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newsclips -- ARB Newsclips for September 30, 2016.
Posted: 30 Sep 2016 13:16:14
ARB Newsclips for September 30, 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 Carbon price impact from Ontario cap-and-trade entry seen limited. Bargain-basement prices for carbon emissions in the cap-and-trade market shared by California and Quebec are unlikely to get much of a lift from Ontario's pending inclusion in the plan, policymakers for the three jurisdictions said on Thursday. California posted disappointing results last month from an auction of carbon permits… http://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-usa-carbontrading-idUSKCN11Z2UU?feedType=RSS&virtualBrandChannel=11563 Uncertainty over California cap-and-trade program could impact Ontario. California is facing major questions about the future of its cap-and-trade program, even as Ontario and Quebec count on linkage with the state’s carbon market to meet their aggressive climate targets over the next 15 years. Ontario, Quebec and California environment ministers met in Toronto Thursday… http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/uncertainty-over-california-climate-plan-puts-ontario-in-precarious-position/article32152108/ Brand, Perea Spar Over How To Spend Fresno's $70 Million In Cap-And-Trade Money. The news that the City of Fresno is set to receive up to $70 million from the state in the form of cap-and-trade funding is the latest issue in the Fresno mayor’s race. Mayoral candidates Lee Brand and Henry Perea offered opposing visions of how to spend the money during a debate last night that focused on issue of downtown revitalization. http://kvpr.org/post/brand-perea-spar-over-how-spend-fresnos-70-million-cap-and-trade-money AIR POLLUTION Climate fight targeting cows may reshape California dairies. Dairy farmer Bob Giacomini, 79, is ahead of his time, even if he didn’t mean to be. Eight years ago, the North Bay native bought a custom motor, generator and pipeline to make electricity from an unusual source — cow manure — at his ranch along Tomales Bay. The hope was that the renewable energy would save him a few bucks and perhaps bolster the environmental bona fides of his family’s famed cheese, Point Reyes Original Blue. http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Climate-fight-targeting-cows-may-reshape-9401293.php Meet America's super polluters. To see one of the country’s largest coal-fired power plants, head northwest from this Ohio River city. Or east, because there’s another in the region. In fact, nearly every direction you go will take you to a coal plant — seven within 30 miles. Collectively they pump out millions of pounds of toxic air pollution. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/09/29/toxic-air-pollution-concentrated-small-number-sites/90846584/ CLIMATE CHANGE Ethiopia soil map arms farmers with new fertilisers in climate fight. A comprehensive digital map charting soil fertility in Ethiopia is proving an important tool in tackling the country’s low farm productivity, a challenge made more acute by climate change. The nationwide mapping effort was launched by the Ethiopian Soil Information System (EthioSIS) in 2012, and is due to be finished this year. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-climatechange-agriculture-idUSKCN11Z197 EU fast-tracks Paris climate deal to brink of entering into force. European Union states agreed on Friday on a fast-track, joint ratification of the Paris accord to combat climate change, pushing the landmark global pact to the brink of entering into force. The 2015 Paris deal will guide a radical shift of the world economy away from fossil fuels. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-eu-idUSKCN12016F Purple rice, hairless apricots to get boost under mountain label scheme. Purple rice from the Himalayas, hairless apricots from Kyrgyzstan and black amaranth grains from the Andes are just some of the foods to be labeled mountain products under a scheme to help boost incomes of farmers in these remote regions. The custodians of most of the world's freshwater and a unique biodiversity are under pressure from growing hunger, climate change… http://www.reuters.com/article/us-agriculture-farmers-label-idUSKCN1201F4 Paris Climate Deal Seen Taking Force This Year as EU Speeds up Ratification EU represents 12% of global emissions. A global agreement to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions is all but certain to enter into force in November, after European Union environment ministers agreed on Friday to speed up the bloc’s ratification of the agreement. The Paris climate deal, which was sealed in December in… http://www.wsj.com/articles/eu-set-to-ratify-paris-climate-agreement-1475240342 EU nations approve ratification of climate change pact. The European Union's environment ministers on Friday approved the ratification of the landmark Paris climate change pact, paving the way for the agreement to take effect in November. "It's really a historic result," French Environment Minister Segolene Royal told reporters after the ministers agreed unanimously to ratify the deal at talks in Brussels… http://www.latimes.com/nation/sns-bc-eu--europe-climate-pact-20160930-story.html Scientists: World likely won't avoid dangerous warming mark. A team of top scientists is telling world leaders to stop congratulating themselves on the Paris agreement to fight climate change because if more isn't done, global temperatures will likely hit dangerous warming levels in about 35 years. Six scientists who were leaders in past international climate conferences joined with the Universal Ecological … http://www.latimes.com/nation/sns-bc-us-sci--dangerous-warming-20160929-story.html Carbon dioxide levels cross 400 ppm threshold, likely highest in millions of years. Carbon dioxide — the gas scientists say is most responsible for global warming — reached a significant symbolic milestone in our atmosphere this month, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography said. For the first time, daily and weekly values of carbon dioxide in our planet's atmosphere have remained above 400 parts per million… http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/sciencefair/2016/09/29/carbon-dioxide-levels-400-ppm-scripps-mauna-loa-global-warming/91279952/ USGS glacier research shows 'tangible evidence' of warming. In 1966, a team of U.S. Geological Survey scientists journeyed to two small glaciers in Alaska to dig snow pits needed for measuring snow depth and density at the remote mountainous locations. Those early findings, repeated twice a year for the last 50 years… http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/09/30/stories/1060043667 DROUGHT As drought grips Iran, farmers lament loss of a way of life. Watermelons once sprung from this soil, the giant striped fruit dotting the arid landscape like mushrooms after a rain. “It was such a garden,” farmer Hossain Mirakhouri, 45, recalled of his childhood on this sun-scorched plateau east of Tehran. Now nothing remains of his family’s patch of watermelon, a water-hungry crop… http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-iran-drought-snap-story.html VEHICLES UPDATE 1-Toyota drops diesel from new model, signals likely phase-out. Toyota has decided to drop diesel engines from its new C-HR compact in the wake of Volkswagen's emissions scandal and will probably do the same for future model renewals, the carmaker's second-ranking global executive said on Thursday. The Japanese automaker decided "within the last six to 12 months" not to offer a diesel version… http://www.reuters.com/article/autoshow-paris-toyota-diesel-idUSL8N1C5388 http://www.reuters.com/article/us-autoshow-paris-toyota-diesel-idUSKCN11Z1B1 VW RECALL South Korea's pension fund sues Volkswagen over emissions scandal. South Korea's National Pension Service (NPS), the world's third-largest pension fund by assets, said on Thursday it has filed a suit against Volkswagen in a German court over the automaker's emissions scandal. The fund is joining a raft of investors suing the German automaker, which admitted last year to selling 11 million diesel vehicles… http://www.reuters.com/article/volkswagen-nps-idUSL3N1C52YA OPINIONS The latest attacks on the EPA’s plan for clean power make no sense. IN WHAT may lead to the definitive word on President Obama’s signature climate-change policy, the nation’s second-most prominent court heard several hours of arguments Tuesday on the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan. Buoyed by an unexpected and unusual Supreme Court stay on the plan issued this year… https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-latest-attacks-on-the-epas-plan-for-clean-power-make-no-sense/2016/09/28/ab02bffa-84fd-11e6-ac72-a29979381495_story.html?utm_term=.e64bd5d69160 Letter: Gas-powered leaf blowers should be banned in Chico. Ah, the scent of fall is in the air: wood smoke, damp leaves, raw gas ... wait, what? According to the California EPA, many two-stroke engine leaf blowers can emit 30 percent of unused fuel as exhaust. Edmunds Car Company tests showed that older “two-stroke leaf blowers pollute 23 times more carbon monoxide… http://www.chicoer.com/article/NA/20160929/LOCAL1/160929643 Reservoirs linked to methane emissions: How dirty is 'clean' hydropower? A new study says artificial reservoirs created by dams may emit 1.3 percent of global emissions in the form of methane. How will that affect hydropower-dependent nations? Is hydropower less clean than it seems? A new study synthesizing prior research on water reservoir emissions suggests that they may emit the equivalent… http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2016/0929/Reservoirs-linked-to-methane-emissions-How-dirty-is-clean-hydropower California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips.