Posted by Adrian Martinez in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , Moving Beyond Oil
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...
Posted by Adrian Martinez in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , Moving Beyond Oil , U.S. Law and Policy
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...
Posted by Adrian Martinez in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , Moving Beyond Oil , U.S. Law and Policy
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...
Posted by Adrian Martinez in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , Moving Beyond Oil , The Media and the Environment
In a slick campaign-style advertisement, the operators at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles ran a Proposition 65 notice in the Los Angeles Times last week. Proposition 65 is a California law that protects residents from toxic substances, and the agreement...
Posted by Adrian Martinez in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Ben Hewitt wrote a very interesting piece in Discover Magazine online about upcoming technologies to clean up the shipping industry. Of particular note, the article describes some of the externalities of global shipping, including greenhouse gas emissions, traditional air pollution...
