San Joaquin Valley Gets $250 Million To Clean Up Polluted Air

Central Valley air regulators have secured $250 million in state grant money to clean up the region's polluted air, but the amount is less than they had requested.

Editorial: Cleaner Air, And Sooner

The Port of Long Beach's new diesel policy ignores politicking to get results.

The Port of Long Beach, thanks to some gutsy harbor commissioners and local political leaders, has ignored noisy politicking and moved ahead with its...

Yellow Bus Turns Green

To reduce the clouds of noxious diesel exhaust, the Revere Board of Education adopted a policy that banned idling buses with the start of the 2006-07 school year. Now, the school system is going a step further to turn its yellow...

Sue Pope Fund Awards $1 Million For Clean-Air Efforts In North Texas

By Randy Lee LoftisOrganizers said they believe the fund is the largest such private effort in Texas. They received $11 million in grant applications and chose six totaling $1 million."The exciting thing to me is that this is an...

States Petition EPA On GHG Of Nonroad Engines

California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced a petition to the EPA asking it to adopt GHG emissions standards for nonroad vehicles, engines and equipment. Other states, government agencies and environmental...