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Introduction -- The California Perspective -- The Hubs - -Snapshot: a toy story -- The problem with freight transport -- Health impacts -- Environmental justice communities -- Impacts on Labor -- Other community impacts -- Snapshot: the hidden costs of imported grapes -- Impact costs in dollars and cents -- Plenty to go around: paying to clean up freight transport -- Corporate importers -- Corporate exporters -- International domestic shipping -- Rail -- Air freight delivery companies -- Trucking industry -- Public costs and private revenue, in perspective -- Recommendations -- Fair economic costs -- Community-focused solutions -- Common-sense regulation -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- "My stories" "Paying With Our Health: The Real Cost of Freight Transport in California characterizes the costs of freight transport (AKA goods movement) by detailing the health costs of asthma and other illnesses, revenues generated by goods movement activities, and the level of economic opportunity provided to affected communities. It compiles existing exposure studies that characterize the health and local impacts resulting from the system of freight transport. Too often, when community residents propose changes to improve the quality of life in their communities, they are told that its too expensive. This report arms residents with information on how the cost of implementing all available control technologies compares to the annual revenues of importers, exporters, and transporter. Its principal authors, Meena Palaniappan and Swati Prakash, find that implementing state-recommended pollution controls would cost freight importers, exporters, and transporters less than a penny per dollar of their California-dependent revenue..''--Summary from webpage. |
