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Bloomberg and Booker Agree: We Need Cleaner Trucks at Our Ports

Rich Kassel | Posted 10.21.2009 | New York

Read More: Sustainability, Newark, Diesel, Pollution, Trucks, Change to Win, Ironbound, Port Pollution, Cory Booker, Red Hook, New York City, James Hoffa, Michael Bloomberg, Los Angeles, New York News
Rich Kassel

The mayors teamed up with Teamsters President James P. Hoffa to endorse federal legislation that would enable ports around the nation to adopt local green-growth programs to reduce air pollution.

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Industry Lobbyist Is the Wrong Choice to Head Truck Safety Agency

Dan Becker and James Gerstenzang | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senate, Obama, Senate Confirmation, Obama Appointments, Lobbyists, Trucks, Safety, Politics News
Dan Becker and James Gerstenzang

The FMCSA head should not come from the very industry the agency is required to regulate, especially given the trucking industry's obstructionist positions on commonsense health and safety issues.

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Team Earth: Are You In?

Harrison Ford | Posted 09.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Automobiles, Tropical Deforestation, Fossil Fuels, Climate Change, Harrison Ford, Environment, Airplanes, Deforestation, Team Earth, Trucks, Rain Forest, Green News
Harrison Ford

Team Earth is issuing an urgent, immediate challenge by teaming up with the Prince's Rainforest Project to call for swift action and funding to reduce tropical deforestation.

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Smarten Up and Stop Idling

Wendy Gordon | Posted 08.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Pahs, Anti-Idling Laws, Children's IQ, Urban Air Quality, Buses, Emissions, Air Pollution, Trucks, Pre-Natal Exposure, Green News
Wendy Gordon

Prenatal exposure to combustion byproducts lowers children's IQ, according to a new study conducted by researchers at the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health (CCCEH).

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Pickens Plan Floundering, But Has Helped Raise Grid Awareness

Wall Street Journal | NEIL KING JR. | Posted 02.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Natural Gas Cars, Energy, Gas Prices, Energy Grid, T Boone Pickens, Cars, Pickens Plan, Trucks, Green Infrastructure, Oil Prices, Green Energy, Wind Turbines, Green Technology, Natural Gas, Green News

Mr. Pickens is also amassing a nationwide cadre of supporters, including a "Pickens Army" of 1.3 million online adherents. One such foot soldier is Ry...

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Chrysler Would Outsource Everything But SUVs?

Huffington Post, Wall Street Journal | Posted 09.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Outsourcing, Chrysler, Truck Sales, Nissan, Cars, Chrysler Nissan Deal, Suvs, SUV Sales, Trucks, Business News

This is the year of cutting SUV production. If you don't believe it, ask Ford, where they're idling manufacturing plants because they can't sell the...

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Ford To Drastically Shift Production Away From SUVs

New York Times | Bill Vlasic | Posted 07.29.2008 | Green

Read More: Gas Prices, Ford, Ford Cars, Ford Motor Company, Compact Cars, Suvs, Cars, Trucks, Green News

The Ford Motor Company, which devoted itself for nearly 20 years to putting millions of Americans into big pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles, i...

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