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The California Energy Commission approved an $8-million grant to Equilon Enterprises—a fully owned subsidiary of Shell Oil—to develop a high-capacity hydrogen fueling station to service and promote the expansion of zero-emission fuel cell electric Class 8 drayage trucks at the Port of LongBeach.
Reducing airborne pollution at the Ports of L.A. and LongBeach is an important driver of this program. Both of these zero-emissions trucks will be used for drayage operations in the ports of Los Angeles and LongBeach. —Andrew Lund, chief engineer, Toyota Motor North America Research and Development.
The Port of LongBeach received a $30.1-million million grant from the US Department of Transportation to deploy the nation’s largest fleet of manually operated, zero-emissions cargo handling equipment at a single marine terminal. Aerial photo of LongBeach Container Terminal with two Cosco vessels at berth.
The Ports of Los Angeles and LongBeach are co-sponsoring a project to test a seawater scrubber system for the first time on a container ship, beginning this spring. The technology uses seawater to filter pollutants from ships’ auxiliary engines and. Jointly funded by the ports of Los Angeles and LongBeach, TAP has.
The California Air Resources Board approved a new regulation designed to reduce pollution further from ocean-going vessels while docked at California’s busiest ports. Tankers docking at the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of LongBeach must also comply starting in 2025, while tankers in Northern California have until 2027.
Shipping company Maersk Line and the ports of Los Angeles and LongBeach are partnering to measure the environmental benefits of a $125-million upgrade for 12 Maersk container ships. This advances our ability to reduce greenhouse gases and other pollutants on a global scale.
LongBeach Transit (LBT) recently received a $600,000 grant from the Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee (MSRC) of the South Coast Air Quality Management District Near Zero Incentive Program for the purchase of 40 Cummins “near-zero” compressed natural gas (CNG) engines. Earlier post.)
million in Diesel Emission Reduction Act (DERA) grants to public and private partners in California. The funds will be used to retrofit and replace old, polluting diesel vehicles and equipment, including school buses, heavy-duty trucks, tractors and port equipment. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded $9.6
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has awarded $20 million in grants to accelerate California’s transition to zero-emission off-road equipment in the freight, agriculture and waterborne mass transit sectors. million; Cap-and-Trade grant: $6.5 million; Grant: $5.3 million; Grantee: City of LongBeach Harbor Department).
Foss Maritime Company, builder and operator of a hybrid tugboat ( earlier post ), will add a second hybrid tug, a retrofit, to its Southern California fleet with the help of an air quality grant obtained by the Port of LongBeach. Richard Cameron, Director of Environmental Planning at the Port of LongBeach.
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced up to $205 million in grants for projects designed to accelerate the adoption of clean freight technologies and reduce air pollution caused by the movement of goods throughout the state. Grants are expected to be executed over the coming months. Partner match: $41.4
The California Energy Commission awarded more than $24 million in grants today for clean energy freight transportation projects in Los Angeles and LongBeach and more than $12 million for other clean transportation projects. Several other ARFVTP-funded projects were also approved.
Once brought to market, the fuel cell technology could reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and air pollution from thousands of small commercial boats throughout California including patrol, fishing, fire, rescue, ferry, taxi, recreational and other vessels. Supported boat speeds range from a few knots to more than 50 knots.
Like the Recovery Act-funded projects, the annual Clean Cities projects include grants for vehicles, infrastructure, and education. The project will replace 180 diesel drayage trucks at the Ports of Los Angeles and LongBeach with LNG trucks. Last week, the Department of Energy also announced that. Total DOE award: $5,924,190.
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Key Steps to Cleaning Southern California’s Air Diesel Class 8 trucks run seemingly tail-to-nose from the Ports of LongBeach and Los Angeles to the Inland Empire in Southern California. tons of pollutant emission reductions and displacing more than 2.75 million gallons of diesel over the coming five-years.
Multi-million-dollar grants adding up to more than $46 million from the US Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) will help support electrification efforts at several American ports. The LongBeach Container Terminal (LBCT) in LongBeach, California has received a $34.9 million of the FHWA funding.
“Climate United’s announced RFP is a critical step toward a cleaner, healthier future for communities around the Ports of Los Angeles and LongBeach,” says US Congresswoman Nanette Diaz Barragán. This $250 million commitment will reduce pollution, address the climate crisis, and improve public health.”
Electrifying heavy-duty trucks is essential if we’re to fight climate change and air pollution, but the pace of the transition has been painfully slow—many, many pilots, but few truly large-scale orders.
From the report: “The federal government and some states offer dedicated grant programs for BEVs and related infrastructure, but the funding currently available isn’t sufficient to support widescale market deployment. The cost equation is trickier.
And then there’s interoperability and all those standards that we take for granted in the 12- and 24-volt world. The primary customers right now are the ports—Port of LongBeach, Port of Los Angeles—and the ports around the country are usually in urban environments. They don’t really exist in the 800-volt world.
Harris announced a settlement with cargo terminals at the ports of LongBeach and Los Angeles over diesel emissions from exhaust that requires the terminals to complete projects to reduce their diesel emissions and better notify the public of emissions. California Attorney General Kamala D. Eagle Marine Services, Ltd.; Trapac, Inc.;
This solicitation is issued under the Assembly Bill 118 (AB 118) Air Quality Improvement Program’s (AQIP), Advanced Technology Demonstration Project and is intended to fund technologies on the cusp of commercialization with the potential for significant reductions in criteria and toxic air pollutants.
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