SoCal Clean Cities Newsletter

 

October 2007


 

Automakers to Appeal Emissions Ruling

Link to AP story:

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071005/auto_emissions.html?.v=5

 

All Eyes on California Climate-Change Fight

Link to story in USA Today:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/2007-10-09-warming-regulations_N.htm

 

Eying a Future of New-Fuel Cars

Link to story from BusinessWeek:

http://biz.yahoo.com/bizwk/071008/oct2007bs2007104021070.html?.v=2

 

AQMD Wants to Put the Brakes on Polluters

Pilot program uses roadside monitors to test emission levels.

Link to story in the Los Angeles Times:

http://www.latimes.com/classified/automotive/highway1/la-hy-wheels19sep19,0,223424.story?coll=la-class-autos-highway1

 

Colorado Air Panel Looks to California Program to Curb Car Emissions

Link to story in the Rocky Mountain News:

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5703540,00.html

 

Port of Oakland to Restructure Trucking Operations

Plan aims to reduce vehicle emissions.

Link to story in The Oakland Tribune:

http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_6992674

 

Ships are Top Port of San Diego Polluters

Officials are looking to create clean-air program by next year.

Link to story in The San Diego Union-Tribune:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070927/news_1m27port.html

 

Big Rigs at Port of Oakland Linked to Health Woes 

Link to story in the San Francisco Chronicle:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/27/BAVBSENGJ.DTL

 

Trucks Plan Hits Roadblock

Shipping groups challenge Clean Trucks Program.

Link to story in the Press-Telegram:

http://www.presstelegram.com/business/ci_7021008

 

Clean Truck Program in Survival Struggle

Link to story in the Daily Breeze:

http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/articles/10256427.html

 

Electric-Vehicle Drivers Want to Plug Into Fairfax's Dormant Charging Station

Link to story in the Marin Independent Journal:
http://www.marinij.com/marin/ci_7208616

 

For the Ecologically Inclined, Cars that Go Easy on Energy

The Alternative Car and Transportation Expo posits a world that looks like a green utopia.

Link to story in the Los Angeles Times:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-gd-events18oct18,1,7141311.story

 

Auto Industry Pushing for Changes in Senate Fuel Economy Plan

Link to AP story:

http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/michigan/index.ssf?/base/news-47/119282875285260.xml&storylist=newsmichigan

 

GM Launches Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Vehicle ‘Project Driveway’ Vehicle Test

Link to story in Motor Trend:

http://www.motortrend.com/features/auto_news/2007/112_news071018_chevrolet_equinox_fuel_cell/

 


The Southern California Clean Air Newsletter is published monthly as a service of the Southern California Economic Partnership

 

For further information or comments please contact JoAnn Armenta at joann@the-partnership.org or the newsletter’s editor, Bernie Wagenblast at i95berniew@aol.com.

© 2007 The Partnership

 


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