While votes go down the tubes
The average American will flush a toilet approximately 140,000 times in his or her lifetime. That stat comes up in a Sacramento Bee story on new regulations on water use in toilets– apparently everyone from greens to plumbers to the governor is happy about the new regs, and the [...]

Air pollution and the port
The Port of Long Beach adopted new rules regulating truck emissions earlier this week. It’s part of a joint effort with the Port of Los Angeles to limit vehicle-produced air pollution.
But the trucks, of course, are just one source of air pollution at the ports– what about the ships? A new [...]