Posts Tagged ‘clean-air plan’

PORT TRUCK DRIVERS TO MAYOR FOSTER AND COUNCIL: DRIVE A MILE IN MY RIG

March 11, 2008

Chanting slogans and carrying signs — most of them critical of Mayor Bob Foster – an assortment of public health organizations and community activists  marched for an hour outside Long Beach City Hall Tuesday afternoon, complaining that a new Port of Long Beach (POLB) policy unfairly places the burden of reducing air pollution on the low-incomes of independent truckers.
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