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the Los Angeles region (e.g. Commerce, Mira Loma, and Carson). portoflosangeles in In some ways, this song should be to movement of freight, railyards are scattered in communities throughout the Los Angeles region because we are definitely suffering from the anthem for the freight train blues. air pollution to large diesel engines powering the from the trucks and trains that visit these yards. Ample scientific evidence has linked diesel pollution of asthma, other respiratory diseases, and even premature death (see Chapter 1 Adrian Martinez Doc and Merle Watson, a December 2007 NRDC report). As a , the father/son bluegrass duo from North Carolina, covered an Elizabeth Cotton song called
situated close of the ICTF and the largest railroad in the ICTF has an immense footprint by the harm caused by Los Angeles and Long Beach and haul them the four miles to residences and schools. Essentially, trucks pick up containers from to Union Pacific Railroad (UP), the traffic generated from the nation. a railyard in Carson operated is 5 miles upwind or 8 miles downwind of impacts as it transfers tennis shoes and other products produced in Asia to this railyard where these containers are placed on locomotives destined for places like Chicago. The ICTF ranks as the fourth most polluting railyard in all of California . CARB determined that the nation. UP’s Intermodal Container Transfer Facility (ICTF) is about million until a person is one of places throughout the ICTF. As such, the ports of the railyard impact approximately 600,000 residents at elevated cancer risk (more than ten in one million). The impacts do not fall below 10 in a A prime example of these rail operations
going to provide its clean up plan for this facility to see whether UP will agree to UP clean up its act at the road, and electrifying its operations. The coalition simply asks that UP be a More than a month ago, a Joint Powers Authority—a governmental oversight committee—so many will be watching to a coalition on community, health, environmental justice, and other groups requested that UP could reduce the cleanest available trucks is the harmful air pollution from the region’s freight train blues. the ICTF. Specifically, these groups made many recommendations for ways of be this better neighbor or continue its polluting ways. We are hopeful UP will take this first step at easing that the ports in pushing the better neighbor. Tonight, the ICTF such as using cleaner locomotives, aiding the UP
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