In my career as a pediatric lung specialist, I have witnessed the terrible impact that poor air quality has on children’s lungs. Every day, I work with young patients whose asthma and other ...
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Diesel is fading fast, and the world is shrugging
Diesel once promised a cleaner, thriftier future for drivers and governments, yet within a decade it has slipped from ...
Chavez is majoring in social work and American Indian Studies at San Diego State University and is a member of Environmental Health Coalition’s community action team. She has lived in Barrio Logan on ...
Letters to the Editor: Diesel pollution is killing port area residents. Why isn't this an emergency?
Cargo containers sit on rail lines as more containers wait to be loaded onto ships and trains at the Port of Los Angeles in 2020. (Los Angeles Times) To the editor: Pollution from the ports of Los ...
A diesel repair shop in Oregon and its owner are facing heavy penalties for illegally tampering with pollution monitoring devices, a violation of the Clean Air Act. According to a press release from ...
Activists and residents push Illinois to impose diesel pollution limits exceeding national standards
Pilsen resident Lili Scales lives near the Stevenson Expressway, in a neighborhood she describes as “blighted” by diesel pollution from heavy-duty trucks. When she walks to her local coffee shop, she ...
In March, President Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency moved to regulate diesel pollution by regulating nitrogen oxide release from heavy-duty trucks, starting in 2027. This was, according to the ...
Researchers in Canada have, for the first time ever, demonstrated how acute exposure to traffic pollution can immediately impair human brain function, offering unique evidence of the connection ...
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Government, business and media attention continues to focus on the supply chain shortages exacerbated by the pandemic that have prompted the Biden administration to seek 24/7 operation of the nation’s ...
Communities near railyards, ports and other freight corridors have long been hit hard by air pollution from dirty, old locomotives. These massive, track-mounted vehicles, which use a diesel generator ...
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