ELF in the News

August 8, 2007 - San Francisco Chronicle
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School bus company to fix or replace all its diesel vehicles

Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer

Durham School Services pledged to replace all its buses in the state, or retrofit them with low-emissions engines, by 2014. During the upgrade, which is to start by the end of this year, the company agreed to post notices in buses warning of the cancer risk from diesel fumes, as required by California’s toxics disclosure law, Proposition 65. Read the Full Article.

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May 16, 2007 - San Francisco Chronicle
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School bus company falsified emissions test data, suit says

Jane Kay, Chronicle Environment Writer

Public-interest groups say the company that operates school buses for San Francisco and other Bay Area cities has falsified emissions tests on the diesel exhaust-belching vehicles and should be forced to post signs on its 4,000 school buses statewide to alert students to the dangers of the toxic exhaust. In legal documents filed Tuesday by Oakland’s Environmental Law Foundation, two former Laidlaw Transit mechanics say they were ordered to falsify emissions tests and repair orders at the company’s San Francisco maintenance yard. Read the Full Article
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Sept. 21, 2005, New York Times
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The New York Times

 

California Wants To Serve A Warning With Fries

By MELANIE WARNER
Americans may have plenty of reasons to fear French fries. While they are one of the country’s favorite foods, they are soaked with trans fats, loaded with sodium and full of simple carbs, the bad kind. And, it turns out, they are also full of a chemical called acrylamide, which is known to cause cancer in laboratory rats and mice.That discovery a few years ago has raised questions about the safety of fries, as well as potato chips, which are also packed with acrylamide.It ultimately led to a showdown this summer over whether such foods should bear health warning labels and whether companies should be required to reduce acrylamide levels in their food.The battle pits the activist attorney general of California against the food industry and the Food and Drug Administration. Read the Full Article