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- LA's Trash Bureau Recommends Important Step for City's Waste (February 8, 2012)
- Ninth Circuit Remains Resolute In Its Support of Cleaner Air In Los Angeles (January 27, 2012)
- Residents Near Highways in LA Deserve Clean Air Too (January 4, 2012)
- Unanimous Vote Sends Los Angeles on a Path to More Recycling (December 6, 2011)
- LA Is Getting Serious About Its Garbage (November 23, 2011)
- Recycling Equals Jobs (November 15, 2011)
- Mayor's Road Rehabilitation Plan Appears to Be A Good Idea (November 11, 2011)
- Los Angeles' Disadvantaged Population Run Over by Lack of Transit Options, Again (November 7, 2011)
- What can the LA and Long Beach freight industry learn from the infamous Tuskegee experiment? (October 28, 2011)
- Let's Not Gamble With Los Angeles' Garbage (October 21, 2011)
- Team NRDC Takes Climate Ride 2011 by STORM!! (October 5, 2011)
- More jobs, cleaner air one trashcan (and recycle bin) at a time in LA (July 26, 2011)
- Smog Lawsuit Spurs Self Reflection for the LA Region (July 19, 2011)
- Physicians and Advocacy Groups Demand Cleaner Air In Los Angeles (July 18, 2011)
- Hello Los Angeles, Houston, and the San Joaquin Valley, May I Introduce You to Cleaner Air (July 1, 2011)
- Can LA Afford to Neglect Its Bike and Pedestrian Infrastructure? (June 27, 2011)
- A Better Transportation Vision for Los Angeles (June 16, 2011)
- California groups intend to sue EPA over bad air (May 16, 2011)
- Port of Long Beach Awards Grants for Health (April 20, 2011)
- LA Needs to Find Sustainable Solution to Our Garbage Problem (April 4, 2011)
- Millions of Californians living near highways will continue to inhale toxic exhaust (March 30, 2011)
- KPCC Story on Children's Health in Long Beach with a Focus on Port Pollution (February 25, 2011)
- LA needs more than paving (February 22, 2011)
- Ninth Circuit Sides With Groups Who Want Clean Air In Los Angeles (February 2, 2011)
- SoCal Air Agency Delays Taking Action on Critical Pollution Vote (January 14, 2011)
- Scary New Year's Resolutions for Our Air Agency in Southern California (January 4, 2011)
- And the Winner Is...The Communities of San Pedro and Wilmington (October 27, 2010)
- Los Angeles City Council Transportation Committee Green Lights Mediocre Taxi Clean-Up Plan (October 19, 2010)
- A New Vision for Transportation In Los Angeles--Improving Infrastructure in Urban Core Communities (August 25, 2010)
- Big Oil vs. Government - Battle Brewing Over Cleaning Up Oil Refineries in Los Angeles (August 19, 2010)
- Lawsuit to Compel Clean Air in Los Angeles (August 12, 2010)
- Mayor Villaraigosa, Let’s Promote Biking and Walking in Los Angeles (April 30, 2010)
- California Tops the List for Filthy Air (April 28, 2010)
- Congratulations Port of Los Angeles—The Federal Maritime Commission is Finally Giving You Praise Instead of Headaches (April 22, 2010)
- Let’s Keep a Pork-Free 30/10 Initiative in Los Angeles (April 22, 2010)
- Ray LaHood, Secretary of Transportation, Makes the Case for Better Transportation Options Again (April 6, 2010)
- The American Trucking Association Gets It Wrong Again: Biking is Not Going to Hurt the Economy (March 29, 2010)
- Air Regulators, Please Adopt Our Highways (March 18, 2010)
- Creating Jobs One Community Buffer At A Time (February 16, 2010)
- The Canary in the Coal Mine Is Screaming, But Is Anybody Listening? Highway Pollution and its Devastating Impacts on Local Communities (November 10, 2009)
- Under New Leadership, Federal Maritime Commission Backs Down—Another Cavil Hurdle Displaced on the Road to Clean Air at the Ports of LA and Long Beach (June 18, 2009)
- The Federal Maritime Commission Needs A Lesson In Transparency (May 19, 2009)
- Rush for Clean Air In Long Beach (April 27, 2009)
- Breaking the Law, Breaking the Law (April 3, 2009)
- Desperately Seeking Green—Port of Long Beach Seeks to Create Mega Terminal (April 1, 2009)
- Another Ozone Study Confirms that the Continued War on Smog is Worth the Effort (March 12, 2009)
- A Failure of Asthmatic Proportions: Port Fuel Program Not Cutting the Mustard (March 9, 2009)
- LA’s Big Rigs Just Became a Whole Lot Sexier (February 25, 2009)
- Warm Welcome for the Clean Truck Fee at the Ports (February 19, 2009)
- Are LA’s Transportation Planners Living in a Fairy Tale Land? (February 4, 2009)
- Speed Bumps for Clean Trucks Program At Port of Los Angeles (January 27, 2009)
- Is the Seventh Time a Charm? Federal Maritime Commission Will Decide Whether to Place Industry Profits Over the Lives of Angelinos (January 21, 2009)
- Industry Lawsuit Threatens Our Health (January 8, 2009)
- Building a Regional Movement One Container At A Time (December 24, 2008)
- Boondoggles or Blue Chips—How We Should Invest Transportation Dollars (December 18, 2008)
- FMC and NEPA: Allow Me to Introduce You (October 28, 2008)
- No Breathing in the Harbor (October 21, 2008)
- Weather Forecast--Sky Still Up There: Ports of LA and Long Beach Start Clean Trucks Programs (October 1, 2008)
- A Smarter Global Shipping Industry (September 26, 2008)
- Keep on Truckin: Ports of LA and LB Clean Trucks Programs Moving Forward (September 24, 2008)
- Freight Train Blues (September 4, 2008)
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