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CLEAN TRUCKS PROGRAM * USA - Oakland port's air quality proposal criticized
Oakland,CAL,USA -The Contra Costa Times, by Denis Cuff -8 April 2009: -- The nation's fourth-largest container port still faces tough decisions about how to reduce diesel emissions from trucks, ships and trains after Tuesday's adoption of its first comprehensive master plan for reducing the toxic pollution... Richard Sinkoff, the port's director of environmental programs and planning, noted that the Port Commission agreed Tuesday to restore up to $5 million in funding for grants to trucks to install diesel soot filters required of trucks using ports by a Jan. 1, 2010, state deadline... Sinkoff said the Port Commission plans this summer to decide on a container fee, which would charge freight owners to raise revenue for pollution reductions... Port officials said the port also is expected to make a controversial decision this summer whether to require trucking companies to make truckers full-time employees so the companies will bear the cost of pollution filters required on old trucks. Most port truckers are independent contractors... The clean air plan also calls for a reduction in pollution from ships while in port, trucks idling in lines, and railroad locomotives hauling freight, Sinkoff said...
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