Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Air Quality

Lowenthal Won’t Introduce New Container Fee Legislation

By Damien Newton | Oct 2, 2008 | No Comments

An angry State Senator Alan Lowenthal (D-LB) vowed yesterday to continue fighting for clean air, but won’t be re-introducing legislation next year that would place a container fee on all freight using the ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach and Oakland to raise funds for clean air initiatives. In a statement released to the press, […]

Palin Weighs In Against Pollution Fees for Ports of LA and Long Beach

By Damien Newton | Sep 15, 2008 | No Comments

Port of Los Angeles at Twilight The issue of whether or not to charge a $60 fee on all containers entering the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to be used to mitigate the pollution caused by shippers has been a contentious one. Earlier this summer the legislature passed, for the second time, legislation […]

Trucking Groups Takes Ports to Court Over “Clean Truck” Plan

By Damien Newton | Sep 8, 2008 | 7 Comments

What is more important, the health and safety of people living near ports or the cost to truckers and consumers of helping truck carriers meet modern environmental standards and fairness towards independent truckers? That question could be answered later today when a federal court hears arguments from the American Trucking Association against the Ports of […]

Boxer Seeks to Bypass Courts on Emissions

By Damien Newton | Feb 29, 2008 | 2 Comments

Not content to let the courts handle it, California’s Junior Senator Barbara Boxer has introduced legislation, S. 2555, that would over rule the EPA and allow states to set their own emissions standards for automobiles. The Senator announced the legislation in an email to supportes that urges them to go to Boxer’s website to email […]

Congressional Resource Service: California Better Than Most on GHG Density

By Damien Newton | Dec 13, 2007 | No Comments

A new report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS), the non-partisan research branch of the legislative branch of government, ranks each state in terms of their Greenhouse Gas emissions per capita (called GHG Intensity Levels) and releases a dire warning about how far we have to go to even come close to meet the goals […]

Test Driving a Hydrogen Car

By Damien Newton | Dec 11, 2007 | No Comments

Knowing that environmentally friendly cars aren’t the silver bullet that is going to solve all of our transportation problems (cleaner cars will probably increase demand for automobiles and could worsen sprawl and congestion) wasn’t enough to stop me from taking the chance to test drive one today at a luncheon held by the Women’s Transportation […]

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