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The Copenhagen Consensus and Diesel Pollution

June 2, 2008

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

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andrewrevkin, china, copenhagenconsensus, diesel, pollution, sulfur, urbanpollution

Over the weekend, I read, with great interest, Andy Revkin’s recent dotearth blog post about the Copenhagen Consensus.  The Copenhagen Consensus is shorthand for a research effort by a group of 8 leading economists, including 5 Nobel Laureates, which attempted...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

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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