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The Canary in the Coal Mine Is Screaming, But Is Anybody Listening? Highway Pollution and its Devastating Impacts on Local Communities

November 10, 2009

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

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airpollution, cleanair, cleanairactionplan, naaqs, NOx, particulatematter, portoflongbeach, portoflosangeles, portpollution, ports

A new study about the staggering impacts of highway and ship pollution was released by a team of scientists and academics, including some of the most pioneering researchers on issues of health related impacts from degraded air quality.  The study...continued

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

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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

Another Ozone Study Confirms that the Continued War on Smog is Worth the Effort

March 12, 2009

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

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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

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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