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The Port of LongBeach has cut diesel particulates by 81% since 2005, according to its 2012 Emissions Inventory. The results for 2012 mark six straight years of improving air quality in the harbor area due to the Port’s focused efforts to reduce air pollution caused by goods movement. Greenhouse gases were lowered by 24%.
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.
The Port of LongBeach received a $30.1-million The project will bring approximately 60 electric, human-operated yard tractors to LongBeach Container Terminal (LBCT). Aerial photo of LongBeach Container Terminal with two Cosco vessels at berth. The Port of LongBeach announced Friday it will receive a $30.1
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.
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Built by Seattle-based Foss Maritime, it began working the ports of Los Angeles and LongBeach in January 2009. criteria pollutants—nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, particulate matter—and the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide were measured based on the ISO 8178 protocols. Emissions of. The final stage of.
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The demo was conducted near the ports of Los Angeles and LongBeach as part of a project with Siemens and sponsored by the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD). Earlier post.).
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.)
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Residents living in the three communities are heavily impacted from high levels of air pollution sources including ports and inland warehouses traffic. The plans were developed under the requirements of AB 617, requiring community-driven action to identify, to monitor and to reduce air pollutants of specific concern to each of community.
The American Lung Association released its annual report on air quality, State of the Air 2011 , which includes lists of the nation’s most polluted metropolitan areas. million people—live in areas with levels of ozone and/or particle pollution that are often dangerous to breathe. Bakersfield, Calif.
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Three battery-electric top handlers and two zero-emission yard trucks (fuel cell and battery-electric) at the Port of LongBeach (Cost $8.3 million; Grantee: City of LongBeach Harbor Department). million; Grant: $772,555; Grantee: San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District). million; Grant: $5.3
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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. SCAQMD received $719,500 to replace an older 2007 Tier 2 locomotive at the Port of LongBeach with a new Tier 4 diesel locomotive.
near the ports of Los Angeles and LongBeach. Developing a zero- or near-zero goods movement system in the ports will reduce smog-forming, toxic and greenhouse gas emissions in communities around the ports, which are some of the most heavily impacted by air pollution. Earlier post.). million project is funded by $2.5
DEC considers PEJAs to be communities of color or low-income communities that experience a disproportionate share of environmental harms such as vehicle emissions and pollution. commercial trucks and buses).
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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.
Since it first began operation in April 2017, the Project Portal “Alpha” truck has logged nearly 10,000 miles of testing and real-world drayage operations in and around the Ports of LongBeach and Los Angeles while emitting nothing but water vapor.
less efficient and more polluting. Initial units will be used to complete testing and demonstration of the Tyrano the vehicles in and around the Port of Los Angeles and Port of LongBeach. There are currently more than 100,000 short haul trucks in California and more than 1 million nationwide.
The violations were discovered during routine audits of the Shanghai-based company’s 2014-2017 fleet visits to the Port of Los Angeles/LongBeach and the Port of Oakland. The California Air Resources Board announced that COSCO Container Lines Co., has paid $965,000 in penalties for violating the Ocean-Going At-Berth Regulation.
The LongBeach, CA-based truck/trailer emits 85% less overall particulate matter and 10% less carbon dioxide than its diesel counterparts. Toyota Transport’s southern California Vehicle Delivery Operations in LongBeach and Mira Loma have 32 trucks in service, and the group delivers approximately 200,000 vehicles annually.
It requires OGVs to use less polluting marine distillate fuels instead of heavy fuel oil within a designated area along the California coastline. The OGV Fuel Regulation was adopted by the ARB in 2008 and implementation began on 1 July 2009.
.” He always was so ahead of the curve… Like I say, I live in Torrance, home of the exploding Exxon Mobil refinery where our Air Quality Management District just gave the refinery operators exemptions to exceed pollution limits while they restart the aging climate wrecker back up. .
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s (TMNA) Logistics Services Center at the Port of LongBeach in California. FuelCell Energy’s Tri-gen system will also reduce the air pollution that disproportionately impacts nearby communities, as the fuel cell’s chemical reaction is virtually free of NO x , SO x , and particulate matter emissions. Anaergia Inc.
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Since the launch of the Clean Truck Program on 1 October 2008, pollution at the Los Angeles-LongBeach port complex has been reduced by more than 23%, according to the Commission.
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