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Truck Pollution * USA - L.A., Long Beach port officials split over
Program to cut diesel fumes may be affected as officials appear divided over how to treat truckers who haul cargo in old, polluting vehiclesLos Angeles,CAL,USA -The Los Angeles Times, by Louis Sahagun -February 19, 2008: -- For months, officials in Los Angeles and Long Beach have touted plans to jointly combat air pollution generated by their adjacent ports, but a much-vaunted program to replace thousands of polluting trucks has hit a significant snag... The problem reveals that officials at the cities' ports have sharply differing views on how to treat the 16,500 truckers serving the nation's busiest port complex... In a move that disappointed environmentalists and Los Angeles port officials, the Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners on Friday released a plan to slash truck-related diesel pollution that would allow trucking companies to use employee drivers, independent contractor drivers or a combination -- as they do now... Environmentalists and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters had hoped Long Beach would take a radically different approach -- that trucking and shipping companies would be compelled to hire the truckers. The burden of owning, operating and maintaining the fleet of cleaner big rigs would fall to the companies... (DECISION: Port of Long Beach officials will vote today on their version of a plan to deal with diesel emissions from trucks)
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