Press Releases
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 15th, 2010
Top American Port Official Presses Washington to Amend Outdated Law
March 15th, 2010
Statement from Amy Goldsmith, Executive Director of the New Jersey Environmental Federation, on the PANYNJ Truck Ban
March 10th, 2010
Environmental-labor Alliance to fight poverty, pollution at American ports gets national attention with New York Times story
February 26th, 2010
9th Circuit Ruling on LA Clean Truck Program Upholds Lower Court Decision
February 24th, 2010
Environmental Groups Blast Port of Seattle CEO Yoshitani for Attempts to Tank Congressional Clean Air Efforts
January 21, 2010
October 18th, 2009
Against the backdrop of the East Coast’s largest trade complex, New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Newark Mayor Cory Booker on Sunday jointly announced their support of the Port of Los Angeles’ Clean Truck Program, the nation’s most successful program ever for reducing toxic truck emissions. Their endorsement before dozens of local port drivers, community residents, environmental advocates and labor leaders included a call for Congress to ensure an obsolete law cannot be used to roll back LA’s clean-air progress or deter other ports from following suit.
Coalition for Healthy Ports Press Release
Mayor Bloomberg's Press Release
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's Press Release
Coalition Vows to Fight for LA Port's Clean Trucks Program
April 29th, 2009
US Judge Says Public Health is Number 1 in Upholding LA Clean Trucks Program
April 17th, 2009
Researchers Investigate Reductions in Port Drivers Exposure to Toxic Diesel Exhaust
April 9th, 2009
Coalition Collects Diesel Truck Emissions Data Near Schools
December 15th, 2008
NY and NJ Leaders Discuss New Plan to Clean Port Communities
October 14th, 2008
Clean Truck Port Policy at NJEF Conference in Newark
April 3rd, 2008
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On October 18th, 2009, Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York and Mayor Cory Booker of Newark, NJ stood alongside Teamster president James P. Hoffa, port-adjacent community residents and port truck drivers to declare their support for the Clean Truck Program and call on Congress to amend federal law.
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