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Article: Long Beach Port Caves to Trucking Industry Polluters at Expense of Community, Environment.
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- Pediatrics Week
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- November 7, 2009
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A sustainable trucking fleet and long-term clean air gains supported by local environmentalists, community groups, harbor residents and workers could be jeopardized thanks to a settlement between the Port of Long Beach and the American Trucking Association announced late yesterday.
Mayor Bob Foster's willingness to sacrifice big-rig emissions reductions to curry favor with port customers comes one day after New York and Newark's Mayors Bloomberg and Booker joined Los Angeles and Oakland Mayors Villaraigosa and Dellums in calling on Congress to help protect the more successful and sustainable LA Clean Truck Program as the green-growth model to replicate at ports ...