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"GREEN" NEWS * USA - Governor kills port smog-fighting bill
Signs into law sprawl and water supply measures
Sacramento,CAL,USA -Los Angeles Times, by Patrick McGreevy and Margot Roosevelt -October 1, 2008: -- California embarked Tuesday on a sweeping effort to curb suburban sprawl by rewarding communities that build homes and workplaces closer together to reduce pollution that contributes to global warming... However, a multibillion-dollar proposal to curb air pollution near the state's ports was rejected by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who concluded that the related cargo fees would harm an already suffering economy... The measure, SB 974 by Sen. Alan Lowenthal (D-Long Beach), would have allowed the collection of $60 for each 40-foot container that moved through the ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach or Oakland, which handle more than 40% of the nation's goods... The $400 million raised annually would have gone into reducing traffic congestion and putting cleaner-burning engines in trucks and trains... Backers said 3,700 die each year because of health effects of air pollution caused by moving goods... More than 100 top businesses in California opposed the bill, including Anheuser-Busch Cos. and Coca-Cola, as did the California Chamber of Commerce and the California Grocers Assn...
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