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Palin Weighs In Against Pollution Fees for Ports of LA and Long Beach
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger:
September 15, 2008
Congressional Resource Service: California Better Than Most on GHG Density
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 set in the Kyoto protocol.
December 13, 2007
Test Driving a Hydrogen Car
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 Seminar of Greater Los Angeles. Silver Bullet or not, its pretty cool to drive a car that has water vents instead of a tail pipe.
December 11, 2007
Federal Government: CO2 Emissions Growing from Transportation Sector
For as long as the government has been keeping track of such things, the amount of greenhouse gases put into the environment by the transportation sector has grown year by year. Growing at almost the same speed has been the amount of miles people travel in their cars. With CA spending more and more efforts to deal with vehicle emission standards, it is worth noting that one of the easiest ways to reduce Carbon and other Greenhouse emissions is to reduce people's need to drive their cars.
December 5, 2007
Want a Chance to Drive a Hydrogen Car?
From an email from the Women's Transportation Forum:
December 4, 2007
Car Culture Not Mentioned as Dems Talk Greenhouse Gases
I just got back from the Presidential Forum on Global Warming & America's Energy Future and wanted to post a quick report. I'm sure Grist will have a more in-depth one shortly and a transcript. But, for those of you looking for some transportation news out of the debate, I'm here to tell you there wasn't any.
November 17, 2007
Congress To Vote on Energy Bill Tomorrow
A note from a friend of mine in the clean building industry.
November 14, 2007
Surgeon General’s Warning: Driving May Be…
The good folks back east at Streetsblog pick up on a story about the EU considering some truth in advertising when it comes to car commercials. For the full story, go here.
October 30, 2007