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The Polls Are In...

January 29, 2009

Posted by Diane Bailey in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment

Tags:
airpollution, budget, californiabudget, diesel, environmentalrollback, health, PPICpoll

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

Bargaining Away the Lives of Californians Over the Budget: This Is Not the California that We Know and Love

January 27, 2009

Posted by Diane Bailey in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment

Tags:
airpollution, budget, californiabudget, cleanconstruction, diesel, environmentalrollback, health, off-roadrule

 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

California's Off-Road Diesel Rule In Danger of Veering Off-Road

January 23, 2009

Posted by Diane Bailey in Curbing Pollution

Tags:
airpollution, budget, californiabudget, cleanconstruction, diesel, environmentalrollback, health, off-roadrule

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

A Forklift Full of Excuses from the Construction Industry to Pollute California

January 21, 2009

Posted by Diane Bailey in Curbing Pollution

Tags:
airpollution, asthma, CARB, cleanconstruction, constructionequipment, diesel, health, off-roadequipment, off-roadrule

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

Clean Trucks Are Not A Choice Between Money or Life

December 16, 2008

Posted by Diane Bailey in Curbing Pollution

Tags:
airpollution, asthma, bayarea, CARB, cleantrucks, climate, diesel, health, portofoakland, portpollution, trucks

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

Clean Trucks: We Can't Afford Anything Less

December 8, 2008

Posted by Diane Bailey in Curbing Pollution

Tags:
airpollution, asthma, CARB, cleantrucks, diesel, fueleconomy, ghg, globalwarming, health, truckefficiency, trucks

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

The Port of Oakland Passes the Buck Again, Letting Oakland Stew in More Air Pollution

November 25, 2008

Posted by Diane Bailey in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment

Tags:
airpollution, asthma, bayarea, CARB, cleantrucks, diesel, health, portofoakland, portpollution, trucks

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

Diane Bailey
Diane Bailey
Senior Scientist
San Francisco
I live in Oakland, CA in a mostly fixed fixer upper by Lake Merritt, with...
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