CCA among partnership awarded by EPA
 The Coalition for Clean Air (CCA) received the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 2009 National Environmental Justice Achievement Award, as a central member of the stakeholder group that helped shape the Clean Trucks Program at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The broad, 22-member partnership recognized by EPA this month includes environmental and community-based organizations, unions, industry groups and government agencies. Cleaning up port trucks significantly reduces the impact of diesel truck pollution on people living in communities that have long suffered environmental injustices.
The Clean Trucks Program is part of the largest, most aggressive air quality program at any port complex in the world. A little more than one year since the implementation of the program, it has reduced harmful port truck pollution by more than 70 percent. The EPA commends the Clean Trucks Program, saying it “sets the environmental bar for other port facilities to improve air quality in neighboring communities.”
CCA is honored to be part of the collaborative effort that helped steer port authorities in the design and adoption of this model program. This partnership reminds us that we are better off working together to safeguard our most precious natural resource—the air we breathe. CCA would like to extend its appreciation to each partner for working together to help protect our communities and improve our air quality.
Partners
Coalition for Clean Air • Natural Resources Defense Council • Port of Los Angeles • Port of Long Beach • East Yard Communities for Better Environment • The Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice • The Long Beach Alliance for Children with Asthma • The Coalition for a Safe Environment • Pacific Merchant Shipping Association • American Association of Railroads • Majestic Realty Company • Waterfront Coalition • Future Ports • International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 14 • International Brotherhood of Teamsters • International Warehouse Logistics Association • California Air Resources Board • South Coast Air Quality Management District • University of Southern California, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center • Occupational and Environmental Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA |
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