* California - Green port, truck, rail programs lauded in reducing emissions
-- Green programs implemented by the port, trucking and rail industries in California have contributed mightily to harmful emissions reductions in the state over the past 20 years, according to a University of Southern California study published last month in the Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association... The study covers pollution from all mobile sources, including the worst offender, private automobiles, and freight transportation-related emissions are but one piece of a larger picture. Nevertheless, the message for container ports, the trucking industry and intermodal rail operators across the country is clear: Emissions-reduction programs work... For example, nitrogen dioxide, which is a by-product of engine combustion, decreased by 28 to 53 percent between 1994 and 2011 in communities from San Luis Obispo on the Central Coast to San Diego. Inhalable particulate matter, which are microscopic pieces of dirt floating in the air, decreased by 13 to 54 percent in the region. Those pollutants are directly linked to a host of respiratory illnesses such as asthma, heart disease and cancer... The study cites specifically freight transportation-related emissions reductions from ocean-going vessels, harbor craft, cargo-handling equipment, drayage trucking and rail carriers serving the ports, and provides a link to the watershed Clean Air Action Plan implemented by the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in 2006. The CAAP resulted in an overall 80 percent reduction in several pollutants in the nation’s largest port complex. The study notes that port-related emissions were slashed even though cargo activity increased 160 percent from 1994 to 2011...
(Photo Credit: Port of Long Beach - The clean-trucks portion of the CAAP slashed diesel emissions from harbor trucks by more than 90 percent) -- Long Beach, CAL, USA - J.O.C., by Bill Mongelluzzo - Apr 09, 2015Labels: green trucking industry, trucking industry news USA
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