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Article: Historic Clean Trucks Program Reaches One-year Mile Marker.
- Article from:
- Cancer Weekly
- Article date:
- October 13, 2009
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Today, one year after the landmark Clean Trucks Program (CTP) launched at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, thousands of the dirtiest diesel trucks are off the road, replaced by cleaner trucks. In just one year, the CTP has reduced emissions equivalent to the amount produced by 200,000 automobiles on Southern California's highways. When the next ban of old trucks takes place on January 1, 2010, nearly all of the trucks serving the Ports will meet emissions standards of 2007 model year trucks (see also Coalition for Clean Air).
"The Clean Trucks Program is a critical step in fixing the broken system that is port trucking, but with 90 percent of the fleet ...