I have written many times about the trucking situation at the Long Beach Ports. The authorities have demanded that new truck rigs be bought (to reduce the air pollution), considered mandating the conversion to electronic truck vehicles, etc.
Continue reading From Truck to Rail… Long Beach Port has big plans
A little history today. Not too far back.
Back around 1900, a new chemical company was forming- Engelhard. Right about the time industrial chemists were finding out they needed a lot more engineering to scale up and produce the chemicals the world would need. And, chemical engineering was born about the same time.
Y’all know I have lived in the DC Metropolitan area for almost 3 decades. Over that time, the Potomac River has been cleaned up. (No, it’s not clean. But, coming from where it was in the 70’s and 80’s, there has been an amazing improvement.) And, over the past 3 decades, those EPA regulations that a certain party bitches about have made an amazing difference in local air quality. (That’s true even though DC has a slew of bus traffic- more tourist buses than almost every other place in the US.)
Continue reading Dear Jonathan Jarvis
Remember that beautiful snow that blanketed the East Coast in mid January? It sure did look pretty, stoked up on the cars, trees, and roads. Of course, it also meant we had to shovel…big time! Because, as I know from living in Massachusetts and Michigan, 24 to 36 inches of snow takes weeks to disappear, even if the temperature hits 60, as it has lately.
Continue reading Pure as Driven Snow?
