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Apr 2, 2007

For cleaner ports * USA - Cut truck fumes first?

An L.A. ports coalition hopes its plan to allow only trucking firms that embrace new emissions standards will expand nationwide

Los Angeles,CAL,USA -The Christian Science Monitor, by Daniel B. Wood -April 2, 2007: -- ... The Port of Los Angeles and its neighbor, the Port of Long Beach, are being spurred by a broad coalition of local activists to curb emissions related to the shipping industry, and their first action item is to try to streamline the trucking network that transports goods to and from the ports... Last week, the Coalition for Clean and Safe Ports unveiled a plan calling on the two ports to give trucking contracts only to companies that pledge to honor existing government standards for emissions, labor practices, and national-security measures. The hope is that drivers like Ceja will be able to earn more and upgrade their trucks – and that port authorities will be able to hold trucking firms accountable if the drivers who work for them are out of compliance... The hope is also that this plan, which would affect 16,000 truckers, will become a model for the rest of the nation's ports and its 80,000 to 90,000 truck drivers, says the coalition, a group of environmentalists, unions, immigrants-rights activists, residents, and clergy that devised the trucking strategy for the two local ports, which together handle 40 percent of US container shipping. The coalition already is taking the initiative to four other ports – Oakland, Calif., Seattle-Tacoma, Miami, and New York-New Jersey... (Photo by RIC FRANCIS/AP - IN TRANSIT: Trucks roll out, loaded with goods picked up at California's Port of Long Beach)

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