.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/10/nations-forests-offset-greenhouse-gas-emissions.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GreenspaceEnvironmentBlog+%28Greenspace%29

Big Oil Goes To College: A Conflict Of Interest? Have hundreds of
millions of dollars in grants from major oil companies
compromised the ethics of energy research at such institutions as
UC Berkeley, UC Davis and Stanford? That's what Jennifer
Washburn, a longtime critic of academic conflicts of interest,
contends in "Big Oil Goes to College," a new report that delves
into the details of contracts signed between 10 major U.S.
universities and global oil companies. Posted.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/10/uc-berkeley-stanford-energy-research-oil-companies.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GreenspaceEnvironmentBlog+%28Greenspace%29

52 Percent of Americans Flunk Climate 101. A new study by
researchers at Yale University suggests that Americans’ knowledge
of climate science is limited and scattershot, with some
understanding of basic issues like the contribution of fossil
fuels to global warming and some singular misconceptions as well.
For instance, more than two-thirds of those surveyed believe that
reducing toxic waste or banning aerosol spray cans will curb
climate change. Posted.
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/14/in-u-s-survey-52-percent-flunk-climate-101/?pagemode=print

A Physicist’s Climate Complaints. Almost 20 years ago, Harold
Lewis, a respected physicist who had advised the government and
the Pentagon on matters ranging from nuclear winter to missile
defense, included his assessment of climate change from the
buildup of human-generated greenhouse gases in a book on
technological risk: All models agree that the net effect will be
a general and global warming of the earth; they only disagree
about how much. Posted.
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/15/a-physicists-climate-complaints/?pagemode=print

Would Deregulation Help California? Nancy Folbre is an economics
professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Meg Whitman
has a great smile and a fierce determination to become the next
governor of California. An experienced chief executive who turned
eBay from a tiny business into a mega-success, she recently broke
the record for personal spending by a political candidate.
Posted.
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/would-deregulation-help-california/?pagemode=print

2010 Tied (So Far) for Warmest on Record. Agence France-Presse —
Getty Images A ship departing from Kirkenes, Norway, en route to
China via the Arctic Northeast Passage. With more than two months
to go, 2010 is on pace to tie 1998 as the warmest year in the
historical record, according to an analysis of land and sea
surface temperatures by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration.. Posted.
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/2010-tied-so-far-for-warmest-on-record/?pagemode=print

On Climate, How Much Could E.P.A. Do? One near-term alternative
to a cap-and-trade bill is a big increase in funds for clean
energy research. Another alternative is having the Environmental
Protection Agency crack down on greenhouse gas emissions. As
Bradford Plumer has written, “back in 2007, the Supreme Court
ruled that the E.P.A. was required to regulate greenhouse gases
under the existing Clean Air Act if it found those gases posed a
threat to public health and welfare (which, most scientists
agree, they do). Posted.
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/14/on-climate-how-much-could-e-p-a-do/?pagemode=print

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