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Pushing the Envelope for Clean Air
Desperate to improve relations with angry neighborhood groups and environmentalists, the Port of Los Angeles began cleaning up diesel exhaust from its 15 thousand daily truck trips two years ago. But national truckers’ associations objected to two measure
The Port of Los Angeles is the largest seaport in the United States and a major source of diesel pollution. It wants to turn drivers into employees so the burden of buying new clean trucks falls on companies and not on low-income drivers. As Living on Earth’s Ingrid Lobet reports, the issue is now before a federal judge.