The Port of Oakland is currently developing its Maritime Air Quality Improvement Plan (MAQIP)—its plan to significantly reduce emissions from its port operations—with the active input of various community and industry stakeholders. Like the Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach’s Clean Air Action Plan, the MAQIP will necessarily address port-wide infrastructure, technology and fuel issues, given that all of these areas are integral to polluting sources, and possible clean and sustainable solutions. The specific piece of the MAQIP which addresses port drayage trucks is the Comprehensive Truck Management Plan. Communities for Clean Ports will be educating, monitoring, collaborating and advocating around the MAQIP and Comprehensive Truck Management Plan and decision makers at the Port of Oakland, in the San Francisco Bay Area, and on state and federal levels are on our Watchlist. Who runs the Port of Oakland? The Port of Oakland’s Board of Port Commissioners, which is appointed by the Mayor and Oakland City Council, sets policy directives for the port’s staff to executive. The current Port Commissioners are President Anthony Batarse, Jr; Mark McClure, Darlene Ayers-Johnson, Margaret Gordon, Kenneth Katzoff, Patricia Scates, and Victor Uno. Port of Oakland’s Executive Director is currently Omar Benjamin. BAY AREA QUALITY MANAGMENT DISTRICT The agency responsible for the regional air quality of the San Francisco Bay Area is the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) http://www.baaqmd.gov/ The San Francisco Bay Area is in non-attainment of federal clean air standard for 8-hour and 1-hour ozone, and for particulate matter (PM 10) and microscopic particulate matter (PM 2.5). The Port of Oakland, regional goods movement and personal transportation (people movement) are all major contributors to air pollution as well as the Bay Area’s carbon footprint. The BAAQMD is in the process of developing a Green Ports Initiative for the Bay Area’s ports which will
OIL INDEPENDENT OAKLAND (OIO) BY 2020 TASK FORCE On October 17, 2006, the Oakland City Council adopted legislation, sponsored by Councilmember Nancy Nadel, creating a Task Force to help make Oakland oil independent by 2020. The legislation was endorsed by various groups, including the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, the Oakland Apollo Alliance, and Green Cities. The Oil Independent Oakland (OIO) By 2020 Task Force, composed of local, regional, and national experts, will develop a robust oil independence plan, consolidating measures from around the world that can be used locally to reduce oil consumption citywide. The action plan will recommend bold initiatives to not only reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, but to also establish Oakland as a national leader in the green economy and green jobs creation, while seeking to secure Oakland’s energy needs. A major focus of the OIO is to displace petroleum use at the Port of Oakland. Related Impacts
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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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