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The Suits Are Picking on the Bill Auto industry loses suit to sink California vehicle emissions standards		26 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 9:53 AM on 26 Jun 2008 A federal judge has struck down the auto industry's attempt to gut California's greenhouse-gas emissions standards for vehicles. California's law, which would cut vehicle emissions by some 30 percent by 2016, has been stalled due to the U.S. EPA's denial of a waiver the state needs to implement it. However, the industry lawsuit sought to stop the emissions-r ...
Topics: Big Auto, business, California, litigation, news (all these topics)

California, California ... Here It Comes California announces specifics of greenhouse-gas reduction plans		26 Jun 2008	News
California, California ... Here It Comes California announces specifics of greenhouse-gas reduction plans Posted at 7:30 AM on 26 Jun 2008 On Thursday, California state regulators released specific plans to reduce California's greenhouse-gas emissions 10 percent from today's levels by 2020, the first phase of a scheme to reduce emissions 80 percent by 2050. The bulk of the outlined reductions are designed to come from programs the state has already begun work on, but have been stalled, most no ...
Topics: California, climate, climate change mitigation, news (all these topics)

A Whale, and It's About to Set Sail California license plates will go without Wyland whale tail		25 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 1:26 PM on 25 Jun 2008 Some 126,000 California license plates sport a whale tail designed by artist Robert Wyland, but the famed marine muralist is now withdrawing his permission for the state to use the art. A few months ago, Wyland asked the California Coastal Commission to donate 20 percent of profits from the plate to his ocean-conservation group. The commission, which directs the $15 o ...
Topics: art, California, cars, green living, news, oceans (all these topics)

Home, Home Outside the Range Climate change may force California endemic plants to migrate or die		25 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 7:10 AM on 25 Jun 2008 Climate change is expected to significantly affect California's endemic plants over the next century as temperatures rise and rainfall patterns change, according to a new study published in the journal PLoS One. Up to two-thirds of the state's unique plants could be wiped out in their current ranges by century's end and will have to move to cooler areas in order to ...
Topics: California, climate, climate change impacts, endangered species, news (all these topics)

Maximum impact Will California's climate change regulations mandate maximum emission reductions?	Ken Johnson	23 Jun 2008	Gristmill
[This post is follow-up to a David Roberts post from Jan. '08: "What does California's climate bill mandate?"] Sometime later this month, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) will release its draft 'Scoping Plan' on implementation of the state's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), which requires that statewide GHG emissions be reduced to or below 1990-level emissions by 2020. AB 32 also requires that the regulations ...
Topics: California, climate, climate change impacts, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Check Mate, CheckMate California officials yank controversial urban spraying plan		22 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 12:07 PM on 22 Jun 2008 California officials have announced that they will not spray the urban Bay Area with a pheromone this summer, delighting activists who had campaigned strenuously against the plan. The pheromone with the ominous name CheckMate LBAM-F keeps the crop-gobbling light brown apple moth from reproducing, but also has been linked to complaints of respiratory trouble in humans. Spraying had ...
Topics: agriculture, California, health, news, San Francisco, toxics (all these topics)

Clarity Begins at Home Honda produces new fuel-cell car		16 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 10:47 AM on 16 Jun 2008 Honda Motor Co.'s hydrogen-powered FCX Clarity rolled off the line Monday and will be leased to high rollers in California. The Clarity -- an update of Honda's original FCX, a handful of which were leased in 2005 -- runs on hydrogen and electricity, emits only water, and is twice as fuel-efficient as a gas-electric hybrid. Actresses Laura Harris and Jamie Lee Curtis, filmmaker Christopher Guest, and Little ...
Topics: Big Auto, California, cars, celebrity, green living, hydrogen, news, placemaking (all these topics)

Transmission: Impracticable Huge Calif. solar plant would run transmission lines through state park		16 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 8:11 AM on 16 Jun 2008 A proposed solar power plant in Southern California is facing heavy opposition from some environmentalists as the plan also calls for high-voltage transmission lines to run through a popular state park. To move the power generated by 12,000 solar-thermal dishes near El Centro, Calif., to customers in San Diego, power company San Diego Gas & Electric wants to b ...
Topics: California, energy, news, renewable energy, solar thermal power (all these topics)

Don't Count On It Budget office wants to reduce disaster funds for West Coast fisherfolk		13 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 10:14 AM on 13 Jun 2008 The federal government, having failed to support salmon to the point that California's fishing season was shut down altogether, may now yank support from fisherfolk. The Office of Management and Budget is requesting that the $170 million put aside as disaster funding for the West Coast salmon industry be reduced to $100 million to offset the increased cost of the 2010 census ...
Topics: California, fishing, news, Oregon, politics (all these topics)

For all the world to see California launches database of green state buildings	Katharine Wroth	06 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Some day I'll stop being surprised at the eco-dreaminess of California. But for now, I'm still tickled by even relatively minor developments -- say, the creation of the country's first statewide map of government-run green buildings. Sites are color-coded (and searchable) by whether they've achieved LEED certification, are pursuing it, or are being 'retro-commissioned.' And yeah, OK, it's basically a Google map and a self-delivered pat on the back, but it represents ...
Topics: California, green building, placemaking (all these topics)

Plight of the Condor Officials in 'crisis mode' as SoCal condors poisoned		04 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 11:51 AM on 04 Jun 2008 Weeks before California's ban on lead bullets in condor habitat goes into effect, seven of the endangered birds have been found with lead poisoning. And that's no insignificant tally, as only 34 wild condors are known to live in southern California. Wildlife officials are in "crisis mode," says Jesse Grantham of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: "This is the highest lead e ...
Topics: California, endangered species, news, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

No contempt for EPA's Johnson, yet Select Committee and White House reach deal on release of documents	Kate Sheppard	22 May 2008	Gristmill
It seems the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming has reached some sort of agreement with the White House to obtain documents from the Environmental Protection Agency on their internal workings. The decision preempted the committee's plan to hold a vote today finding EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson in contempt. The Select Committee is after documents that detail the agency's process for denying California's request for a waiver in setti ...
Topics: California, Ed Markey, Muckraker, news, politics, shenanigans, Stephen Johnson, US EPA (all these topics)

4.4 Cents and Sensibility Bay Area initiates first-of-its-kind fee on biz greenhouse-gas emissions		22 May 2008	News
Posted at 8:18 AM on 22 May 2008 Businesses in nine San Francisco Bay Area counties will pay 4.4 cents for every ton of greenhouse gases they spew, after the district air-quality board voted 15-1 Wednesday to approve the fee. Set to take effect July 1, the fee will affect more than 2,500 businesses; the district estimates that perhaps seven power plants and oil refineries will have to pay more tha ...
Topics: business, California, carbon tax, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, regulation, San Francisco (all these topics)

Bush, whacked EPW approves legislation calling on Bush to overturn EPA decision he likely forced EPA to make	Kate Sheppard	21 May 2008	Gristmill
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved legislation yesterday that would call on George W. Bush to sign off on California's request for waiver -- the very same waiver he likely encouraged EPA administrator Stephen Johnson to deny. 'The Reducing Global Warming Pollution from Vehicles Act of 2008' would require the president to approve the waiver so that California and the 18 other states that have set or plan to set higher limits on greenhouse-gas ...
Topics: California, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (all these topics)

Tailpipe tampering Waxman discloses evidence that White House influenced EPA California waiver	Frank O'Donnell	19 May 2008	Gristmill
It's been a matter of extreme controversy since last December, when EPA -- confronted with an impending front-page Washington Post exclusive -- suddenly announced it was denying California's request to enforce its greenhouse gas standards for motor vehicles. After months of dogged investigation, California Rep. Henry Waxman disclosed today that he had evidence that the White House tampered with the decision. The issue is certain to come up tomorrow as EPA Admist ...
Topics: California, climate, jackassery, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Ugly Reggy California concludes majority of emission reductions will come through regulation	David Roberts	19 May 2008	Gristmill
No state has done more to study the nitty-gritty of reducing emissions than California, and the California Air Resources Board recently revealed some of its thinking on how to achieve the state's ambitious emission goals. Its conclusions should spark some serious discussion among those who -- like John McCain -- think cap-and-trade is going to be a magic wand to cure all our ills. What CARB has determined is that carbon trading is only going to produce about 40% of ...
Topics: California, carbon trading, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

California, here we come Unprecedented land conservation deal	Jason D Scorse	09 May 2008	Gristmill
The biggest land conservation deal in California's history was announced yesterday, totaling nearly 240,000 acres in Southern California.A couple of features, while not entirely new, are worth pointing out: The deal involved allowing the owners to develop about 10 percent of the area pretty intensely and maintain some natural resource extraction while preserving as wilderness the overwhelming majority -- a good example of making a trade-off that doesn't pit economi ...
Topics: California, habitat protection, placemaking, public lands, wildlife (all these topics)

Ranch Blessing Greens and developer come to agreement in SoCal		08 May 2008	News
Posted at 1:58 PM on 08 May 2008 A long-running disagreement over what should be done with the largest swath of privately owned wilderness in southern California has been settled by a deal between green groups and a developer. Ninety percent of the 270,000-acre Tejon Ranch will be conserved, while 26,000 homes will be permitted on the remaining 10 percent. The Center for Biological Diversity, which was not involved in the truce, exp ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, endangered species, grassroots activism, news, NRDC, Sierra Club, sprawl, wilderness (all these topics)

Tasty justice People's Grocery is rebuilding food connections in West Oakland	Erik Hoffner	08 May 2008	Gristmill
Global Oneness Project has finished a great new series of interviews with Brahm Ahmadi, co-founder/director of People's Grocery. Their food justice work is crucial to Oakland: like many cities, there are usually lots more opportunities to buy beer or smokes on every block than fresh, healthy fruits and veggies. Check out this inspiring 8-minute film to get some new ideas for how we can reconnect urban populations and the planet through food. The sidebar clips are great, ...
Topics: California, environmental justice, food, health, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics)

Putting Down Roots Ousted L.A. gardeners continue to farm		28 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 3:17 PM on 28 Apr 2008 In June 2006, a land dispute led to the shutdown of the South Central Community Garden in Los Angeles. Weeks of protest and tree-sitting by celebrities and regular folk proved unfruitful, and the 14-acre garden, tended by 350 low-income families in the middle of one of L.A.'s poorest neighborhoods, was bulldozed. Nearly two years later, with legal wrangling over the land's ownership ongoing, the gardeners ...
Topics: agriculture, California, food, gardening, Los Angeles, news, placemaking, sustainable ag (all these topics)

The Moth-Ban Prophecies Bay Area escapes aerial spraying, for now		25 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 10:48 AM on 25 Apr 2008 A plan to spray Santa Cruz County with synthetic pheromones must be postponed until an environmental review is completed, a county judge ruled Thursday. The spraying, an attempt by agriculture officials to curb the invasion of the crop-gobbling light brown apple moth, was to begin in Santa Cruz County in June and expand to seven other Bay Area counties in August. But many of the 7 million resident ...
Topics: agriculture, California, health, news, toxics (all these topics)

By Our Power Combined California utilities scuffle over cap-and-trade		21 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 8:42 AM on 21 Apr 2008 California is well aware that reducing greenhouse-gas emissions is easier said than done. The state's attempts to craft an effective cap-and-trade system are causing infighting among public utilities and their privately owned counterparts. Public utilities, which source more of their power from coal, protest that they're going to end up paying out the nose to the state and seeing the money red ...
Topics: business, California, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, politics, regulation, state politics (all these topics)

Dusk to Spawn California bars salmon fishing in state waters		16 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 1:29 PM on 16 Apr 2008 California Fish and Game officials voted Tuesday to bar commercial salmon fishing in state waters, in what was, according to one commissioner, "one of the most painful votes I think we've ever taken." Fishing in federal waters off the California coast was banned last week. Next month, state officials are likely to bar recreational salmon fishing in Central Valley rivers as well. Californians ...
Topics: California, fishing, news, politics, state politics (all these topics)

Auto agitprop Carmakers take anti-Cali talking points to 'Blue Dog' House Democrats	David Roberts	08 Apr 2008	Gristmill
It's no secret that American auto companies are working overtime to impede California's ability to set its own tailpipe emission standards. They've had a few setbacks in court, but they've got the U.S. EPA in their back pocket -- witness Johnson's refusal to grant Cali's waiver. There's been some talk recently about Congress overriding Johnson, so car companies are now doing a full-court lobbying press on Congress. Recently they briefed the so-called "Blue Dog&q ...
Topics: California, cars, politics, shenanigans, state politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Paid in the shade	David Roberts	07 Apr 2008	Gristmill
You've got to give credit to Felicity Barringer for this sentence: If he succeeds, the state that legalized medical marijuana may soon do the same for shade.
Topics: California, energy, energy at home, funnies, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

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