Did you know that the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are the largest in the nation as well as the single largest source of air pollution in Southern California? Or that trucking at the ports is responsible for more than 100 tons per day of smog and nitrogen oxides—more than the daily emissions from all 6 million cars in the region?
In 2021 things got even worse due to pandemic-induced consumer sales, record-setting volumes of cargo, and a logjam of more than 100 ships anchored off the...