NONECOLOGICAL NEWS * Japan - Trucking firms skirting pollution law
Osaka,Japan -The Yomiuri Shimbun -19 Dec 2006: -- As many as 129 truck transportation firms have opened sales offices in Nara Prefecture, where a law on reducing hazardous nitrogen oxide and particulate matter does not apply, according to the Kinki District Transport Bureau... According to the bureau, the firms, which are headquartered outside Nara Prefecture, began opening branch offices four years ago, when the law was first enforced... As the firms are allowed to set up parking facilities within 10 kilometers of their sales offices, 45 of the 129 firms have located facilities in neighboring Osaka Prefecture...
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