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Negative health impacts of freeway expansion: A NO BRAINER!

November 6, 2009

Posted by Lizzeth Henao in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment

Tags:
CALTRANS,, I710,, negativehealthimpactsfreeway

The California Department of Transportation (CALTRANS) wants to dramatically expand the 18 mile stretch of the I-710 freeway that runs from the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles to East Los Angeles, through mostly urban, low-income, minority neighborhoods. Due...continued

Lautenberg Raises Alarm on Ocean Acidity

November 4, 2009

Posted by Daniel Hinerfeld in Environmental Justice , Reviving the World's Oceans

How can our country adopt a carbon pollution policy if Republicans won't even come to the negotiating table?  All seven GOP senators on the Environment and Public Works Committee are now boycotting hearings on the Kerry-Boxer climate bill, taking denial...continued

An Indy neighborhood could become a model of smart, green revitalization – so where are the enviros?

November 2, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably

Tags:
brownfields, community, indianapolis, neighborhood, redevelopment, revitalization, smartercities, smartgrowth

    Last week I had the honor of being one of seven smart growth types recruited by the American Institute of Architects to work with the city of Indianapolis and community residents on the model revitalization of a distressed urban neighborhood. ...continued

Fighting for Clean Air: Community Members Speak Out Against Proposed Railyard Expansion near the LA and Long Beach Ports

October 29, 2009

Posted by Morgan Wyenn in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment

Tags:
airpollution, diesel, environmentaljustice, health, portoflongbeach, portoflosangeles, ports, rail, southerncalifornia, trucks

A few miles from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach lies the 233-acre Intermodal Container Transfer Facility (ICTF).  Much of the cargo that is unloaded from ships at the ports is hauled by diesel trucks to the ICTF, where...continued

Maywood's water woes

October 28, 2009

Posted by Lizzeth Henao in Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment

Tags:
AB890, manganese, maywood, water

The City of Maywood is the third smallest city in Los Angeles and one of its densest, with about 28,000 people living in a 1.14 square mile area. Despite the city's small size, it has faced a number of big...continued

Driving Toward Clean Air at Our Nation’s Ports

October 27, 2009

Posted by Peter Lehner in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
cleanair, cleantrucks, dieselpollution, mayorbloomberg, pollution, portoflongbeach, portoflosangeles, sierraclub

This post was co-written with Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club. NRDC and Sierra Club are members of the Coalition for Clean and Safe Ports, supporters of the clean truck program. "Cancer alley."  That's what many Southern Californians...continued

You have a future!

October 26, 2009

Posted by Lizzeth Henao in Environmental Justice

Tags:
LAHSA, LAUSD

This past Thursday, I had the privilege of representing NRDC at a school assembly for students at Los Angeles High School of the Arts. LAHSA is a small Los Angeles Unified School District pilot school located in the physical grounds...continued

Stimulus News: Cost-Effective Diesel Retrofits Coming to a School Bus or Construction Site Near You!

October 21, 2009

Posted by Rich Kassel in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
diesel, EPA, polllution, portpollution, reporttocongress, retrofit, stimulus

I just received a copy of EPA's Report to Congress on its Diesel Emissions Reduction Program, and it's encouraging news. With nearly $50 million in EPA's FY 2008 budget for this program, EPA made 119 grants nationwide that enabled more...continued

More on the Ninth Ward: Musicians’ Village strikes an optimistic chord

October 20, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably

Tags:
community, katrina, musiciansvillage, neighborhood, neworleans, NinthWard, redevelopment, smartgrowth

       Last week's post on the architecture of the Make It Right Foundation's new homes in New Orleans brought some thoughtful comments, and it brought even more when I reposted it on another site that I also frequent. ...continued

Bloomberg and Booker Agree: We Need Cleaner Trucks at our Ports

October 19, 2009

Posted by Rich Kassel in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , The Media and the Environment

Tags:
bloomberg, booker, diesel, newark, NYC, pollution, portpollution, sustainability, trucks

Yesterday, NYC Mayor Michael P. Bloomberg and Newark Mayor Cory Booker teamed up with Teamsters President James P. Hoffa to endorse federal legislation that would enable ports around the nation to adopt local green-growth programs to reduce air pollution and...continued

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