Natural Resources Defense Council

...the traffic increase wouldn't be significant), and environmental and labor groups including the Center for Biological Diversity, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Teamsters are raising a host of picayune objections, such as the...

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...Success ARLINGTON, Va., Nov. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a series of blogs and open letters, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) attorney David Pettit has attacked the Port of Long Beach for working with the trucking industry to...

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...are going to pay for the construction and operations that go along with all those jobs," said David Pettit, senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council. State air quality and health experts say 2,400 premature deaths...

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...Angeles and Long Beach truck plans by: Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), which has frequently attacked the ATA for challenging the illegal and unconstitutional Los Angeles concession plan; New Jersey Environmental Federation,...

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...to operate at the Port. "We can accept differences of opinion on that issue -- but we won't accept the NRDC's false criticism that the ATA settlement is somehow compromising our environmental goals," said Steinke. He pointed out that not...

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...their lawsuit against the Los Angeles ports' clean trucks programs," said David Pettit, a senior attorney of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). The director of the Southern California Clean Air Program of the 1.2 million-member...

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...safety, environment and security-based standards if they want to access port property. The ports, NRDC, Sierra Club and the Coalition for Clean Air continue to fight ATA's lawsuit in federal court, and are working with federal legislators...

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