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 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...
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...
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...
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...
Posted by David Pettit in Environmental Justice
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted last Tuesday to oppose a "get out of jail free" bill that the South Coast Air Quality Management District (the "District") is flogging in Sacramento. The District got caught breaking the law...
Posted by David Pettit in Environmental Justice
Railyards in California and elsewhere are huge sources of deadly diesel pollution. The California Air Resources Board ("CARB") has conducted health risk assessments of the major California railyards and found that railyard operations have increased the cancer risk for nearly...
Posted by David Pettit in Environmental Justice
My NRDC colleague Tim Grabiel preserved a huge victory today in court. By way of context, on July 28, 2008, Tim and his co-counsel won a California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) case that prevented the South Coast Air Quality Management District...
Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice
Two days ago, my colleague Adrian Martinez wrote about a scheduled hearing where the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) would decide whether to file a lawsuit against the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to enjoin all or parts of...
Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment
As reported in the Los Angeles Times on Saturday, September 13, 2008, the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has taken steps that threaten to shut down the entire Clean Trucks Program enacted by the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach...
Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice
The American Trucking Association ("ATA") bragged that its lawsuit, aimed at killing the truck concession plans of the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, was a "slam dunk." United States District Court Judge Christina Snyder disagreed in a...
Posted by David Pettit in Environmental Justice
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Thomas McKnew ruled today against NRDC and NRDC’s client, the Bus Riders Union of Los Angeles (BRU), in a lawsuit brought against the L.A. Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) challenging on environmental grounds the MTA’s July,...
Posted by David Pettit in Environmental Justice
You can’t have an energy credit trading system with phony credits. Even worse – you can’t have an energy credit trading system when the organization that controls the credits knows that they are phony. That’s like letting counterfeiters take over...
Posted by David Pettit in Environmental Justice
NRDC and its allies Communities for a Better Environment, Coalition for a Safe Environment, and California Communities Against Toxics won a huge victory on July 28, 2008, when the Los Angeles County Superior Court ruled in their favor in a...
Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment
On July 15, 2008, California State Senator Alan Lowenthal’s bill to impose a fee on cargo containers passed the California Assembly, on its way to Governor Schwarzenegger’s desk. The vote wasn’t close: 46-23. The Assembly vote was the result of...
