Workshop Session III: Tuesday, May 4, 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
Concentration: Transportation, Urban Planning and Equitable Development

In 2008, the Port of Los Angeles adopted the Clean Truck Program (CTP), which eliminated 30 tons of toxic diesel pollution and started to re-build economic realities for tens of thousands of low-income port truck drivers. Despite legal challenges by the American Trucking Association, a national blue-green effort, initiated by local coalitions in Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, Seattle, New York and New Jersey, has begun building for a fight at the federal level to protect the Clean Truck Program and pave the way for similar programs in port cities around the country.

Moderator:
Fred Potter, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Port Director and International Vice President

Presenters:
Angelo Logan, East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice, Co-Director
Ana Baptista, Ironbound Community Corporation, Program Manager
Brady Montz, Seattle Group Chair, Sierra Club.
Truck drivers from Los Angeles, Oakland, and New Jersey Ports (Invited)