Dateline: Los Angeles/Long Beach

CA Attorney General Harris Files Friend-of-the-Court Brief in Support of the LA Clean Truck Program

February 22, 2011

Attorney General Kamala Harris filed a friend-of-the-court brief in defense of the award-winning Clean Truck Program at the 9^th Circuit Court of Appeals. Attorney General Harris’ critical endorsement provides yet another boost in the case to secure clean air and green jobs at the nation’s largest port.

The amicus brief urges the 9^th Circuit Court of Appeals to preserve the original district court’s decision in favor of the Clean Trucks Program and argues that the Port of Los Angeles as a market participant bears the right to curb pollution as its business expands. For years, port adjacent communities suffered some of worst air quality in the LA region due to dirty trucking operations at the port.

The support of the new Attorney General deals another blow to the American Trucking Associations’ stubborn efforts to stop the sustainment of better air quality in and around the ports.