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Posted: 02 Nov 2010 15:36:14
California Air Resources Board News Clips for November 2, 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. CAP AND TRADE Greenhouse Gas Emissions Traders Refocus on State, Regional Programs. Carbon market enthusiasts have largely given up on the idea of federal legislation on greenhouse gas emissions. Instead, most are now looking to establish cap-and-trade in the United States gradually, through the spread of regional programs. Experts see only grim prospects for future leadership on climate change coming from Washington after today's vote count is tallied. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/11/02/02climatewire-greenhouse-gas-emissions-traders-refocus-on-26503.html Will the Ghost of Cap and Trade Haunt Democrats Tomorrow -- and Beyond? House Democrats are bracing for tough losses across the country today, and the controversial cap-and-trade climate bill is sure to be part of any post-election analysis. The Democrats' anticipated loss of the House will be attributed to the sour economy and unpopular health care reform law, the Wall Street bailout and economic stimulus bills, among other things. But Democrats' vote to support the House cap-and-trade climate bill has played prominently in more than a dozen races across the country…Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/11/02/02greenwire-will-the-ghost-of-cap-and-trade-haunt-democrat-85287.html?pagewanted=print CLIMATE CHANGE/GHG Predicted Voter Turnout Favors Climate Opponents. It's likely that more voters with doubts or denial about climate change will visit polling booths today than in years past, according to analysts and polling. "It's almost a foregone conclusion," Ed Maibach, director of George Mason University's Center for Climate Change Communication, said of the expected turnout. Republican enthusiasm and the party's rising dismissal of global warming are coinciding to make this an Election Day marked by climate dissent. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/11/02/02climatewire-predicted-voter-turnout-favors-climate-oppon-92875.html?pagewanted=print Second Poll Shows Californians Back Climate Change Law. A second poll in a week shows Californians remain steadfast in their support for the state's pioneering climate change law and don't want it suspended, as a controversial measure on Tuesday's ballot would do. The non-partisan Field Poll finds 48% of likely voters oppose Proposition 23, which would suspend the 2006 law until California's unemployment rate -- now 12.4% -- falls below 5.5% for a full year. Posted. http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2010/11/poll-californians-climate-change-law/1 States, Enviro Groups Urge Court To Let EPA Climate Rules Proceed. Days after the Obama administration asked a federal court not to stop U.S. EPA's climate program from taking effect on Jan. 2, a coalition of 20 states and 13 environmental groups has pledged its support for the agency, saying that despite "extravagant claims of harm" from industry, the new greenhouse gas regulations would hardly hurt them. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/2010/11/02/10/ Oil Firms Bankroll Calif. Climate-Change Measure. In California, voters will decide Tuesday whether to put the state's landmark climate-change law on hold until the jobless rate there goes down. The ballot measure known as Proposition 23 is being bankrolled mostly by oil companies. Supporters aren't saying that global warming is a good thing — or that it doesn't exist. Their arguments have mainly been about economic effects. Posted. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130982095 Study Details Trade-Off Between Growing Crops, Climate Change. A new study led by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison underscores the often conflicting goals of feeding a growing global population and working to combat climate change. The study, published online Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, provides a detailed picture of how clearing land for farming also releases greenhouse gases into the environment. Posted. http://www.sacbee.com/2010/11/02/3151569/study-details-trade-off-between.html#ixzz149ETR9u2 Oil Companies for Prop 23 Stress Jobs, Costs Of Climate Measure. Valero Energy Corp. and Tesoro Corp., two of the biggest contributors to the $10 million that has been raised to support California's Proposition 23 ballot initiative, will find out today whether the money was put to good use. The state will cast its vote today on the proposition, which would stall California's aggressive climate change law until the state's unemployment rate has been less than 5.5 percent for a full year. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/2010/11/02/7/ Calif. Prop. 23: Greens Turn to Public Health Message to Mobilize Latino Voters. Opponents of California's Proposition 23, a measure that would block legislation to limit greenhouse gas emissions, have turned to a public health focus to mobilize Latino voters. Research that I recently published with Ed Maibach and colleagues finds that this frame of reference has the potential to engage segments of the public who may otherwise be ambivalent or less concerned about climate change. Posted. http://bigthink.com/ideas/24773 AIR POLLUTION California Venture Capitalist Doerr Helps Fund Fight for Pollution Fees. Hedge-fund manager Tom Steyer and venture capitalist John Doerr, who are defending California’s global warming laws from a challenge at the ballot box, have also put $1.4 million toward a fight over government fees. Steyer, founder of San Francisco-based Farallon Capital Management LLC, gave $1 million last week to the campaign against Proposition 26, which would make it harder for state and local agencies to impose regulatory fees, according to California election records. Doerr, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in Menlo Park, gave $400,000. Posted. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-01/california-venture-capitalist-doerr-helps-fund-fight-for-pollution-fees.html EPA Plans Late-December Release For New Ozone Standard. Though the Obama administration was initially expected to issue stricter smog standards this summer, U.S. EPA now says it may not be ready to release a final rule until New Year's Eve. EPA is currently reconsidering the George W. Bush-era changes to the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for ground-level ozone, which is the main component in smog. A final decision is now scheduled to come by Dec. 31, the agency told a federal court yesterday. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/11/02/2 FUEL EPA Fuel Economy Labeling: Is There A Better Metric?The U.S. Department of Transportation and Environmental Protection Agency face twin and equally daunting tasks as they revise the fuel economy labels as mandated by the 2007 Energy and Independence Security Act. Not only must they incorporate accurate fuel economy, greenhouse-gas emissions and smog-forming emissions ratings for gas-powered passenger vehicles, they also must incorporate plug-in battery-electrics that derive power from other sources. Posted. http://www.sacbee.com/2010/11/01/3149122/epa-fuel-economy-labeling-is-there.html#ixzz149F1FQGc GREEN ENERGY 'Green' Grades Are In For USD, UCSD. Officials at University of San Diego, home to a new solar-panel array, have made steady progress in sustainable efforts during recent years, according to a report card that grades U.S. colleges and universities on energy efficiency. The private university rose from a D+ in 2009 to a B+ this year in nonprofit group Sustainable Endowments Institute's annual sustainability report card. Posted. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/nov/02/green-grades-are-usd-ucsd/ PG&E Suspends Northern Calif. Wave Energy Project. Arcata, Calif. -- Pacific Gas and Electric Co. is suspending a wave energy project it had planned to build off the northern California coast. PG&E says the WaveConnect project had become too expensive and that the technology had not developed fast enough for the project to be viable. The utility had planned to test three or four different wave power generators in an area about three miles off the coast of Arcata. Posted. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/10/31/state/n120259D09.DTL&type=printable Solar Installation Makes Cents. The sun beat down on 1,224 solar panels on the rooftop of east Lodi's Meehleis Modular Buildings Inc. on Monday morning, and a computer indicates 18.1 megawatts of power had been generated by 9:30 a.m. The solar panels atop the Meehleis warehouse can generate 190 kilowatts of power and represent 20 percent of all solar power in the city of Lodi. Posted. http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20101102/A_NEWS/11020315/-1/A_NEWS14 Intel, Kohl’s Lead U.S. in Purchasing Clean Energy. Computer-chip manufacturer Intel Corp. and Kohl’s Corp. department stores lead the U.S. in purchasing electricity from renewable sources such as wind and solar energy, the Environmental Protection Agency said. Intel, for the third year in a row, is the biggest buyer of renewable power by volume, the EPA said in a statement today. Posted. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-01/intel-kohl-s-lead-u-s-in-purchasing-clean-electricity-epa-survey-says.html PORTS Port of Los Angeles OKs Creation of Nonprofit to Manage Community Mitigation Projects Despite State Lands Objections. Despite strong objections from the State Lands Commission, a new nonprofit organization approved by the Port of Los Angeles last week will begin meeting within the next six months to decide how to spend the money in a landmark Port of LA community mitigation trust fund. Posted. http://www.cunninghamreport.com/news_item.php?id=1372 OPINION California Vote on Greenhouse Gases Has National Import. The following editorial appeared Sunday in The Washington Post: It’s not Plan A, B or even C, but if Congress continues to do nothing on climate change, environmentalists can at least take heart that some states are planning to cut greenhouse emissions on their own. As usual, California leads the way, with a robust greenhouse gas law mandating a reduction in the state’s emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, which its state legislature approved in 2006. Posted. http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/opinion/50582893-82/california-emissions-greenhouse-states.html.csp BLOGS Global Warming, Environmental Funds, Parks Featured On California Ballot. Voters in the Golden State headed to the polls Tuesday and faced the usual cluttered politi-prose of ballot initiatives. They can be forgiven if they're tempted to vote "no" across the board, and for environmentalists, that's two-thirds right. Here are the propositions that the green vote cares about: Prop. 23: This measure would suspend -- some say, effectively end -- California's landmark climate change legislation, known as AB 32, until the state experiences unemployment of 5.5% for a full year. Posted. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/11/global-warming-environmental-funds-parks-featured-on-california-ballot.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GreenspaceEnvironmentBlog+%28Greenspace%29 Prop. 26: A New Strategy For Big Oil Companies? When Chevron, California's largest company, looked at how it could wield influence in this election cycle, it shunned Proposition 23, the high-profile ballot initiative to suspend the state's global-warming law. So did Shell, Conoco Phillips and ExxonMobil. But if many of the large oil-producing companies judged the global-warming initiative as too controversial, and unlikely to succeed, they found another way to express their views. Posted. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/11/prop-26-prop-23-oil-companies-chevron.html Global Warming for Gamers. Think you’ve got the smarts to rein in climate change without crashing the global economy? In the real world, even leaders of nations are having trouble figuring that out. But in the new strategy video game “Fate of the World,” players singlehandedly confront that daunting challenge, while tackling peak oil, overpopulation and saving the rain forest to boot. Posted. http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/02/global-warming-for-gamers/?partner=rss&emc=rss