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FEES * USA - California port fee would fight pollution, congestion
Legislators vote for a $60 charge on shipping containers going through Los Angeles, Long Beach and Oakland. The measure would raise at least $400 million annually
Sacramento,CAL,USA -Los Angeles Times, by Nancy Vogel -July 16, 2008: -- Saying California children shouldn't breathe soot so people across the country can buy cheap televisions, legislators voted Tuesday to impose a fee on every container moving through the ports of Long Beach, Los Angeles and Oakland... The money -- at least $400 million a year -- would be used to ease the traffic congestion and air pollution generated by the ports, which handle more than 40% of the nation's goods... SB 974 would impose on shippers a fee of $60 for every typical-size cargo container leaving or entering the ports. The money would be used across Southern California and in the Bay Area for such projects as installing cleaner-burning truck and train engines and building roadways under or over railroad tracks to avoid long lines of idling vehicles...
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