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Port Air Pollution * USA - Riles regulators, neighbors
Community groups and clean air advocates and regulators were counting on big commitments from the Port of Oakland this fall to slash diesel truck pollution ...
San Jose,CAL,USA -The San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa Times, by Denis Cuff -5 Dec 2008: -- ... that has contributed to a higher cancer risk in West Oakland... Now they are fuming, saying the city-owned seaport has pulled back rather than pay out for cleaner air, and public health as well as the port's long term financial health may suffer as a result... The tensions are ramping up as ports and truckers struggle to meet new California pollution requirements in the midst of hard economic times sweeping over the shipping industry... Oakland port commissioners voted Nov. 19 to indefinitely postpone a planned $5 million contribution to a government pool of grants for owners of old trucks to install diesel soot filters required by the state for trucks that want to keep visiting ports after Jan. 1, 2010... Port officials said the troubled economy is hitting the shipping industry so hard that the port, a landlord for many interrelated maritime businesses, has a fiscal responsibility to reassess how it spends to reduce pollution...(Photo from CBS - Trucks at the Port of Oakland)* Compressed Natural Gas Trucks Arrive at Long Beach/Los Angeles Ports for Demonstration Project
Long Beach/Los Angeles,CAL,USA -Official Export Guide -December 4, 2008: -- On December 2, the Southern California Gas Co., together with officials from the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles and the South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD), announced the launch of a 12-month demonstration of the nation’s first clean-burning compressed natural gas (CNG)-fueled drayage trucks to transport cargo containers... To study the use of natural gas in port operations, four heavy-duty CNG trucks will move containers between the San Pedro Bay ports and nearby freight-consolidation yards... About two-thirds of the 15 million container units coming into the San Pedro Bay ports annually are moved by truck within a 25-mile radius of the docks. The ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles launched their Clean Trucks Program October 1... Following the initial 12-month demonstration project, the gas company hopes to switch the fuel from CNG to a CNG/hydrogen blend, with the aim of further reducing emissions...
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