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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

Our Lungs Are Not For Sale

July 31, 2008

Posted by David Pettit in Environmental Justice

Tags:
coal, energy, lowincome, minority, naturalgas, pollution, power, renewableenergy, southerncalifornia, vernon

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...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

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

LA Port Gives Green Light to Clean Trucks

March 21, 2008

Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution

Tags:
airpollution, cleanairplan, cleantrucksplan, longbeachport, portoflosangeles, portpollution, southerncalifornia

On March 20, 2008, after more than two years of advocacy, negotiation, drafting letters to the editor, meetings with public officials, a notice of intent to sue letter under the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act sent to the neighboring...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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