Trade and transportation organizations are applauding the settlement between the Port of Long Beach and the American Trucking Associations of a lawsuit involving the port’s clean-truck program. Environmental interests, meanwhile, criticized Long Beach for failing to stick with the Port of Los Angeles in attempting to preserve the concession requirements in the ports’ clean-truck programs. … “Rather than clean up the trucks that serve its port, Long Beach ran away from a fight with an industry that has opposed clean-air regulation locally and nationally and is content to sit on the sidelines while the Port of Los Angeles pays to clean up the trucks that serve both ports,” said David Pettit, senior attorney and director of NRDC’s Southern California clean-air program.
