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newsclips -- ARB Newsclips for September 27, 2016
Posted: 27 Sep 2016 14:08:28
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 WHO: Excessive Air Pollution Affects 92 Percent of People. More than nine out of 10 people worldwide live in areas with excessive air pollution, contributing to problems like strokes, heart disease and lung cancer, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. The U.N. health agency said in a new report that 92 percent of people live in areas where air quality exceeds WHO limits, with southeast Asia, eastern Mediterranean and western Pacific regions hardest hit. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_UNITED_NATIONS_AIR_POLLUTION?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT Related articles: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/09/27/the-more-we-learn-about-air-pollution-the-worse-it-gets/?utm_term=.31235262e9c3 http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/air-pollution-exceeds-who-limits-92-percent-world-s-people-n655266 http://time.com/4508028/air-pollution-global-health/ http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/28/world/air-pollution-smog-who.html http://www.bbc.com/news/health-37483616 http://www.businessinsider.com/countries-with-the-worst-air-pollution-2016-9 http://www.sacbee.com/news/article104363101.html CLIMATE CHANGE 10 Years in, Has California’s Climate Law Really Lowered Emissions? When Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed California’s landmark climate strategy into law in 2006, he laid out the mission succinctly. “We simply must do everything we can that is in our power to slow down global warming before it is too late,” he declared at the September 27 signing ceremony. https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/09/26/10-years-in-has-californias-climate-law-really-lowered-emissions/ Teaching Middle Schoolers Climate Change Without Terrifying Them. Bertha Vazquez has taught earth science for more than twenty-five years. "For many years I covered the basic standard, probably like most people in the country do." Then one day she says she decided to throw all that out the window when she saw former Vice President Al Gore speak at the University of Miami at a screening of An Inconvenient Truth, his documentary about climate change. http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/09/27/492860897/teaching-middle-schoolers-climate-change-without-terrifying-them PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT Paris Climate Targets to Cost Asia $300 Billion a Year, but Will Help Save Lives-Research. Developing economies in Asia will have to spend $300 billion (£231.3 billion) a year until 2050 to meet targets set by the Paris climate deal, but can expect to save thousands of lives and avoid worsening poverty if they shift to low-carbon growth, research showed on Tuesday. As part of the landmark accord reached in December, nearly 200 nations agreed to keep global temperature increases to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius to curb global warming. http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2016/09/27/world/asia/27reuters-asia-climatechange.html RENEWABLE ENERGY US Appeals Court Hears Argument in Clean Power Plan Case. Lawyers for a coalition of states and businesses reliant on fossil fuels made their case Tuesday to a federal appeals court that President Barack Obama's plan to curtail climate-warming greenhouse gases is an unlawful power grab. The Clean Power Plan, which aims to ratchet down carbon emissions from coal-burning power plants, has been challenged by more than two dozen mostly Republican-led states led by West Virginia and Texas, as well as allied industry groups that profit from extracting and burning coal and oil. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CLEAN_AIR_LAWSUITS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT Related articles: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/09/27/us/politics/ap-us-clean-air-lawsuits.html https://www.nrdc.org/experts/david-doniger/clean-power-plan-comes-court-what-expect-next-tuesday Is rooftop solar worth it? Californians consider the question as use, complaints rise. Rooftop solar panels, as the men who came knocking described them, seemed to Faye Moore like a good deal. The solicitors who visited 75-year-old Moore’s Pomona home told her they could help finance solar panels that would slash her energy bill. So she signed on. Her energy bills have indeed plummeted from the hundreds she was paying a month. But the thousands of additional dollars she’ll owe annually in property taxes to pay off her new $33,000 system far outstrips those savings. http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article104313221.html China ratchets down green-energy growth for first time ever. Over the past few years, China has made a major push to reduce carbon emissions by encouraging use of green technologies. Thanks to generous government incentives and fleet purchases, it is now the world's largest market for plug-in electric cars. Construction of new solar and wind farms has also proceeded at a rapid pace. http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1106322_china-ratchets-down-green-energy-growth-for-first-time-ever FUELS JetBlue Signs Mega Renewable Fuel Deal with SG Preston. In order to reduce carbon emissions, JetBlue Airways Corp . JBLU recently signed a deal with bio-energy company, SG Preston to buy hydro-processed esters and fatty acids (HEFA)-based renewable jet fuel from the latter. Under this agreement, JetBlue is expected to purchase over 33 million gallons of blended fuel per year from SG Preston over a period of 10 years. This deal is by far the largest, binding commitment for HEFA-based renewable fuel purchase over a long term by an airline company. http://www.nasdaq.com/article/jetblue-signs-mega-renewable-fuel-deal-with-sg-preston-revised-cm684559 VEHICLES Charging etiquette for electric-car drivers: what you need to know. As electric-car adoption expands past early adopters into more general buyers, it may be difficult for public charging infrastructure to grow as fast as the number of electric vehicles on the road. Here in the U.S., every month roughly 10,000 new plug-in vehicles are sold or leased—and that number could rise dramatically once the highly anticipated 200-mile electric cars like the Chevy Bolt and the Tesla Model 3 are widely available. http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1106270_charging-etiquette-for-electric-car-drivers-what-you-need-to-know MISCELLANEOUS Coffee and climate change: what you need to know. The issue of how climate change is affecting coffee production hit the headlines recently after the publication of a new report from the Climate Institute, which claims climate change will halve the area suitable for coffee production by 2050. While companies may once have diversified their suppliers in the face of supply risk, the systematic impact of climate change across coffee-growing regions requires a radical rethink of production models and sourcing relationships,according to Alejandro Litovsky, the founder and CEO of the Earth Security Group. https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/sep/27/coffee-climate-change-supply-chain-risk-smallholders-fairtrade-tech OPINIONS Rounding up cattle emissions. What follows may be awkward for some readers, and we apologize up front for any personal discomfort — but it is a subject worthy of discussion. We’ve recently learned more about cow flatulence than we ever thought possible. It’s not exactly the kind of thing a family would discuss at the dinner table. As it turns out, emissions from grazing cattle are an important climate issue, so much so that California Gov. Jerry brown recently signed into law a bill that, for the first time, regulates greenhouse-gas emissions from both dairy cows and municipal landfills. http://santamariatimes.com/news/opinion/editorial/rounding-up-cattle-emissions/article_86584f51-65ed-53a2-90d9-efe388e3b85a.html California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips.