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- Investing in Clean Fuels Benefits Everyone (January 19, 2012)
- Back To Beijing (December 5, 2011)
- Getting It Wrong On The Environment And Good Jobs In Los Angeles (October 5, 2011)
- A win for clean air in Los Angeles (September 29, 2011)
- Why NRDC Supports The AEG Stadium Bill (September 8, 2011)
- One Playing Field For Everyone (July 29, 2011)
- Communities To California Railroads: Clean Up Your Act (June 21, 2011)
- No Checks, No Balances, No Reform (June 6, 2011)
- Speaking Truth To The Los Angeles Department Of Water And Power (June 6, 2011)
- Urban Wetlands In Los Angeles (May 5, 2011)
- How to Honor the Lives of Oil Industry Workers (April 28, 2011)
- Coming soon to LA, Electric Vehicles that charge up at "$1 per gallon" (April 27, 2011)
- Reforming key regulations to increase drilling safety in the Gulf (April 12, 2011)
- Cleaning Up BP's Mess in the Gulf of Mexico (March 28, 2011)
- Turns out blowout preventers may not prevent blowouts (March 25, 2011)
- Feds Issue First New Deepwater Drilling Permit In the Gulf of Mexico (March 21, 2011)
- In the Gulf, We Are Drilling, Baby (March 21, 2011)
- Are we ready to drill in the Gulf again? (February 8, 2011)
- BOEMRE Issues A New Rule For Offshore Drilling (January 4, 2011)
- The Feds Take BP (and others) to Court (December 15, 2010)
- Air Pollution On Three Continents (November 29, 2010)
- Unhappy Anniversary (October 18, 2010)
- DOI's New Drilling Rules: Two Steps In The Right Direction (September 30, 2010)
- Old Iron (September 17, 2010)
- Extortion And Our Clean Energy Future (September 3, 2010)
- The Verdict Is In: The L.A. Port Trucking Plan Is Legal (August 27, 2010)
- Oh, That Oil. (August 20, 2010)
- Just Say "No" To BP's Alaskan Adventure (August 12, 2010)
- Should the U.S. Enter into a Collateral Agreement with BP? (August 10, 2010)
- Oil Companies: Clean Up Your Own Mess (July 30, 2010)
- Yes Yes Yes We Have Seafood (July 20, 2010)
- A Stronger Moratorium On New Oil Drilling (July 13, 2010)
- Aftermath (July 6, 2010)
- Open Season On Risk For Gulf Residents (June 22, 2010)
- A Hot Night In St. Petersburg (June 17, 2010)
- The More Things Change At MMS . . . . (June 14, 2010)
- Quiet Advocacy For Big Changes (June 4, 2010)
- Federal Government Announces Criminal Investigation Into The BP Blowout (June 2, 2010)
- The Coast Guard Is In Charge In The Gulf (May 23, 2010)
- MMS And Public Transparency - Clear As Drilling Mud (May 18, 2010)
- Open Letter To MMS (May 14, 2010)
- Recklessness, Cement, And Money (May 6, 2010)
- The Difficulty Facing Oil Spill Workers in the Gulf (May 5, 2010)
- What BP Oil Catastrophe Legal Damages Could Look Like (May 4, 2010)
- Your Witness -- At Last! (April 14, 2010)
- Climate Change Adaptation Debate At Santee Education Complex (April 9, 2010)
- Jobs -- Or NFL-Sized Cow Pasture? (April 5, 2010)
- Cars, Trucks and Climate Change (February 24, 2010)
- Industry Tries to Derail Progress in California, Again (February 4, 2010)
- EPA Ozone Rule Reconsidered: Science, Not Politics This Time. (February 3, 2010)
- Gov. Schwarzenegger At Copenhagen (December 16, 2009)
- Dr. Geraldine Knatz, Port of LA, on the LA Clean Trucks Plan (November 23, 2009)
- Long Beach Harbor Commissioner Mario Cordero Speaks About The ATA Settlement (November 17, 2009)
- Problems With Port Of Long Beach Settlement With ATA (November 9, 2009)
- A Breach Of Trust (October 28, 2009)
- On The Beach (October 27, 2009)
- Run, Run Away (October 19, 2009)
- A Tale Of Two Parties (September 29, 2009)
- East Yards Communities For Environmental Justice (September 24, 2009)
- A Stadium Full Of Excuses (September 9, 2009)
- From Russia With Electric Rail (August 21, 2009)
- Not Good For You (August 18, 2009)
- EPA Holds Hearing On New Marine Diesel Rules (August 7, 2009)
- Don't Trade What You Don't Have (July 20, 2009)
- We're All At Risk From Air Toxics (June 26, 2009)
- Live Wire In Long Beach (June 18, 2009)
- Nixon Said What? (June 3, 2009)
- Smog In A Can (May 5, 2009)
- Not My Department (April 29, 2009)
- L.A. Port Trucking Case Update (April 27, 2009)
- A Preview Of The Issues In The L.A. Ports Trucking Case (April 24, 2009)
- Fig Leaf (April 23, 2009)
- A Clean Win For Clean Air (April 16, 2009)
- Fifty Million To One (April 11, 2009)
- Driving Towards Anarchy, or Be Careful What You Ask The Court For. (April 9, 2009)
- ATA Needs to Get The Facts Straight About Clean Trucks (March 26, 2009)
- EPA Gives Port Pollution Failing Grade (March 26, 2009)
- The Struggle Continues (March 20, 2009)
- L.A. Port Traffic Goes Off The Cliff (March 16, 2009)
- Global Warming Debate At Santee Education Complex (March 14, 2009)
- Under The Sea (March 12, 2009)
- The Polluter Pays Principle (March 4, 2009)
- Red, White, Blue and Green (February 26, 2009)
- A Three Hour Tour (February 26, 2009)
- Of Corvettes And Green Electrons (February 7, 2009)
- Right Where We Want ‘Em (February 6, 2009)
- Everybody Does Better When Everybody Does Better (February 5, 2009)
- Not all Jobs are Good Jobs (February 4, 2009)
- Good Jobs, Green Jobs Conference (February 4, 2009)
- Gambling With Taxpayer Dollars (February 2, 2009)
- No Backroom Deals Over California's Air Quality (January 26, 2009)
- Environmental Justice Groups Are Working On The Railroad (January 26, 2009)
- What Part Of "Free" Don't They Understand? (January 16, 2009)
- China Shipping Redux (December 23, 2008)
- The Federal Maritime Commission: Not Just Bad For The Environment (December 17, 2008)
- Another Fine Mess (December 16, 2008)
- Road Raids (November 24, 2008)
- FMC, Meet NEPA (November 20, 2008)
- Judge Says "No Más" to New Polluting Power Plants Near LA (November 3, 2008)
- The FMC Picks a Fight. (October 30, 2008)
- Gov. Schwarzenegger: No on Prop. 7 (October 30, 2008)
- No On California Prop. 7 (October 28, 2008)
- A Truckload of Hypocrisy (September 17, 2008)
- Alaska and Hawaii: Clean Up The Mess You Made In California (September 12, 2008)
- Airball (September 10, 2008)
- Getting California's Mobility Back (August 26, 2008)
- Not a Magic Bus (August 25, 2008)
- The Attractive Clean Trucks Plan (August 22, 2008)
- Monopoly Money Doesn’t Work in Real Life (August 18, 2008)
- Our Lungs Are Not For Sale (July 31, 2008)
- This, You Call a Slam Dunk? (July 28, 2008)
- The Blue-Green Alliance is Red Hot (July 26, 2008)
- Californians Who Breathe Should Like This (July 25, 2008)
- In CA, Port Commerce Will Pay for Clean Air (July 16, 2008)
- Faster Freight Does Not Mean Cleaner Air (July 14, 2008)
- Who Pays The Freight? (July 2, 2008)
- The Federal Maritime Commission Does the Right Thing (June 16, 2008)
- What He Said (June 12, 2008)
- Clean Air Act Applies to All (May 29, 2008)
- Telling the Wrong Story (May 20, 2008)
- Different Coasts, Same Schmutz (May 12, 2008)
- Do you want fries with that? (May 2, 2008)
- An “Unholy” Alliance (April 22, 2008)
- Career Day in West LA (April 18, 2008)
- When Power Goes to Your Head, and Lungs (April 8, 2008)
- NRDC and Community Groups Reach Historic Agreement with Port of LA on TraPac Expansion (April 3, 2008)
- LA Port Gives Green Light to Clean Trucks (March 21, 2008)
- To Russia With Love (March 14, 2008)
- Breathe Deeply, Now (March 11, 2008)
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