Dockworkers protest emissions.

• Position: Brief article

See "Trade and Consequences," November/December 2005, p. 23

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union, representing 60,000 dockworkers on the U.S. West Coast, has launched a campaign to pressure ports and shipowners to cut diesel emissions. Seaports in Los Angeles and Long Beach take in about 40 percent of U.S. cargo and together are the single largest source of air pollution in Southern California. The...