Posted by Diane Bailey in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment
Most Californians think that the budget situation is a big problem, and a majority would support reforming the current two-thirds requirement for legislative budget approval - and the annual debacles that it creates - with a 55 percent majority. ...continued→
Posted by Diane Bailey in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment
It's so exciting to see immediate environmental progress at the federal level, with the new administration breathing life back into California's Clean Car Standards. But there's a dramatic role reversal going on as California suddenly leaves its post as green...continued→
Posted by Diane Bailey in Curbing Pollution
There was a steady stream of gloomy testimony at the California Air Resources Board hearing yesterday from construction industry representatives describing ailing business and clamoring for delayed clean up deadlines for their fleets. One observer offered that this rule was...continued→
Posted by Diane Bailey in Curbing Pollution
Here we go again. This week, the construction industry is seizing yet another opportunity to protest diesel clean up measures for off-road equipment. Not only is this and other desperately needed diesel clean up rules at risk through the budget...continued→
Posted by Diane Bailey in Curbing Pollution
Your money or your life? That's how one observer summed up the truck clean-up rule that the California Air Board bravely voted to adopt last week. After an intense two-day hearing, the Board grappled with the competing concerns of the...continued→
Posted by Diane Bailey in Curbing Pollution
This is shaping up to be a monumental week in the fight against global warming and air pollution in California. On Thursday, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) will vote to adopt the Scoping Plan to implement AB 32, California's...continued→
Posted by Diane Bailey in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment
When the Port of Oakland falls on tough financial times, they have no problem jettisoning critical health and environmental programs. Last Wednesday, the Port of Oakland Board of Commissioners did just that in a surprise move that will delay and...continued→
