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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

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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...

What the Stimulus Means for New York

March 12, 2009

Posted by Rich Kassel in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

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gothamgazette, newyork, newyorkcity, stimulus

 After a four-month hiatus, my monthly column at the Gotham Gazette is back up and running.  If you don't know the Gotham Gazette, it's a great place to read about NYC's political and policy debates, with columns on just about...

Cleaner diesel fuel - at no extra cost

April 24, 2008

Posted by Rich Kassel in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy

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diesel, EPA, ulsd

Recently, a good friend asked me about last year’s transition to ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD). fuel.  More specifically, he wondered about the price differential between ULSD and the prior low-sulfur diesel fuel (yes, in the jargon of the policy world that...

Congestion pricing fails, but the goal of sustainable transportation remains

April 10, 2008

Posted by Rich Kassel in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy

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congestion, congestionpricing, mta, trafficcongestion, transit, transportation

By now, of course, anybody who has followed the saga of congestion pricing in New York knows the outcome:  on Monday, the New York State Assembly failed to vote on the congestion pricing program, ensuring that it won’t go forward,...

A Greener Corvette?

January 22, 2008

Posted by Rich Kassel in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment

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carbonfootprint, chevrolet, corvette, detroitautoshow, fueleconomy, generalmotors

When you read that the next step for the Corvette is better fuel economy, you know that many things have changed in Detroit.Here's the news that struck my eye today:  At the Detroit Auto Show, where automakers come to show...

A wish list for 2008

January 8, 2008

Posted by Rich Kassel in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming

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birds, congestionpricing, csos, ewaste, gothamgazette, jamaicabay, mta, newyears, newyorkcity, PlaNYC2030, polllution, sewage, transit

The start of the New Year presents a great opportunity to take stock of the old year and to plan for the new. It's also time to make some wishes. I live in New York, and much of my work is...

Diapers into Diesel!

November 20, 2007

Posted by Rich Kassel in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil

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biodiesel, biofuels, diesel, jalopnik, johnoliver, jonstewart, pyrolysis, willienelson

Stop the presses!  Just when you thought that the biofuels debate was about corn, soy, and palm oil, Jalopnik.com tells us about a Canadian company that is developing a process to convert used diapers to a synthetic diesel.  This isn't some...

Rich Kassel
Rich Kassel
Senior Attorney and Director, Clean Fuels and Vehicles Project
New York City
I came to NRDC in 1991 on a three-year grant, and never left.  Over the...
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