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June 18, 2009
Posted by Adrian Martinez in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- cleanair, cleantrucks, cleantrucksprogram, federalmaritimecommission, portoflongbeach, portoflosangeles, portpollution, ports
This week, the Federal Maritime Commission decided to file a motion to withdraw its lawsuit against the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the nation's two busiest ports. Reversing, the Bush-era decision to thwart efforts by these ports to...continued→
May 19, 2009
Posted by Adrian Martinez in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
, U.S. Law and Policy
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- federalmaritimecommission, freedomofinformationact, publichealth
Back in October, the NRDC filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the Federal Maritime Commission related to the agency's review of the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach's Clean Trucks Programs. Specifically, NRDC was interested in...continued→
April 27, 2009
Posted by Adrian Martinez in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, The Media and the Environment
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- cleanair, portpollution, ports
I have always admired the Port of Long Beach's award winning media outreach team. They were recently awarded several prestigious honors at the "Excellence in Communication" awards hosted by the California Association of Public Information Officials (CAPIO). Their media team is...continued→
April 3, 2009
Posted by Adrian Martinez in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
, U.S. Law and Policy
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- airpollution, cleanair, cleanairact, southcoastairqualitymanagementdistrict
I suppose the Governing Board of the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) was listening to the Judas Priest song, Breaking the Law, this morning before it held its public hearing on Proposed Rule 317. SCAQMD is one of...continued→
April 1, 2009
Posted by Adrian Martinez in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
, Solving Global Warming
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- airpollution, ccleanairactionplan, cleantrucks, cleantrucksprogram, marinepollution, marinevessels, naaqs, nationalambientairqualitystandards, portoflongbeach, portpollution, ports, shippingindustry, shippollution
The Port of Long Beach will shortly release its final environmental review documents for the Middle Harbor Development Project. My, how times have changed since the Pier J debacle of 2004. In 2004, "green" was a four-letter word when talking...continued→
March 12, 2009
Posted by Adrian Martinez in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
, Living Sustainably
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- airpollution, naaqs, ozone, smog
In the era of global warming, plain vanilla air pollution -- like smog -- sometimes gets pushed to the side. Some people may consider it the less popular sister of the homecoming queen (CO2). However, this does not diminish the...continued→
March 9, 2009
Posted by Adrian Martinez in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- bunkerfuel, diesel, dieselpollution, marinevessels, portoflongbeach, portoflosangeles, portpollution, ports, shippingindustry, shippollution
Today, the Engineering and Environmental Committee of the Board of Harbor Commissioners for the Port of Long Beach heard an amendment to provide more money to shippers to clean up the filthy fuel these ships currently burn. The Committee pushed sweetening this...continued→
February 25, 2009
Posted by Adrian Martinez in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
, Moving Beyond Oil
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- cleanair, cleanairactionplan, cleantrucks, cleantrucksprogram, electrictruck, portoflosangeles, portpollution, ports
Hallelujah, the future is here! The Los Angeles Times covered the much anticipated event of the all-electric truck rolling off a Los Angeles assembly line yesterday. Asthma inhalers throughout the region probably trembled as 25 brand new trucks that release no...continued→
February 19, 2009
Posted by Adrian Martinez in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
, U.S. Law and Policy
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- cleanair, cleanairactionplan, cleantruckfee, cleantrucks, cleantrucksprogram, containerfee, diesel, dieselpollution, portoflongbeach, portoflosangeles, portpollution
After years of waiting, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach started collecting a container fee to fund cleaner trucks yesterday. To the best of my knowledge, the ports are still operating, and the sky has not fallen as some doomsday...continued→
February 4, 2009
Posted by Adrian Martinez in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
, Moving Beyond Oil
, U.S. Law and Policy
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- airpollution, freewaypollution, highwaypollution, highways, I-710, nationalambientairqualitystandards, particulatematter, portpollution, ports, publichealth, southerncaliforniaassociationofgovernments, transportationbill, transportationpolicy
I attended the Project Committee meeting for the I-710 project last week. This Committee directs how the future expansion project for the I-710 should proceed. For those of you not familiar with Southern California traffic, but have heard the horror...continued→
January 27, 2009
Posted by Adrian Martinez in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- cleanair, cleanairactionplan, cleantrucks, cleantrucksprogram, federalmaritimecommission, portoflongbeach, portoflosangeles, portpollution, ports
Ron White from the Los Angeles Times wrote an interesting article today about the Clean Trucks Program. The article examines the hurdles that have been placed in front of the Port of Los Angeles in implementing its landmark program to...continued→
January 21, 2009
Posted by Adrian Martinez in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
, U.S. Law and Policy
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- airpollution, cleanairactionplan, cleantrucks, cleantrucksprogram, diesel, dieselpollution, federalmaritimecommission, portoflongbeach, portoflosangeles, portpollution, ports
The opaque halls of the Federal Maritime Commission will be active in February when it must decide whether to continue its path of obstructionism and block the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach from collecting a clean truck fee, virtually crippling...continued→
January 8, 2009
Posted by Adrian Martinez in Curbing Pollution
, Health and the Environment
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- ARTBA, cleanairact, diesel, EPA, NOx, shippollution
On Wednesday, the NRDC filed a motion asking the federal appeals court in D.C. to allow it to participate in a case examining whether state and local governments can protect residents from deadly air pollution produced by off-road engines (e.g. construction equipment,...continued→
December 24, 2008
Posted by Adrian Martinez in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
, Living Sustainably
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- coalitionbuilding, marthamatsuoka, regionalcoalitions
Professor Martha Matsuoka from Occidental College published a very interesting article in Race, Poverty, & the Environment (a project of: Urban Habitat) about the clean and safe ports campaign and the building of regional power "to redefin[e] regional development, [develop] regional...continued→
December 18, 2008
Posted by Adrian Martinez in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
, Moving Beyond Oil
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- freewaypollution, transportationbill, transportationpolicy
I had the pleasure to attend a meeting in New York last week sponsored by the Regional Plan Association related to the upcoming federal transportation reauthorization bill. The meeting was designed to examine what America's transportation system should look like in...continued→
