Recent Media Coverage

A Smart California Port Policy for the Green-Growth Future, Spearheaded by Progressives Part I by Patricia Castellanos & Doug Bloch, Coalition for Clean & Safe Ports, California Progress Report, May 27, 2008

A Smart California Port Policy for the Green-Growth Future, Spearheaded by Progressives - Part II by Patricia Castellanos & Doug Bloch, Coalition for Clean & Safe Ports, California Progress Report, May 28, 2008

Port of Oakland fights trucking industry over driver status by Eric Young, San Francisco Business Times, May 16, 2008

Rising Fuel Prices Fuel Chaos at Port of Oakland, Oakland Post, May 14, 2008

Kaplan Supports Coalition's Demand For Clean and Safe Port in Oakland, Oakland Post, May 14, 2008

Pelosi is supporting L.A. truck plan by Kristopher Hansen, Daily Breeze, May 7, 2008

Wildcat Strike By Truckers At Port Of Oakland, KTVU/Channel 2 TV, May, 6, 2008

Wildcat Strike By Independent Truckers At Port of Oakland, KTVU/Channel 2 TV, May 6, 2008

Truckers protest to get relief at pump, by Francine Brevetti, Oakland Tribune, May, 5, 2008

Study spotlights bleak effects of poverty by Elizabeth Fernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, April 18, 2008

Big Trucking Deal A diverse coalition wins a battle to regulate air pollution at California ports by Kate Sheppard, In These Times, April 7, 2008

PBS to air study on link between money, health by Victoria Colliver, San Francisco Chronicle, March 27, 2008

Port program gets pollution cleanup rolling by Los Angeles Councilmember Janice Hahn, Daily Breeze, March 24, 2008

Study says diesel emissions raise cancer risk by Elizabeth Fernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, March 20, 2008

Oakland Port to take up diesel emissions by George Raine, San Francisco Chronicle March 18, 2008

Kids Learn How Port's Pollution Hits Home Field Trip teaches middle-schoolers about the dangerous effects of particulates by Elizabeth Fernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, March 3, 2008

Port rail projects create pollution worries by Dennis Cuff, Contra Costa Times, February 22, 2008

Together at Last Teamsters and Sierra Club Join Forces for Good Jobs and Clean Air by Chuck Mack, International Brotherhood of Teamsters and Tom Politeo, Sierra Club, Social Policy, Fall 2007

Presidential Candidates Agree:  Big Changes Needed at Port Letters to Mayor Dellums Call for Air Clean Up and Trucker's Rights, Oakland Post, January 30, 2008

Obama and Clinton push for truckers' rights at port by Kristopher Hanson, Press-Telegram, January 11, 2008

Port Pollution Pervasive, Study Says by Viji Sundaram, New American Media, December 7, 2007

Truckers at Port of Oakland breathing too much soot by Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, December 4, 2007

Big rigs at Port of Oakland linked to health woes by Jane Kay, San Francisco Chronicle, September 27, 2007

Perilous Diesel, KQED Quest, September 4, 2007

Importing injustice How Deregulation and Wal-Mart poison the Port of Oakland's neighbors and force poverty wages on its truckers by Joseph Plaster, San Francisco Bay Guardian, July 18, 2007