NAFTA truck traffic increase boosting pollution on Mexico-U.S. border, threatening children's health - Around The World Of Diesel - Brief Article

NAFTA trade Traffic Increase Boosting Pollution upon Mexico-U.S. Border, Threatening Children's Health: According to the official Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) children along the Juarez/El Paso border between Mexico and Texas go through exceptionally high rates of respiratory distress because of a very great surge in cross-border diesel barter traffic pollution, an unintended event of the North American independent Trade Agreement (NAFTA). While the U and Canada are moving to clean-up diesel barters and switch to ULSD, it's uncertain when or to what expansion Mexico will adopt similarly drastic measures upon highway diesel fuels and vehicles. Nor is it clear what cross-border states will do to advance the retrofit or retirement of the worst-polluting advanced in years trucks and trains. Cutting diesel sulfur would improve the situation, CEC said in an AP wire story. CEC was station up by the U.S., Mexico and Canada to mitigate environmental moot points arising from NAFTA treaty.

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