posted by admin on Jun 10
"If a port demands this industry starts paying for its own pollution, then the industry sues – because they’re only concerned with making a killing off of goods movement, not cleaning up the deadly toxic air they create... This proves that the so-called "labor" issue has always been a red herring to obscure the trucking industry’s real position – they’ll fight tooth and nail to protect their decades-long practice of padding profits by forcing Californians to sacrifice their health and spend their tax-dollars to pay for the industry’s toxic mess... The American Trucking Association's obstructionism demonstrates we cannot settle for anything less than the cleanest-available trucks driven by a stable, employee workforce. The legal contests by the ATA amounts to nothing more than a political filibuster, which could result in unnecessary delays in implementing critical clean air programs. It is unacceptable to place profit and politics above people’s health.”
Tags: trucks
December 12th, 2008 at 7:22 am
great info