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 Stories About: air pollution AND California AND health AND toxics
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Light on Their Fleet
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10 Jun 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Light on Their Fleet The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to hear a case about whether the Los Angeles area can go beyond the federal Clean Air Act to impose strict anti-pollution rules on buses, taxis, garbage trucks, airport shuttles, and other vehicle fleets. Oil companies and engine manufacturers challenged a rule issued in 2000 by the South Coast Air Quality Management District that requires owne ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, California, health, placemaking, toxics (all these topics) |
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Beverly Hills Flop
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29 Apr 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Beverly Hills Flop Erin Brockovich, the tenacious eco-crusader made famous by Hollywood, is back in the news: She says that many former Beverly Hills High School students have been stricken with cancer because of exposure to toxic fumes from an active oil field on school property. Brockovich and her boss, attorney Ed Masry, yesterday filed 25 personal injury claims for damages against the city of Beverly Hills an ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, California, health, toxics (all these topics) |
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Dolorous Haze
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16 Jan 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Dolorous Haze Emissions that contribute to smog in the Los Angeles area are drastically worse than previously estimated, air-quality officials admitted yesterday. The announcement marked a reversal of the usual optimistic rhetoric about California air quality, which has been steadily improving since the late 1980s. Now it seems that progress in eliminating the two most common pollutants t ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, business, California, health, placemaking, toxics (all these topics) |
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Golden State Worriers
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03 Jun 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Golden State Worriers A large portion of the American are at risk of developing cancer from exposure to any of 32 common toxic chemicals, according to the first nationwide study of the toxins, released Friday by the U.S. EPA. About 200 million face roughly a 1 in 100,000 lifetime risk, while about 20 million people -- many of them in the Los Angeles or San Francisco areas -- face a risk as high as 1 in 5 ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, California, health, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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