Sep. 28, 2011
Panel upholds port's diesel emissions reduction program
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals mostly upheld the legality of the Port of Los Angeles' program to cut big rig pollution on Monday, but scuttled a controversial requirement that trucking companies hire their drivers as employees.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals mostly upheld the legality of the Port of Los Angeles' program to cut big rig pollution on Monday, but scuttled a controversial requirement that trucking companies hire their drivers as employees.
The American Trucking Associations Inc. sued the port in 2008 claiming its Clean Truck Program, which aimed to cut diesel pollution 80 percent by 2012, illegally medd...
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