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AWARD * USA - Port receives Environmental Justice Achievement Award from EPA
Clean Trucks Program recognized with national honor
Washington,DC,USA -Everything Long Beach -16 Dec 2009: -- The Port of Long Beach’s landmark Clean Trucks Program has won the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Justice Achievement Award — the nation’s highest honor for reducing the impact of pollution on low-income and disadvantaged communities... The EPA recognized the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, along with several community, environmental and industry partners, for “setting the bar” for port facilities worldwide. The EPA commended the port stakeholder group that helped develop the trucking program and collaborated to replace thousands of aging, exhaust-spewing trucks with new, clean big-rigs. The program is producing “immediate and ongoing environmental benefits” for local neighborhoods, the EPA said...Labels: awards
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