Quotes from Andy Stevenson’s blog post about how the financial market meltdown could spur investment in cap-and-trade systems were picked up by the Wall Street Journal’s Environmental Capital blog… In the Associated Press Diane Bailey chides the Port of Oakland for its consistent failure to meet deadlines and keep clean air promises despite the negative impact port pollution has on the neighborhood children and workers… The Gary Post Tribune talks about the Blue-Green Alliance and NRDC’s recent Green Jobs report in an article on how an old steel town—formerly plagued with unemployment—is now creating jobs in a re-opened steel mill, all because of wind power…In the San Francisco Chronicle Craig Noble applauds governor Schwarzenegger for signing into action the “missing piece in California’s plan to reduce global warming pollution”—the California smart growth bill, SB375…

The Fresno Bee reports that Senator Diane Feinstein is fighting to push through the San Joaquin river restoration bill that was created years ago as a result of an NRDC legal victory… Flight International talks about the coalition of 10 airlines that have come together to fund research into carbon-lite fuels for the aviation industry; in collaboration with Yale University, NRDC will be doing research on algae based biofuels over the next few years… All Headline News reports that due NRDC’s work with the Port of Long Beach, over the past 24hours pollution coming from the port has been cut in half; Adrian Martinez explains how this happened in the news piece.