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Posted: 24 Mar 2015 16:29:54
. 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 Bill to yank fuels from cap and trade fails, but questions remain on reality of CO2 reductions. ...would have retroactively exempted motor fuels from the mandates of California's cap-and-trade program for carbon emissions was rejected... http://news.vocus.com/?a=20822691561&p=19f&v=1&x=CFjH2tijgAReJXFt5lQtwg Opponents of cap-and-trade struggle to find a strategy to kill it. An attempt by Republican lawmakers to dismantle part of California’s cap-and-trade program in order to help Californians save money on gasoline died Monday in its first policy hearing. The fact that Democrats killed the legislation on a 6-3 party-line vote was not in itself remarkable -- for those keeping track of the politics of climate change policy, a swift execution of Assembly Bill 23 was no surprise. http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2015/03/24/quick-death-of-cap-and-trade-bill-may-be-last.html China should link southern carbon markets ahead of nationwide scheme. -study- Academics that advise the government on carbon trading in China have proposed linking two emissions exchanges in... http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/24/china-carbon-idUSL3N0WP4A920150324 AIR POLLUTION Beijing to Shut All Major Coal Power Plants to Cut Pollution. Beijing, where pollution averaged more than twice China’s national standard last year, will close the last of its four major coal-fired power plants next year. The capital city will shutter China Huaneng Group Corp.’s 845-megawatt power plant in 2016, after last week closing plants owned by Guohua Electric Power Corp. and Beijing Energy Investment Holding Co., according to a statement Monday on the website of the city’s economic planning agency. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-24/beijing-to-close-all-major-coal-power-plants-to-curb-pollution Paris Bans Some Cars For A Day To Battle Smog. Paris has banned cars with license plates ending in even numbers from its roads today to reduce smog that last week briefly made the City of Lights among the world's most polluted places. http://www.capradio.org/news/npr/story?storyid=394813846 http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-france-paris-smog-20150323-story.html Carbon company to install emission controls in federal settlement. Our software detected that cookies are disabled in your browser. Cookies... http://news.vocus.com/?a=20817187644&p=19f&v=1&x=FmlB3LC8ly-yuUXk5-dcQA Plan to require fireplace retrofits at Bay Area homes for sale heats up smoke debate. ...the pocket of property owners looking to sell or rent their homes, Bay Area air quality officials are ratcheting up their campaign against smoke... http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_27765584/plan-require-fireplace-retrofits-at-homes-sale-heats?source=most_viewed Fracking Fumes Force Texas Resident to Shutter Home Business After a Decade. ...facilities, all within 2.5 miles of their home of nearly 20 years. The foul air has caused Buehring blinding headaches, aggravated her asthma, burned... http://insideclimatenews.org/news/22032015/fracking-fumes-force-texas-resident-shutter-home-business-after-decade Reining in the coal industry's assault on public health. ...will hear arguments in a crucial case about regulating mercury and other toxic air pollution coming from coal-fired power plants. At stake is a... http://www.latimes.com/about/la-oe-0323-garcia-epa-power-plants-20150323-story.html?track=rss Beijing mayor promises frugal, smog-free Winter Games. ...Winter Olympics they will be both frugal and free from the city's notorious smog, the city's mayor was quoted as saying in a state-run newspaper on... http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/24/us-china-olympics-idUSKBN0MK0A820150324 Obama Adviser Blasts McConnell For Denigrating Power Plant Rule. ...campaign to have states essentially ignore Environmental Protection Agency carbon pollution limits for power plants by urging all 50 states to “carefully... http://www.bna.com/obama-adviser-blasts-n17179924268/ Whitfield Plans Legislation to Postpone State Compliance With Clean Power Plan. ...expected this summer. Whitfield acknowledged the role human activity plays in climate change and said his bill would recognize EPA authority to... http://www.bna.com/whitfield-plans-legislation-n17179924352/ Alameda County supervisors to hear appeal on controversial Altamont wind turbines. ...decommissioning of old turbines, with companies such as NextEra Energy and EDF Renewable Energy making strides toward repowering with larger, more... http://www.mercurynews.com/my-town/ci_27766855/alameda-county-supervisors-hear-appeal-controversial-altamont-wind CLIMATE CHANGE On World Meteorological Day, UN chief stresses need to mitigate climate change patterns. ...need for timely, reliable information to further strengthen resilience. "Climate change is increasing the intensity and frequency of these... http://news.vocus.com/?a=20814007423&p=19f&v=1&x=SxZ-U44CshSuqoj_YMOskw SECURITY: Military experts to Congress: Don't cut Defense climate funding. With climate change dollars at the Pentagon and CIA facing the Republican... http://news.vocus.com/?a=20811748148&p=19f&v=1&x=qvZINoV9VuekhezdB1FQow ECONOMICS: Climate change has a multibillion-dollar impact on China's development, says the country's top weather expert. HONG KONG -- China's top weather official today issued a stark warning on climate change, saying that rising temperatures have become not only... http://news.vocus.com/?a=20811748216&p=19f&v=1&x=0L7l3UGaB07jA1qsif6w1w OCEANS: Researchers flock to new USGS subsea image database. ...a tool for managers and scientists to gauge the impacts of phenomenon like sea-level rise. http://news.vocus.com/?a=20817284066&p=19f&v=1&x=BMLwgLV0LmnjcpxvWqr2sw When Legally Liable, Companies Don't Dispute Global Warming. ...Publishing) U.S. coal companies that are publicly skeptical of man-made climate change acknowledge in mandatory financial disclosures the... http://insideclimatenews.org/todaysnews/23032015/when-legally-liable-companies-dont-dispute-global-warming FEMA: Caught Between Climate Change and Congress. Thanks to climate change, extreme weather disasters have hammered the United... http://news.vocus.com/?a=20813164686&p=19f&v=1&x=p9x7sFUyNeAnTwQHdaoEQg BIOFUELS: Mexican oil company unveils plan to reduce emissions by 35%. Mexican state-run oil company Pemex will begin selling gasoline mixed with ethanol in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas... http://news.vocus.com/?a=20811748345&p=19f&v=1&x=Dg6R55J7NkR-TuxM9QXgvg GOP lawmaker targets Obama climate plan. ...Monday targeted a key element of President Barack Obama's strategy for fighting climate change, releasing a bill to delay the Obama administration's... http://www.sacbee.com/news/business/article16134671.html Companies to issue record $30 bln in green bonds this year. - S&P ...on Monday. Proceeds from green bonds are typically used on projects to cut greenhouse gas emissions, adapt to climate change, increase... http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/23/bonds-renewables-sp-idUSL6N0WP22E20150323 AECOM announces plan for greenhouse gas emission cuts at meeting with U.S. President Obama AECOM announces plan for greenhouse gas emission cuts at meeting with U.S. President Obama... http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/23/ca-aecom- idUSnBw235870a+100+BSW20150323 FUELS Truckers, fuel manufacturers sue to stop Oregon's clean fuels law. An unhappy coalition of out-of-state fuel manufacturers and truckers is seeking an injunction to prevent Oregon’s new Clean Fuels law from taking effect, saying it violates the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution and gives Oregon biofuels manufacturers an unfair advantage. http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog/sbo/2015/03/truckers-fuel-manufacturers-sue-to-stop-oregons.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bizj_portland+%28Portland+Business+Journal%29 Big Oil’s broken business model: the real story behind the oil price collapse. Many reasons have been provided for the dramatic plunge in the price of oil to about $50 per barrel as of this writing (half of what it was a year ago): slowing demand due to global economic stagnation; overproduction at shale fields in the United States… http://www.energypost.eu/big-oils-broken-business-model-real-story-behind-oil-price-collapse/ ECONOMY: Gasoline prices dip. ...most expensive state in the nation but for consumers, prices have fallen. Gasoline prices continue to fall for the Inland area, with some discount... http://www.pe.com/articles/prices-762992-monday-regular.html AM Alert: Senate probes California's gas prices ...gas prices. An expected bump at the pump from including oil companies in the cap-and-trade process figured heavily into political campaigns... http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article16135085.html EIA: US biodiesel and renewable diesel imports decline 36% in 2014. Imports of biomass-based diesel fuel (both biodiesel and renewable... http://www.greencarcongress.com/2015/03/20150323-eia.html Gasoline Prices Slide as Crude Oil Falls to Six-Year Low. Welcome Guest U.S. retail gasoline prices in the Lundberg Survey dropped as crude oil fell to the... http://www.ttnews.com/articles/basetemplate.aspx?storyid=37722&t=Gasoline-Prices-Slide-as-Crude-Oil-Falls-to-Six-Year-Low DROUGHT Proposed Office To Help Poor Communities Get Clean Drinking Water. The emergency drought relief bill proposed for California would create a new state... http://www.capradio.org/articles/2015/03/23/proposed-office-to-help-poor-communities-get-clean-drinking-water/ California drought: State passes mandatory new water conservation rules on lawns, hotels, restaurants. SACRAMENTO -- Acknowledging that California's water conservation efforts are falling short as the state... http://www.times-standard.com/general-news/20150317/california-drought-state-passes-mandatory-new-water-conservation-rules-on-lawns-hotels-restaurants/2 VEHICLES Branson Hints Virgin Could Build A Tesla-Fighting EV. ...to a report posted on Bloomberg.com . “We have teams of people working on electric cars,” Branson told reporter Tom Randall. “So you never... http://news.vocus.com/?a=20815069247&p=19f&v=1&x=SpT8Evl-huFfC956x-YG0A Tencent Partners With Foxconn In Electric Car Business. ...year. Tencent's partners have been making preparations to make connected electric cars. China Harmony Auto in December signed a memorandum... http://www.forbes.com/sites/ywang/2015/03/23/tencent-partners-with-foxconn-in-electric-car-business/ GREEN ENERGY Maryland Has A Plan To Turn Chicken Poop Into Energy. ...manure and convert it into energy, which could be used to meet the state's renewable energy mandate. Bill Dennison, professor and vice president... http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/03/23/3637690/chicken-or-the-poop/ As wind power booms, Texas lawmakers consider yanking support. ...investing hundreds of millions of dollars in Texas in a race to lower their carbon emissions. With almost 20 percent of the country's total capacity,... http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/environment/article16115498.html California's push for clean energy has a big problem: no place to store it. ...officials made an odd request in a state that prides itself on leadership in renewable energy: They asked wind and solar plants to cut back their... http://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-pol-green-energy-20150324-story.html Energy Storage Emerges as the Smart Answer to Big City Power Needs. ...products and embedded software for energy management, micro-grid operations, and electric vehicle charging, is providing technologies at the heart... http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/24/idUSnMKW3s52va+1c0+MKW20150324 Birds die as wind-power turbine replacement lags. - SFGate ...A golden eagle with a permanently disabled wing, believed to be caused by a wind-power turbine, perches in an enclosure maintained by Native... http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Birds-die-as-wind-power-turbine-replacement-lags-6153949.php OPINION Drought: California agriculture can learn from Africa. ...Nierenberg and Daniel Bornstein Special to the Mercury News Vast tracts of southern California's bountiful harvests are fading from view, as millions of acres... http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_27765792/drought-california-agriculture-can-learn-from-africa Dan Walters: What if California's drought is permanent? California's prolonged drought drew a bit of official attention last... http://www.modbee.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/article16096328.html Our View: California's demise is greatly exaggerated. ...Texas has grown into an economic powerhouse, California's critics have spun a zero-sum yarn about business flight and job creation. As their story goes,... http://www.modbee.com/opinion/editorials/article16127819.html The Real Cost of Coal. CONGRESS long ago established a basic principle governing the extraction of coal from public lands by private companies: American taxpayers should be paid fair value for it. They own the coal, after all. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/24/opinion/the-real-cost-of-coal.html?_r=0 BLOGS Why Air Pollution Could Increase Stroke Risk. When an unsightly (and somewhat toxic) smog descended upon Britain last week, many people were concerned for their... http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/03/24/air-pollution-causes-stroke-and-anxiety_n_6929806.html Finally, A Climate Change Message That Just Might Work. In recent years, many approaches to framing climate change have been tested on the largely indifferent American... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-mingle/finally-a-climate-change-_b_6925174.html California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips.