Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Air Quality

State of California Sues Carmakers on Climate Change

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 20, 2006 | 4 Comments

If you think Eliot Spitzer picked some tough fights as Attorney General, check out this guy Lockyer in California: SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – California filed a global warming lawsuit on Wednesday against Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp., Toyota Motor Corp. and three other automakers, charging that greenhouse gases from their vehicles have cost the state millions of dollars. […]

The Post ‘Drops the Ball’ on Yankee Stadium Story

By Aaron Donovan | Aug 12, 2006 | 3 Comments

The Post had a story yesterday reporting on the last ditch effort to stop the Yankee’s bad plan to build a new stadium with fewer seats for us Yankee fans but dump more traffic and emissions on the already suffering low-income neighborhoods of the south Bronx. Here’s how the Post characterizes opponents of the plan: Stadium opponents, led by […]

London Mayor Wants $45 Fee From Pollution-Making SUV’s

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 18, 2006 | 5 Comments

Here is a little something to think about as the fine particulate matter settles deep into your lungs on this lovely Ozone Alert Day. While New York City politely suggests via electronic highway billboard and half-assed p.r. campaigns, that motorists switch to mass transit on days like today, the BBC reports that the Mayor of London wants to […]

Do-It-Yourself Air Quality Monitoring

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 17, 2006 | No Comments

Wednesday, July 19, 2006 9 am to 3 pmVesey & Church Streets, Manhattan, near church graveyard WHAT: PM 2.5 air monitoring WHO: John Culpepper of Lower Washington Heights Neighborhood Association WHERE: Vesey & Church Streets, Manhattan near church graveyard. WHEN: Wed. 19 July 2006, 9 am to 3 pm PM 2.5 is particulate matter 2.5 […]

What’s Wrong With This Picture?

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 17, 2006 | 6 Comments

Ozone Alert in New York City: We warn children, the elderly and people with heart and lung conditions to keep off of city streets until air quality has improved. We suggest that motorists might use mass transit. Ozone Alert in Italy, Germany, and other European Union cities: They ban cars, trucks and scooters from city […]