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Clean Trucks Programs * USA - Mayors Bloomberg and Booker Urge Congress to Update Old Law
* New York - To Allow Ports Nationwide to Enact Clean Trucks Programs
New York,NY,USA -PRNewswire/USNewswire -Oct 19, 2009: -- Against the backdrop of the East Coast's largest trade complex, New York, Mike Bloomberg, and Newark Mayor, Cory Booker, on Sunday jointly announced their support of the Port of Los Angeles' Clean Truck Program, the nation's most successful program ever for reducing toxic truck emissions. Their endorsement before dozens of local port drivers, community residents, environmental advocates and labor leaders included a call for Congress to ensure an obsolete law cannot be used to roll back LA's clean-air progress or deter other ports from following suit... Big-city mayors on both coasts have now pushed for changes to federal law to remove any doubt that local officials have the legal authority to address the market failures that have spiked public health and poverty statistics to crisis proportions and have earned America's seaports the notorious reputation as the place "where old trucks go to die"... Earlier this week Oakland Mayor, Ron Dellums, also expressed his willingness to educate Congress on the need to amend the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act, the arcane 20th century statute that the Beltway-based American Trucking Association has argued in court preempts critical components of the green-growth model developed under the leadership of Los Angeles Mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa... (Photo from customhouseguide: clean burning natural gas long beach)
* California - Port of Long Beach, truckers reach settlement on Clean Trucks concessions
Long Beach,CAL,USA -Daily Breeze, by Art Marroquin -19 Oct 2009: -- A settlement was reached Monday between the Port of Long Beach and the American Trucking Association over concession agreements contained in the Clean Trucks Program, officials said... Despite the deal struck with Long Beach, a legal battle continues to brew between the ATA and the Port of Los Angeles over its version of the year-old ban on dirty diesel trucks... Under the settlement, the Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners agreed to drop its concession program in favor of a registration agreement that focuses on "environmental, safety and security requirements," port officials said... As a result, trucking companies doing business with the Port of Long Beach are no longer required to submit financial reports, parking plans or records on driver training, vehicle maintenance and insurance... However, freight haulers will still have to register their trucks and pay a fee to enter port terminals... (Photo from ens-newswire: hybrid drayage truck)
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