Cleaner Growth For America's Largest Ports

The largest ports in America are missing major, obvious opportunities to clean up its air and publicly demonstrate its commitment to lowering emissions.

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August 4, 2004, 2:00 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

The Ports of Los Angeles/Long Beach are responsible for approximately 10% of the Los Angeles basin's air pollution. "While the Port of Los Angeles is moving forward with 'cold- ironing,' powering ships by electricity while docked instead of low-grade, highly polluting diesel fuel, the Port of Long Beach is dragging its feet. Cold-ironing has the potential to significantly lower the amount potentially dangerous air particulates generated at the ports"

Thanks to Gilbert Estrada

FULL STORY: Cleaner Port Growth ?

Wednesday, August 4, 2004 in Long Beach Press-Telegram

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