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2023-05-30 22:52Delta Air Lines hit with lawsuit over claims of carbon neutrality
By ED DAVEY The Associated Press A consumer class action lawsuit filed Tuesday claims Delta Air Lines inaccurately billed itself as the world’s “first carbon-neutral airline” and should pay damages. The complaint in federal court in California alleges the airline relied on carbon offsets that were largely bogus. Companies around the world buy carbon credits -
2023-04-27 21:22California becomes the first state to adopt emission rules for trains
April 27, 2023 SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California approved Thursday a first-in-the-nation, ambitious rule limiting rail pollution to aggressively cut greenhouse gas emissions in the state’s latest move to establish itself as a global leader in the fight against climate change. The rule will ban locomotive engines more than 23 years old by 2030 and increase -
2023-04-06 00:47EPA proposal takes on health risks near US chemical plants
By MICHAEL PHILLIS The Associated Press In what could prove a significant move for communities facing air pollution, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed on Thursday that chemical plants nationwide measure certain hazardous compounds that cross beyond their property lines and reduce them when they are too high. The proposed rules would reduce cancer risk and -
2021-03-31 23:53
More vaccinated travelers mean pricier hotels, flights
Now, with COVID-19 vaccinations opening the possibility of travel to millions more Americans each week, air prices are once again set to change…. (David Zalubowski / The Associated Press) More SAM KEMMIS of NerdWallet The Associated Press The cost of travel will slowly rebound from historic lows as more people receive COVID-19 vaccinations and book long-deferred -
2021-01-28 22:58
Airlines close books on rotten 2020 and so far, 2021 is grim
By DAVID KOENIG The Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Just how bad was 2020 for the airline industry? The six biggest U.S. airlines lost $34 billion, and Southwest suffered its first full-year loss since Richard Nixon was president and gasoline sold for 36 cents a gallon. It was a disaster for airlines, worse than 9/11 -
2009-08-06 11:08
Too-narrow trench could cost $1 million at Seattle port
SEATTLE – A tiny mistake – about half the thickness of a dime – could end up costing about $1 million at the Port of Seattle. When the port built a new cargo terminal for stevedoring company SSA Marine, a trench was dug to hold the electrical cable for the giant cranes that lift containers -
1996-07-11 00:00Moscow-Pullman Daily News – Activists Propose New Puget Sound County, July 11, 1996
SEATTLE - Cedar Caunt;y. Casade County. Enumclaw County. Sll)l1coml&h County. Pioneer Counl)'. WhlLehorse Counl)'. A lla ofu............rul proposals ror now countJea in Wuhington atal.c migltt well cxoood lhe 89 counties now in eJ<Jate-. but what some &OUth KinJz County rutdenta ltove in mind Ia diffon>nL A aunJ>4lilln boi"!18Jinounced today would C..rve l'uget Sound County out or tlle Kin& County, from the wburt>e a:ound SeattJe. 'lllooma lutemational AiJ1>ort to the Plcrco Count;y line. 'The people or South King County have !tad It up to here with theM powo"' that bo: oaid Peter'Townsend, a Federal Way accountant and member of the Puget Sound County Steerlng Committee. Bad<en aoy thoro would bo lliO.OOO to 200.000 res!denl4. in the now county. whlc:h would con·alit or Fedora! WD¥• Burien, 0.. Molnea. Normanely Park, &aThe. 1\akwUa and a few unincorporated areu. lt'a tho n .. t eampoign, at lout In r.cent memory, to fonn a r>ew counl)l In a largely urban·l%ed uta. The last time a new C>lll1\y wu H\ablilhorl in WasltingtDn wu In 19 U.. wlten Paad OreUle County wu fanned out or the eutorn HCti.on or Stevena Coun11- In the 1 .. 1 throo docadoa thoro ltove been unsuc:caarw ltlemptl to form new eountlea only in predomiNlDtly rural ........ .-Uy oot or .u. gruntlemont with eounty gov·ommenta dominated by urban CO DC*~ FaUed aeceaalon movcmentl Include proposala for Cedar Co~ ln eD.Jtem King Coun~;y; Co 1 County in eastern King and Piorco• eounties; Freedom, Slcyl«>mlsh and Whlteltonoo counlleo in SDObolnlsb County; Plonttr County In northom WltaiCOm Caun\1- and Olympic Count;y In western C!&lam 8Jid Jofl"er1011 counlles. Some or the mollvatloa for Pupt Sound County is similar.