Contaminated site OKd for L.A. elementary school
Desperate for a place to put a new campus, the Board of Education settles on an east Hollywood location rejected multiple times in the past.
The Los Angeles Board of Education on Tuesday designated the field of an overcrowded east Hollywood middle school as the site of a new elementary campus, a plan that calls for building fields on a contaminated plot that the district repeatedly has passed over for previous projects.
Alexander Farrell, 46; Berkeley associate professor led important low-carbon research
A much-admired energy and transportation engineer, he co-authored California’s landmark fuel standard.
Alexander Farrell, a UC Berkeley associate professor who was a leading voice in energy and transportation policy and played a key role in drafting the state’s plan for carbon emissions reductions, died last week in his San Francisco home. He was 46.
Seattle may dump throwaway bags
The city wants consumers to turn to reusable sacks by charging for disposable ones. The proposal also would ban foam food containers.
- Conservation-mindful Seattlites know their garbage. They pack compost bins, fill yard waste carts, separate glass bottles and jars into tubs, and pack paper, cans and plastic jugs into oversize recycling containers. A city ordinance prohibits putting recyclables in the garbage.
U.S. halts commercial salmon season
Regulators are trying to protect slumping chinook population off California and Oregon.
Instead of preparing to hit the Pacific’s wind-tossed waters next month, veteran fisherman Dave Bitts sat at the counter of a dockside restaurant on Humboldt Bay recently, mulling fate and a cloudy future.
Californians to pay $600 mln for green think tank
California electricity and natural gas customers will be charged $600 million over the next 10 years to fund a green think tank, the California Public Utilities Commission unanimously voted on Thursday.
A surcharge to monthly power and gas bills will fund the California Institute for Climate Solutions, linked to the University of California. The surcharge will be tacked on customer bills of investor-owned utilities and not of municipal utilities in Los Angeles and Sacramento.
Airborne Study Of Arctic Atmosphere, Air Pollution Launched
This month, NASA begins the most extensive field campaign ever to investigate the chemistry of the Arctic’s lower atmosphere. The mission is poised to help scientists identify how air pollution contributes to climate changes in the Arctic.
Academics meets agriculture
By planting fruit trees, high school students aim to make their Lawndale campus ‘the greenest spot on Google maps.’
Most students, it should be said, tended to have a somewhat more apathetic attitude about the whole thing.
18 states sue EPA over greenhouse gas pollution
Eighteen states sued the EPA on Wednesday for failing to limit greenhouse gas emissions from new cars and trucks, one year after the Supreme Court ruled that the agency had the power to do so.
The suit seeks EPA’s response to the high court’s April 2, 2007, ruling, a landmark decision seen as a sharp defeat for the Bush administration’s policy on climate change.
In addition to the states, officials from three cities and at 11 environmental groups signed the suit, which seeks action within 60 days.
Port of L.A. reaches pollution accord
Removing a major hurdle to growth at the Port of Los Angeles, harbor officials have agreed to pay $12 million over the next year on pollution reduction initiatives in adjacent San Pedro and Wilmington, officials said Wednesday.
In the tentative agreement with environmental groups, the port promised to create a trust fund to address the long-term effects of port operations on local neighborhoods, including $6 million for the installation of air filtration systems in Wilmington public schools.
The agreement, which goes before the Harbor Commission today, contains a promise from environmentalists to drop their challenge to a $170-million expansion planned in Wilmington by TraPac Inc.
