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Posted: 04 Nov 2010 14:30:46
California Air Resources Board News Clips for November 4, 2010. 


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AIR POLLUTION

Grants Available to Replace Tractors. The San Joaquin Valley Air
Pollution Control District will administer a new program funded
by local, state and federal funds to provide grants to replace
certain tractors. The objective of the grants is to replace the
older tractors being used in the valley with newer,
cleaner-burning tractors. Posted.
http://www.thebusinessjournal.com/agriculture/7002-grants-available-to-replace-tractors

CLIMATE CHANGE

Nichols Says Fee Referendum Won't Derail Calif. Climate Law.
California's chief air regulator says a referendum passed by
voters this week that alters the definition of an environmental
fee does not apply to the state's climate change law, A.B. 32.
Mary Nichols, chairwoman of the California Air Resources Board
(ARB), talked to reporters yesterday in the wake of California
voters' having rejected one ballot measure on global warming only
to approve a second measure that could apply to A.B. 32
(Greenwire, Nov. 3). Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/11/04/5

Prop. 23 Battle Marks New Era In Environmental Politics. Wealthy
Californians and conservation groups united in a bipartisan
campaign to defeat the oil industry-sponsored initiative to
suspend the state's greenhouse gas law. Proposition 23, the oil
industry sponsored initiative to suspend California's greenhouse
gas law, was touted early on by environmentalists as a "David vs.
Goliath" battle. "Its our slingshot vs. their oily club," said
Steve Maviglio, a spokesman for opponents. Posted.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-global-warming-20101104,0,3173526,print.story

Governor Sets Sights On Federal Climate Change Law. Los Angeles,
CA -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is seizing on the defeat of an
oil-industry attempt to derail California's landmark global
warming law, saying Wednesday it provides proponents of clean
energy and climate control the perfect opportunity to put those
issues back on the national agenda. Posted.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/11/03/state/n151054D79.DTL&type=printable

Election Results Likely to Proliferate Climate-Related Lawsuits –
Study. Climate-related lawsuits are growing rapidly in the United
States, even as federal climate change legislation seems to have
been put on hold indefinitely following the results of Tuesday's
midterm elections. The number of lawsuits either supporting or
opposing efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions is set to
triple by the end of this year as compared to last year. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/11/04/04climatewire-election-results-likely-to-proliferate-clima-86439.html?pagewanted=print

Elections Alter Climate and Energy Landscape. Tuesday's election
results will force the White House and its environmental allies
to trim their ambitions for sweeping climate legislation and seek
more modest bipartisan measures to cut oil dependence and
greenhouse gas emissions. Posted.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/04/AR2010110402490.html?hpid=topnews

California Voters Opt To Stay the Course with GHG Emissions Law.
Californians who turned out to vote Tuesday, Nov. 2, were
decisive in their opinion not to suspend implementation of a much
ballyhooed greenhouse gas law. Approved in 2006, the law allows
the California Air Resources Board to create many new
regulations. Specific to trucking, CARB was given the authority
to formulate several trucking regulations aimed at curbing
greenhouse gas emissions, including the state’s drayage rule, and
truck retrofit rule. Posted.
http://www.landlinemag.com/todays_news/Daily/2010/Nov10/110110/110310-02.shtml

Obama to Face New Foes in Global Warming Fight. The Obama
administration and the new Congress appear headed for early
confrontations over the reach of environmental regulation and
federal subsidies for fossil fuel development.  The
administration is moving determinedly forward on a series of
actions to limit emissions of greenhouse gases and other air
pollutants, to restrict some coal mining practices and to
eliminate multibillion-dollar tax breaks for the oil and gas
industry. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/business/energy-environment/04enviro.html?src=busln

Prop. 23: State's Global-Warming Law Survives Challenge.
Opponents of an effort to repeal the state's global warming law
said their victory at the polls Tuesday was the work of a
bipartisan coalition, including business owners concerned about
climate change. They also said it shows strong voter support for
creation of a "green" economy. Posted. .
http://www.ocregister.com/news/prop-274321-law-warming.html

Santa Cruz Carbon Plan Leads To All Roads. If 5,000 Santa Cruz
homes install solar panels by 2020, the city will cut its
residential electricity use by 25 percent. So dim the PG&E bill
and let the sunshine in, say city planners. 
It’s a bold plan—currently only 500 homes have solar systems—and
one of several ambitious goals proposed by the city of Santa Cruz
to cut greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent from 1990s levels by
2020. Posted.
http://news.santacruz.com/2010/11/03/santa_cruz_carbon_plan_leads_to_all_roads

California Rejects Prop 23, Providing a Likely Boost for Green
Cars. In a round rebuke of energy interests who had tried to
block California's landmark AB 32 emissions law from taking
effect next year, voters defeated Proposition 23 at the polls
yesterday by a count of 61.4 percent to 38.6 percent. The nearly
23-point margin was the most one-sided result among the state's
nine ballot referendums this year, showing that while Posted.
http://www.hybridcars.com/news/california-rejects-prop-23-providing-likely-boost-green-cars-28863.html

California Voters Say Yes to Clean Energy and to Ending Budget
Gridlock. In back-to-back hits to Texas, one day after the San
Francisco Giants beat the Rangers, California voters delivered a
second great triumph, voting to safeguard the state’s booming
clean energy economy by defeating Proposition 23 and saying no to
dirty Texas oil. There were nine measures on the statewide
November ballot and NRDC took positions on four of them: we
supported Propositions 21 and 25, and opposed Propositions 23 and
26. Posted.
http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/site/?q=print/8352

Prop. 23 Battle Marks New Era In Environmental Politics. Wealthy
Californians and conservation groups united in a bipartisan
campaign to defeat the oil industry-sponsored initiative to
suspend the state's greenhouse gas law. Proposition 23, the oil
industry sponsored initiative to suspend California's greenhouse
gas law, was touted early on by environmentalists as a "David vs.
Goliath" battle. "Its our slingshot vs. their oily club," said
Steve Maviglio, a spokesman for opponents. Posted.
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-me-global-warming-20101104,0,7146988,print.story

Prop. 23 Defeat Sweet For Tom Steyer. Billionaire hedge fund
manager Tom Steyer is jubilant. Not only did California voters
reject Proposition 23, the measure that sought to suspend the
state's landmark global warming bill, but they did so by a
staggering 21-point margin. "We had a huge victory," Steyer,
co-chairman of the No on 23 campaign, said in a post-election
conference call Wednesday. "It was the biggest no of any
statewide proposition vote." Posted.
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_16515271?nclick_check=1

California Vote May ‘Stifle’ Environmental Laws. California’s
approval of a ballot measure making it harder to pass regulatory
fees may undermine state environmental laws, including planned
limits on greenhouse gases, said the Climate Action Reserve, a
Los Angeles-based carbon offsets program. Proposition 26 on
yesterday’s ballot won by 53 percent to 47 percent, according to
the California Secretary of State’s Elections Division. Posted.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-11-03/california-vote-may-stifle-environmental-laws.html

Election Results Likely To Proliferate Climate-Related Lawsuits –
Study. New York -- Climate-related lawsuits are growing rapidly
in the United States, even as federal climate change legislation
seems to have been put on hold indefinitely following the results
of Tuesday's midterm elections. The number of lawsuits either
supporting or opposing efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions
is set to triple by the end of this year as compared to last
year. And by late 2010 or early 2011, the nation could even see
some of the more public and contentious climate change legal
battles come before the Supreme Court. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/11/04/2

2 Climate Skeptics May Change State Policies. Republicans
solidified their control of governorships with the victories of
two climate skeptics in Maine and Florida among a new class of
conservative leaders with less enthusiasm for far-reaching plans
to combat global warming. Combined with GOP sweeps of
gubernatorial races in much of the Midwest and South, the
electoral outcomes cast doubts about whether states will move
forward with proposed cap-and-trade programs, renewable energy
programs and fossil-fuel development, analysts say. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/11/04/3

China Comes Close To 20% Reduction In Energy Intensity. China
will "get close" to meeting its 2010 target of reducing energy
intensity by 20 percent, the World Bank reported yesterday. In
its latest China Quarterly Update, the World Bank found the Asian
economic giant's growth has "moderated" -- declining from 10.6
percent in the first half of the year to 9.6 percent in the third
quarter. Economists attributed the cooling economy to a fading of
the impact of China's stimulus infusion and a normalizing
monetary stance. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/11/04/6

Lack Of Mandatory Targets Spells End Of Voluntary Cap And Trade
In U.S. With chances for national climate legislation looking
dim, the only nationwide U.S. cap-and-trade market will die, its
owner said before Tuesday's election. Big American companies like
Ford Motor Co., Bank of America Corp. and Intel Corp. had all
agreed to participate in the market that was started in 2003,
Intercontinental Exchange Inc. But the market depended on
voluntary emissions reductions, targets that were supposed to be
made mandatory once the federal government adopted a cap on
carbon emissions. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/11/04/8

Prop. 23 Defeat Energizes Backers, Opponents Alike. It seems that
Proposition 23 was just a test case – a pilot program for a
national and global debate on green energy and technology.
Proponents and opponents of the ballot initiative alike say that
what happened in California will set the stage for a much larger
national movement. In a landslide defeat, Californians renounced
a ballot initiative that would have killed the state’s landmark
climate legislation. Posted.
http://californiawatch.org/watchblog/prop-23-defeat-energizes-backers-opponents-alike-6369

Proposition 26 Could Undercut AB 32? Download audio (MP3) On
Tuesday, voters added several lines of new code to the software
that governs public budgets in California. Proposition 26 will
require a two-thirds vote at the state and local level to pass
new fees. That's a daunting prospect for many programs that rely
on fees to function. Prop. 26 could undercut the very climate
change initiative voters protected at the polls. Posted.
http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201011040850/b

High-Tech Donors, Sophisticated Outreach Helped Defeat Prop 23.
Proposition 23, the ballot initiative aiming to suspend
California's greenhouse gas reduction law, was soundly defeated
61 percent to 39 percent, thanks in part to large donations by
high-tech entrepreneurs and one of the most sophisticated field
operations ever mounted for an environmental issue. "It is the
largest public referendum in history on climate and clean energy
policy," said Fred Krupp, president of the New York-based
Environmental Defense Fund. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2010/11/04/5

California Cap-And-Trade Survives Electoral Challenge. Carbon
finance, emissions trading & offsets. Californians have voted
strongly in favour of cap-and-trade on greenhouse-gas (GHG)
emissions, rejecting a ballot initiative to suspend the
introduction of state’s global warming bill, AB-32. In mid-term
elections, the same voters also installed the Democrat candidate
for the governorship, Jerry Brown, over Republican candidate Meg
Whitman, whose platform had included delaying AB-32 by a year.
Posted.
http://www.carbonpositive.net/viewarticle.aspx?articleID=2168

“Carb” Cutting To Proceed On Schedule In California, Voters Nix
Prop 23. Groups that sought to postpone air pollution controls in
California lost at the polls on Tuesday. An estimated 61 percent
of California’s voters said no to proposition 23, and yes to
keeping the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, Assembly Bill
32 (AB 32) on schedule. The laws aim to cut the state’s
industrial carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions back down to 1990
levels by the year 2020 and are slated to take effect in early
2012. What does AB32 mean for businesses in California and the
U.S.? Posted.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/04/carb-cutting-cal-prop23-fails/

FUELS

Ethanol Credits May Be Early Test For Republican Budget-Cutters.
With a wave of Republicans riding into Congress on a platform of
fiscal conservatism, questions about the fate of ethanol
subsidies are bubbling to the surface. Efforts to secure
extensions for a tax credit for blending fuel with ethanol and an
import tariff for ethanol -- both set to expire at the end of
year -- have faced stiff opposition in Congress, but industry
players are planning to continue their push for the provisions
during the lame-duck session. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/11/04/4

GREEN ENERGY

California Cuts Carbon in Bid to Spur Clean Technology Boom. The
state's voters backed a plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions back
to 1990 levels. San Francisco --Voters have turned back an effort
to suspend California's efforts to tackle climate change, a
wide-reaching program ranging from a cap-and-trade market for
greenhouse gas emissions to energy efficiency standards for
televisions. In 2006 California passed a law—the Global Warming
Solutions Act (Assembly Bill 32)—that pledged the state to reduce
its greenhouse gas emission levels back to 1990 levels by 2020.
Posted.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=california-cuts-carbon-in-bid


OPINION

Brown's Green Vision For California. The governor-elect must now
figure out how to pay for California's alternative-energy future
and ensure that all the state's residents benefit from new
opportunities in the field. During the campaign season, it was
easy to dismiss the idea of a green energy future for California
as mere campaign rhetoric. But with the second coming of Jerry
Brown, the reelection of Barbara Boxer and voter endorsement of
state policies to curb global warming, California really is
poised to lead the country to a greener future. Posted.
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-oe-hayden-green-california-20101104,0,5292207,print.story

Logue: Big Money Beat Proposition 23. Chico - Assemblyman Dan
Logue, R-Linda, said big money defeated Proposition 23, which
would have put the brakes on Assembly Bill 32, the state's
clean-air act. "We were outspent three-to-one," Logue said in a
phone interview Tuesday night. Logue spearheaded the Proposition
23 campaign. AB32 was passed and signed by the governor in 2006.
It provides that between 2012 and 2020 greenhouse gas emissions
will be reduced to 1990 levels. Posted.
http://www.chicoer.com/news/ci_16518946

BLOGS

Prop. 23 Campaign Concedes Defeat. Backers of Proposition 23, the
ballot initiative to suspend California's ambitious global
warming law, conceded defeat, calling the outcome "a victory for
Wall Street over Main Street" and vowing to continue their
efforts to "save jobs" and curb energy costs. “While the global
warming law may attract venture capital dollars to the state,
they will not translate into the jobs or economic activity
promised by Proposition 23’s opponents,” said Jack Stewart,
president of the California Manufacturers and Technology Assn.
Posted.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/11/prop-23-defeat-global-warming-climate-change.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GreenspaceEnvironmentBlog+%28Greenspace%29

Solar Company Solyndra To Close Factory, Cut Jobs. It isn’t easy
being green for Solyndra Inc., the controversial Bay Area solar
power system manufacturing company. The company said Wednesday
that it is shuttering one of its factories to save $60 million in
capital expenditures, laying off 40 employees and letting the
contracts for more than 100 temporary workers expire. Posted.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/11/solar-company-solyndra-to-close-factory-cut-jobs.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheTechnologyBlog+%28Los+Angeles+Times+Technology+Blog%29

Obama Revisits Energy Policy, Cap-And-Trade And EPA Regulation.
Besides acknowledging a "shellacking" in midterm congressional
elections, President Obama on Wednesday addressed some of the
fronts on which Republicans and "tea party" activists claimed
victory: Environmental Protection Agency regulation on greenhouse
gas and the cap-and-trade approach to energy policy. Posted.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/11/obama-revisits-energy-policy-cap-and-trade-epa-regulation.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GreenspaceEnvironmentBlog+%28Greenspace%29

Climate Cues from the Next House Speaker. At the global climate
change conference in Copenhagen in December, President Obama
pledged to cut United States emissions from 2005 levels by 17
percent by 2020 — if he could get Congress to pass climate and
energy legislation. The task proved impossible even with
Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress. But now, any
legislative progress on the issue will depend on the cooperation
of the new Republican majority in the House of Representatives
and the incoming majority leader, presumed to be John Boehner of
Ohio. Posted.
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/03/climate-cues-from-the-next-house-speaker/?partner=rss&emc=rss

Muddled Up In Climate Politics. For those of us hoping for
substantive climate or energy legislation in the near future,
Tuesday’s election was a mixed bag at best. And that’s after
having lowered our expectations following Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid’s (D-NV) decision to pull the plug on advancing the
American Power Act back in July. If Democrats couldn’t muster the
votes or political capital with majorities in both houses of
Congress, there was little chance following a mid-term election
that was sure to weaken their hold. Posted.
http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/2010/11/04/muddled-up-in-climate-politics/


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