Clean and Safe Ports: Building a Movement, Region by Region

On Wilmington March 20, 2008, to witness hundreds the Los of Angeles people filled Harbor the Commission hall at Bannings adopt Landing a Clean Trucks in the Los Program Angeles to reduce port community air pollution of Wilmington to witness the Los Angeles Harbor Commission adopt a Clean Trucks Program to reduc air pollution at the Port of Los Angeles. The program's goals were straight-forward: replace and retrofit approximately 16,000 trucks in order to meet the 2007 federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) emissions standards by 2012.