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NY City Council to vote on diesel school bus bill today

September 17, 2009

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

Tags:
airpollution, asthma, citycouncil, diesel, newyork, newyorkcity, pollution, schoolbus, simplesteps

Every day, more than 7,000 large and small school buses take thousands of students to and from school. Unfortunately, their free trip to school usually includes a heavy dose of diesel soot pollution-pollution that has been shown to trigger asthma...continued

Dumping Dirty Diesels in NYC and Mexico City

October 3, 2007

Posted by Rich Kassel in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably

Tags:
airpollution, BRT, diesel, mexico, newyorkcity, pollution, sustainability

With this post, I’m finally joining the ranks of NRDC’s bloggers. While I’ll leave it others to cover the latest news on the ethanol, halo 3, or arctic melting, I’ll try to fill in the gaps with posts on the...continued

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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