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Air Pollution and the Olympics

Aug 6, 2012Center for Environmental HealthChildren's Health, Environmental Justice, General Insights

Tahmina Kohistani, the only female Afghan track athlete competing in the London Olympics, trains in the Afghan capital Kabul – a city with some of the worst air pollution in the world. In the Afghan capital alone, the number of deaths caused by air pollution...

Watch: The Misclassification in Port Trucking

Dec 8, 2011Ali Geering-KlineEnvironmental Justice, Laws & Regulations, Personal Stories

“I’m classified as an independent contractor, but I have very, very little control over the success or failure of my company.” -Dutch Prior, Port Truck Driver Part of CEH’s Safe Air, Water and Food campaign is the Coalition for Clean and Safe...

My Word: Congress Must Give Port of Oakland Authority to Set Standards to Help Truckers

Jan 6, 2010Christine CorderoEnvironmental Justice

Published in the Oakland Tribune on December 29, 2009 By Christine Cordero and Rome Aloise A THOUSAND truck drivers face unemployment in January when their rigs are banned from the Port of Oakland. The state is rightly enforcing new diesel truck emission standards,...