Truckers from the Port of Oakland led a convoy to Sacramento to protest a new law that forces 40,000 of the state’s oldest and dirtiest trucks to reduce diesel emissions next month. Another one million must comply by 2011. … Citing the weak economy with many trucks sitting idle during this recession, the trucking industry asked the California Air Resources Board to delay the law because the cost to replace or retrofit a fleet is bank-breaking. … “Lung cancer is the main cancer to have been linked to these diesel exhaust,” says Peggy Reynolds from the American Cancer Society.
