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→
Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution
Recently, the EPA has taken a number of positive steps towards reducing toxic air pollution from ships that call at U.S. ports. In 2008, EPA enacted regulations covering certain marine diesel engines. Earlier this year, EPA submitted a very far-sighted...continued→
Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution
Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit decided a case that brought a breath of fresh air to the idea of cleaning up some of America's most polluted cities. By way of context, in an area...continued→
Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday released some very disturbing results of its analysis of air toxics data from 2002. EPA found that every U.S. resident has a higher cancer risk of greater than 10 in a...continued→
Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution
The Port of Long Beach recently announced an important first: A BP oil tanker, the Alaskan Navigator, tied up at Pier T in Long Beach and shut off its diesel auxiliary engines, using alternative marine power ("cold ironing") to run...continued→
Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution
In his 1970 State of the Union address, Richard Nixon said: "Clean air, clean water, open spaces - these should once again be the birthright of every American." My friend Erika Zucker was the first to identify this quote when...continued→
Posted by David Pettit in Environmental Justice
Last weekend, the USC Annenberg Institute for Justice and Journalism held a series of seminars for journalists selected from around the country. Barry Wallerstein, the Executive Officer of the South Coast Air Quality Management District, Jane Williams, the Executive Director...continued→
Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution
The Pacific Merchant Shipping Association ("PMSA") has filed another lawsuit against the California Air Resources Board ("CARB") over CARB's regulation of dirty, polluting fuel for oceangoing vessels. Oceangoing vessels burn the dirtiest diesel fuel in existence, called bunker fuel or...continued→
