Margaret Gordon used to clean the windows and blinds of her West Oakland, California, home once a week a decade ago to remove the black, gritty soot from diesel air pollution that drifted in from trucks and ships at the nearby Port of Oakland.
Now she cleans them less often after government and business invested well in excess of $100 million in ships, trucks and trains to cut port diesel particle emissions by 75% since 2015 — a striking reversal of fortune for the West Oakland environment.
