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Don't Trade What You Don't Have

July 20, 2009

Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution

Tags:
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

Fig Leaf

April 23, 2009

Posted by David Pettit in Environmental Justice

Tags:
CEQA, cleanair, cleanairact, environmentaljustice, pollution, powerplants

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...continued

The Polluter Pays Principle

March 4, 2009

Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution

Tags:
cleanair, cleanairact, SCAQMD, smog

 Do people in the fiberglass or printing industries expect to get raw materials and parts for free?  Do they expect their employees to work for free?  I doubt it.  But based on some public testimony at a workshop hosted by...continued

Monopoly Money Doesn’t Work in Real Life

August 18, 2008

Posted by David Pettit in Environmental Justice

Tags:
airpollution, cleanairact, lowincome, minority, powerplants, southerncalifornia

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...continued

Clean Air Act Applies to All

May 29, 2008

Posted by David Pettit

Tags:
CARB, cleanairact, cleantrucks, electricrail, EPA, SCAQMD, southcoastairbasin, southerncalifornia

Southern California’s air quality woes are a well known fact, but not enough has been done to alleviate the problem. Today, NRDC filed a petition for review in the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, challenging EPA’s approval of the...continued

David Pettit
David Pettit
Director, Southern California Air Program
Santa Monica, CA
I grew up in the L.A. area and am a die-hard Dodgers and UCLA Bruins...
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