Twenty-seven California cities want to clean up dirty diesel trucks.
Officials representing soot- and smog-plagued Southern California cities traveled to Washington last week to ask for $10 million to establish a retrofit program for heavy trucks. The cities may offer incentives to install pollution controls on diesel engines.
Keith McCarthy is a member of the Downey City Council and president of the Gateway Cities Council of Governments, which includes cities from Montebello to Long Beach. Most of those are near the Long Beach, Riverside and San Gabriel River freeways.
McCarthy says pollution from diesel trucks is the downside of booming business in the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles.
Port truck traffic on the Long Beach Freeway alone is expected to triple by 2010.
Officials representing soot- and smog-plagued Southern California cities traveled to Washington last week to ask for $10 million to establish a retrofit program for heavy trucks. The cities may offer incentives to install pollution controls on diesel engines.
Keith McCarthy is a member of the Downey City Council and president of the Gateway Cities Council of Governments, which includes cities from Montebello to Long Beach. Most of those are near the Long Beach, Riverside and San Gabriel River freeways.
McCarthy says pollution from diesel trucks is the downside of booming business in the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles.
Port truck traffic on the Long Beach Freeway alone is expected to triple by 2010.
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