Sentences with phrase «diesel death zone»

The exhaust - filled industrial corridor that stretches from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to Riverside — a city of 300,000 residents and a distribution hub that sprouted up next to the freeways where trucks and trains transporting goods belch dark clouds of diesel dust — is what environmentalists call the «diesel death zone.»

The area stretching from Long Beach to East Los Angeles is what environmental activists call the «diesel death zone.»