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June 26, 2009
Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
- Tags:
- 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→
July 25, 2008
Posted by David Pettit in Health and the Environment
- Tags:
- airpollution, cancer, diesel, fuel, lowsulfurfuel, portpollution, shippingindustry, ships, sulfur
Yesterday, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) enacted historic regulation to require oceangoing vessels, including container ships and tankers, to use low-sulfur fuel within 24 miles of California’s coast, beginning on July 1, 2009. This regulation, the only one of...continued→
