[Source: CalChamber] Do you get deliveries to your business? I expect you do. Under a new rule being considered by the California Air Resources Board (CARB), you may be subject to onerous reporting requirements under CARB’s Advanced Clean Trucks program even if you do not own or lease a single truck. This reporting requirement is Read More…
Tag: greenhouse gas
Berkeley becomes first U.S. city to ban natural gas in new homes
[Source: San Francisco Chronicle] Berkeley has become the first city in the nation to ban the installation of natural gas lines in new homes. The City Council on Tuesday night unanimously voted to ban gas from new low-rise residential buildings starting Jan. 1. It’s not the first time Berkeley has passed pioneering health or environmental Read More…
L.A.’s slow buses aren’t just shedding riders, they’re becoming climate liabilities
[Source: Los Angeles Times] In the movie “Speed,” the inconceivable happens: Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves operate a bus during morning rush hour in Los Angeles maintaining a minimum speed of 50 mph. If this feat was implausible when the movie was released 25 years ago, it would be just about impossible today. Average bus Read More…
Scientists just pulled CO2 from air and turned it into coal
[Source: Forbes] Scientists have discovered a breakthrough technology, a way to pull CO2 from the atmosphere and turn it back into coal. This new discovery has the potential to change the way we think about CO2. The research, recently published in the journal Nature Communications, provides a step-by-step guide in turning CO2 into coal, acting to remove the greenhouse gas Read More…
U.S. greenhouse gas emissions spiked in 2018 — and it couldn’t happen at a worse time
[Source: The Washington Post] U.S. carbon dioxide emissions rose an estimated 3.4 percent in 2018, according to new research — a jarring increase that comes as scientists say the world needs to be aggressively cutting its emissions to avoid the most devastating effects of climate change. The findings, published Tuesday by the independent economic research firm Read More…
Shell, BP go separate ways as Washington voters weigh new fee on greenhouse-gas polluters
[Source: The Seattle Times] Royal Dutch Shell opts to sit on the sidelines while BP shovels money into opposing Initiative 1631. In speeches, reports and online posts, BP and Royal Dutch Shell leaders proclaim support for government rules that put a price on greenhouse-gas pollution resulting from the combustion of oil, natural gas and coal. Read More…
Is micromanagement of emissions beneficial to the California economy?
[Source: foxandhoundsdaily.com] Looking back, California’s flagship climate change policy Assembly Bill 32, the Global Warming Initiative was signed into law in 2006 when California was a miniscule contributor to the world’s greenhouse gases. Statistically, the World is generating about 46,000 million metric tons of GHG’s, while California has been generating about 440 million metric tons, Read More…
California is cutting greenhouse gases, but not from cars. Can that change?
[Source: San Francisco Chronicle] California’s greenhouse gas emissions are falling faster than state leaders hoped when they launched their fight against climate change 12 years ago. But there’s a glaring exception. Emissions from transportation — cars, trucks, trains, planes and ships — keep rising. And since transportation accounts for more greenhouse gas emissions than any other Read More…
Port of Long Beach launches zero-emissions project
[Source: PORT Technology] The project, funded mostly by the California Energy Commission with a $9.7 million grant, will introduce 25 vehicles that are zero- or near zero-emissions to Port of Long Beach marine terminals to test their performance in a real-world setting for a year. In 2017, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles Read More…