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AIR POLLUTION

Heathrow expansion would not break European pollution law, study
finds. London's Heathrow airport could build a third runway
without breaking European pollution laws, according to research
published before a British government decision on airport
expansion, the BBC reported on Thursday. Europe's busiest airport
is battling Gatwick, London's number two airport…
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-airports-heathrow-idUSKCN1260FJ


As cities get warmer, their trees lose some of their ability to
take carbon out of the atmosphere. All hail the urban tree. These
woody wonders standing sentinel along sidewalks and in city parks
do more to improve our lives than most of us realize. Trees
filter our air and water and increase biodiversity in our
neighborhoods by providing habitats for animals. Just being near
them has been shown to improve our health…
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/  

Councils failing to monitor most British schools for dangerous
air pollution. FoI requests reveal ‘alarming discrepancies’ in
the monitoring of particulate pollution outside schools by local
authorities - despite government advice. Councils are failing to
monitor most schools in Britain for dangerous air pollution
despite government advice, freedom of information requests have
revealed.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/oct/06/councils-failing-to-monitor-most-british-schools-for-dangerous-air-pollution


U.S., other countries 'ready for action' on HFCs — McCarthy. The
United States is well-positioned for success going into the next
week's international negotiations to curb refrigerants that
contribute to global warming, U.S. EPA Administrator Gina
McCarthy said yesterday.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/10/06/stories/1060043926 

CLIMATE CHANGE

Paris climate agreement to take effect Nov. 4. The landmark Paris
agreement on climate change will enter into force on Nov. 4,
after a coalition of the world's largest polluters and small
island nations threatened by rising seas pushed it past a key
threshold on Wednesday. President Barack Obama hailed the news as
"a turning point for our planet," and U.N. Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon called the agreement's…
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/UN_UNITED_NATIONS_CLIMATE_CHANGE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT


OTHER RELATED STORIES
http://www.wsj.com/articles/obama-lauds-historic-moment-as-paris-climate-agreement-takes-effect-1475701489

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/obama-celebrates-paris-climate-deal-effect-month-article-1.2818869


Arresting Global Warming Doesn’t Mean More Money, Top Panel Says.
Curbing global warming doesn’t necessarily mean increasing
infrastructure spending, according to a key commission created to
avert dangerous climate change. The world is expected to invest
$90 trillion on all infrastructure in the next 15 years which is
more than the present value of all existing infrastructure
combined…
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-06/arresting-global-warming-doesn-t-mean-more-money-top-panel-says


UN agreement reached on aircraft climate-change emissions. The
United Nations' aviation arm overwhelmingly ratified an agreement
Thursday to control global warming emissions from international
airline flights, the first international climate-change pact to
set limits on a single industry. The agreement, adopted
overwhelmingly by the 191-nation International Civil Aviation
Organization at a meeting in Montreal…
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_AIRCRAFT_EMISSIONS_AGREEMENT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT


OTHER RELATED STORIES
http://www.wsj.com/articles/countries-agree-first-global-aviation-emissions-cap-1475773733
 
http://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2016-10-06/un-agreement-reached-on-aircraft-climate-change-emissions
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/07/science/190-countries-adopt-plan-to-offset-jet-emissions.html


APNewsBreak: US: Mine expansion to have minor climate impact.
U.S. officials approved a 117 million-ton expansion of a Montana
coal mine after concluding that burning the fuel would have a
minor impact on the nation's overall greenhouse gas emissions,
according to documents released Thursday. The expansion of the
Spring Creek Mine, Montana's largest coal mine, would generate
roughly 160 million tons of carbon dioxide…
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_COAL_MINES_LAWSUIT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT


OTHER RELATED STORIES
http://www.sacbee.com/news/business/article106409632.html#storylink=cpy

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jerry Brown celebrate 10th anniversary
of historic climate law. California politicos reflected on
leadership on climate policy at a reception Wednesday to
celebrate the state's landmark climate laws. "We've proven that
we don't have to choose between a healthy environment and a
strong economy," Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León (D-Los
Angeles) said.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-sac-essential-politics-updates-arnold-schwarzenegger-jerry-brown-1475704818-htmlstory.html
http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article106252992.html

http://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2016/10/brown-schwarzenegger-mark-bipartisan-victory-in-climate-change-106113

http://www.capradio.org/82897 

UN agreement reached on aircraft climate-change emissions. The
United Nations' aviation arm overwhelmingly ratified an agreement
Thursday to control global warming emissions from international
airline flights, the first international climate-change pact to
set limits on a single industry. The agreement, adopted
overwhelmingly by the 191-nation International Civil Aviation
Organization at a meeting in Montreal…
http://www.sacbee.com/news/business/article106391267.html#storylink=cpy


Removing CO2 From the Air Only Hope for Fixing Climate Change,
New Study Says. Without 'negative emissions' to help return
atmospheric CO2 to 350 ppm, future generations could face costs
that 'may become too heavy to bear,' paper says. The only way to
keep young people from inheriting a world reeling from
catastrophic climate change is to reduce carbon dioxide emissions
dramatically and immediately…
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04102016/climate-change-removing-carbon-dioxide-air-james-hansen-2-degrees-paris-climate-agreement-global-warming


No resting on laurels for climate law architects. More political
battles are ahead for California as it pursues its
first-in-the-nation greenhouse gas goals, former Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger (R) predicted yesterday. Schwarzenegger said he
sees the need to quickly secure legal authority to extend the
program's cornerstone, the economywide cap-and-trade program that
ensures the state will meet its emissions targets.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/10/06/stories/1060043928 

Urban climate strategies are good economics — study. Fighting
climate change could be a lucrative sector, according to a recent
report. The study from the CDP, formerly the Carbon Disclosure
Project, looked at 533 cities around the world and their
strategies to mitigate climate change. It said that the cities
had collectively come up…
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/10/06/stories/1060043910

DROUGHT

Weaker water conservation numbers prompt fears that California is
going back to its old bad habits. Californians’ water
conservation slipped for the third consecutive month in August,
prompting new alarm from regulators about whether relaxed water
restrictions may be causing residents to revert to old habits as
the state enters its sixth year of severe drought. The trend
raises new questions about Californians’ willingness to continue
austere conservation after spending the last two years…
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-water-conservation-20161005-snap-story.html

http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article106155332.html
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Californians-slacking-off-on-saving-water-amid-9775842.php

http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article106295292.html 
http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/05/californians-water-saving-slips-in-august/

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/water-731250-august-percent.html


Water savings in California fall below 20 percent in August.
Statewide water savings continued to slide in August, dropping
below 20 percent shortly after the close of a fifth year of
drought, state water officials reported Wednesday. Californians
used 17.7 percent less water in August than in August 2013, which
fell below July’s 20 percent savings, said State Water Resources
Control Board scientist Jelena Hartman.
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/ 

Californians slacking off on saving water. Drought conditions are
still with us, but for a lot of Californians, it seems, the days
of shorter showers and browner lawns have come and gone. People
up and down the state are slacking off on cutting back — using
more water than in 2015 even as the state is dragged through a
fifth straight year of drier-than-average conditions, records
released Wednesday show.
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Californians-slacking-off-on-saving-water-amid-9775842.php


U.S. Southwest faces threat of megadroughts with rising temps.
Already dealing with parched conditions, the U.S. Southwest faces
the threat of megadroughts this century as temperatures rise,
says a new study that found the risk is reduced if heat-trapping
gases are curbed. Oppressive dry spells lasting at least two
decades have gripped the Southwest before…
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/water-731218-southwest-megadroughts.html

http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/10/06/stories/1060043923 

A set of ghostly, futuristic sails could help save California
from drought. Sails are one of the earliest ways humans seized
the power of wind — people were using them to move boats across
the sea even before the Middle Ages. A new design aims to apply
that ancient technology to modern environmental challenges.
"Regatta H2O: Familiar Form, Chameleon Infrastructure" is the
winner of a site-specific environmental…
http://www.businessinsider.com/sails-gather-fog-water-california-2016-10


DIESEL ACTIVITIES

Manufacturer of truck engines to pay $28.5M federal settlement. 
A leading truck-engine manufacturer has agreed to a $28.5 million
settlement for allegedly failing to meet emission standards for
nitrogen oxides, the Justice Department and U.S. EPA announced
this morning. Under the terms of a proposed consent decree, which
needs a judge's approval, Detroit Diesel Corp. will pay a $14
million fine and spend another $14.5 million to cut releases of
nitrogen oxides 
http://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2016/10/06/stories/1060043959 

FUELS

Tapping Norway’s Oil Fund Raises Political Hackles. Low oil
prices mean that this year the government for the first time is
withdrawing more from the oil fund than it is putting in.
Oil-rich Norway could be forming a bad habit. The government said
Thursday it would keep draining money from one vessel—the
nation’s vast sovereign-wealth fund—to fill a shortage in
another—-the annual budget.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/tapping-norways-oil-fund-raises-political-hackles-1475766971


How a Saudi Royal Sparked an OPEC Deal and Sent Oil Prices Past
$50. The directive was a departure for Deputy Crown Prince
Mohammed bin Salman, the powerful 31-year-old son of King Salman.
Saudi Arabia’s deputy crown prince sent his energy minister to an
OPEC meeting last month with a difficult mission…
http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-a-saudi-royal-sparked-an-opec-deal-and-sent-oil-prices-past-50-1475763151


Methane leaks declining even as natural gas production grows.
College students learn in Economics 101 that no one leaves $20
bills lying on the street. It is a rubric used to fortify the
theory that big economic markets are sophisticated and that items
of great value are prized and not often wasted. But when it comes
to industries that leak natural gas — a powerful global warmer —
into the atmosphere…
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/10/06/stories/1060043917 

VEHICLES

The World's First Fuel Cell Road Vehicle Just Turned 50. GM's
fuel cell development was powered by President John F. Kennedy's
Project Gemini and the Apollo Program. While the concept of the
fuel cell was first demonstrated in 1801, the world had to wait
until 1959 to see a vehicle–namely a Allis-Chalmers farm
tractor–move under fuel cell power. But in 1962, when Kennedy
challenged NASA to safely land a man on the moon before the end
of the decade…
http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/classic-cars/a31062/the-first-fuel-cell-road-vehicle-just-turned-50/


BLOGS

Hurricane Matthew is super strong — because of
climate change. “Category 4 and 5 hurricanes could double or
triple in the coming decades,” expert warns. Hurricane Matthew is
slowly approaching the East Coast where it is expected to wreak
havoc with storm surge, wind, and rain. Matthew has already set a
number of records — and global warming is giving it a
boost.
https://thinkprogress.org/global-warming-hurricanes-1c3a1ddca521#.f1wzappp9





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