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CLEAN TRUCKS PROGRAM * USA - N.J. Environmentalists seek ban on owner-operated diesel trucks at port
NJ,USA -The Star-Ledger, by Brian T. Murray -April 10, 2009: -- The independent trucker is an American icon, glorified 30 years ago in B-movies like "Smokey and the Bandit" as the modern cowboy making a living on his own wits and diesel-powered rig... But it's time for them to hit the highway -- permanently -- charged a coalition of environmental groups and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters today, blaming the bulk of diesel engine pollution in New Jersey and New York ports on owner-operated trucks handling most of the port-hauling business... Members of the Coalition for Healthy Ports and the Boston-based Clean Air Task Force stood at the Tullo Truck Stop in Kearny, calling for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to implement Los Angeles' controversial ban on independent rigs -- a prohibition lambasted last month by a federal appeals court... (Tony Kurdzuk/The Star-Ledger - Dr. L. Bruce Hill of the Clean Air Task Force uses a fine particulate air monitor to measure the amount of diesel soot at the exhaust of an idling truck fitted with clean air technology at the Tullo Truck Stop on Truck 1 and 9)Labels: Clean Trucks Program
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