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  - Health costs to Californians, so far this year, of port related pollution in California.
The Ports of LA  Long Beach Clean Air Action Plan passed in November 2006, and 0 clean trucks service the ports.
Port Pollution Facts
  • In Long Beach, 20% of children under 17 have been diagnosed with asthma - nearly twice the national average.
  • $67 million: The cost of respiratory problems associated with ports in CA.
  • Diesel Exhaust is responsible for 84% of the cancer risk from air pollution in the Southern California Air Basin.
  • $19 BILLION: Cost on health system due to port pollution. average.
  • Each day the Port of LA emits over 30 tons of NOx, while a half a million cars emits less than 24 tons and the average power plant emits less than 5 tons.
  • 2,400 - Estimated number of premature deaths caused by diesel emissions.
  • 800,000: Number of children that pollution reduction could save from lung disease.
  • Each day the Port of Los Angeles emits over 30 tons of NOx, while a half a million cars emits less than 24 tons and the average power plant emits less than 5 tons.

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Communities for Clean Ports (CCP) is a non-profit public resource for individuals and organizations fighting to end the port-related pollution that poisons people, fouls the environment and costs billions of dollars – and that is about to explode as port-related trade triples over the next 15 years. CCP works alongside allied organizations large and small—from environmental and community groups, to social and economic justice organizations, to organized labor and other advocates for workers. Like no other issue, Port Pollution Poisoning directly and intimately connects the daily lives of real people to environmental action, public health, and social and economic justice. Ending port pollution – and the unjustifiable health and economic tax it levies on innocent working people in port communities – is a moral imperative.

The time to act is now. Cleaner technologies, equipment and alternative fuels are affordable, viable and on the market – and would immediately and drastically reduce Port Pollution Poisoning. All that’s lacking is immediate, significant action by the port-related and goods movement industries – the trucking, shipping, rail and other transportation and retail companies who have increased their profits for years by shifting the massive economic and health costs of port pollution to their fellow Americans living and working in port regions.  Communities, environmentalists, organized labor, activists and visionary public officials are pressing to reduce port-related pollution.

Communities for Clean Ports is non-partisan, and focuses its energies on maximizing effective public support for policies that are consistent with our mission of significantly and immediately reducing port pollution. Communities for Clean Ports is a campaign of EndOil, which is a registered 501(c)3 corporation. For more information on EndOil, please visit www.EndOil.org.

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