Southern California’s huge logistics industry faces a backlash over wages and pollution

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The logistics industry has flourished in Southern California, but the industry's low wages and pollution have caused a growing backlash.

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Countless billions of public and private dollars went into expanding the ports’ cargo-handling capacity, improving transportation corridors and erecting thousands of warehouses in San Bernardino and Riverside counties to receive, store and distribute the torrent of goods from rapidly expanding Asian economies, particularly China.

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