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newsclips -- ARB Newsclips for October 2, 2014.
Posted: 02 Oct 2014 14:19:31
ARB Newsclips for October 2, 2014. 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 Cancer risk from Southern California air declining. Southern California's air is getting healthier. According to a major air quality study released Thursday, cancer-causing pollutants have dropped by more than 50 percent on average since 2005. That's when the South Coast Air Quality Management District last monitored air quality so extensively in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties. Posted. http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Cancer-risk-from-Southern-California-air-declining-5796624.php Full inspections of frack sand mines mostly undone. A report says only 20 percent of active frack sand mine operations have been inspected by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to ensure compliance with air pollution rules. The mining company needs an air permit from the DNR before beginning operations. Then it's up to the agency to do a full compliance evaluation to determine if the company is following the rules. Posted. http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Full-inspections-of-frack-sand-mines-mostly-undone-5793600.php Port air study hit. A report submitted Tuesday to state regulators labels as "irresponsible" their conclusion that airborne chemical concentrations in Albany's South End weren't a health concern. The report by David O. Carpenter, director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at the State University of New York at Albany, said that air samples in 20 of 21 cases showed elevated levels of benzene, a known human carcinogen. Posted. http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Port-air-study-hit-5792233.php CLIMATE CHANGE Climate Change May Kill More Than Ebola, U.K. Doctors Say. Climate change may kill many more people than the Ebola virus, a group of U.K. doctors said in a call for the World Health Organization to declare the issue a public emergency. Burning fossil fuels causes about 7 million premature deaths from indoor and outdoor air pollution, according to the BMJ, a medical journal owned by the British Medical Association. Posted. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-01/climate-change-may-kill-more-than-ebola-u-k-doctors-say.html Climate Change's Role in Indian Pilgrim Deaths. When the heavens opened over several Himalayan foothill states in northern India for four cataclysmic days last summer, they rained unprecedented hell over villagers, and over streams of pilgrims visiting temples and other holy sites. Floods and landslides tore vulnerable buildings and villages from their feeble riverside roots, flushing their ramshackle remains downstream. Posted. http://www.vcstar.com/news/state/climate-changes-role-in-indian-pilgrim-deaths_76667998 Encinitas Resident Conserves Every Drop To Combat Climate Change. It's been hot in San Diego. Record temperature hot. Our utility grid is taxed, and water is in short supply. Scientists predict all of this will continue thanks to climate change. Many people are doing what they can to reduce their impact on the environment, but some take it much further than others. Posted. http://www.kpbs.org/news/2014/oct/02/green-building-encinitas-climate-change/ MIT: Global Energy Use, CO2 May Double By 2100. Even as curbing greenhouse gas emissions becomes more urgent as the effects of climate change become more acute, fossil fuels will remain the largest source of GHGs far into the 21st Century as both global energy use and CO2 emissions double, according to MIT’s 2014 Climate and Energy Outlook. Posted. http://www.climatecentral.org/news/global-energy-use-co2-may-double-by-2100-18117 Warring camps seem to agree: It's the economy, stupid. The fight over global warming in Washington, D.C., has shifted from climate science to the dismal science. It's all economy, all the time. Senior administration officials have played up economics with coordinated talking points in recent weeks. U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, and White House Office of Management and Budget chief Shaun Donovan have talked up President Obama's Climate Action Plan…Posted. http://www.eenews.net/greenwire/stories/1060006719/print BY SUBSCRIPTION ONLY DROUGHT Amid crippling drought, California voters see no relief at the polls. As November midterm elections loom, state residents appear not to be prioritizing drought issue California residents face stiff fines if they use too much water. Wells in some communities are running dry. Farmers are drilling deeper and deeper in search of what has become liquid gold. Posted. http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/10/2/california-watershortages.html FUELS Republicans craft 2015 plan to force Obama's hand on Keystone. Republicans plan to put approval of the long-delayed Keystone XL oil pipeline on a fast track early next year if they win a U.S. Senate majority in November, finally forcing President Barack Obama to make a tough call on the controversial plan. The $10 billion Keystone project to connect Canadian oil sands with U.S. refineries will top the list of Republican energy priorities…Posted. http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/10/01/usa-elections-energy-idUKL2N0RO1G820141001 With greater gas mileage come harmful carbon particulates – report. Modern engines that directly transfer fuel into vehicles' combustion chambers have let automakers churn out high-performance cars and meet stringent government fuel efficiency targets. But according to new research on particulate emissions from the Fuels…Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/stories/1060006770/print BY SUBSCRIPTION ONLY Methane rules create booming leak detection and prevention business. Regulations on methane emissions have helped created a multibillion-dollar industry that pays high wages and boosts small business, according to a report from a nonprofit group. Methane, the primary ingredient in natural gas, is a powerful greenhouse gas. Both state and federal agencies are requiring oil and gas explorers, pipeline companies…Posted. http://www.eenews.net/energywire/stories/1060006772/print BY SUBSCRIPTION ONLY GREEN ENERGY Walgreens' designs prove an upgrade for shoppers. The company and the Chicago architects with which it frequently works, Camburas & Theodore, have also won awards for a third Chicago-area location. The store's tiered roof has nearly 850 electricity-generating solar panels, though it has yet to reach its highly publicized "net zero" goal of producing as much energy as it consumes…Posted. http://www.modbee.com/2014/10/02/3569804/walgreens-designs-prove-an-upgrade.html#storylink=cpy MISCELLANEOUS Referendum sought on plastic bag ban. The ink was barely dry on the governor’s signature to ban plastic bags when foes of his decision filed paperwork with the state attorney general’s office for a referendum in 2016 to overturn the new law. The request for an official title and summary from the attorney general was submitted Tuesday. Posted. http://capitolweekly.net/brown-bans-plastic-bags-new-political-fight-looms/ OPINIONS Mr. Obama’s Pacific Monument. Still, environmental groups are uniformly praising him for going as big as he did and for defying opposition from Hawaiian fishing interests whose loyalties lie with the producers of canned tuna. That industry has other places to fish; it will not suffer. But, at a time when the world’s oceans are threatened by rampant pollution, overfishing and climate change…Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/02/opinion/mr-obamas-pacific-monument.html?_r=0 Smoke in the air. Why is it that people who smoke treat the world like it’s their own portable ashtray? There are over 1 billion smokers on the planet. If they all smoke one pack of cigarettes and deposit their cigarette butts into the environment, imagine what that toxic waste site would look like. Posted. http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Letters-to-the-Editor-Sept-30-5789038.php D’Amato: Stéphane Dion and his hated carbon tax were right all along. Remember former federal Liberal leader Stéphane Dion? In the election of 2008 he went down in flames after he proposed a carbon tax for Canadians. It was a forward-thinking idea: People would pay less income tax, but the cost of fossil fuels like gasoline would go up. Businesses and individuals would save money if they used less energy…Posted. http://www.therecord.com/opinion-story/4890940-d-amato-st-phane-dion-and-his-hated-carbon-tax-were-right-all-along/ Congress Needn't Look Any Further Than California on How to Combat Climate Change | Commentary. President Barack Obama’s recent address to a global audience at the United Nations Climate Summit, coupled with the executive order he unveiled the same day, make even more evident the need to combat climate change despite some reluctance coming from Congress. Posted. http://www.rollcall.com/news/congress_neednt_look_any_further_than_california_on_how_to_combat_climate-236794-1.html Warming up. Prospects for international agreement on combating climate change look brighter. There is much for the world to be pessimistic about these days. The double crises of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and Islamic extremism in the Middle East, for example, pose real dangers. So it says much for the one-day United Nations summit on climate change…Posted. http://www.nature.com/news/warming-up-1.16024 BLOGS Expanding on the California Climate Credit. California's climate change program lowered millions of households utility bills last April, but very few people noticed. And it is about to happen again with the return of the semi-annual "California Climate Credit" applied to October bills. The credit deserves more attention because it is the rare case where funds raised by a price on carbon are sent back to households…Posted. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-sandler/expanding-on-the-californ_b_5904432.html?utm_hp_ref=green Power Plant Standards Could Save Thousands of U.S. Lives Every Year. Power plant standards to cut climate-changing carbon emissions will reduce other harmful air pollution and provide substantial human health benefits, according to a new study. The research shows that, depending on the policy options included in the final Clean Power Plan…Posted. http://blog.ctnews.com/kantrowitz/2014/10/01/power-plant-standards-could-save-thousands-of-u-s-lives-every-year/ A newly-minted 'genius' hopes to stop pollution from soot and smoke. You probably know black carbon as soot or smoke, the stuff that comes from burning fossil fuels like coal and diesel as well as forest fires and cooking stoves. What you may not know is that scientists believe black carbon is second only to carbon dioxide as a contributor to climate change. Posted. https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-10-01/newly-minted-genius-hopes-stop-pollution-soot-and-smoke Colorado’s GOP Candidate For Governor Goes All In On Climate Change Denial. In Colorado, a state with a recent history of severe drought, epic wildfires and historic floods, the Republican candidate for governor is not backing down from his stance denying the role of humans in driving climate change. Posted. http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/10/01/3574368/colorado-governor-debate/ Administration launches climate competition. The Obama administration launched a competition Wednesday aimed at helping cities and towns cut greenhouse gas emissions and prepare for the effects of climate change. The White House plans to pick up to 15 communities that have already taken steps to fight climate change and give them expert assistance to further the goals of reducing emissions and building resilience. Posted. http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/219413-administration-launches-climate-competition-for-cities Tesla now has 200 Superchargers open around the world. Oxnard, California. That's where electric-vehicle enthusiasts can find Tesla Motors' 200th Supercharger station. And they should be able to find some pretty good surf nearby, too. Number 200 is located in a shopping mall near Highway 101 about 60 miles northwest of central Los Angeles and includes 10 stalls, according to Green Car Reports. Posted. http://green.autoblog.com/2014/10/02/tesla-now-has-200-superchargers-open-around-the-world/ California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips.