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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...continued

PlaNYC 2030: Breathing Easier in 2030 and beyond?

December 11, 2007

Posted by Rich Kassel in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming

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bloomberg, buildings, congestionpricing, diesel, gothamgazette, newyorkcity, PlaNYC2030, pollution, QueensMuseum, sustainability, transportation

About a year ago in Queens, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the outlines of his sustainability plan.  I wrote about it in a recent Gotham Gazette article, but neglected to alert Switchboard readers to it, so am doing so now.He presented...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

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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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