Southern California’s huge logistics industry faces a backlash over wages and pollution

Southern California’s huge logistics industry faces a backlash over wages and pollution

Automated electric trucks transport shipping container at the Long Beach Container Terminal in Long Beach on Feb. 9, 2023. Photo by Mike Blake, Reuters In summary

In recent decades, the logistics industry has flourished in Southern California, but there’s a backlash over the industry’s low wages and the pollution it creates.

A half-century ago, Southern California’s financial, political and civic leaders made a fateful decision that the region’s economic future could be assured by expanding its nascent logistics industry, centered on the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.Countless billions of public and private dollars went into expanding the […]

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