BUSINESS BRIEFING / COURTS
The Federal Maritime Commission said it was withdrawing its opposition to parts of the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports’ clean-trucks program that it considered anticompetitive.
The commission had failed to get a federal court injunction to block portions the ports’ plan to eliminate older, heavily polluting trucks. But the commission’s reversal was a sea change. The lone member of the five-person panel who had voiced support for the ports now serves as the commission’s chairman.
The ports still face a suit from the American Trucking Assn. that was recently thrown back to a Los Angeles federal court judge by an appeals panel.
Trial for that case is set for December.
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