Press Releases
2010
Clean Air, Workers' Rights Advocates Praise Rep. Jerrold Nadler for Leading Effort to Modernize U.S. Port Trucking System
April 28, 2010
National "Blue-Green" Coalition Applauds Key Obama Appointee's Inaugural Earth Day Award To LA Clean Truck Program
April 21, 2010
New Report on Port Trucking Details Imminent Threats to One of the Most Effective Clean-Air Programs in the Nation
April 15, 2010
Top American Port Official Presses Washington to Amend Outdated Law
March 15, 2010
Statement from Amy Goldsmith, Executive Director of the New Jersey Environmental Federation, on the PANYNJ Truck Ban
March 10, 2010
Environmental-labor Alliance to fight poverty, pollution at American ports gets national attention with New York Times story
February 26, 2010
9th Circuit Ruling on LA Clean Truck Program Upholds Lower Court Decision
February 24, 2010
Environmental Groups Blast Port of Seattle CEO Yoshitani for Attempts to Tank Congressional Clean Air Efforts
January 21, 2010
2009
Bay Area Air Quality Management District -- 1st Air Regulator to Call on Congress to Update Federal Law to Clean-up Port Air Pollution
October 27, 2009
Mayors Bloomberg and Booker Urge Congress to Update Old Law to Allow Ports Nationwide to Enact Clean Trucks Programs
October 18, 2009
Oakland Port Commission Votes to Ban Dirty Trucks from the Port Congressional Action Needed for Long-term Environmental & Public Health Gains
October 10, 2009
Appeal to the Oakland Port Commission: Don't Disappoint Our Community with Another Broken Promise to Reduce Air Pollution
October 5, 2009
Environmental, Community and Labor Groups Nationwide Mark One-Year Success of Los Angeles Clean Truck Program
October 1, 2009
Oakland Port Commission Vote Urges Congress to Ensure Ports Have Real Power to Clean Up Diesel Truck Pollution
July 21, 2009
Port of Oakland Votes on Truck Pollution Measures Despite Industry Lawsuit -- A Statement by Doug Bloch
June 2, 2009
Enviro-Community-Labor Coalition Says Oakland Port Truck Plan Falls Short
May 2, 2009
Environmental-Led Port Coalition Praises President Obama’s Pick of Joseph Brennan to Lead FMC
June 9, 2009
Public Health is No 1, Says U.S. District Judge in Denial of FMC Motion to Shelve the LA-LB Clean Trucks Programs
April 15, 2009
Researchers Investigate Reductions in Port Drivers Exposure to Toxic Diesel Exhaust
April 9, 2009
Score One for Efforts to Reform the Port Trucking Industry -- Oakland Port Commission Accelerates Vote Timeline
March 5, 2009
Coalition Condemns the Port of Oakland's Failure to Act to Clean Up Toxic Port Diesel Truck Pollution
March 3, 2009
Environmental-Labor Coalition Demands End to Port Delays, Bold Action on Clean Air Plan
February 4, 2009
New Study Reveals Alarmingly High Cost of Oakland Port Trucking Pollution and Broken Port Trucking System
February 4, 2009
New Study to Reveal Alarmingly High Costs of Health, Environmental, and Worker Impacts of the Broken Oakland Port Trucking System
February 1, 2009
2008
Coalition Collects Diesel Truck Emissions Data Near Schools
December 15, 2008
NY and NJ Leaders Discuss New Plan to Clean Port Communities
October 14, 2008
A Broad Environmental-Community Coalition Applauds the CA Attorney-General Crackdown on Tax-Cheating Trucking Companies in the San Pedro Bay Ports
September 9, 2008
Daimler/Mercedes Benz, Port of Long Beach Condemned for Teaming Up in a Predatory Lending Scheme to Target Low-Wage Truck Drivers
August 20, 2008
Clean Truck Port Policy at NJEF Conference in Newark
April 3, 2008
