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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

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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

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

Industry Lawsuit Threatens Our Health

January 8, 2009

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

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ARTBA, cleanairact, diesel, EPA, NOx, shippollution

On Wednesday, the NRDC filed a motion asking the federal appeals court in D.C. to allow it to participate in a case examining whether state and local governments can protect residents from deadly air pollution produced by off-road engines (e.g. construction equipment,...continued

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...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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