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November 17, 2009
Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
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- americantruckingassociation, portoflongbeach, portpollution, trucking
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→
November 9, 2009
Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution
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- americantruckingassociation, ATA, cleantrucks, portcommerce, portoflongbeach, portoflosangeles, trucks
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→
October 28, 2009
Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution
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- americantruckingassociation, ATA, portcommerce, portoflongbeach, trucking, trucks
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→
October 27, 2009
Posted by David Pettit in Solving Global Warming
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- carbon, climatechange
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→
October 19, 2009
Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution
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- americantruckingassociation, portoflongbeach, portoflosangeles, portofnewark, portpollution, trucks
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→
September 29, 2009
Posted by David Pettit in Environmental Justice
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- environmentaljustice, environmentallawyer, vernon
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→
September 24, 2009
Posted by David Pettit in Environmental Justice
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- dieseltrucks, environmentaljustice, losangeles, losangelesport
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→
September 9, 2009
Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution
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- california, CEQA, losangeles
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→
August 21, 2009
Posted by David Pettit in Moving Beyond Oil
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- electricrail, pollution, transportation
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→
August 18, 2009
Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution
- Tags:
- airpollution, airquality, diesel
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→
August 7, 2009
Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution
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- diesel, environmentaljustice, portoflongbeach, portoflosangeles, portpollution
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→
July 20, 2009
Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution
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- airpollution, airquality, cleanairact, environmentaljustice, powerplants, SCAQMD
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→
June 26, 2009
Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
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- airpollution, cancer, diesel, EPA, particulatematter, simplesteps
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→
June 18, 2009
Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution
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- airpollution, portoflongbeach, ships
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→
June 3, 2009
Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution
- Tags:
- airpollution, airquality, diesel, dieseltrucks
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→