molly peterson

A federal district court has upheld key provisions of a program designed to clean up air pollution at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, in part by requiring trucking companies to employ their drivers rather than contract with them. In a written statement, Geraldine Knatz, the executive director of the Port of LA, said port officials are pleased. “Our ability to have direct enforcement of the truck bans and other important features of our concession agreements with the

Harry Shearer interviewed Maria Garzino for his film coming out near the Katrinaversary: she’s the engineer who I talked to for the series Pumps Under Pressure. And whose work long before that helped Matt McBride understand the implications of what she saw. And she still works for the US Army Corps of Engineers. Best quote in reviews I’ve read so far, from the San Antonio Current: ACE whistleblower Maria Garzino, in particular, delivers a quietly damning testimony that calls into

Oops! Forgot about this over the weekend: which magazines, you ask? The Atlantic and The New Republic, actually. (Preaching to the converted?) Bradford Plumer makes the point that state-level climate policy matters in The New Republic: Renewable standards, efficiency laws, a utility-only carbon-trade system that’s currently operating in the Northeast… And looking ahead, a number of Western states are watching California closely and mulling the possibility of linking up with its cap-and-trade system down the road. Assuming that Congress doesn’t