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newsclips -- ARB Newsclips for December 12, 2016.
Posted: 12 Dec 2016 14:04:25
ARB Newsclips for December 12, 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 Canada agrees on national carbon price, but tensions remain. The Canadian government on Friday reached a deal with eight of the 10 provinces to introduce a landmark national carbon price, which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says will help Canada meet its international climate change obligations. The agreement was only struck after hours of heated talks and energy-producing Saskatchewan did not sign up… http://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-environment-idUSKBN13Y2N0?utm_source=Inside+Climate+News&utm_campaign=f6d899328b-Today_s_Climate12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-f6d899328b-327747457 Oil lobbyists seek revenue from carbon tax. Petroleum lobbyists in Canada are pushing for revenue from oil and gas taxes to be fed back into the industry. Greenpeace Canada recently obtained a brief put together by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers in August stating that pricing mechanisms should be funneled to "a vibrant and competitive oil and gas sector," while simultaneously working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/12/12/stories/1060047024 CLIMATE CHANGE Trump transition team for Energy Department seeks names of employees involved in climate meetings. Donald Trump’s transition team has issued a list of 74 questions for the Energy Department, asking agency officials to identify which employees and contractors have worked on forging an international climate pact as well as domestic efforts to cut the nation’s carbon output. The questionnaire requests a list of those individuals who have taken part in international climate talks… https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/12/09/trump-transition-team-for-energy-department-seeks-names-of-employees-involved-in-climate-meetings/?utm_term=.2c88de542c71&wpisrc=al_alert-hse California's climate fight could be painful — especially on job and income growth. Californians are likely to pay more for gasoline, electricity, food and new homes — and to feel their lives jolted in myriad other ways — because their state broadly expanded its war on climate change this summer. The ambitious new goals will require complex regulations on an unprecedented scale, but were approved in Sacramento without a... http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-climate-fight-20161108-story.html California weighs plan for reducing short-lived climate pollutants. Among the sweeping climate legislation that California lawmakers passed at the end of last session was Senate Bill 1383, mandating a major cut in the state’s emissions of “short-lived climate pollutants” by 2030. These greenhouse gases, such as black carbon, methane and hydrofluorocarbons, have a shorter atmospheric life than carbon dioxide… http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article120075828.html#storylink=cpy States in Lead Role if U.S. Backs Off. President-elect Trump as a campaigner had vowed to reverse the Obama Administration's climate policies. But California, New York and some other states may pick up the pace on their own climate initiatives in 2017 and beyond. Less than two days after Donald Trump was elected to be president, California Governor Jerry Brown issued a short statement: Changes coming in 2017 graphic “In California… http://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2016/12/states-in-lead-role-if-us-backs-off/ Trump Tabs Another Climate Denier, This Time for Interior. U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a sixth-term Republican from Washington State who is a climate change denier and an ardent opponent of regulations for greenhouse gas emissions, has been nominated by President-elect Donald Trump for Secretary of Interior. If McMorris Rodgers is confirmed by the U.S. Senate, she would govern the management of more than 500 million acres of federal public lands… http://www.climatecentral.org/news/trump-tabs-climate-change-denier-for-interior-20958?utm_content=buffer238e7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer For Tillerson, climate change is an 'engineering problem' In his years leading Exxon Mobil Corp., Rex Tillerson has accepted the dangers of climate change, a departure in many ways from his legendary predecessor, Lee "Iron Ass" Raymond, who often shouted at stockholders who broached the topic. Yet Tillerson hasn't moved with vigor on the climate subject. the 64-year-old Texan views climate change as an engineering problem that calls for a nuts-and-bolts solution. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/12/12/stories/1060047018 Reading between the lines of ice core data. Scientists have developed a new technique to help them draw out fragments of hidden data from the chaos within ice cores. The technique is based on "information theory," a system of quantifying and communicating information, which was first used to create more reliable methods of European-American communication in the 1940s. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/12/12/stories/1060047015 FUELS Global Coal Use to Stall as India Props Up Growth, IEA Says. Coal demand will “stall and plateau” over the next five years as declines in Europe and North America are offset by growing consumption. The fuel’s share of total electricity generation will fall to 36 percent in 2021 from more than 41 percent in 2013… https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-12/global-coal-demand-to-stall-as-india-props-up-growth-iea-says?utm_source=Inside+Climate+News&utm_campaign=f6d899328b-Today_s_Climate12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-f6d899328b-327747457 Oil price surges as Opec and non-Opec members agree deal to cut output. First deal for 15 years seen as game changer by analysts, who forecast oil price will rise further from $57 a barrel. Oil prices have surged to a 17-month high after a group of the world’s largest producers, including Saudi Arabia and Russia, agreed to reduce output in a landmark deal. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/dec/12/oil-price-surges-opec-non-opec-agree-deal-cut-output?utm_source=Inside+Climate+News&utm_campaign=f6d899328b-Today_s_Climate12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-f6d899328b-327747457 Scientists struggling to understand rapid rise of potent GHG. Scientists are redoubling efforts to understand why concentrations of methane are rising faster now than at any time in the past two decades, unlike carbon dioxide. The uptick in methane, which has a powerful but short-lived greenhouse gas effect, over the past decade puts the world on a higher global warming trajectory. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/12/12/stories/1060047021 VEHICLES Porsche too said to use 'defeat device' software for gasoline cars. It's been 15 months since news broke that VW Group had used "defeat device" software in its diesel cars and SUVs that let them emit far more than permitted levels of nitrogen oxides in real-world use. Even now, however, the Volkswagen diesel scandal continues to grow new tentacles as investigators uncover additional apparent instances of wrongdoing. http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1107727_porsche-too-said-to-use-defeat-device-software-for-gasoline-cars Automaker offers clues on $2B plan for EV infrastructure. Volkswagen AG is asking for ideas on how it can spend $2 billion on electric vehicle charging infrastructure, a requirement of its settlement with drivers and regulators. In a website launched today, VW provides the first details on how it is planning to invest the money. It is required to spend $2 billion over the next 10 years on zero-emissions vehicle charging infrastructure…http://www.eenews.net/eenewspm/stories/1060046981/search?keyword=california GREEN ENERGY Trump team casts a cold eye on renewables. President-elect Donald Trump loves fossil fuels, but what does he really think of renewable energy? Some early hints are found in the questions his transition team posed to Energy Department staff in a memo leaked last week. That document suggests that renewable energy will get greater scrutiny and a far tougher hearing at DOE after Trump comes to office. http://www.eenews.net/energywire/2016/12/12/stories/1060047003 OPINIONS Al Gore’s new climate change movie arrives just in time. The Sundance Film Festival will open in January with a new climate change movie from Al Gore — and the timing, unfortunately, could not be better. Paramount Pictures and Participant Media announced Friday that the follow-up to the 2006 Oscar-winning documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth” — in which filmmaker Davis Guggenheim documented Gore’s traveling slide show on global warming… https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/12/10/goremoviesequel/?hpid=hp_hp-cards_hp-card-lifestyle%3Ahomepage%2Fcard&utm_term=.af0af87a7f9d An Enemy of the E.P.A. to Head It. Had Donald Trump spent an entire year scouring the country for someone to weaken clean air and clean water laws and repudiate America’s leadership role in the global battle against climate change, he could not have found a more suitable candidate than Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney general, whom he picked on Wednesday to run the Environmental Protection Agency. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/07/opinion/an-enemy-of-the-epa-to-head-it.html?_r=0 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-man-who-rejects-settled-science-on-climate-change-should-not-lead-the-epa/2016/12/09/fdf7b422-bd83-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html?utm_term=.311f4df28f5a http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/opinion/trump-and-pruitt-will-make-america-gasp-again.html http://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/editorial-foe-of-epa-is-wrong-person-to-lead-it/ http://www.pressdemocrat.com/opinion/6419681-181/pd-editorial-the-dangers-of If Trump Rejects Paris Climate Accord, Could California Sign On? With President-elect Trump’s pro-fossil fuel rhetoric and the future of the international climate treaty looking cloudy, some are hoping California take over leadership on the international stage. That’s raised an unprecedented question: if the US pulls out of the international climate treaty, as Trump has said he wants to, could California sign on to it? https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/12/12/if-trump-wont-can-california-sign-the-international-climate-treaty/ California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips.