Nearly all goods moved in California are moved by a truck at some time during their transport. Consequently, heavy-duty trucks contribute the lion’s share of statewide, regional, and goods movement pollution. In California, heavy duty trucks are the biggest polluters among goods movement sources, contributing close to 650 tons of NOx per day in 2001, more than all other goods movement sources combined. Statewide, heavy duty trucks released close to 37 tons per day of cancer-causing diesel particulate matter in 2001. (California Air Resources Board, Emissions Reduction Plan for Ports and Goods Movement in California, 2006). Heavy duty diesel trucks are also the largest source of NOx emissions in the Southern California Air Basin, accounting for 26.6 percent of total NOx emissions in the region. Put into perspective, NOx emissions from heavy duty trucks surpass the combined emissions from all over 6 million passenger vehicles and locomotives in the Southern California region. (CARB SIP 29) The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach estimate that annually 41,000 trucks service both ports, making roughly 8.2 million gate moves in 2005. Everyday there are close to 22,500 truck trips to and from the Ports. (source Starcrest Consulting Group, LLC, Draft Methodology for Estimating Heavy-Heavy Duty Diesel Truck Activity at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, November 2006). Similarly, trucks that haul goods from the Port of Oakland are a staggering source of pollution—representing 40% of the air emissions from goods movement sources in the San Francisco Bay Area. (California Air Resources Board, Emissions Reduction Plan for Ports and Goods Movement in California, 2006). Port drayage trucks are generally "short-haul" trucks versus “long-haul” trucks that transverse the state and country. This means that the port region (such as the Southern California Air Basin, or the San Francisco Air Basin) receives the overwhelming brunt of the pollution put out by their respective port trucks. For example, the SoCAB receives 69% of NOx and 74% of the diesel PM emitted by drayage trucks throughout the state. (CARB, Reducing Emissions from In-Use On-Road Diesel-Fueled Heavy-Duty Drayage Trucks at California Ports and Intermodal Rail Yards, Public Workshp, October 2007) Significantly cleaner port trucks are critical to the air quality of the entire region. |
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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 1500 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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