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Posted: 01 Dec 2015 13:32:45
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. UN CLIMATE TALKS Obama says parts of climate deal must be legally binding. Parts of a global climate agreement being hammered out in Paris should be legally binding, President Barack Obama said Tuesday. His declaration was both a boost to climate negotiators seeking a tough accord and a challenge to Republican senators, many of whom don't believe that global warming is real. Whether or not to make the climate accord legally binding is a major sticking-point at the two-week talks in Paris, which aim to get all countries to agree to cut emissions that scientists say are warming the Earth and increasing extreme weather such as droughts and floods. http://www.latimes.com/nation/sns-bc-climate-countdown-20151201-story.html Related articles: http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/energy/article/Climate-talks-get-down-to-tough-business-of-6666796.php Climate talks updates: The hard work at COP21 begins today in Paris. After years of faltering negotiations, the United Nations Conference on Climate Change is expected to produce a landmark agreement during the next two weeks. But it remains to be seen whether the gathering of 150 world leaders near Paris will achieve the target of limiting rising global temperatures to no more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels this century. The Times will be covering the negotiations, including the large delegation attending from California with Gov. Jerry Brown. http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-climate-change-talks-paris-updates-htmlstory.html California Lawmakers Joining Brown In Paris. There will be a heavy California presence at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris this week. In addition to Gov. Jerry Brown, the state’s legislative leaders are each leading delegations. Senate President pro Tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) and Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) are among eight California lawmakers making the trip. All are Democrats. http://www.capradio.org/articles/2015/11/30/california-lawmakers-joining-brown-in-paris/ France, Germany, Canada call on world to put price on carbon. One of the smartest ways to fight global warming is putting a price on carbon dioxide pollution, some key world leaders at the international climate summit say. Either a tax on carbon dioxide emissions or trading carbon pollution like pork bellies, which puts a price on carbon, will help use capitalism to get closer to a day when the world isn't adding heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere, according to leaders of France, Germany, Canada, Chile, Mexico and Ethiopia, as well as heads of the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development. http://www.whig.com/article/20151201/AP/312019984 AIR POLLUTION San Francisco Bay Weighs Tougher Air Rules for Refineries. San Francisco Bay officials are considering what they say are the toughest emission rules in the nation for oil refineries. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District heard Monday from the public and from managers of the area's five petroleum refineries about the proposed tightening of pollution standards. Air quality officials say the five refineries collectively are the biggest industrial polluters in the Bay Area. The air board is seeking to reduce refinery emissions 20 percent by 2020. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/11/30/us/ap-us-california-refineries-tougher-rules.html CLIMATE CHANGE Almond Growers Explore Ways To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Representatives of almost 60 countries are gathering this week in Paris for talks on climate change. California farmers are also looking for incentives to reduce greenhouse gas. The Almond Board of California is looking for ways to reduce fertilizer use in orchards and to limit other farming factors that contribute to greenhouse gas emissions. http://www.capradio.org/articles/2015/12/01/almond-growers-finding-ways-to-reduce-greenhouse-gas-emissions/ As Big Food Feels Threat Of Climate Change, Companies Speak Up. Chances are, you've picked up some chatter about the new global talks on climate change. If you can't quite see how it matters to you, personally, you might want to take a peek inside your pantry. Or your candy jar. Because it might just affect your access to everything from cheese to chocolate. "It's very clear now that a changing climate will have a profound effect on agriculture," says Molly Brown, a geographer at the University of Maryland. http://www.capradio.org/news/npr/story?storyid=456369536 FUELS E.P.A. Rule Requires a Big Jump in Biofuel Use. The Environmental Protection Agency released its much-delayed biofuel mandate on Monday, raising the amounts of biofuel that refiners are required to blend into conventional vehicle fuel from levels proposed in May. The agency set levels for 2014 and 2015 at what producers actually used in those years, and it increased the total volume of renewable fuel required by the end of 2016 to 18.11 billion gallons, an 11 percent increase from 2014, the agency said. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/01/business/energy-environment/epa-announces-biofuel-levels-for-2016.html Why Ethanol Makers Are Actually Relieved With New EPA Cuts. The Environmental Protection Agency issued revised energy guidelines that reduce targets set in a 2007 law for the amount of biofuel that must be added to gasoline in the U.S., but the cuts were less than expected. The new renewable fuel standards call for refiners to mix 18.11 billion gallons of ethanol or equivalent biofuels in the country’s fuel supply in 2016. Earlier this year, the agency had recommended blending in 17.4 billion gallons of the corn-derived product. http://fortune.com/2015/12/01/ethanol-stocks-rebound-epa-rules/ MISCELLANEOUS Eight Great Multimedia Resources on Climate Change. President Obama joined leaders and diplomats from more than 190 countries who convened in Paris today to kick off a two week effort towards negotiating an international climate change agreement. TheUnited Nations’ sponsored event, the largest gathering of world leaders in history, is an urgent, sweeping attempt to reduce global carbon emissions and stave off the worst consequences of climate change. http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2015/11/30/the-inequalities-of-climate-change-visualized-in-one-fascinating-map-and-6-other-great-interactive-resources/ OPINIONS Paris climate conference: Without Congress' support, Obama's dealmaking powers are limited. As more than 190 nations meet this week to negotiate an agreement to limit greenhouse gases, President Obama finds himself in a terrible bind. On one side is international pressure to vest any climate deal with what international law considers to be binding legal force. On the other is the political difficulty, even the impossibility, of approving a climate treaty under our Constitution because of the need for approval by two-thirds of the Senate. http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-boltonyoo-paris-climate-deal-not-binding-20151201-story.html Porter Ranch gas leak is a wake-up call. More than 280 families have fled their homes in Porter Ranch in the San Fernando Valley, sickened by the smell of a voluminous natural gas leak from underground storage wells. The gas has been seeping from the ground for more than a month, yet Southern California Gas Co. says it might to take another three to four months to shut down the well, which goes 8,500 feet deep. http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-1201-gas-leak-20151201-story.html David Brooks: The green tech solution. I’ve been confused about this Paris climate conference and how the world should move forward to ameliorate climate change, so I séanced up my hero Alexander Hamilton to see what he thought. I was sad to be reminded that he doesn’t actually talk in hip-hop, but he still had some interesting things to say. First, he was struck by the fact that on this issue the GOP has come to resemble a Soviet dictatorship – a vast majority of Republican politicians can’t publicly say what they know about the truth of climate change because they’re afraid the thought police will knock on their door and drag them off to an AM radio interrogation. http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/article47317690.html BLOGS Poll: Two-thirds of Americans want US to join international climate pact. Two-thirds of Americans want the United States to join an international agreement to fight climate change, a new poll found. The survey, from the New York Times and CBS, could provide a tailwind to the United Nations talks that launched Monday in Paris, where world leaders plan on finalizing such a global pact. http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/261491-polls-two-thirds-want-us-to-join-international-climate-pact California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips.