Thread: Mexican 'Smog' Soon to Hit

Sunday, March 18, 2007 8:18 p.m. EDT
Mexican 'Smog' Soon to Hit


Environmenmentally sensitive Californians may soon be engulfed in mists of smog thanks to the fleets of Mexican trucks that will transiting the state's highways, a new report warns. California has an Air Resources Board which released its report this past Monday, stating that 50 tons of new smog - the equivalent of that produced by 2.2 million cars - will be pouring into California's skies because 17,500 Mexican trucks will be crossing into the Golden State each day under NAFTA's rules.

Today, that number is only 3,500 trucks.

Of the additional 14,000 trucks, a quarter were on the road before 1980, and as many as nine of every 10 were built before 1993, according to the air board report.

"The supplemental emissions generated by the increased truck traffic could impede California's progress toward attaining the federal air quality standards, which could potentially jeopardize billions of dollars in federal transportation funding," the report states. San Diego officials say they may have to impose more stringent local standards to offset the added pollution from Mexican trucks.

A series of legal challenges stalled the opening of California's border to long-distance foreign trucks after NAFTA became law.

The Union Tribune recalled that in 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the federal government was not required to prepare complete environmental studies on impacts associated with foreign traffic.

The Bush administration, the paper reports, is expected to erase the existing border-truck policy, which had limited most Mexican truckers to a 20-mile zone within California. The air board's report said an announcement repealing the limit is "imminent.” San Diego officials have long struggled to comply with federal standards for cleaner air and the region risks losing federal dollars as punishment for not improving air quality. "If we want overall reductions, we have to get them from somewhere,” an official to the newspapers. "It would have to come from some other source. We need reductions, period.”

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Hmmm, where's the Global Warming nuts, eh?

It's ok for the crap coming in over the border as long as they're NOT AMERICAN?

Can anyone see the dychodomy here?

What hypocrites all these people are!
Save the Planet but let's allow our country to become a cesspool with millions upon millions of 3rd worlders who use our fields as toilets and bring in vehicles that haven't seen an emissions test ever!

The Union Tribune recalled that in 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the federal government was not required to prepare complete environmental studies on impacts associated with foreign traffic.

Why did they rule like that?

CA has worked hard to reduce smog for decades and it's worked. We CITIZENS have to have our cars go through a smog check every 3-4 yrs but not Mexican trucks??? This burns me up.

San Diego already has to deal with the contaminated beaches due to TJ's sewage and now this?

Money money money, is that all they care about?

Originally Posted by jean

The Union Tribune recalled that in 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the federal government was not required to prepare complete environmental studies on impacts associated with foreign traffic.

Why did they rule like that?

CA has worked hard to reduce smog for decades and it's worked. We CITIZENS have to have our cars go through a smog check every 3-4 yrs but not Mexican trucks??? This burns me up.

San Diego already has to deal with the contaminated beaches due to TJ's sewage and now this?

Money money money, is that all they care about?

Because 5 of them are flaming libs who bow at the alter of INTERNATIONAL LAW and have forgotten the U.S. CONSTITUTION which has gone beyond "living" {they're old phrase} and has now become ELASTIC!! {elastic = their new phrase}