Rich Kassel's Blog
About
- Bio:
I came to NRDC in 1991 on a three-year grant, and never left. Over the years, I've worked on a lot of issues, including airport pollution, preserving community gardens and creating the Hudson River Park in NYC, and others.
But I've spent most of my time working to reduce the public health impacts from diesel buses, trucks, and other engines. This work started with our Dump Dirty Diesels Campaign to clean up NYC Transit's buses in the 1990s, and has since expanded to work at the federal level, and to similar projects in Mexico City and other polluted mega-cities around the world.
And, as our work on climate change has expanded, so has my clean fuel and vehicles work. So, I partner up with fellow bloggers Nathanael Greene and Deron Lovaas on biofuels issues from time to time.
I live in New York City, and am thrilled to raise my family here. It's a great city for an environmentalist - great biking everywhere, plenty of greenmarkets for local food, beaches and mountains are nearby, and no shortage of projects to keep an environmental lawyer busy for years!
- Roots in:
- New York City and Long Island, with pitstops in Maine, Rhode Island, Colorado and many others
- Favorite place:
- Central Park in the morning, Riverside Park at sunset
- Why "environmentalism" matters:
- I think of environmentalism as a civil rights issue, as a social justice issue. All people should have the right to clean air and safe drinking water, all people should have access to public open space, all resources should be used in a way to protects the rights and needs of future generations.
Recent Blog Posts
- Help Dan Save Traffic (August 21, 2008)
- High diesel prices... (June 23, 2008)
- The Copenhagen Consensus and Diesel Pollution (June 2, 2008)
- Click to read more about biking in NYC during National Bike Month (May 27, 2008)
- Happy Bike to Work Day! (May 16, 2008)
- Happy Bike Month! (May 1, 2008)
- Cleaner diesel fuel - at no extra cost (April 24, 2008)
- Congestion pricing fails, but the goal of sustainable transportation remains (April 10, 2008)
- Congestion Pricing in the 9th inning... (April 6, 2008)
- NY City Council Passes Congestion Pricing! (April 2, 2008)
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- Rich Kassel
- Senior Attorney and Director, Clean Fuels and Vehicles Project
- New York City