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CLEAN TRUCKS * USA - 1 clean truck program, 2 ports, and now 2 strategies
The port of Los Angeles continues to fight challenges to pollution controls in court. In Long Beach, harbor commissioners are trying to end the same lawsuit
Pasadena,CAL,USA -KPCC (Southern California Public Radio), by Molly Peterson -Nov. 19, 2009: -- A year after the Clean Trucks program began at the harbor complex, the two ports in San Pedro Harbor are headed in divergent directions. The port of Los Angeles continues to fight challenges to pollution controls in court. In Long Beach, harbor commissioners are trying to end the same lawsuit... Representatives of the trucking lobby say often that they have no problem with the Clean Trucks program. They say they accept the idea that the oldest, dirtiest trucks must stop working the ports, and that new, less-polluting trucks must replace them. The California Trucking Association's, Matt Schrap, says companies get it. "The question of clean air isn't so much ‘why?’ anymore, it's ‘how?’," he said... Still, the trucking industry is trying, in court and at a federal commission, to block the legal contracts the ports first chose to enforce environmental and other rules... Port Commissioner, Mario Cordero, said the Long Beach harbor commission should let the courts decide which agreements can enforce environmental rules. He stood alone – other commissioners approved the settlement and the new agreements. The Natural Resources Defense Council and a coalition of labor and environment groups have appealed that decision to Long Beach city officials. The city council plans to hear that complaint next month... (Image from wikimedia.org / wikipedia: LA Harbor plan 1900)
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