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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

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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