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Hello and good afternoon all. In today’s news:

• Californians are asking for the impossible: more services and less taxes;
• Schwarzenegger's record in review: a mixed bag;
• Prop 26 has left everyone asking "what's a tax?"
• And more!

Top of the Ticket

Mother Jones 11/18/10
The Tea Party Targets... Sustainable Development?
http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/11/tea-party-agenda-21-un-sustainable-development

Los Angeles Times 11/18/10
Poll: Californians want it both ways on budget
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-poll-20101118,0,1496673.story

Climate Watch, KQED-FM 11/18/10
Apocalypse Not: Study Says Cool Down the Climate Message
http://blogs.kqed.org/climatewatch/2010/11/17/apocalypse-not-study-says-cool-down-the-climate-message
http://www.kqed.org/a/kqednews/RN201011181104

Greenspace (LA Times blog) 11/18/10
Feinstein pushes BPA restrictions in food safety bill
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/11/food-safety-bill-bpa-small-farmers-.html

New York Times 11/18/10
For California, a New Month, a New Deficit
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/18/us/18calif.html

PolitiCal (LA Times blog) 11/18/10
Citizens picked to draw political boundaries
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2010/11/citizens-picked-to-draw-political-boundaries.html

Governor’s Green Victory Lap

Capitol Weekly 11/18/10
On environment, mixed reviews for Schwarzenegger
http://www.capitolweekly.net/article.php?xid=za8l133vocxu4y

Capitol Weekly (opinion) 11/18/10
Schwarzenegger: Clean energy moves forward -- and California leads the way
http://capitolweekly.net/article.php?_c=za8wldtzkzdlxk&xid=za8lgtw5u7dwqm&done=.za8wldtzl01lxk

Reuters 11/18/10
California leads sub-national climate push
http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/60269

San Francisco Chronicle 11/18/10
Arnold Schwarzenegger focuses on environment
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/18/BU761GD0QR.DTL&type=green

More CA Environment

Capitol Weekly 11/18/10
Does Proposition 26 put coastal protections at risk?
http://www.capitolweekly.net/article.php?xid=za8kmvntey5rsd

Greenspace (LA Times blog) 11/18/10
Prop. 26 confusion: What's a tax?
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/11/proposition-26-taxes-fees-california.html

New York Times 11/17/10
The Benefits of Solar With the Beauty of Trees
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/business/energy-environment/17SHARE.html

New York Times 11/17/10
Concerns as Solar Installations Join a Desert Ecosystem
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/business/energy-environment/17WILD.html

Greenspace (LA Times blog) 11/18/10
Pacific Crest Trail Gets Upgrades
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/11/pacific-crest-trail-gets-upgrades.html

San Diego Union-Tribune 11/18/10
Cast your vote for California’s 'bird of the year'
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/nov/18/cast-your-vote-audubon-californias-bird-year/

Pasadena Star-News 11/18/10
Boxer, Feinstein seek federal high speed rail money
www.pasadenastarnews.com/news/ci_166290

Bakersfield Californian 11/18/10
Fresno official backs high speed rail link with Bakersfield
www.bakersfield.com/news/local/x669264961/Fresno-official-backs-Bakersfield-high-speed-rail-link

Desert Dispatch 11/18/10
PG&E will buy up Hinkley land
www.desertdispatch.com/news/-9714--.html

Desert Dispatch 11/18/10
San Bernardino County will aid veterans find green energy jobs
www.desertdispatch.com/news/county-9712-renewable-energy.html

Attorney General: Still Counting

Politico 11/18/10
California's high-stakes attorney general race
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/45300.html

Inland Daily Bulletin 11/18/10
Attorney general race down to L.A. County
http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_16643264

Sacramento Bee 11/18/10
Medical pot industry closely watches California attorney general ballot count
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/11/18/3194316/medical-pot-industry-closely-watches.html

State Politics

Capitol Weekly 11/18/10
Schwarzenegger’s odyssey: The powerful personal touch went untapped
http://www.capitolweekly.net/article.php?xid=za8kg3hr9z1qgy

Los Angeles Times (column) 11/18/10
Skelton: Rating Schwarzenegger
http://www.latimes.com/news/columnists/la-me-cap-20101118,0,3736568.column

Sacramento Bee 11/18/10
Redistricting panel selection nears end -- almost
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/11/18/3194070/the-buzz-redistricting-panel-selection.html

Capitol Weekly 11/18/10
State hunts down fines for political wrongdoing
http://www.capitolweekly.net/article.php?xid=za8krzt4085slk

San Francisco Chronicle 11/18/10
Labor leaders hail former Whitman housekeeper Nicky Diaz, as supporters set up fund to help her (VIDEO)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=77306

David Allgood’s Insomnia Corner

FOSSIL FUEL FUNTIME:

Poor decisions led to BP Gulf catastrophe
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-oil-spill-fault-20101118,0,1641956.story

BP disputes feds. assertion of criminal negligence in North Slope spill, touts environmental record.
www.adn.com/2010/11/17/1560257/judge-could-revoke-bps-probation.html

Coal plants rising, retiring.
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/coal-plants-rising-and-retiring/

North Dakota frets over fracking.
www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/183779/

Mercury from coal plagues Indiana.
www.ibtimes.com/articles/83070/20101117/mercury-fish.htm

Exxon to pay $25 million to settle Brooklyn spill dispute.
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/11/17/bloomberg1376-LC1LHP6JIJV001-48331D2AEGK0KFU7MJQD2L5U6E.DTL

Massey Energy study "discovers" that natural gas, not methane cause fatal mine explosion. Study does not rule out angry leprechauns. 
http://sundaygazettemail.com/News/201011170952

"Pip-squeak" energy company drilling deep, risky wells in Gulf.  
www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/1206/features-bp-john-schiller-energy-xxi-mexico-deep-man.html

NEWS FROM THE HOMELAND:

White house says US/Canada need harmonized carbon pricing system.
www.winnipegfreepress.com/greenpage/environment/white-house-envoy-says-canada-and-us-need-harmonized-carbon-pricing-system-108751619.html

Senate passes food safety bill.
www.thecalifornian.com/article/20101117/BUSINESS/101117016/Food-safety-bill-moves-forward

Businesses see risk, opportunity in climate change.
www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/11/17/103911/businesses-see-risk-opportunity.html

Industry scuttles bipartisan bid for BPA curbs.
www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/11/17/17greenwire-industry-opposition-scuttles-bipartisan-senate-18943.html?ref=earth

High levels of radioactive contamination found at Hanford, WA site.
www.thenewstribune.com/2010/11/18/1429455/highly-contaminated-soil-found.html

US car fuel economy up, carbon emissions down for 6th straight year.
http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/60270

LOCAL NEWS FROM THE GOLDEN STATE:

Malibu delays design of sewage facility, will continue to bury human from waste privileged rich in dirt near their homes.
www.malibutimes.com/articles/2010/11/17/news/news4.txt

Rabid bats on rise in LA County.
www.pasadenastarnews.com/news/ci_16638746

State, Arcata grapple over future of wetlands.
www.times-standard.com/localnews/ci_16646091

GOP will sue Contra Costa election officials over vote count ruling.
www.contracostatimes.com/top-stories/ci_16640379?nclick_check=1

Costa widens lead over Vidak in Central Valley Congressional race.
www.fresnobee.com/2010/11/17/2163883/costa-widens-lead-in-20th-cd-race.html

NEWS OF THE WORLD:

Decades of data show troposphere warming too.
www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6AE4E820101115

Climate change and disease will spark new food crisis.
www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/climate-change-and-disease-will-spark-new-food-crisis-says-un-2137020.html

Politicians must show courage and leadership  if world is to meet climate challenge.
www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/consumers-must-cast-off-victim-culture-if-governments-are-to-hit-climate-targets-2137058.html

Web users unite to power climate change weather project.
www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/nov/17/weatherathome-climate-change-weather-project

World farming gets $200 million in climate aid.
http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/60268

Climate aid said to be too focused on carbon reduction.
http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/60267

Tiny UN climate fund could take bigger role.
http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/60266

UAE, Australia and USA named worst greenhouse gas emitters.
http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/60265

NEWS FROM THE EU:

Europe will abandon science based quotas to protect blue fin tuna.
www.winnipegfreepress.com/greenpage/environment/the-european-union-changes-its-stand-on-saving-the-threatened-bluefin-tuna-108905729.html

Study shows traffic noise bad for bats.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9194000/9194186.stm

Aesthetic solar power the French way.
www.independent.co.uk/environment/aesthetic-solar-power-the-french-way-2136347.html

NEWS FROM THE LAND OF 1.4. BILLION PEOPLE:

China creates diesel snafu.
www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6AG19L20101117

China angry at being called world's largest energy hog.
http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/60263

NEWS FROM THE DAMP ISLES:

US style factory dairy resubmits project application.
www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/nov/18/super-dairy-plans-reduce-cows

Carbon reduction plan delayed.
www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/nov/17/carbon-reduction-scheme-delayed

Beekeepers to stop endorsing bee-killing pesticides.
www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/nov/16/beekeepers-end-pesticide-endorsement

North Sea fisheries madness cause outcry against wasteful practices.
www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/news/north-sea-fisheries-madness-2137103.html

NEWS FROM THE LAND OF THE 4 O’CLOCK SUN:

Worried Albertans by own air monitors to detect oil sands pollution.
www.winnipegfreepress.com/greenpage/environment/albertans-worried-about-oilsands-pollution-using-do-it-yourself-air-monitors--108754889.html

Offshore oil needs strong regulatory body.
www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/atlantic/offshore-oil-needs-safety-body-report-on-deadly-chopper-crash-says/article1802778/

NEWS FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD:

Mexico creates conservation center to protect dwindling monarch butterflies.
www.winnipegfreepress.com/greenpage/environment/the-monarch-butterfly-its-numbers-dwindling-gets-new-conservation-centre-in-mexico-108787864.html

The toxic side of India's battery industry.
www.livemint.com/2010/11/17225352/The-toxic-side-of-India8217.html?h=B

FROGS IN THE NEWS:

Three new frog species discovered in Columbia.
www.care2.com/greenliving/three-new-frog-species-discovered.html

Disappearance of frogs hints at massive extinction event in Haiti.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40233763/ns/technology_and_science-science/

Mr. Burns toad discovered.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/11/photogalleries/101117-mr-burns-toad-new-species-frogs-science-animal-pictures/

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