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newsclips -- ARB Newsclips for October 31, 2013 Posted: 31 Oct 2013 11:05:04
ARB Newsclips for October 31, 2013. 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. AIR POLLUTION High school students make presentations on the negative impact of air quality in the Imperial Valley. Local high school students who are part of Health Occupation Students of America made presentations on the negative impact of air quality in the Imperial Valley on Wednesday evening for the Stop and Listen Asthma Forum 2013. Their studies were based on “Health Impacts of Border Crossing Emissions” written by Penelope Quintana of San Diego State University, which describes the findings of a scientific study showing how traffic from U.S.-Mexico ports of entry affects health and air quality in the region. Posted. http://www.ivpressonline.com/news/local/high-school-students-make-presentations-on-the-negative-impact-of/article_e2ad6044-41f9-11e3-9c58-001a4bcf6878.html Children experience a ‘cooking pot for asthma’ in the Central Valley. The students filing into Bret Harte Elementary School every morning barely notice the flags fluttering by the school’s main entrance. There is the American flag, the California state flag and the color-coded asthma flag – green when the air is clear, red when it is a respiratory nightmare, as it so often is here. Posted. http://www.modbee.com/2013/10/30/3002573/kids-face-a-cooking-pot-for-asthma.html#storylink=cpy CLIMATE CHANGE Warming will disturb balance of soil nutrients in drylands. An increase in aridity due to global warming will disturb the balance of nutrients in the soil and reduce productivity of the world's drylands, which support millions of people, a landmark study predicts. The research was conducted by a global collaboration of scientists who carried out the same studies of 224 dryland sites in 16 countries on every continent except Antarctica. In Australia, woodland sites near Mildura in NSW were studied by UNSW's Adjunct Professor David Eldridge, of the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, who is a member of the international research team. Posted. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-10/uons-wwd102813.php FUELS Shale gas fracking a low risk to public health. The risks to public health from emissions caused by fracking for shale oil and gas are low as long as operations are properly run and regulated, the British government's health agency said on Thursday. Posted. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/31/us-britain-health-fracking-idUSBRE99U0KX20131031 VEHICLES Advancing electric mobility through electric car-sharing – Part I. Mobility experts think that through electric vehicle (EV) sharing and rental schemes, EVs could become an integral part of the urban environment. By renting an electric car customers can get the EV experience without the risks usually associated with buying one. cars21.com takes a closer look at the electric car-sharing schemes in different cities and the price plans offered. UPDATED: To expand the availability of EVs for local businesses and communities, the UK’s first all-electric car sharing club was launched at the end of October. Access to electric cars has been seen as a key for advancing electric mobility in the urban environment. Posted. http://cars21.com/news/view/5572 Tesla to debut ‘superchargers’ linking San Diego to Canada. Electric-vehicle pioneer Tesla Motors today will inaugurate a network of “superchargers” that allows drivers of its luxury sedans to get from San Diego to Vancouver, B.C., with few delays. A small caravan of Model S sedans is scheduled to depart at 9 a.m. from the Tesla store at University Towne Centre shopping mall to promote the West Coast charging network. Four new stations in Northern California and Oregon will close the last gap in a 1,500-mile route. Posted. http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/oct/30/tp-tesla-to-debut-superchargers-linking-san-diego/ GREEN ENERGY Solar Rebound Beating Dot-Com Recovery as Demand Surges. Solar industry manufacturers are rebounding from a two-year slump faster than technology companies recovered from the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s. The benchmark BI Global Large Solar Energy Index of 15 manufacturers, which slumped 87 percent from a February 2011 peak through November 2012, has regained 55 percent of its value in the past year. Posted. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-31/solar-rebound-beating-dot-com-recovery-as-demand-surges.html BLOGS State-by-state EV support often comes down to party lines. Last week, eight governors "joined hands" in support of zero emissions vehicles (ZEVs) in California's state capital. That's a good start, but there are seven governors of states that have worked with California on tough emissions rules in the past who were missing. It appeared the split was mostly along party lines. Governors from Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont met with California Gov. Jerry Brown in Sacramento October 24. Collectively, they agreed to bring 3.3 million ZEVs – battery electric vehicles, plug-in hybrids and fuel cell electric vehicles – to their roads by 2025. Their meeting was coordinated with a review of the California Air Resources Board's ZEV mandates. All of the eight governors are members of the Democratic party. Posted. http://green.autoblog.com/2013/10/30/state-by-state-ev-support-often-comes-down-to-party-lines/ Port of Oakland truckers promise to keep working through negotiations. After forcing a one-day closure of the Port of Oakland over regulatory and wait-time complaints last week, independent truckers say they are pursuing negotiations with the California Air Resources Board, and have promised no further work stoppages through at least Monday, Nov. 4. The drivers say the truce comes after Oakland Mayor Jean Quan agreed to broker talks between them and the state air quality agency. Truckers have been trying for months to negotiate an extension on potentially costly environmental regulations due to be implemented on the first of the year, protest organizers say. Posted. http://blog.sfgate.com/inoakland/2013/10/30/port-of-oakland-truckers-promise-to-keep-working-through-negotiations/ Have we hit a “permanent slowdown” in the growth of global CO2 emissions? The world keeps making climate change worse, pumping out more greenhouse gases every year than the year before. But in an encouraging sign, the rate at which emissions are growing appears to be slowing down. Global emissions hit 38 billion tons of carbon dioxide last year — up 1.1 percent from 2011. That’s bleak, but the glimmer of hope here is that emissions increased during the last decade by much more than that — by an average of 2.9 percent every year. Posted. http://grist.org/news/have-we-hit-a-permanent-slowdown-in-the-growth-of-global-co2-emissions/ Utah State University raises $9M for wireless electric buses. Utah may be best known among motor enthusiasts for the high speed runs across the Bonneville Salt Flats, but there's another development within the state that's just as intriguing, albeit substantially slower. Utah State University, which last year unveiled an electric bus that could be recharged wirelessly, has hatched a company that's raised more than $9 million and is looking to commercialize the technology, Wired says. Posted. http://green.autoblog.com/2013/10/31/utah-state-university-raises-9m-for-wireless-electric-buses/