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Here's the rule - and it's a good one!

March 17, 2008

Posted by Rich Kassel in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
boat, diesel, EPA, locomotive, marine, rule, ship, ships, trains

A day off from congestion pricing (at least in my blogging).Here's why:  last month, I wrote a post, “Where’s the rule?” alerting Switchboard readers to our five-year wait for a strong EPA program to reduce pollution from the nation’s dirty...continued

Ocean-Going Ships Are The Last Bastion Of The Dirty Diesels

February 15, 2008

Posted by Rich Kassel in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , Moving Beyond Oil , Reviving the World's Oceans , U.S. Law and Policy

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CATF, CleanAirTaskForce, diesel, ICCT, IMO, InternationalCouncilonCleanTransportation, InternationalMaritimeOrganization, marine, oceangoingships, ships, sulfur

Yesterday, I testified in Congress on Senator Barbara Boxer’s bill (S. 1499, the Marine Vessels Emissions Reduction Act)  to require dirty, polluting ocean-going ships to use cleaner fuel within 200 miles of our coasts.  (And, by the way, even after...continued

Where's the rule?

February 12, 2008

Posted by Rich Kassel in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
boat, diesel, emissions, EPA, locomotive, marine, pollution, ship, trains

Where’s the rule?  Unlike my colleagues who have worked on power plant and climate issues over the past eight years, I have developed the habit of welcoming new EPA rules on my diesel issues.  After all, there have been no...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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