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newsclips -- ARB Newsclips for September 27, 2016

Posted: 27 Sep 2016 14:08:28
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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





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