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California Air Resources Board News Clips for June 14, 2011. 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. CLIMATE CHANGE It’s not just CO2: Cutting soot and smog will limit climate change quickly, says new UN report. AMSTERDAM — The struggle to contain climate change usually focuses on reducing carbon dioxide. But black carbon and ozone, the main ingredients of soot and smog, also add to global warming, and controlling them will act quickly to slow rising temperatures, a U.N. agency said Tuesday. Black carbon comes from solid particles from tailpipes, forest fires or wood-burning stoves and brick kilns commonly found in poor countries. It absorbs sunlight, and is most damaging when it settles on the Arctic snow or mountain glaciers, causing ice packs to melt more rapidly. Posted. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/its-not-just-co2-cutting-soot-and-smog-will-limit-climate-change-quickly-says-new-un-report/2011/06/14/AGNQgLUH_story.html http://www.vcstar.com/news/2011/jun/14/un-report-cut-soot-smog-to-limit-climate-change/ Cap and trade rated higher than air alternatives. Under orders from a judge, California air quality regulators released a study Monday of potential greenhouse-gas-cutting measures, including alternatives to a controversial cap-and-trade system due to begin operations in the state next year. But the analysis, from the California Air Resources Board, still gives cap and trade higher marks than any of the alternatives, including a carbon tax. As a result, the study is unlikely to settle the lingering debate over the state's cap-and-trade system, which will set a limit on greenhouse gas emissions and create a market for trading the right to produce those gases. Posted. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/06/14/BUTQ1JTD7A.DTL State releases new cap-and-trade alternatives analysis. California regulators have revised their analysis of alternatives to cap and trade in the wake of last month's court decision that found the groundwork for the nation's first economywide greenhouse gas trading system insufficient. San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ernest Goldsmith's May 20 decision handed back the California Air Resources Board's cap-and-trade program, the cornerstone of its efforts to reduce emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Environmental justice groups had sued over the market-based model, which they alleged would increase air pollution in some spots by allowing companies to buy their way to compliance. Posted. BY SUBSCRIPTION ONLY. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2011/06/14/6/ FUELS Senate to vote on repealing ethanol tax credits. WASHINGTON -- With lawmakers desperately working to shave federal budget deficits, the Senate is debating a measure to eliminate ethanol tax credits that pay the oil industry $5 billion a year. The biggest defenders of the subsidies, however, include farm belt conservatives leading the charge for less government. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., is forcing a vote on a measure Tuesday that would repeal the credits. Coburn says they are wasteful subsidies for an industry that no longer needs them. "The days of placing spending programs in the tax code and giving them holy status are over," Coburn said. "Ethanol is bad economic policy, bad energy policy and bad environmental policy." Posted. http://www.modbee.com/2011/06/14/1731338/senate-to-vote-on-repealing-ethanol.html GREEN ENERGY EPA chief Lisa Jackson says Sacramento is on the right track to attract clean tech. The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that the Sacramento region is on the right track in its effort to attract green jobs and clean tech industry. Making her first visit to the capital region, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said she was impressed by the commitment of local business and political leaders to develop