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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

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

When Power Goes to Your Head, and Lungs

April 8, 2008

Posted by David Pettit in Environmental Justice

Tags:
airquality, environmentaljustice, naturalgas, powerplants, solarenergy, southerncalifornia, windenergy

Last week, NRDC delivered a 60-day intent to sue letter to the South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) in Southern California, contending they’re giving regional polluters a free pass on pollution levels and distributing bogus emission credits – sometimes in...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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