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California Air Resources Board News Clips for October 18, 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. 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