The Natural Resources Defense Council is asking the Long Beach City Council to review the Oct. 19 settlement reached by the Port of Long Beach and the American Trucking Associations involving the port’s clean truck program. … The NRDC’s lead attorney in Los Angeles charged that the harbor commission failed to perform a review of the proposed settlement agreement, as it is required to do under city and state law, to determine if it complies with the California Environmental Quality Act.

From the Journal of Commerce, November 18, 2009