Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution
After two trips to the appellate court, the American Trucking Association’s lawsuit against the Port of Los Angeles over the Port’s Clean Trucks Plan will finally go to trial on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 before United States District Judge Christina...
Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution
Last year, the Santee Education Complex in Los Angeles held a debate at about climate change. On April 16, 2010, Santee students will participate in another debate under the auspices of the United Nations Foundation Global Debates program, this time...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
