The
nonprofit Clean Air Trust named four trucking company executives
as "Clean Air Villains of the Month" for June 2003.
Adding
insult to injury, the group also said American Trucking Associations
President Bill Graves, a former Republican governor of Kansas and
friend of President Bush, “would do well to urge his members to
do something patriotic for the Fourth … namely, stop whining and
act right.”
The
executives – Donald Schneider, chairman of Schneider National Inc.,
D. Joseph Fleming, president of Falcon Transport, Glenn Brown, chief
executive officer of Contract Freighters Inc., and Kevin Knight,
chairman of Knight Transportation – earned the dubious distinction
by urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to delay truck
pollution standards due to take effect in 2007, according to a press
release.
The
release said “these tour haulers of the Apocalypse issued the call
for delay during an American Trucking Associations' diesel emission
‘summit’ in Phoenix earlier this month.”
The
release said there’s no need for the trucking industry to panic.
“Diesel engine makers and the pollution equipment industry are on
track to produce products that will meet the standards,” the group
said.
