tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-114951962024-03-16T06:55:35.630-04:00African American Environmentalist AssociationAAEA is an environmental organization founded in 1985 that is dedicated to protecting the environment, enhancing human, animal and plant ecologies, promoting the efficient use of natural resources, increasing African American participation in the environmental movement and promoting ownership of energy infrastructure and resources. We resolve environmental problems through the application of practical environmental solutions. Norris McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564345494443383507noreply@blogger.comBlogger1811125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11495196.post-9651954502770902832017-03-28T17:34:00.001-04:002017-03-28T17:34:11.218-04:00Free Environmental Training for JournalistsUnderstanding the Environmental Stakes<br />
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Laws passed almost five decades ago form bedrock protections for water and air quality and wildlife and public lands in the United States. What will happen to the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, National Environmental Policy Act, Endangered Species Act and more in the coming years?<br />
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In a four-day training program for journalists, the National Press Foundation (NPF) will look at proposed budget cuts and how changes at the Environmental Protection Agency and elsewhere could affect the environment. NPF will look at rules and regulations that could be rolled back, water use out west, the latest scientific research on the environment, and the outlook for clean energy and climate treaties. NPF will show journalists how to find and use the best data to underscore their reporting on the environment.
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Norris McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564345494443383507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11495196.post-39739694428319050692017-03-21T18:37:00.003-04:002017-03-21T18:38:16.430-04:00New York City Environmental Justice Alliance Honorees<div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" data-block-type="2" id="block-96381c930fa70a493c0f" style="background-color: white; box-shadow: rgba(128, 128, 128, 0) 0px 0px 0px 1px inset; clear: none; color: #222222; font-family: katarine-web; font-size: 16px; height: auto; letter-spacing: 0.96px; outline: none; padding: 0px 17px 17px; position: relative; transition: box-shadow 0.2s ease-in-out;">
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<strong>NYC-EJA'S HONOREES: THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN</strong></div>
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<strong>Alexie Torres-Fleming</strong>, Executive Director of Access Strategies Fund</div>
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<strong>Omar Freilla</strong>, Founder of Green Worker Cooperatives</div>
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<strong>Mathy Stanislaus</strong>, Former EPA Assistant Administrator in EPA's Office of Land and Emergency Management</div>
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<strong>Michelle DePass</strong>, Dean of the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy</div>
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<strong>Samara Swanston</strong>, Legislative Counsel to the Environmental Protection Committee of the New York City Council</div>
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<strong>Charles Barron</strong>, NYS Assembly Member </div>
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<strong>Errol Louis</strong>, Political Anchor of NY1 News</div>
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Ass<strong>embly member Charles Barron has been a community activist for over 45 years.</strong> In 1969, in need of a vehicle to express his desire for justice, Barron joined the Harlem branch of the Black Panther Party. After his Black Panther experience, he attended New York City Community College, now known as New York City College of Technology, where he obtained an Associate's Degree. He then attended Hunter College where he acquired his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology with a minor in Elementary Education.</div>
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In 1979, Barron joined the National Black United Front (NBUF) and became the founding chairperson of NBUF'S Harlem Chapter. Shortly thereafter, he was appointed Chief of Staff to the Reverend Dr. Herbert Daughtry, Chairperson of the National Black United Front. From 1982-87 he served as Secretary General of Rev. Daughtry's African Peoples Christian Organization (APCO). He traveled across the United States visiting many college campuses, churches, prisons and communities organizing around international, national and local issues. As the founder and CEO of the Dynamics of Leadership Corporation, Charles also traveled the country presenting seminars and workshops on leadership development. <strong>He previously served on the board of the NYC Environmental Justice Alliance.</strong></div>
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In 2001, Barron was elected to the New York City Council. He served as Chair of the Committee on Higher Education for over eight years and was a member of the Committees on Education; Consumer Affairs; Immigration; Land Use (Planning, Dispositions & Concessions); and Women's Issues. As a Council Member Charles Barron secured funding to renovate 3 parks totaling over $15 million; secured allocations for 2 new $80 million schools; was the number 1 Council Member in Brooklyn in securing real affordable housing; secured millions of dollars for funding of the Black Male Initiative for City University of New York (CUNY); and millions of dollars for a work force development project that generated over six thousand jobs in neighborhoods of high unemployment in New York City. At his final session of the City Council, Charles was described as "the conscience of the City Council."</div>
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He is a founding member of the East New York based organization Operation POWER (People Organizing and Working for Empowerment and Respect) and was elected to the New York State Assembly on November 4, 2014.</div>
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Assembly member Barron is known as a fearless fighter for human rights issues. He is described as "unbought and unbossed," speaking truth to power and delivering for his community and beyond.</div>
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Charles is married to Council member Inez Barron and they have 2 sons, Jelani and Jawanza.</div>
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<strong>Errol Louis is the Political Anchor of NY1 News, where he hosts "The Road to City Hall," a nightly prime-time show about New York City politics,</strong> on which he regularly interviews top political and cultural leaders, including Mayor Bill de Blasio and ex-mayors David Dinkins, Rudy Giuliani and Mike Bloomberg; Gov. Andrew Cuomo and ex-governors George Pataki, Eliot Spitzer and David Paterson; and dozens of city, state and federal officials. Louis also serves as a CNN Contributor, providing on-air commentary on key events from presidential primaries to Election Night.</div>
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Louis has moderated dozens of debates between candidates for Mayor, City Council, Public Advocate, City and State comptroller, U.S. Senate and state Attorney General, and was a questioner in the final 2016 presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.</div>
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Louis writes a weekly column for the New York Daily News on a range of political and social affairs and was recently ranked #40 on the list of the 100 most powerful people in New York City politics.</div>
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Louis serves as Director of Urban Reporting at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, where he has taught political and investigative reporting to dozens of students. He is co-editor of Deadline Artists, a two-volumeanthology of America's greatest newspaper columns published in October 2011.<strong> He previously served on the board of the NYC Environmental Justice Alliance.</strong></div>
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Louis lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Juanita Scarlett, and their son.</div>
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NYC-EJA's 25th ANNIVERSARY GALA HOST COMMITTEE</h3>
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<strong>Sarah Hope</strong>, Executive Director, Solutions Project</div>
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<strong>Hector Figueroa</strong>, President, 32BJ</div>
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<strong>Rhea Suh</strong>, President, Natural Resources Defense Council</div>
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<strong>Bill McKibben</strong>, Founder, 350.org</div>
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<strong>George Miranda</strong>, President of Teamsters Joint Council 16</div>
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<strong>Maritza Silva-Farrell</strong>, Executive Director, ALIGN</div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.96px;">Ashni is a singer songwriter currently teaching, creating and performing in New York City. Listen to her work</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.96px;"> </span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nF3oE2chcAqGScEAQnWxdPn65RlDIywEYhXNGDBAeBRhHouJAuf1U77r4dHEeZFF5g5wZ6EGyacTBNxJsT8lrCW1Lkh19Ht952IJEFf5OhJ78FX5wIJFJxmuS9-_nmQr_KYplAlAlwhoC76Cb78YzUvNsx4dwaGpFTX4BcqnZCphgaLrVdHTLd_uab78yDoX&c=v4Odw1nJkWhWedVuzS3rp5qI1j-uhUbs-lgtCKbu9HQOhkrQrhnPWg==&ch=17g25pDyva0pWN0zopWK7XeWpcnFwunTQV09yOeHtpmfonQNCBY16g==" style="background: transparent; color: #999999; letter-spacing: 0.96px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="letter-spacing: 0.96px;">.</span></div>
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Norris McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564345494443383507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11495196.post-13436354413536412012017-02-14T21:50:00.000-05:002017-02-14T21:52:12.699-05:00African Americans In Energy: Congressional Panel<div class="g-group l-lg-mar-bot-6 l-md-mar-bot-4 l-pad-bot-6 " style="background-color: white; font-family: "benton sans", "helvetica neue", helvetica, roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 30px;">
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Congressman Marc Veasey is sponsoring a panel discussion in observation of Black History Month entitled, “Closing the Gap: African Americans in Energy” on Thursday, February 16 at 11 AM.<br />
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The panel will discuss the challenges and opportunities for African Americans in the energy sector. Moreover, the discussion seeks to educate Members, staffers, stakeholders and students pursuing STEM degrees or jobs in the energy industry, examine current energy policy issues and offer an outlook for the 115th Congress.</div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;">Ray Dempsey, Vice President & Chief Diversity Officer, BP America</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;">Paula Glover, President, American Association of Blacks in Energy</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;">Commissioner Colette Honorable, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission</li>
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They would love to have you join them for this event.<br />
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<span style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">An act to amend Sections 399.13 and 454.5 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to electricity.</span></div>
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[<span style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Approved by </span><span style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Governor </span> <span style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">September 26, 2016. </span><span style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Filed with </span><span style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Secretary of State </span> <span style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">September 26, 2016. </span>]</div>
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<span id="digesttext" style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.688px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Public Utilities Act requires the Public Utilities Commission to review and accept, modify, or reject a procurement plan for each electrical corporation in accordance with specified procedures, considerations, and objectives. The act requires that electrical corporations’ proposed procurement plans include certain elements, including a showing that the electrical corporations will first meet their unmet needs through all available energy efficiency and demand reduction resources that are cost effective, reliable, and feasible.</span></div>
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This bill would require electrical corporations’ proposed procurement plans to also include a showing that the electrical corporations (1), in soliciting bids for new gas-fired generating units, actively seek bids for resources that are not gas-fired generating units located in communities that suffer from cumulative pollution burdens and (2), in considering bids for, or negotiating bilateral contracts for, new gas-fired generating units, give preference to resources that are not gas-fired generating units located in those communities. The bill would require the commission, before approving a contract for any new gas-fired generating unit, to require the electrical corporation to demonstrate that it has complied with its approved procurement plan. Because this requirement would be a part of the Public Utilities Act and because a violation of an order or decision of the commission implementing its requirements would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime.</div>
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Existing law requires electrical corporations, in soliciting and procuring eligible renewable energy resources for California-based projects, to give preference to renewable energy projects that provide environmental and economic benefits to communities afflicted with poverty or high unemployment or those suffering from high emission levels of toxic air contaminants, criteria air pollutants, and greenhouse gases.</div>
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This bill would specify that the above requirements apply to all procurement of eligible renewable energy resources for California-based projects whether the procurement occurs through all-source requests for offers, eligible renewable energy resources only requests for offers, or other procurement mechanisms.</div>
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This bill would incorporate changes to Section 454.5 of the Public Utilities Code proposed by both this bill and AB 2454, which would become operative only if both bills are enacted and become effective on or before January 1, 2017, and this bill is chaptered last.</div>
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The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.</div>
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This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.</div>
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[<span style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Approved by </span><span style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Governor </span> <span style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">September 14, 2016. </span><span style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Filed with </span><span style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Secretary of State </span> <span style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">September 14, 2016. </span>]</div>
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The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The act authorizes the state board to include the use of market-based compliance mechanisms. Existing law requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be available upon appropriation. Existing law requires the Department of Finance, in consultation with the state board and any other relevant state agency, to develop, as specified, a 3-year investment plan for the moneys deposited in the fund. Existing law requires the investment plan to allocate a minimum of 25% of the available moneys in the fund to projects that provide benefits to disadvantaged communities, as defined, and a minimum of 10% to projects located in those disadvantaged communities. Existing law authorizes the allocation of 10% for projects located in disadvantaged communities to be used for projects included in the minimum allocation of 25% for projects that provide benefits to disadvantaged communities.</div>
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This bill would instead require the investment plan to allocate (1) a minimum of 25% of the available moneys in the fund to projects located within, and benefiting individuals living in, disadvantaged communities, (2) an additional minimum of 5% to projects that benefit low-income households or to projects located within, and benefiting individuals living in, low-income communities located anywhere in the state, and (3) an additional minimum of 5% either to projects that benefit low-income households that are outside of, but within a <span style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.688px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.688px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1</span>/<span style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.688px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2</span></span> mile of, disadvantaged communities, or to projects located within the boundaries of, and benefiting individuals living in, low-income communities that are outside of, but within a <span style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.688px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.688px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1</span>/<span style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.688px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2</span></span> mile of, disadvantaged communities.</div>
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The bill would become operative only if AB 1613 of the 2015–16 Regular Session is enacted and becomes effective on or before January 1, 2017.</div>
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[<span style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Approved by </span><span style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Governor </span> <span style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">September 08, 2016. </span><span style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Filed with </span><span style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Secretary of State </span> <span style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">September 08, 2016. </span>]</div>
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(1) Existing law establishes the State Air Resources Board consisting of 14 members and vests the state board with regulatory jurisdiction over air quality issues.</div>
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This bill would add 2 Members of the Legislature to the state board as ex officio, nonvoting members. The bill would provide that the voting members of the state board are appointed for staggered 6-year terms and upon expiration of the term of office of a voting member, the appointing authority may reappoint that member to a new term of office, subject to specified requirements. The bill would require the state board to establish the initial staggered terms. The bill would create the Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policies consisting of at least 3 Members of the Senate and at least 3 Members of the Assembly and would require the committee to ascertain facts and make recommendations to the Legislature and to the houses of the Legislature concerning the state’s programs, policies, and investments related to climate change, as specified.</div>
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(2) Existing law requires the state board to inventory sources of air pollution within the air basins of the state and determine the kinds and quantity of air pollutants. The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt regulations to require the reporting and verification of statewide greenhouse gas emissions and to monitor and enforce compliance with the act.</div>
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This bill would require the state board to make available, and update at least annually, on its Internet Web site the emissions of greenhouse gases, criteria pollutants, and toxic air contaminants for each facility that reports to the state board and air districts. The bill would require the state board, at least once a year at a hearing of the Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policies, to present an informational report on the reported emissions of greenhouse gases, criteria pollutants, and toxic air contaminants from all sectors covered by the scoping plan, as specified.</div>
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This bill would require the state board to make available, and update at least annually, on its Internet Web site the emissions of greenhouse gases, criteria pollutants, and toxic air contaminants throughout the state broken down to a local and subcounty level for stationary sources and to at least a county level for mobile sources, as specified.</div>
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(3) The act requires the board to approve a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020. The act requires the state board to prepare and approve a scoping plan for achieving the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.</div>
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This bill would require the state board, when adopting rules and regulations to achieve greenhouse gas emissions reductions beyond the statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit and to protect the state’s most impacted and disadvantaged communities, to follow specified requirements, consider the social costs of the emissions of greenhouse gases, and prioritize specified emission reduction rules and regulations.</div>
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This bill would require the state board, when updating the scoping plan, to identify specified information for each emissions reduction measure, including each alternative compliance mechanism, market-based compliance mechanism, and potential monetary and nonmonetary incentive.</div>
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(4) This bill would become operative only if SB 32 of the 2015–16 Regular Session is enacted and becomes effective on or before January 1, 2017.</div>
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[<span style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Approved by </span><span style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Governor </span> <span style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">September 08, 2016. </span><span style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Filed with </span><span style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Secretary of State </span> <span style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">September 08, 2016. </span>]</div>
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This bill would require the state board to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to 40% below the 1990 level by 2030.</div>
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(2) This bill would become operative only if AB 197 of the 2015–16 Regular Session is enacted and becomes effective on or before January 1, 2017.</div>
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The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The act authorizes the state board to include the use of market-based compliance mechanisms. Existing law requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be available upon appropriation.</div>
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Existing law establishes the Strategic Growth Council, which consists of the heads of various state agencies and certain other members, and requires the council to identify and review activities and funding programs that may be coordinated to improve air and water quality, improve natural resource protection, increase the availability of affordable housing, improve transportation, meet the goals of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, encourage sustainable land use planning, and revitalize urban and community centers in a sustainable manner.</div>
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This bill would create the Transformative Climate Communities Program, to be administered by the council. The bill would require the council to award competitive grants to specified eligible entities for the development and implementation of neighborhood-level transformative climate community plans that include greenhouse gas emissions reduction projects that provide local economic, environmental, and health benefits to disadvantaged communities, as defined. The bill would require the council to develop guidelines and selection criteria for the implementation of the program. The bill would require the California Environmental Protection Agency to provide assistance in performing outreach to disadvantaged communities and assessing the environmental justice benefits of project awards.</div>
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(1) The Planning and Zoning Law requires the legislative body of each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city and of any land outside its boundaries that bears relation to its planning. That law requires this general plan to include several elements, including, among others, a safety element for the protection of the community from unreasonable risks associated with the effects of various geologic hazards, flooding, wildland and urban fires, and climate adaptation and resilience strategies. That law requires that the safety element be reviewed and updated, in the case of flooding and fire hazards, upon the next revision of the housing element after specified dates or, in the case of climate adaptation and resilience strategies, upon either the next revision of a local hazard mitigation plan after a specified date or on or before January 1, 2022, as applicable. That law also requires, after the initial revision of the safety element to address flooding, fires, and climate adaptation and resilience strategies, that for each subsequent revision the planning agency review and, if necessary, revise the safety element to identify new information that was not available during the previous revision of the safety element.</div>
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This bill would, in addition, add to the required elements of the general plan an environmental justice element, or related goals, policies, and objectives integrated in other elements, that identifies disadvantaged communities, as defined, within the area covered by the general plan of the city, county, or city and county, if the city, county, or city and county has a disadvantaged community. The bill would also require the environmental justice element, or related environmental justice goals, policies, and objectives integrated in other elements, to identify objectives and policies to reduce the unique or compounded health risks in disadvantaged communities, as specified, identify objectives and policies to promote civil engagement in the public decisionmaking process, and identify objectives and policies that prioritize improvements and programs that address the needs of disadvantaged communities. The bill would require the environmental justice element, or the environmental justice goals, policies, and objectives in other elements, to be adopted or reviewed upon the adoption or next revision of 2 or more elements concurrently on or after January 1, 2018. By adding to the duties of county and city officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.</div>
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(2) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 65302 of the Government Code, proposed by AB 2651 that would become operative only if this bill and AB 2651 are enacted and become effective on or before January 1, 2017, and this bill is chaptered last.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "droid serif" , serif; font-size: 18px;">Air quality regulators are considering seeking an increase in vehicle registration fees for millions of Southern California drivers to help pay for smog reduction programs. The </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "droid serif" , serif; font-size: 18px;">South Coast Air Quality Management District</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "droid serif" , serif; font-size: 18px;"> is burying its head in the sand though by not addressing the closure of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS). The amount of money they recommend to spend on an array of air pollution mitigation approaches could pay for one or two new nuclear power units. It could also easily pay for a fix at SONGS (replacement of the steam generators -- cost approximately $1 billion each for two new steam generators).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "droid serif" , serif; font-size: 18px;">Increasing annual vehicle registration fees collected from more than 10 million drivers across Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties by $30 would generate an additional $300 million a year for pollution-reduction programs. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "droid serif" , serif; font-size: 18px;">The South Coast air district currently collects $2 per vehicle in annual registration fees through the Department of Motor Vehicles.</span><br />
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To meet federal health standards, the region must cut emissions of ozone-forming nitrogen oxides to under 100 tons per day by 2031, or 55% beyond all existing regulations, from the current level of about 500 tons per day. </div>
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Central to the plan is a proposal to spend $11 billion to $14 billion on emissions-cutting incentive programs over the next 15 years, a nearly 20-fold increase from the $56 million a year in incentive funds the district receives now.</div>
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The plan identifies some traditional regulations to cut pollution from industrial flares, as well as from cooking burners in homes and restaurants. It also includes a proposal for additional pollution cuts to a cap-and-trade program for oil refineries and other major facilities that is likely to face opposition from the petroleum industry. But the strategies for cutting emissions from facilities in the freight sector -- including ports, warehouses and rail yards -- would be executed on a voluntary basis. (<a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-smog-fees-20160921-snap-story.html">L.A. Times</a>, 9/21/2016, <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-ln-smog-plan-20160630-snap-story.html">L.A. Times</a>, 6/30/2016))</div>
Norris McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564345494443383507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11495196.post-62855866594976024162016-08-05T22:43:00.002-04:002016-08-05T22:43:33.849-04:00Clean Energy Initiative Program Credits Sought for Low-Income CommunitiesThe Environmental Protection Agency should require states to allocate at least half of all credits available under the proposed Clean Energy Incentive Program to projects in low-income communities<br />
Advocates at an Aug. 3 hearing in Chicago also recommended the EPA adopt a flexible definition of “low-income community,” giving states and tribes wider opportunities to use the Clean Energy Incentive Program (CEIP) to address economic and demographic conditions within their control.<br />
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Environmental justice groups called on the EPA to develop rules emphasizing local control and local benefits for renewable projects receiving assistance. Such requirements, they said, would address the difficult legacy of environmental harm suffered disproportionately by Americans living in low-income and minority communities. <br />
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EPA will be accepting comments on the design features of the proposed incentive plan through Sept. 2.<br />
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The EPA's proposed Clean Energy Incentive Program (RIN:2060-AS84) rewards states with additional emissions allowances or emissions rate credits for early efforts to comply with the Clean Power Plan, which limits carbon dioxide emissions from the existing fleet of power plants.
While the states are not required to participate, more than a dozen have called on the EPA to finalize the Clean Energy Incentive Program, permitting them to participate.
The incentive program originally was designed to reward investments in wind and solar generation. In June, EPA adjusted the program by adding hydropower and geothermal generation to the criteria of projects eligible for emissions reductions credits.<br />
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Eligible projects would be granted two emissions credits for every megawatt-hour of electricity demand reduced through energy efficiency in low-income communities beginning Sept. 6, 2018, and one credit for each megawatt-hour of zero emissions generation for projects that begin commercial operation after Jan. 1, 2020. The EPA also would provide matching credits up to the equivalent of 300 million short tons of carbon dioxide emissions reductions to be distributed to states on a prorated basis.<br />
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Although the U.S. Supreme Court stayed implementation of the Clean Power Plan, pending judicial review. EPA believes it has legal authority to push forward on voluntary components of the plan, including the incentive program. Community organizations and environmental justice groups are demanding changes to the incentive program to ensure that at least half the credits go to projects in low-income communities. (<a href="http://www.bna.com/clean-energy-credits-n73014445818/">The Bureau of National Affairs</a>, 8/3/2016)Norris McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564345494443383507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11495196.post-45499995519807697042016-07-30T11:54:00.001-04:002016-07-30T11:54:05.464-04:00Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) Allowance Trading Rule Ends<div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.72px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 20.8267px;">Dear CAIR Designated Representatives and Authorized Account Representatives:<br style="line-height: 20.8267px;" /><br style="line-height: 20.8267px;" />As you know, the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) trading programs ended after 2014. This e-mail is to inform you that EPA will remove all remaining CAIR NOx ozone season and NOx annual allowances from all allowance accounts on Wednesday, August 10<sup style="line-height: 17.3556px;">th</sup>, 2016. When the allowances are removed you will receive an e-mail confirmation report for your records. After removal of these allowances, EPA will end account representative associations with CAIR for both compliance and general accounts in the CAMD Business System (CBS). A few items such as updating screens in the CBS will be finished later.<br style="line-height: 20.8267px;" /><br style="line-height: 20.8267px;" />If you have any questions about these activities, please contact any of the following persons:<br style="line-height: 20.8267px;" /></span></div>
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Norris McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564345494443383507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11495196.post-12079858308502047002016-07-13T17:50:00.003-04:002016-07-13T17:50:50.239-04:00Exelon Would Save FitzPatrick Nuclear Plant If NY State Approves Subsidies<h1 style="color: #222222; font-family: "benton sans", arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 35px 0px 0px 5px; text-align: center; text-shadow: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.498039) 1px 0px 1px;">
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Entergy Corp. has confirmed that it is negotiating to <a href="http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2016/07/source_exelon_would_save_fitzpatrick_nuclear_plant_if_state_oks_subsidies.html" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(185, 225, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">sell the FitzPatrick nuclear plant</a> in Oswego County to Exelon Corp. Entergy said it will close the plant in January, as previously announced, if the sale cannot be completed.<br />
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Entergy said in a news release that it aims to complete the negotiations with Exelon by mid-August. The transaction depends on approval by the New York Public Service Commission of a <a href="http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2016/07/ny_regulators_proposed_generous_upstate_nuclear_subsidies.html" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(185, 225, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">new nuclear subsidy program</a> that was proposed Friday as part of the state's clean energy standard.<br />
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The proposed nuclear subsidy program, estimated at $482 million a year split between FitzPatrick and three other nuclear reactors in Upstate New York, still faces review by the commission. The PSC scheduled a brief 10-day period for public comments on the proposal, which would allow the commission to consider it at its Aug. 1 meeting.<br />
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Entergy announced in November 2015 that it would close FitzPatrick in January 2017 because the plant loses money. Gov. Andrew Cuomo, whose administration helped facilitate the negotiations, issued a statement today applauding the developments.<br />
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A sale to Exelon would require regulatory approval by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and others before it could be finalized.That process is likely to take nine months to a year, company officials said. Entergy said it will begin preparations for both of the plant's possible futures -- a shutdown, or continued operation and sale. (<a href="http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2016/07/entergy_aims_to_sell_fitzpatrick_nuclear_plant_by_mid-august.html">Syracuse .com</a>, 7/13/2016)</div>
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Norris McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564345494443383507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11495196.post-35663948756221181992016-07-11T15:09:00.002-04:002016-07-11T15:09:43.686-04:00Subsidies for New York Nuclear Plants?State utility regulators today released a proposal to subsidize Upstate nuclear plants with annual payments totaling an estimated $482 million a year. T<span style="letter-spacing: 0.208px;">he public has a brief opportunity to </span><a href="http://documents.dps.ny.gov/public/Comments/PublicComments.aspx?MatterCaseNo=15-e-0302" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(185, 225, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; color: #0088ee; letter-spacing: 0.208px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">comment</a><span style="letter-spacing: 0.208px;"> -- until July 18 – an indication that the PSC is likely to rule on the proposal at its Aug. 1 meeting.</span>
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Exelon Corp., which owns three of the four Upstate nuclear reactors, recently told the commission that the oldest two facilities might close unless subsidies were approved by September. <span style="letter-spacing: 0.208px;">The proposal unveiled recommends that the PSC sign 12-year agreements with nuclear operators, as Exelon had previously recommended.</span>
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According to estimates provided in the proposal, the subsidies would start at $17.48 per megawatt-hour for the first two years and rise gradually to $29.15 per MWH in years 11 and 12.
At the expected combined output of 27.6 million MWH for the Upstate nukes, the total cost would be up to $482 million a year during the first two years, rising to $805 million per year for the final two years.<br />
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Those estimates appear to anticipate the continued operation of the FitzPatrick plant, which is scheduled to close in January 2017. FitzPatrick typically accounts for more than 20 percent of the Upstate nuclear output.
The subsidies are based on wholesale electric prices of about $39 per MWH. If future prices rise above that level, as the PSC staff expects, the subsidies will decrease commensurately.<br />
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The PSC staff argues that the cost, which would be borne by utility ratepayers, would be dwarfed by the benefits of preserving reliable sources of carbon-free electricity. The staff proposal estimates that continued operation of the nuclear plants provides benefits of at least $2.5 billion a year, including the societal benefit of preventing additional carbon emissions plus other positive impacts such as jobs and property tax payments provided by the nukes.<br />
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Nuclear operators have complained that wholesale electric prices are too low in Upstate New York to sustain the cost of operating nuclear plants. Entergy Corp. announced last fall that it would close the 850-megawatt FitzPatrick plant in Scriba in January 2017.
Exelon told the PSC last month that the 620-megawatt Nine Mile 1 reactor in Scriba and the 580-MW Ginna nuclear plant in Wayne County might close next year too unless subsidies are approved soon. Nine Mile 1 is scheduled to be refueled next spring, a $55 million expense Exelon might forego if the plant is still losing money, company officials said.<br />
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According to a study by<a href="http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2015/12/upstate_new_yorks_nuclear_plants_support_25000_jobs_industry_consultant_says.html" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(185, 225, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; color: #0088ee; letter-spacing: 0.208px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> The Brattle Group</a><span style="letter-spacing: 0.208px;">, paid for by Exelon and Upstate Energy Jobs, the four nuclear power reactors in Upstate New York are responsible for $3 billion in economic activity and nearly 25,000 jobs. (<a href="http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2016/07/ny_regulators_proposed_generous_upstate_nuclear_subsidies.html" target="_blank">Syracuse. com</a>, 7/8/2016)</span>Norris McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564345494443383507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11495196.post-33441295209772281612016-07-01T15:23:00.001-04:002016-07-01T15:23:32.496-04:00Low Gasoline Prices at the Pump<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The national average for gasoline is $2.29 a gallon. That’s 48 cents cheaper than last year on the same date and 4 cents cheaper than a month ago. Throughout 2016, prices nationally averaged $2.07, compared with $2.43 in 2015, $3.36 in 2014 and $3.50 in 2013.</div>
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The drop in price is a reflection of the huge worldwide surplus in crude oil. Production in the United States has jumped as companies used a process called fracking and horizontal drilling to extract oil from shale, while Iran saw its exports soar with the lifting of economic sanctions after it agreed to reign in its nuclear program. Iran’s reentry into the global market came as Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf region players continued to pump freely as well.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.8em;">Crude is about $48 per barrel right now. </span></div>
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Low gas prices ranged this week from $1.99 a gallon in South Carolina up to $2.90 in California.</div>
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Gas prices tend to be higher in the Washington area than the nation as a whole. Within the District, the average on Wednesday was $2.54 a gallon, according to GasBuddy.com, a website that tracks gas prices at 130,000 stations in the United States and Canada. Just over the D.C. border in Bethesda, prices topped $3. Prices were hovering around $2.40 in Silver Spring and $2.30 in Tysons Corner. Gas in Manassas is averaging above $2 and around $2.20 in Annapolis. It’s below $2 a gallon in Virginia Beach. (<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/gas-prices-dip-to-a-13-year-low-ahead-of-july-4-holiday-weekend/2016/06/30/5f23233a-3ee0-11e6-a66f-aa6c1883b6b1_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-cards_hp-card-business%3Ahomepage%2Fcard" target="_blank">Wash Post</a>, 6/30/2016)</div>
Norris McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564345494443383507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11495196.post-441300882936651842016-06-15T22:37:00.002-04:002016-06-22T23:54:01.034-04:00AAEA President A Featured Speaker at NBCC 24th Annual Conference<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Norris McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564345494443383507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11495196.post-12356241694928150382016-06-15T11:58:00.001-04:002016-06-15T11:58:39.745-04:00Johnson Publishing Sells Ebony to Clear View Group<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Chicago-based Johnson Publishing has sold Ebony, its African-American lifestyle magazine, and the now digital-only Jet magazine to Clear View Group, an Austin, Texas-based private equity firm, for an undisclosed amount. Johnson Publishing will retain its Fashion Fair Cosmetics business and its historic Ebony photo archives, which remains up for sale. The deal, which closed in May, also included the assumption of debt.</div>
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A family-owned business throughout its history, Ebony has documented the African-American experience since it first hit newsstands in 1945. It has shaped culture ever since, coming into its own as it reported from the front lines of the civil rights movement during the 1960s in powerful photos and prose.</div>
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In recent years, though, Johnson Publishing has seen declining media revenues as it struggled to evolve from print to digital platforms.</div>
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Linda Johnson Rice, chairman of Johnson Publishing and daughter of founder John Johnson, will serve as chairman emeritus on the board of the new company.</div>
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The new publishing entity, Ebony Media Operations, will maintain the magazine's Chicago headquarters and its New York editorial office, as well as much of the current staff, according to Michael Gibson, co-founder and chairman of African-American-owned Clear View Group. It is the first investment in the publishing business for Clear View.</div>
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Cheryl McKissack, who has served as chief operating officer since 2013, will assume the role of CEO of the new publishing entity under Clear View, operating out of the magazine's Chicago office. Kierna Mayo is stepping down as editor-in-chief of Ebony to pursue other opportunities, Gibson said.</div>
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Chicago-based Kyra Kyles, who has headed up digital content for Ebony and Jet since last June, will add the role of editor-in-chief of Ebony, Gibson said.</div>
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<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/politics-government/desir%C3%A9e-rogers-PEBSL000098-topic.html" style="color: #144a7c; text-decoration: none;" title="Desirée Rogers">Desiree Rogers</a>, the former social secretary for President Barack Obama who has been steering Johnson Publishing since 2010, will remain CEO, focusing on the cosmetics business, which represents about half of the company's total revenue.</div>
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In January 2015, Johnson Publishing put its entire photo archive up for sale, hoping to raise $40 million. The historic collection spans seven decades of African-American history, chronicling everyone from Martin Luther King Jr. to Sammy Davis Jr. The collection is still for sale. (<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-ebony-sold-0615-biz-20160614-story.html">Chicago Tribune</a>, 6/15/2016)</div>
Norris McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564345494443383507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11495196.post-48345457659150880142016-06-14T00:13:00.001-04:002016-06-14T00:13:58.493-04:00SCOTUS Leaves Intact EPA Mercury Rule<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Supreme Court on Monday left intact a key Obama administration environmental regulation, refusing to take up an appeal from 20 states to block rules that limit the emissions of mercury and other harmful pollutants that are byproducts of burning coal.
The high court’s decision leaves in place a lower-court ruling that found that the regulations, put in place several years ago by the Environmental Protection Agency, could remain in effect while the agency revised the way it had calculated the potential industry compliance costs. The EPA finalized its updated cost analysis in April.<br />
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Power plants are the largest source of mercury in the United States. Mercury is a neurotoxin that can damage children’s developing nervous systems, reducing their ability to think and learn. All told, for every dollar spent to make these cuts, the public is receiving up to $9 in health benefits.<br />
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In March, a month after voting againsy the Clean Power Plan — the Obama administration’s signature regulation on climate change — Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. rejected a separate request to stay the Mercury and Air Toxic Standards rule.<br />
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More than 20 states had joined a lawsuit opposing the MATS rule, arguing that the controversial pollution controls mandated by the regulation are too expensive relative to the health benefits.<br />
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The White House and environmental groups argued that the rule was not only economically sound, but also an important public health measure. Decades of mercury pollution from coal-burning also has contributed to elevated levels of the toxin in fish.
In April, the EPA issued an updated analysis of the estimated costs and benefits of the regulations, arguing that the cost for the industry to comply would amount to a fraction of annual revenue and probably would not lead to steep increases in customer bills. As the fight over the MATS rule has worked its way through the courts in recent years, many utilities have already complied with the new requirements. (<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/06/13/supreme-court-rejects-case-challenging-key-white-house-air-pollution-regulation/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_ee-scotus-605pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory" target="_blank">Wash Post</a>, 6/13/2016)Norris McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564345494443383507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11495196.post-76951972607592357112016-06-10T15:26:00.000-04:002016-06-10T15:30:13.649-04:00Energy<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><b>PRESIDENT'S CORNER</b></span><br />
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I have worked on energy issues for 36 years and felt that I had a pretty good handle on the issue until recently. Now don't get me wrong, energy has always been a complex issue area, but lately things have gone upside down on me. The biggest confounding variable in my energy thinking has been the mixed phenomenon of fracking and horizontal drilling. This technology changed the entire American energy game.<br />
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Fracking has been around for decades but when it was combined with horizontal drilling, it revolutionized the recovery of natural gas and petroleum. About a million wells used fracking before it was seriously applied to horizontal drilling. Now, instead of being dependent on Arab or OPEC nations for oil, America is exporting oil and natural gas. Amazing. I am still trying to digest the full implications of how this technology has revolutionized American energy policy.<br />
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I also suspect that although only one percent of our electricity is currently generated by oil, I think this will go up by several percentage points in the next decade.<br />
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Petroleum, natural gas, coal, renewable energy, and nuclear electric power are primary sources of energy. Electricity is a secondary energy source that is generated from primary sources of energy.<br />
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Energy sources are measured in different physical units: liquid fuels in barrels or gallons, natural gas in cubic feet, coal in short tons, and electricity in kilowatts and kilowatt hours. In the United States, British thermal units (Btu), a measure of heat energy, is commonly used for comparing different types of energy to each other. In 2015, total U.S. primary energy consumption was about 97.7 quadrillion (10<sup style="font-size: 13.0667px; position: relative;">15</sup>, or one thousand trillion) Btu.<br />
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In 2015, the shares of total primary energy consumption of the five energy-consuming sectors were:<br />
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The electric power sector generates most of the electricity in the United States, and the other four sectors consume most of the electricity it generates.</div>
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The pattern of fuel use varies widely by sector. For example, petroleum provides about 92% of the energy used for transportation, but only 1% of the energy used to generate electricity.</div>
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Domestic energy production is equal to about 91% of U.S. energy consumption</h2>
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In 2015, energy produced in the United States was equal to about 89 quadrillion Btu or about 91% of U.S. energy consumption. The difference between production and consumption was mainly in net imports of petroleum.</div>
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The three major fossil fuels—petroleum, natural gas, and coal—accounted for most of the nation's energy production in 2015:</div>
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The three major fossil fuels—petroleum, natural gas, and coal—have dominated the U.S. energy mix for more than 100 years. Several recent changes in U.S. energy production have occurred:</div>
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<li style="background-image: url("../images/style-images/sqbullet.gif"); background-position: 0.1em 0.4em; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-size: 10pt; padding-left: 1em;">Coal production peaked in 2008 and trended down through 2015. Coal production in 2015 was about the same as production was in 1981. The primary reason for the general decline in coal production was the decrease in coal consumption for electricity generation.</li>
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<li style="background-image: url("../images/style-images/sqbullet.gif"); background-position: 0.1em 0.4em; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-size: 10pt; padding-left: 1em;">Natural gas production was higher in 2015 than in any previous year. More efficient and cost-effective drilling and production techniques have resulted in increased production of natural gas from shale formations over the past ten years.</li>
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In 2015, the United States generated about 4 trillion kilowatthours of electricity.<sup>1 </sup>About 67% of the electricity generated was from fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and petroleum).</div>
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Major energy sources and percent share of total U.S. electricity generation in 2015:<sup>1 </sup></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><sup>1 </sup>Preliminary data; based on <a href="http://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.cfm?t=epmt_1_01" style="background: inherit; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; color: #189bd7; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">generation by utility-scale facilities</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The African American Environmentalist Association supports <span style="background: white;">Council Member Inez Barron’s Environmental Justice Act
[</span><a href="http://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=2460360&GUID=0C9F8C9D-5F14-4C1E-B4AD-37BB96F82BA3&Options=ID%7cText%7c&Search=886" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: black;">Intro 886</span></a>].<span style="background: white;"> The legislation has</span> numerous cosponsors and I
sincerely hope that it will be passed by the council and that you will sign it
into law. We encourage you to let the
New York City Council know that you support the legislation and intend to sign
it upon its passage by the Council.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Your OneNYC was recently the recipient of harsh criticism
from environmental justice activists who said that it does not reflect
equity. The criticism can be silenced if you support this legislation,
which assures that the executive agencies and environmental justice activists
will work together to bring about a just future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The legislation is vitally important in
protecting communities throughout New York City. At present, there is no national or state law
that protects these communities. Int.
No. 886 is a local law to amend the administrative code of the city of New
York, in relation to identifying and addressing environmental justice issues.
Int. No. 886 sets up an interagency task force to develop agency-wide plans to
assure that environmental justice in incorporated into the planning and
implementation of agency duties. The legislation also creates an associated
environmental justice advisory board, reflecting geographic balance, comprised
of pertinent committee chairs or their designees, appointments from
environmental justice community boards health or environmental committees, at
least seven appointees who are directors, members or employees of environmental
justice organizations and at least two appointees who are directors, members or
employees of organizations engaged in research related to human health.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">I drafted the Environmental Justice Bill for Councilman Charles
Barron in 2003 and Councilmember Charles Barron introduced the bill (Int. No.
404) in 2004 with seven cosponsors.
After meeting with Councilwoman Inez Barron in 2014 to request
re-introduction of the legislation and after much review and revisions by the
Committee on Environmental Protection, Councilwoman Barron introduced the
legislation that we are considering today.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">We encourage you to let the New York City Council know that you
support Int. No. 886 in order to help accelerate passage of this legislation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Sincerely yours,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Norris McDonald</span></div>
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