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- BUSINESS, Page 61Business NotesTRANSPORTATIONU.P.S. Goes Natural
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- According to federal air-quality standards, the stuff that
- floats above Los Angeles is unfit for humans to breathe for
- more than half the year. As a result, the second most populous
- city in the U.S. last year implemented the nation's toughest
- antismog regulations. United Parcel Services said last week it
- will comply with the new rules by converting its 2,700 delivery
- trucks in Los Angeles to cleaner-burning natural gas. By the
- year 2007, the city expects all its cars and trucks to run on
- cleaner fuel.
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- United Parcel, with headquarters in Greenwich, Conn., has
- spent a year testing 10 natural gas-fuel trucks in Brooklyn,
- N.Y. Reduction of smog-causing gases has been so effective in
- those vehicles that the company is preparing to make sample
- conversions by early 1991 in its 600-vehicle fleet in
- Manhattan. They will come none too soon; New York City has the
- second worst air in the U.S., after Los Angeles.
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