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Global Trade Comes Home: Community Impacts of Goods Movement Andrea Hricko Abstract
Although global trade can have economic benefits for the nations involved, the environmental health of communities located along goods movement routes is often negatively impacted by pollution from the diesel ships, trains, and trucks used to move freight. Spurred in part by community and environmental advocates, governments are beginning to take action to reduce toxic exposures created through goods movement. Such efforts are being supported by new research findings and by community-oriented meetings that have raised awareness of the health and environmental justice issues created by goods movement. Children play soccer next to the TraPac terminal at the Port of Los Angeles, Wilmington, California. An erratum was published in Environ Health Perspect 116:A110 (2008) .
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