Washing the Ports Out
Posted September 11, 2008 in The Media and the Environment
NPR reports on the clean air program NRDC has successfully sued the Ports of LA and Long Beach to institute, which will essentially convert America’s dirtiest ports into the cleanest; Dave Pettit talks about the precedent setting nature of the newly approved program [Listen]… Marking another legislative success, Associated Press writes about EPA’s settlement agreement to strengthen beach water quality standards for the first time in two decades; Aaron Colangelo comments in the piece that with the new standards NRDC sued to get, families can soon be confident that the water their kids are swimming in is actually clean and safe… NRDC’s green jobs report gets more attention and praise in New York Times’ City Room blog…
Karen Wayland tells Forbes.com that the continued political pandering, pushes for offshore drilling, and energy proposals floating around congress represent “election-year politics at its worst”… Mae Wu warns WebMD readers (and those listening to her congressional testimony) that it’s unwise to presume bottled water is any cleaner than tap—and it’s expensive… Linda Escalante, NRDC’s media spokesperson for Spanish-language outreach, speaks about Testing the Waters on a September 1st segment of Telemundo [Watch]… In a NBC Montana news piece Louisa Willcox warns that as global warming and beetles wreak havoc on white bark pine forests, grizzly bears will find it harder to subsist and may wander farther toward civilization for food and survival [Watch].
