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Article: Feds to drop Clean Trucks lawsuit against ports
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- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- June 17, 2009
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The federal agency that oversees maritime trade laws announced
Tuesday that it intends to drop a lawsuit that would block several
disputed provisions of the Clean Trucks Program enacted by the ports
of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
U.S. District Judge Richard Leon will now consider whether to
approve the Federal Maritime Commission's request to dismiss a
federal lawsuit filed last year against the twin ports' $1.6 billion
program, which aims to reduce diesel truck emissions by 80 percent
by 2012.
In April, Leon rejected the FMC's initial efforts to halt certain
aspects of the Clean Trucks Program, calling the agency's arguments