>> L.A.-area air pollution could dip from new EPA rule on ships, reports the L.A. Times. The new engine and fuel standards — which’ll take effect by 2015. — will reduce air pollution from U.S.-flagged oil tankers and cargo vessels by about 80%. Unfortunately, “the vast majority of the estimated 6,000 large ships that berth annually at the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex are foreign-flagged” and thus not subject to these new standards — yet.

>> San Francisco’s considering mandatory cell phone radiation warnings. “Although there is no scientific consensus that the ubiquitous devices cause health problems, Mayor Gavin Newsom plans to call for an ordinance next month that would require the conspicuous display of radiation levels wherever the phones are sold.”

Earlier:
>> New links between cell phones and tumors
>> How safe is your iPhone? A consumer guide to limit cell phone radiation
>> Eco-friendly phones — How green are they really?

>> Green business people are getting bigger offices according to the L.A. Times, which reports “Eco-officers are moving into executive suites”: “Sustainability officers and green supervisors, some say, are successors to the diversity managers and innovation specialists of the 1990s — with their focus equal parts corporate responsibility, public relations and profit.” Whether most of these these execs really pursue triple bottle lines or simply serve as figureheads remains to be seen.

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