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Smog in Your Throat? Houston joins Los Angeles in having 'severe' smog problem		03 Oct 2008	News
Posted at 10:31 AM on 03 Oct 2008 Houston has received the dubious honor of becoming the second U.S. city to have a "severe" smog problem, as classified by the U.S. EPA. Los Angeles is its partner in grime. The downgrade from a "moderate" to "severe" smog problem gives Texas' largest city nine extra years to meet federal air-quality standards. Both Houston and L.A. have, however, taken re ...
Topics: air pollution, Los Angeles, news, placemaking, Texas, US EPA (all these topics)

What the Helmet? Anti-bike crusader halts San Francisco's cycle-friendly plans		20 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 8:45 AM on 20 Aug 2008 With a claim that bike lanes increase pollution, a San Francisco resident has managed to put the brakes on the city's pro-biking plans. In 2004, San Francisco unveiled a proposal to create more bike lanes and bike parking, aiming to have 10 percent of city trips taken on two wheels by 2010. Enter Rob Anderson, who doesn't own a car but is no fan of cyclists. "The behavior of the ...
Topics: air pollution, bikes, insanity, news, placemaking, San Francisco (all these topics)

Where the Lead Comes Sweepin' Down the Plain Tornado ravages town already ravaged by pollution		12 May 2008	News
Posted at 10:41 AM on 12 May 2008 Six people were killed in Picher, Okla., this weekend as a giant tornado swept through. The not-so-bright bright side: It's likely that some fatalities were avoided, since many residents of Picher have already left. Picher is so polluted with mining waste that it's listed as a Superfund site; the town's booming lead and zinc mines closed decades ago, and its population ...
Topics: air pollution, health, mining, news, Oklahoma, placemaking, severe weather, toxics, waste (all these topics)

It's the Pitts Pittsburgh beats out L.A. for sootiest U.S. city		01 May 2008	News
Posted at 10:14 AM on 01 May 2008 Pittsburgh, Pa., has received the dubious honor of being the U.S. city most well-sooted for short-term particle pollution, topping an annual list put out by the American Lung Association. Los Angeles came in at a surprise second as Pittsburgh became the first non-California city to top an ALA list. "It's not that Pittsburgh has gotten worse," says the association's Janice Nolen. "It's ...
Topics: air pollution, health, Los Angeles, news, placemaking (all these topics)

Them's the Brakes Manhattan congestion-pricing plan kicks the bucket		07 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 1:06 PM on 07 Apr 2008 Hopes had run high that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's ambitious congestion-pricing plan for the Big Apple would move forward, but the measure has died a quiet death. Democratic members of the State Assembly, determining that the measure was overwhelmingly opposed, neglected to even bring it to the Assembly floor, instead shooting it down with a secret vote. The now-dead plan would have cha ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, climate change mitigation, legislation, New York, New York City, news, placemaking, politics, state politics, urban planning (all these topics)

The Pricing Is Right New York's new governor supports congestion pricing		24 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 2:40 PM on 24 Mar 2008 Brand-spankin'-new New York Gov. David Paterson has announced his support for a controversial congestion pricing plan. The proposal, put forward by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and supported by former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, would charge $8 to drivers entering Manhattan during peak hours. Said Paterson in a written statement, "Congestion pricing addresses two urgent concerns of th ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, climate change mitigation, New York, New York City, news, placemaking, politics, state politics, urban planning (all these topics)

I See London, I See Advance Polluting vehicles must pay to drive in London under new scheme		04 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 5:01 PM on 04 Feb 2008 Starting today, high-pollutin' trucks and buses will be fined for driving in London's new Low Emission Zone, which stretches for a not-too-shabby 610 square miles. Diesel vehicles weighing over 13 tons must register with the city transportation agency and have their emissions monitored; vehicles can be charged up to $400 for exceeding exhaust limits. A system of cameras w ...
Topics: air pollution, London, news, placemaking (all these topics)

Cool things happening at the local level California 'cool cities' are taking the lead on climate change	Rep Jane Harman	08 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Now in her seventh term, Rep. Jane Harman (D-Venice) represents California's 36th Congressional District. Jane Harman. Even sunny skies and pleasant ocean breezes over much of our state can't mask the fact that Californians breathe some of the most polluted air in the nation. California is the world's 12th largest source of carbon dioxide, the chief heat-trapping gas that causes global warming. As dirty as our air is, we are taking the lead nati ...
Topics: air pollution, California, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Health Class L.A. building schools close to freeways		24 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 11:40 AM on 24 Sep 2007 More than 60,000 students in Los Angeles attend school within 500 feet of a highway, and seven more traffic-spooning campuses are in the works, despite health experts' warnings that such pollution-proximate students are at increased risk of asthma and other illnesses. All of the schools will be built with air-filtration systems, but such systems do not reliably remove the smallest, most dangerous particulate p ...
Topics: air pollution, education, health, Los Angeles, news, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics)

Pictures of the world's dirtiest cities	David Roberts	18 May 2007	Gristmill
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Topics: air pollution, green living, placemaking (all these topics)

And You Thought It Was the TPS Reports Your commute may be killing you, says clean-air advocacy group		02 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
And You Thought It Was the TPS Reports Your commute may be killing you, says clean-air advocacy group Here's one more reason to hate your commute: it could be making you sick. Commuters -- on car, train, bus, bike, or foot -- breathe in up to eight times more diesel soot particles than they would just being in a downtown area, according to a new study by the nonprofit Clean Air Task Force. Based on air-quality mon ...
Topics: air pollution, health, news, placemaking (all these topics)

Heart Trouble High levels of pollution lead to increased heart disease in women, study finds		02 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
Heart Trouble High levels of pollution lead to increased heart disease in women, study finds News flash: pollution is bad. And women living in highly polluted areas are 76 percent more likely to die of a heart attack or stroke, according to a rigorous study published in the New England Journal of Medicine yesterday. "The magnitude of the findings are substantially higher than what's been seen in prior researc ...
Topics: air pollution, health, news, placemaking (all these topics)

Pardon Me Boys, Is That the Chattanooga Cough-Cough? Add diesel locomotives to the list of things killing you		14 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Pardon Me Boys, Is That the Chattanooga Cough-Cough? Add diesel locomotives to the list of things killing you Recently, researchers discovered they'd been a little off in their estimates of how much smog-forming pollution diesel locomotives generate. How off? Turns out by 2030 the trains will be producing about twice what was previously estimated -- 800,000 tons of nitrogen oxide and 25,000 tons of soot, according ...
Topics: air pollution, news, placemaking, US EPA (all these topics)

Fuel Me Once ... Enviros sue Bush admin over lax fuel-economy rules for light trucks		07 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Fuel Me Once ... Enviros sue Bush admin over lax fuel-economy rules for light trucks In a new lawsuit, the Center for Biological Diversity has charged the Bush administration with violating the 1975 Energy Policy and Conservation Act, which requires the feds to regularly update fuel-economy standards to the "maximum feasible level." With currently available technologies, light trucks could readily achi ...
Topics: air pollution, news, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Wheels of Fortune On bicycle commuting, again	Umbra Fisk	31 Oct 2005	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, So what about bike commuting? Is it safe? Is it good? Is it encouraged? P.K. Borzo St. Paul, Minn. Dearest P.K., Yes, yes, yes. Lungwise, biking is at least as safe as driving, if not more so. It's true, as many readers pointed out after my previous column, that we breathe more heavily when bicycling than driving. But the scientists thought of that. In general, we are not worse off biking in regular old city tra ...
Topics: advice, air pollution, Ask Umbra, bikes, placemaking (all these topics)

The Wheel Deal On bicycle commuting	Umbra Fisk	28 Sep 2005	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, My question regards my daily half-hour (each way) bicycle commute through fairly heavy city traffic. I've been wondering if the benefits (exercise, sunshine, free and fast transport) are outweighed by the negatives (primarily breathing in diesel and other exhaust, but I'd also throw in the risk of almost getting run over, despite the cheap thrills). I am fortunate enough that my alternative would be to take the subway, not ...
Topics: advice, air pollution, Ask Umbra, bikes, green living, health, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

Sacrificial Sham Bush asks Americans to avoid unnecessary car trips and save energy		27 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Sacrificial Sham Bush asks Americans to avoid unnecessary car trips and save energy President Bush yesterday called on Americans to drive less and conserve gas. "We can all pitch in," he said. Of course, "all" is relative: Though the president directed federal agencies to reduce energy use, Republican congressional leaders were meeting even as he spoke to push for more energy-industry subsidies ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, news, placemaking (all these topics)

The Kids on the Bus Go Cough, Cough, Cough Kids on school buses breathe more dangerous air than pedestrians		07 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
The Kids on the Bus Go Cough, Cough, Cough Kids on school buses breathe more dangerous air than pedestrians Kids who ride the bus to school may be exposed to higher levels of pollutants than those outside on the street, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of California at Berkeley measured the air inside six school buses on a route through Los Angeles and found that exhaust was leaking inside the passenge ...
Topics: air pollution, news, placemaking (all these topics)

They've Been Workin' on the Railroad Hybrid railcar goes into use in California		16 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
They've Been Workin' on the Railroad Hybrid railcar goes into use in California With U.S. imports on the rise, ports are under growing scrutiny from air-quality regulators. Part of that concern focuses on the rail system that chugs goods out of ports and away to various Wal-Marts around the country. Yesterday, as part of its attempts to address such concerns, Union Pacific Railroad put into use one of the firs ...
Topics: air pollution, California, news, placemaking (all these topics)

Exhausted Old diesel engines kill more than 20,000 Americans a year		23 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Exhausted Old diesel engines kill more than 20,000 Americans a year Particulate pollution generated by old diesel engines is killing more people per year than drunk driving, said a report released yesterday. Using data and methodologies from the U.S. EPA, the Clean Air Task Force and a coalition of public health groups found that more than 20,000 Americans -- particularly those in urban area ...
Topics: air pollution, news, placemaking, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

The Truck Stops Here New electrical hook-ups at truck stops prevent diesel pollution		21 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
The Truck Stops Here New electrical hook-ups at truck stops prevent diesel pollution Long-haul truckers, hardy though they may be, occasionally need rest. Traditionally they have pulled into truck stops and taken naps with their trucks idling, to avoid, you know, freezing to death. Unfortunately, idling diesel trucks produce emissions that likely cause asthma, bronchitis, lung cancer, heart disease, and premature d ...
Topics: air pollution, New Jersey, placemaking (all these topics)

The Traffic is Murder Out There Traffic causes heart attacks		21 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
The Traffic is Murder Out There Traffic causes heart attacks Being stuck in traffic could substantially raise your chances of having a heart attack -- and it's not just the stress. The particulate pollution that hovers over traffic is the likely culprit, says a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine, though "we can't exclude that there is an interaction between stress and pollution," says lead author ...
Topics: air pollution, health, placemaking (all these topics)

If I Were Dictator ... Oh, Wait, I Am! China establishes its first-ever fuel-efficiency standards for cars		24 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
If I Were Dictator ... Oh, Wait, I Am! China establishes its first-ever fuel-efficiency standards for cars Attempting to combat its growing dependence on oil imports, China is set to establish fuel-efficiency standards for cars, SUVs, and vans for the first time. The standards are identical to those in a draft circulated last November, about which the auto industry strenuously complained, claiming they were too strict. ...
Topics: air pollution, China, placemaking (all these topics)

Idle Thoughts On whether to leave the engine running	Umbra Fisk	23 Sep 2004	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I have a question that has been nagging me for a while, and I would really like to have it answered once and for all. You see, I deliver pizzas for a living right now, and so I make many frequent stops and starts at people's houses during a shift. I always turn off my engine whenever I make a delivery or am waiting at the store for the next order to come up, because I believe in doing my part to keep our ...
Topics: advice, air pollution, Ask Umbra, cars, greenhouse-gas emissions, placemaking (all these topics)

Keep on Truckin' Taxpayers could get stuck with tab for new diesel rules	Amanda Griscom	13 Apr 2004	Muckraker
When the Bush administration wants to gin up some environmental cred, it cites efforts underway to slash diesel emissions by requiring trucking companies to switch to cleaner engines. But the untold story is that it may be the taxpayers -- not the polluters -- who end up footing much of the bill. Big Mac attack. Photo: U.S. House. The trucking industry has long been a leading opponent of federa ...
Topics: air pollution, Government Accountability Office, Muckraker, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

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