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newsclips -- ARB Newsclips for September 8, 2016.
Posted: 08 Sep 2016 15:18:56
ARB Newsclips for September 8, 2016. 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 Oil companies at odds with GOP over carbon tax. Oil companies may be getting comfortable with the idea of a carbon tax, but members of Congress are not. The concept is absent from the latest taxation plan put forward by House Republicans. The plan focuses on reducing corporate and personal income taxes, which GOP lawmakers argue will help boost business. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/09/08/stories/1060042456 AIR POLLUTION Air pollution costs trillions and holds back poor countries, says World Bank. Study finds dirty air takes huge economic toll on poor countries and costs the world more than $5tn annually in lost work days and welfare costs. Air pollution costs the world trillions of dollars a year and severely impedes development in many countries, according to the World Bank. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/sep/08/air-pollution-costs-trillions-holds-back-poor-countries-world-bank EPA gives ground on NOx emissions in final cross-state rule. Power plants will be allowed to emit some 16,000 more tons of ozone-forming nitrogen oxides next summer under the final version of U.S. EPA's Cross-State Air Pollution Rule update than the agency had originally proposed. In the initial draft of the regulations released last November, EPA's air office sought… http://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2016/09/08/stories/1060042522 CLIMATE CHANGE Climate Change Isn’t Just Making Us Hot: We’re Angrier and More Violent. More crime, more death—even more bad math grades. And economies will continue to slow. It doesn’t take a PhD to see that climate affects our lives. Anyone who lives far enough from the equator can tell just by opening the closet. It takes a lot of scientists, however, to reveal how climate affects us—particularly as our climate changes. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-08/climate-change-isn-t-just-making-us-hot-we-re-angrier-and-more-violent Obama on Climate Change: The Trends Are ‘Terrifying’. Seventy-four years ago, a naval battle off this remote spit of land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean changed the course of World War II. Last week, President Obama flew here to swim with Hawaiian monk seals and draw attention to a quieter war — one he has waged against rising seas, freakish storms, deadly droughts and other symptoms of a planet choking on its own fumes. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/08/us/politics/obama-climate-change.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=2 Brown to sign landmark climate bill today. California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) will sign a bill today enshrining greenhouse gas targets in the nation's most populous state through 2030. The measure, S.B. 32 by state Sen. Fran Pavley (D), would require the state to reduce its carbon emissions to 40 percent below 1990 emissions levels by 2030, the most aggressive target of any state. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/09/08/stories/1060042474 GREEN ENERGY Promoters of cleaner electric grid zapped by roadblocks. Building new high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) power lines in the United States will help the nation's aging power grid handle more renewable energy. It also promises to sharply cut emissions that cause climate change. But the U.S. electricity transmission system is saddled with a sprawling regulatory process that vets proposed long-distance projects at a glacial pace. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/09/08/stories/1060042458 OPINIONS Absolutely nothing. California’s water supply shortage is a microcosm of what’s wrong in U.S. politics. The San Joaquin Valley in Central California is the most productive agricultural area in the world and is the envy of many countries that rely on imported food supplies because their climate or soil is not suitable to sustain farming. But California’s water supply to this region has been critically curtailed by the government’s inability to manage water resources. http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/energy-environment/294923-absolutely-nothing California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips.