Articles tagged as: david freeman

Mayor Enacts Port of Los Angeles Clean Truck Program

LOS ANGELES, California, June 26, 2008 (ENS) – Moving to take thousands of polluting trucks off the road, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa today signed into law the Clean Truck Program, requiring all 16,000 diesel trucks at the Port of Los Angeles to meet some of the toughest environmental standards in the nation. The law [...]

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California Ports Will Buy Cleaner Fuel to Cut Ship Emissions

SAN PEDRO, California, March 25, 2008 (ENS) – Los Angeles and Long Beach harbor commissioners Monday approved a plan to subsidize low-sulfur fuel to ships traveling close to the two ports or while docked. The program aims to improve air quality by reducing toxic ship emissions. At a joint meeting in Wilmington, the harbor commissioners [...]

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