Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution
The Pacific Merchant Shipping Association ("PMSA") has filed another lawsuit against the California Air Resources Board ("CARB") over CARB's regulation of dirty, polluting fuel for oceangoing vessels. Oceangoing vessels burn the dirtiest diesel fuel in existence, called bunker fuel or...continued→
Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution
At least Gilligan found an island. A few days ago, my Santa Monica colleague Melissa LinPerrella and I took our Beijing colleague Alex Wang and a small delegation from Chinese academia and journalism on a boat tour of the Port...continued→
Posted by David Pettit in Health and the Environment
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→
