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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

Are LA’s Transportation Planners Living in a Fairy Tale Land?

February 4, 2009

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

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airpollution, freewaypollution, highwaypollution, highways, I-710, nationalambientairqualitystandards, particulatematter, portpollution, ports, publichealth, southerncaliforniaassociationofgovernments, transportationbill, transportationpolicy

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...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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