Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution
A recent study led by climatologist Nadine Unger of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies has concluded that motor vehicles, as a sector in the economy, are “the greatest contributor to atmospheric warming now and in the near term.” The...continued→
Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution
In a familiar attack on California’s plans to fight climate change, a coalition of industry groups has filed a lawsuit in federal court in Fresno, California challenging California’s low-carbon fuel standard (LCFS). The low carbon fuel standard is designed to...continued→
Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution
In August 2007, I testified at an EPA hearing in Los Angeles on EPA’s proposal to set a new national limit for ozone, which we here in L.A. think of as smog. My testimony, the testimony of nearly all the...continued→
Posted by David Pettit in Solving Global Warming
Yesterday, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger gave a speech to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. In it, he said that “the world's governments alone cannot make the progress that is needed on global climate change. They need the...continued→
Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution
Just a quick note encouraging people to take a look at Dr. Knatz' Op-Ed on the Clean Trucks Program in the November 19, 2009 Long Beach Press-Telegram. You can find it at: http://www.presstelegram.com/opinions/ci_13827753. ...continued→
Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment
Last night, there was a hearing at the Port of Long Beach about the Port's decision to settle the American Trucking Association case on terms that I think are so weak that they are a setback to clean air and...continued→
Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution
My blog posts of October 19 and 28 about the Port of Long Beach's settlement of the trucking industry's lawsuit against it generated two canned responses and a number of real ones. I also received a "Dear David" letter from...continued→
Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution
To follow up my blog post of October 19, 2009, here is the text of a letter that was sent today by the following organizations to the Port of Long Beach: California School Employees Association, Long Beach Chapter; Coalition for Clean...continued→
Posted by David Pettit in Solving Global Warming
Last weekend, as part of a worldwide effort to raise environmental consciousness, Jessica Lass, Noah Garrison and I joined 100 or so others to pick up trash along a stretch of Santa Monica Beach. Collectively, we picked up 40 pounds...continued→
Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution
Today the Port of Long Beach violated the public trust and sold out the citizens of Long Beach by approving a worthless settlement agreement with the American Trucking Association ("ATA") in ATA's lawsuit against the Los Angeles ports' clean trucks...continued→
Posted by David Pettit in Environmental Justice
At Resurrection Church in Boyle Heights, California, a party was thrown recently to celebrate the City of Vernon's withdrawal of a proposal to build a huge powerplant upwind from Boyle Heights and the surrounding, largely Latino communities. NRDC opposed this...continued→
Posted by David Pettit in Environmental Justice
This is just a quick note to ask you take a look at a story in today's LA Times about the organization East Yards Communities for Environmental Justice and its director, Angelo Logan. Angelo and East Yards are leaders in...continued→
Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution
The Los Angeles Rams used to play in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, a stadium that was built in 1923, used in the 1932 Olympics and used again in the 1984 Olympics. I used to go see them play when...continued→
Posted by David Pettit in Moving Beyond Oil
I was reading an article in the New Yorker by Ian Frazier about the Trans-Siberian railroad, the world's longest, when I ran across his statement that the rail line ran under electric power for both passengers and freight. This was...continued→
Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution
Southern California, a semi-arid region in the best of times, is getting drier. Our wildfire season used to be September and October; now it's year-round. Another life-threatening year-round problem in California is air pollution. Two recent studies yet again confirm...continued→
