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Support Alt-Fuel Trucks Petition

Ports' Clean Trucks Promise

Each year, port pollution leads to more than 3,700 premature deaths in California -- and costs taxpayers over $19 billion. That's why it was so important when the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach promised last year to replace half their fleets with alternative-fueled trucks that are the cleanest available -- and that slash deadly air pollution and the greenhouse gases that cause global warming. But time is running out, and industry is trying to kill the Clean Trucks Program. Please urge the Ports to keep their alternative-fuel commitment. Hardworking Californians can't afford to keep paying the billion-dollar costs of port pollution -- or to miss out on creating new green jobs -- especially in this economy.

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Dear Harbor Commissioners and Staff at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach:

Each year, port pollution leads to more than 3,700 premature deaths in California -- and costs taxpayers over $19 billion. In this economy, we can't afford to keep paying the billion-dollar costs of port pollution -- or to miss out on creating new green technology jobs.

So I strongly support your commitment to replace thousands of dirty diesel port trucks with the alternative-fueled trucks that are the cleanest available. As you know, that commitment is also backed by the South Coast Air Quality Management District and the full range of public health, environmental and community groups working at the Ports.

But we’re running out of time -- because almost the entire port truck fleet is being replaced this year.  So if the Ports don't put thousands of alternative-fueled trucks on the road over the next 8 months, then it'll be too late.

Meeting the Ports' alternative-fuel promise would dramatically reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change -- and the toxic pollution that leads to sky-high childhood-asthma and cancer-risk rates in Southern California communities. And, it would create the good, green jobs that are key to getting our economy going again.

I urge you to act now to deploy thousands of clean, alternative-fueled trucks this year.

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