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The Blue-Green Alliance is Red Hot

July 26, 2008

Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming

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airpollution, cleantrucks, dellums, diesel, hoffa, pelosi, portoflongbeach, portoflosangeles, portpollution, villaraigosa

Last Wednesday, International Brotherhood of Teamsters President James P. Hoffa announced at a conference in Oakland, CA, that the Teamsters were withdrawing from the coalition supporting oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).  This was a stunning development,...continued

Who Pays The Freight?

July 2, 2008

Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution

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airpollution, bankofamerica, cleantrucksplan, daimler, generalelectric, portoflongbeach, portoflosangeles, villaraigosa

On June 26, 2008, Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa signed into law a City ordinance, passed by a unanimous vote of the L.A. City Council, enacting the Port of Los Angeles Clean Trucks Program, the most progressive in the nation.  If...continued

Telling the Wrong Story

May 20, 2008

Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution , The Media and the Environment

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cleantrucks, journalism, portoflongbeach, portoflosangeles, portpollution, villaraigosa, wallstreetjournal

NRDC’s work to clean up the Port of Long Beach got sucker punched last week in the Wall Street Journal. It was truly a shock to see such a mischaracterization of our work and our motives represented in such a...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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