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November 10, 2009
Posted by Adrian Martinez in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- 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→
June 18, 2009
Posted by Adrian Martinez in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- cleanair, cleantrucks, cleantrucksprogram, federalmaritimecommission, portoflongbeach, portoflosangeles, portpollution, ports
This week, the Federal Maritime Commission decided to file a motion to withdraw its lawsuit against the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the nation's two busiest ports. Reversing, the Bush-era decision to thwart efforts by these ports to...continued→
April 27, 2009
Posted by Adrian Martinez in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, The Media and the Environment
- Tags:
- cleanair, portpollution, ports
I have always admired the Port of Long Beach's award winning media outreach team. They were recently awarded several prestigious honors at the "Excellence in Communication" awards hosted by the California Association of Public Information Officials (CAPIO). Their media team is...continued→
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...continued→
March 9, 2009
Posted by Adrian Martinez in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- 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→
February 25, 2009
Posted by Adrian Martinez in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
, Moving Beyond Oil
- Tags:
- cleanair, cleanairactionplan, cleantrucks, cleantrucksprogram, electrictruck, portoflosangeles, portpollution, ports
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...continued→
February 4, 2009
Posted by Adrian Martinez in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
, Moving Beyond Oil
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- 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→
January 27, 2009
Posted by Adrian Martinez in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- cleanair, cleanairactionplan, cleantrucks, cleantrucksprogram, federalmaritimecommission, portoflongbeach, portoflosangeles, portpollution, ports
Ron White from the Los Angeles Times wrote an interesting article today about the Clean Trucks Program. The article examines the hurdles that have been placed in front of the Port of Los Angeles in implementing its landmark program to...continued→
January 21, 2009
Posted by Adrian Martinez in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- airpollution, cleanairactionplan, cleantrucks, cleantrucksprogram, diesel, dieselpollution, federalmaritimecommission, portoflongbeach, portoflosangeles, portpollution, ports
The opaque halls of the Federal Maritime Commission will be active in February when it must decide whether to continue its path of obstructionism and block the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach from collecting a clean truck fee, virtually crippling...continued→
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...continued→
