Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Air Quality

New GOP Bill Would Bar Enviro Reviews from Considering Climate

By Elana Schor | | No Comments
Republicans on the Senate environment committee, who months ago began criticizing the Obama administration for evaluating federally funded infrastructure projects for their impact on climate change, today introduced legislation that would bar the White House from making climate a factor in environmental reviews. Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), one of the new NEPA bill’s sponsors, holds […]

Environmental Group Offers Congress a Map to Cleaner Freight

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The federal government can reap significant pollution-reduction benefits by focusing on a national freight plan that replaces older diesel equipment with newer, cleaner-burning train cars while building out regional networks more efficiently, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) said yesterday in a new report [PDF]. Freight rail in Chicago, home of the stimulus-funded CREATE freight project. […]

Study: Clean-Car Subsidies Alone Can’t Meet White House’s Climate Goals

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Government subsidies for hybrid and electric cars, while "politically seductive," will fail to achieve the Obama administration’s national pollution-reduction goals if they are not coupled with a significant increase in fuel prices, according to a new study by Harvard University researchers. (Photo: Pop and Politics) The team at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International […]

Enviros, Villaraigosa Slam Out of State Oil Companies for Threatening CA Greenhouse Gas Laws

By Damien Newton | | 4 Comments
Air pollution over the Inland Empire. Photo: DanDC/Flickr (editor’s note: This is Part I of a two part series.  Next week we’ll look specifically at how the repeal or delaying of this legislation would effect transportation and Livable Streets. – DN) In 2006, the California Legislature passed, and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed, A.B. 32, landmark […]
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