Local residents were paid to push for natural gas trucks at the ports of L.A. and Long Beach, a joint investigation by The Times and Floodlight found. Their comments bolstered a successful gas industry lobbying campaign.
The climate crisis disproportionately harms Black people, Latinos and Native Americans. But oil and gas supporters are trying to claim the moral high ground.Latino, low-income neighborhoods surrounding the ports — including San Pedro, Wilmington and parts of Long Beach — have some of the highest “pollution burdens” in California, a measure that includes diesel particulates and ozone in the air. Much of that pollution comes from trucks that move cargo north along the 710 Freeway.
On the other side, climate and environmental justice activists pushed for electric trucks that would take advantage of Nearly all of them ultimately spoke, as did Bousheri, almost uniformly identifying themselves as local residents and taking positions aligned with the gas industry’sA worker arrives to transfer natural gas from a Clean Energy Fuels tanker truck to the company’s fueling station in Wilmington.Bousheri was one of four port-area residents interviewed for this article who said they were paid by Method to attend and speak at public meetings.
“Their voices are now louder than the people who live there, and it’s just truly tragic,” Marquez said. “There is no amount of money they can give us that will fix it.” “They need to hook as many people into natural gas trucks as possible in the next couple of years, because I think they really do see electrification as a threat to their ability to sell product,” said Adrian Martinez, an attorney with the nonprofit law firm Earthjustice who has worked with community groups pushing for electric trucks at the ports.
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