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Liar, Liar, Purifier California bans in-home ozone air purifiers		28 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 4:20 PM on 28 Sep 2007 In-home air purifiers that emit more than a tiny amount of ozone will be banned under a new California regulation. While manufacturers of ozone air purifiers claim that their products can relieve asthma and other respiratory symptoms, thousands of studies have shown that ozone exposure can actually worsen such conditions. "There are reports of ozone being generated in someone's living room ... ...
Topics: air pollution, California, green living, news, ozone, regulation (all these topics)

Into the Drink California may require labels on bottled water, EPA strengthens lead-in-water regulations		27 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 5:08 PM on 27 Sep 2007 Bottled-water companies would have to disclose the source of their H2O under a bill that has passed through the California legislature and awaits the pen of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The bill would require companies to list the minerals, chemicals, and bacteria present in bottled water, as well as whether it came originally from a well, aquifer, spring, or ...
Topics: California, food, green living, health, news, regulation, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Solar So Far Solar-powered homes a bright spot in California housing market		25 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 12:34 PM on 25 Sep 2007 Take that, housing market: Solar-powered homes in California are outshining the competition. source: Los Angeles Times see also, in Grist: Utility will pay for solar on Habitat for Humanity houses in California From the Archives We Really Needed Some Disclosure. More companies disclosing and mitigating emissions, says new report. Connecting the DOT. DOT offici ...
Topics: business, California, energy, news, renewable energy, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Connecting the DOT DOT officials lobbied against California's vehicle-emission standards, Waxman says		25 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 7:23 AM on 25 Sep 2007 According to Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), head of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, the Bush administration has been quietly lobbying members of Congress and state governors to oppose California's strict greenhouse-gas emissions rules for cars. In December 2005, the state submitted a request to the U.S. EPA for a waiver it needs to implement ...
Topics: California, Department of Transportation, news, politics, United States (all these topics)

Down the Pike California officials will poison lake to target nonnative fish		24 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 1:56 PM on 24 Sep 2007 We're not gung-ho about invasive species, but somehow poisoning an entire lake to get rid of them seems counterintuitive. Nonetheless, California's Lake Davis will get that treatment from state Fish and Game Department officials tomorrow, in the latest attempt in 15 years to rid the reservoir of nonnative northern pike. source: Los Angeles Times From the Archi ...
Topics: California, news, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

How Bush really feels about California's climate efforts White House behind lobbying campaign to undermine California auto-emissions plan, Waxman charges	Brian Beutler	24 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Arnold Schwarzenegger, who gave a rather good speech today here at the U.N. climate summit, is famously attempting to cut California's greenhouse-gas emissions. Now come accusations that the White House is behind a lobbying effort to get the U.S. EPA to reject Schwarzenegger's plan to regulate GHGs from cars and trucks. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), chair of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, got wind of the situation. Writes Jesse Lee in 'The Gavel ...
Topics: California, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, politics, United Nations (all these topics)

San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders on gay marriage	David Roberts	23 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Pardon the weekend detour away from green issues, but this is one of the more remarkable pieces of video I've seen in years, and I wanted to share it. See here for the backstory. It's not often that observers of public life witness the transformative effects of compassion in real time.
Topics: California, politics (all these topics)

Shiny Happy People Utility will pay for solar on Habitat for Humanity houses in California		21 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 4:57 AM on 21 Sep 2007 Recognizing that solar electricity is a good investment in the long run but a bit spendy up front, utility Pacific Gas and Electric has agreed to pay for solar power on some 65 houses built by Habitat for Humanity in northern and central California next year. PG&E will donate about $1.2 million for panels and installation; low-income residents will see radically reduce ...
Topics: California, energy, environmental justice, news, placemaking, renewable energy, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Water You Thinking? Schwarzenegger unveils $9 billion water bond package		19 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 1:30 PM on 19 Sep 2007 California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has unveiled a $9 billion water bond plan, including an unprecedented level of taxpayer payout for water projects and funding to build or expand three dams. Lawmakers hope to place some form of water bond on a Feb. 5 ballot, and Democratic legislators will likely spend the next few weeks lobbying for more of an emphasis on cleaning up polluted groun ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, legislation, news, politics, state politics, water conflicts (all these topics)

Switching Team San Francisco plans hour of darkness for October		19 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 12:13 PM on 19 Sep 2007 If you'll be in San Francisco between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 20, be sure to have a candle handy. Green group Lights Out San Francisco is encouraging residents to turn off all unnecessary lights during that hour to raise awareness of energy use. Nate Tyler, a former Google spokesperson who is spearheading the campaign, was inspired by a trip to Sydney during its annual light-extinguishin ...
Topics: California, energy, energy at home, innovation, news, San Francisco (all these topics)

Nuisance Review Judge tosses out lawsuit brought by California against automakers		18 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 10:21 AM on 18 Sep 2007 Automakers gained an edge yesterday in the Big Auto vs. California debate, as a federal judge tossed out a lawsuit against the world's six largest auto companies brought by California Attorney General Jerry Brown. Brown had claimed that because of the harmful environmental effects of vehicles' greenhouse-gas emissions, the Big Six were running afoul of California's public nuisance ...
Topics: Big Auto, California, cars, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, litigation, news, politics, state politics (all these topics)

Breaking: Automakers lose Vermont judge rules that Calif. and other states can implement tough tailpipe emission standards	David Roberts	12 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Big news: the lawsuit by U.S. automakers attempting to block California and 14 other states' adoption of tough new tailpipe emissions standards has lost: A federal judge on Wednesday rejected the U.S. auto industry's attempt to block California and 14 other states from setting tough new fuel economy standards, saying the industry had not proved the regulations were illegal, unsafe or unattainable. The ruling was a big loss for the industry in the fight over wheth ...
Topics: California, cars, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics, Vermont (all these topics)

You Offset 550,000 Tons, What Do You Get? Oil company Conoco agrees to offset carbon emissions from refinery project		12 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 6:00 AM on 12 Sep 2007 California has reached a settlement with oil giant ConocoPhillips that requires the company to spend $10 million to offset greenhouse-gas emissions from a proposed refinery expansion in the state's East Bay area. As part of the deal, the company will spend $7 million on as-yet-unspecified environmental projects in the San Francisco Bay Area as wel ...
Topics: Big Oil, California, climate, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

Schwarzengreener, or Transit Terminator? How green is California?	Jon Rynn	05 Sep 2007	Gristmill
The State of California just passed a budget that, thanks to Governor Schwarzenegger and the Republicans in the Assembly, removes $1.3 billion from the public transit budget. Yes, this is the same state and governor that passed a cap-and-trade bill that seeks to cut carbon emissions by 20 percent by 2020. But so far, the only thing being cut is the one way to get cars off of the roads. But let me tell you about this car-pool lane ... Photo: house.gov You kno ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, cars, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

So much for that fig leaf Congressional Research Service report bolsters California's case for EPA waiver	David Roberts	04 Sep 2007	Gristmill
As you know, California is all set to implement its tough tailpipe GHG emissions standards -- and something on the order of 14 other states are ready to follow suit. All Cali needs is a waiver from the U.S. EPA, allowing it to supersede national standards. It first requested the waiver in Dec. 2005, but the EPA has been dragging its feet ever since, to the point that Gov. Schwarzenegger has threatened to sue. Lots of political observers expect the Bush EPA to deny the ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, cars, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, US EPA (all these topics)

He Who Smelt It Delta'd It Judge issues ruling protecting delta smelt, restricting California water access		04 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 3:13 PM on 04 Sep 2007 For years, environmentalists have blamed the rapidly dwindling smelt population in the San Joaquin-Sacramento River delta on huge pumps that dispense water throughout southern California, but also suck in and kill huge numbers of the endangered fish. To protect the smelt, a species unique to the delta, a federal judge issued a far-reaching ruling Friday imp ...
Topics: California, endangered species, news, politics, regulation, water conflicts (all these topics)

The solar power you don't hear about Solar thermal power deserves more attention, due to its lower cost and relative ease of storage	Joseph Romm	30 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Solar thermal power is back! Solar thermal gets less attention than its sexier cousin -- high-tech photovoltaics -- but has two big advantages. First, it is much cheaper than PV. Second, it captures energy in a form that is much easier to store -- heat -- typically with mirrored surfaces that concentrate sunlight onto a receiver that heats a liquid (which is then used to make steam to drive a turbine). Back in the 1980s, Luz International was the sole commercia ...
Topics: California, energy, renewable energy, solar thermal power, solar voltaic power, Spain (all these topics)

Cali water madness Interior Dept. plans huge water giveaway to Big Agribiz	David Roberts	29 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Brad Plumer points to this, which tells the story of how the Interior Department is planning to give away gargantuan amounts of water to Big Agribiz in California. If you'd like to dig into the background details, check out some posts we ran by Lloyd G. Carter, president of California's Save Our Streams council -- here, here, and here. It's mind-boggling.
Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, California, Department of Interior, politics (all these topics)

Brown Knows San Bernardino County, Calif., will account for greenhouse-gas emissions		23 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Brown Knows San Bernardino County, Calif., will account for greenhouse-gas emissions One of the largest, fastest-growing, most sprawl-happy counties in the U.S. will have to measure its greenhouse-gas emissions and set targets for reducing them by 2010, according to a legal settlement announced Tuesday. California's San Bernardino County had been sued by State Attorney General Jerry Brown after county officials updat ...
Topics: California, climate, politics, sprawl (all these topics)

With a Cherry on Top? Judge allows Klamath River lawsuit to go forward		23 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
With a Cherry on Top? Judge allows Klamath River lawsuit to go forward If we may paraphrase: Energy company PacifiCorp has asked a federal judge, "Pretty please, can you dismiss a lawsuit claiming our Klamath River dams are polluting the river and killing salmon?" and the judge has responded, "No, sirree, see you in court." The Klamath, which runs along the California-Oregon border, was once the third-bi ...
Topics: California, dams, news, Oregon (all these topics)

All Pact and Ready to Go Six Western states, two Canadian provinces agree to regional climate pact		23 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
All Pact and Ready to Go Six Western states, two Canadian provinces agree to regional climate pact Yesterday, the leaders of six Western states and two Canadian provinces agreed to their own regional climate pact, aiming to cut greenhouse-gas emissions to 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. The Western Climate Initiative ...
Topics: Arizona, British Columbia, California, Canada, climate change mitigation, New Mexico, news, Oregon, politics, Utah, Washington (all these topics)

Bring in the Reserves Bush administration expands marine reserves off Southern California		10 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Bring in the Reserves Bush administration expands marine reserves off Southern California Ending eight years of debate and study, the Bush administration yesterday announced the expansion of a network of marine reserves around Southern California's Channel Islands. The move permanently bans recreational fishing in an area of some 150 square miles; nearly 80 percent of the area remains open to sport and comm ...
Topics: California, fishing, George Bush, news, oceans (all these topics)

Damn Environment, It's Always Getting in the Way Partisan eco-impasse stalls budget vote in California		09 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Damn Environment, It's Always Getting in the Way Partisan eco-impasse stalls budget vote in California California's massive state budget is nearly six weeks overdue, and a partisan eco-impasse is a major factor. The state Assembly passed a spending plan in late July, but it's stalled out in the state Senate. The current sticking point: the 37-year-old California Environmental Quality A ...
Topics: California, news, placemaking, politics, regulation, state politics (all these topics)

California's attorney general cracks down on emissions, gets some enemies in the process Will he be able to weather the storm?	David Roberts	08 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Here's another semi-old story that I'm just now getting around to (and yes, I've forgotten how I found it). It's deceptively significant. Using California's tough environmental regs, state Attorney General Jerry Brown is throwing some elbows, trying to force a range of projects from housing developments to oil refineries to show how they'll reduce emissions. He's trying to change extremely ingrained behavior at a fairly micro level, and he's getting a whole mess of ...
Topics: California, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Flo Nays Federal judge halts Navy sonar exercises off California coast		07 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Flo Nays Federal judge halts Navy sonar exercises off California coast A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Navy to stop using mid-frequency active sonar in exercises off the Southern California coast through 2009. Noting that the Navy's own evaluation says the sonar exercises could disrupt marine mammal behavior in as many as 170,000 instances, Judge Florence-Marie Cooper fou ...
Topics: California, Department of Defense, litigation, news, NRDC, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

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