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Desperately Seeking Green—Port of Long Beach Seeks to Create Mega Terminal

April 1, 2009

Posted by Adrian Martinez in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
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...

A Smarter Global Shipping Industry

September 26, 2008

Posted by Adrian Martinez in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
diesel, portoflongbeach, portoflosangeles, ports, shippingindustry, shippollution, windpower

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...

Adrian Martinez
Adrian Martinez
Project Attorney, Southern California Air Team
Santa Monica
I grew up in eastern North Carolina.  I’d say my introduction to environmentalism actually happened...
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