Clean Trucks Program scores a victory in district court’s ATA-Port of LA decision

26 August 2010

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, [...]

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Oil and Water: or, I have a feeling this is going to be pretty good.

24 August 2010

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 [...]

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National mags (or their websites?) take note of AB32

21 July 2010

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 [...]

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