Did California’s clean air initiatives made any difference?

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By Alex Lennane

31/01/2012

A lot, if new research from Berkeley University is to be believed. Banning older trucks from entering ports wasn’t popular with truckers serving the country’s largest container terminals, but new data from shows just how effective it’s been – air pollution halved within a matter of months.

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