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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→
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→
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→
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→
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→