CLCV has long been fighting to get Senator Alan Lowenthal’s SB 974 passed and signed into law. His bill would place a fee on shipping containers inter the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to ease the ports’ health impacts and the dire impacts of goods movement on the transportation infrastructure throughout the region.

Now, under the leadership of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, the Port of Los Angeles has taken an important step forward in protecting public health by reducing the pollution generated by thousands of diesel trucks hauling freight to and from the port.

This is not only a big victory for everyone and everything that breathes in the port’s airshed, but a major step forward in improving the lives of the truckers who haul the freight.