Long Beach Beats Clean-Trucks Target
Bill Mongelluzzo / The Journal of Commerce

Truck pollution to reach 80 percent reduction two years ahead of plan

The Port of Long Beach will reduce truck pollution in the harbor by almost 80 percent by the end of the year, two years earlier than port executives anticipated when they launched the clean-trucks plan in the fall of 2008.

Long Beach and neighboring Los Angeles introduced clean-trucks programs on Oct. 1, 2008, when they banned all pre-1989 trucks. Since then, harbor truckers have purchased more than 5,000 vehicles that meet the federal Environmental Protection Agency standards for 2007-model trucks.

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