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A Failure of Asthmatic Proportions: Port Fuel Program Not Cutting the Mustard

March 9, 2009

Posted by Adrian Martinez in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy

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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

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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