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CLEAN PORTS * USA - L.A., Long Beach port plan inspires similar effort in Washington state
The green wave continues to roll up the West Coast, as environmental efforts targeting port trucks produced new rules at the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and spurred similar efforts at Washington ports
WASH,USA -Land Line Magazine -9 Jan 2008: -- ... The ports of Seattle and Tacoma announced plans in November to join Vancouver, British Columbia, in the “Northwest Ports Clean Air Strategy”... The strategy is a multitiered plan that calls for trucks to meet particulate matter emission standards equal to or better than 1994 or “newer heavy duty truck engine model year” by 2010 according to the plan... The ports of Seattle and Tacoma are each scheduled to consider approving the plans in mid-January... Officials with the ports of L.A. and Long Beach, who say the ports combine to import 45 percent of all U.S. imports, approved $35 container fees in December to pay for new trucks for certain companies...
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